Clear coat to keep shiny or let it go matte?

I'm bedlining the bar on the front of my truck. I want to know what you guys think, let it go matte like hurculiner does after a couple weeks or clear coat it to keep it shiny?

Before, messed up and smooth matte paint.


After coating with bedliner. Won't have it installed for a couple days so the liner can dry.

 

Rusty fog light?

 

Previous owner got in a little bit of an accident. Smashed the drivers side light out and bent the mounting bracket for it. That's why I took it off and cleaned it up. IE: removed rust, primed, and painted with bed liner. I also used a sledge to get the light bracket as straight as it's going to get again.

What I'm asking here is if you think I should let the bed liner go to a matte finish or clear coat it so it will stay shiny.

I have replacement lights to put on once the bar is all dry.

 

Matte


Having a shiny bull bar on an otherwise "weathered" truck would stand out IMO

 

Shiny screams mall crawler... Shiny Herculiner just looks funny anyway.

Go with whatever you did in your bed (since your profile says you Herculined it as well) so it matches.

 

Hmm, good points. I'll let it go matte.

I pulled off the brackets today and used a sledge to, more or less, fix the bent brackets. I need to strip and paint these too before I put them back on.