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And if you paint them, use the same color primer and paint. Scratches are real obvious when you have white primer under black paint. Ask me how I know...

 

Gotta agree with everyone else. Paint ‘em. Even if you never slide over rocks with them, they’ll take a beating from gravel and road debris. A quality metal primer and satin black and call it good.

That said, and I know this is out of your range, but I took my bumper to Oregon Powder Coating, in Tangent. They coat farm implementation, so Tacoma parts are no problem. Got my bumper back in just a couple working days.

 

Rattle can bed liner works great. Gives you a little bit of grip and it’s pretty tough.

 

That's what I've used for all of my armor; sliders, bumpers and skid plates. Only thing I can say is it holds the dirt a little more than just paint, put a coat of regular black or clear over it and you are good to go.

 

Bed liner can hold the moisture and freezes up in the winter time. It can make your normal get into the truck by stepping on the slider routine a bit interesting and will catch you off guard. Probably more than once in my case.


I'd suggest paint over powder coat. $$ wise and touch-up wise also.

 

Friend selling

 

I have a good powder coating guy but its up in Arlington.

I went the paint route originally but PC holds up a lot better.. even if you're touching them up with a rattle can.

 

WTS: 4x 255/80/17 Nitto Ridge Grappler Tires

3 of them are at 7mm/50% tread - the last one has about 300 miles on it so is almost brand new.

$400?

 

Excellent! Thank you everyone for your overwhelming recommendations to paint the sliders--I will do exactly that!

Unfortunately, I don't have a place to do the painting myself, so I'll be paying someone to do the work. There are some small shops, right in my area--and I'm happy to help out small businesses.

Thanks!

 

Is it possible to powder coat with sliders still on the truck? I have sliders on both my FJ and Taco that need some paint work. Getting the sliders off the FJ is pretty easy, but the Taco sliders are kind of a pain in the ass.

 

No. Not unless you want your truck baked at over +400° F

 

After the powder is applied it then needs to bake on in an oven... I’d say that’s a hard no, unless you want to bake your rigs.

 

Sounds good, thanks guys. I assumed it wasn't possible but I was hoping to make it easy! I rattle canned the FJ sliders several years ago but my painting skills are somewhat pathetic and there is quite a bit of flaking. The Taco sliders were already painted when I bought them used last year, but they need to be completely redone.

 

Selling White Century Canopy with Rhino Rack Cross Bars

Fits 3rd Gen short bed Off Road Tacoma.

Located in either Woodland, Vancouver, Portland or in between.



Price $2000 OBO

 

No

 

I got my sliders powdercoated at ProCoat in Vancouver. They do a great job and even rushed my sliders through so I could get them back before the weekend. I figured I’ll touch up the powdercoat with paint when needed. Powdercoat will stand up a bit better than paint to wear and tear.

 

Thanks! I'm pretty sure that I'm going the paint route, but I'll give them a call for a quote. Any chance you remember how much they charged?

Also, I'm assuming the powder coating doesn't extend to the bolt-on areas which attach to the frame? If I'm correct, that means that it's bare steel against steel? Did you use any type of rust inhibitor between the parts? I keep reading recommendations for applying "fluid film" on the frame areas & the sliders.

Thanks.

 

Yes, the whole slider, mounting points and all get powedercoated. While we do get frame rust here in the PNW, it's nothing like the salt belt. I may get corrected, but most people in these parts don't do fluid film or any other undercoatings, and we stay fairly rust free.

 

I use fluid film if I'm going to be on the beach or the dunes along the coast in Oregon. That's the only time I've ever used it though!

 

If you liberally smear Astroglide on the underside of the sliders before every trail run, you'll have no scrapes afterwards no matter how hard you use them....