has anyone applyed the do-it -yourself roll on bed liner.

If so
how much prep is needed?
how hard is it to spread evenly?
Would you recommend it or ever do it again?

Thanks

Chris

 

that question was asked a while ago. i think some people have had satisfactory results. they key is in the prep work. i hear that after a few years it turns to crap.

 

I did the tailgate and the top surface of my bumper and the hitch plate area of the bumper. I used the Duplicolor bedliner you buy in a can at the autoparts store. It takes MULTIPLE coats, applied very thickly, to even come close to the thickness of a sprayed on Rhinoliner. I have Rhino in the truckbed but got a new tailgate and wanted to have 'Rhino' there too. It is not nearly as tough as Rhino but it's better than nothing. I scuffed it with sandpaper and brushed it on rather than rolling it because I didnt want it splattering everywhere. It's already starting to peal off of the top of the bumper but I expected that because the bumper is chrome and all the scuffing I could do to it was wire brush it with a wire brush cup on a drill. Most of the tailgate is doing ok except the top edge (I made it go over the edge to match my over the bedrail Rhinoliner. Sliding things over the edge of the tailgate strips the rubber liner right off. I will eventually get one of those stainless strips to put on the top edge of the tailgate instead. I think it would be prohibitively expensive to do the whole truckbed with this stuff, judging by how many coats it took for just the tailgate and how much of the stuff I used there. It looks like it's going on nice and thick, but as it dries it lays down flat and thins out. Maybe the Herculiner, which was more expensive, or some other brand would work better.

 

Thanks for the replies. that confirms what I thought but I am a Cheap SOB and was looking for a cheaper way to do the lining. But it looks like I'll pass.

Chris

 

DON'T DO IT! I did all of the prep and then some. Sanded and primed all of the surface rust and everything. The problem I had was after a week or so the white started to show through the liner. My buddy's truck did the same thing. At least his truck is black and you couldn't really tell. I ended up using some black spray paint over the liner and believe it or not it doesn't look bad now. If I were to do it again I would definitely not use Herculiner.

 

I agree, I did the Herculiner on the 99. It lasted fine, but it doesn't compare to my spray on liner on the 01 and 02.

 

Would you guys recommend I use a roll on linner product on my in bed tool box? I chipped a huge section of the powder coat off, and now I have a black box with a bright aluminium spot in the middle

 

Or how about recommendations on using it INSIDE the cab on the floors? That is my plan and this is the first thread on this Ive seen in a while, wouldnt imagine durability would be as big an issue with just people getting in and out

 

Rednecks, thanks for the heads up on Herculiner. Guess I will add that one to the list of which ones not to use.

Wickymustang, your application is a small area llike mine was so I would guess that with enough coats of the stuff it would be ok. Maybe if you do it and find a different brand than DupliColor or Herculiner you can report back to us and tell us how it worked.

Icicle, I would wait untill somebody finds a good brand of the stuff to do a big area like the whole floor.

I'm not against the idea of the do it yourself liners, I just would rather have something that's more like real Rhino liner.