Painting Sliders: Rattle-Can vs Linex vs Powder coat

I am waiting on some All-pro bolt ons in the mail. I think I am going to paint them. For those that used the Rustoleum bed liner rattle can, how does it hold up in the winter in areas that use salt for the roads? I worry the salt might stick to the bedliner texture and look horrible.

Thanks!

 

Have you had problems shipping sliders already powder coated? Should I wait to get them powder coated locally?

 

Ship them bare, clean them, prep them paint them. Save yourself the money. They will just get scraped up.

 

@Mobtown Offroad can answer best, but I think they stopped shipping larger items powder coated due to issues.

I thought the same thing, then spent around 12 hours cleaning, prepping, and painting. I did try to paint them when it was absurdly humid (was trying to get them on the truck before a road trip), but all in all I wish I would've taken them to a local shop to get powdercoated.

Edit: No one asked but here are pics of the sliders prepped, primed, and painted

 

@indoomitable curious as to why you said you should have gotten it powder coated instead? Didn’t like the finish of the paint or too much time involved?

I’ll be ordering sliders soon so I’m at crossroads

 

It was mostly the time involved, but I also wasnt very happy with how the finish came out. Im a bit OCD though. The underside has a few areas where the paint ran some and on 2 of the corners the paint has already started to peel back but I think thats mostly due to how humid it was while I was painting and the coats not drying properly. The “defects” are on the underside though so I try not to think about it too much.

But I guess the main thing is I didnt expect it to take 12 hours, and while the finished product isnt terrible in retrospect I would have gladly paid a shop a couple hundred to save the time and the gallons of sweat lost.

 

It depends on how much your time is worth. I just paid $240 and spent about 20 minutes dropping my sliders at a local powder coater. To properly paint them would have taken 2 cans of Primer ($10-15), 2-3 cans of paint ($15-20), prep stuff (acetone, steel wool, rags, tarp. $10-15) and several hours of work. Depending on your abilities it may look great or it may look like shit, my bumper I painted looked terrible. I do not enjoy painting so I would rather pay the extra $200 to have a company prep the surface with a sand blaster and then put a perfect coat of a harder coating. You may live in an area with less local options where it’s not worth it but for me it was. I’ve already scraped plenty of the PC off but I don’t care that much.

 

Powder coat can be great or terrible, I’ve had both, if it’s sandblasted, washed with solvent, primered then powered coated it’s super durable.

 

We’re back to shipping powder coated items. Main reason we stopped was due to quality and turn around time issues. But we’re back to business.