Beat coating for new bumper?
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Beat coating for new bumper?
Just ordered a Poison Spyder Brawler Lite front bumper. Question is, what is everyone having success with, as far as coatings?
I like women, so I don't need anything shiny or pretty to impress the mall crowd.
I want something with a slight texture and flat finish to protect it and give a fair amount of traction when I need to stand on it.
Let me know what you guys are using!!
I like women, so I don't need anything shiny or pretty to impress the mall crowd.
I want something with a slight texture and flat finish to protect it and give a fair amount of traction when I need to stand on it.
Let me know what you guys are using!!
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JK Freak
The way I did my bumper:
Wash the bare metal with a scotch brite pad and rubbing alcohol
4 coats of Self Etching primer
4 coats of regular flat black paint on the inside of the bumper
4 coats of Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating
Bumper looks great 8 months later. Only suggestion would be to hit the d-ring tabs first/with extra bedliner. After a few winch pulls the coating is peeling.
Wash the bare metal with a scotch brite pad and rubbing alcohol
4 coats of Self Etching primer
4 coats of regular flat black paint on the inside of the bumper
4 coats of Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating
Bumper looks great 8 months later. Only suggestion would be to hit the d-ring tabs first/with extra bedliner. After a few winch pulls the coating is peeling.
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The way I did my bumper:
Wash the bare metal with a scotch brite pad and rubbing alcohol
4 coats of Self Etching primer
4 coats of regular flat black paint on the inside of the bumper
4 coats of Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating
Bumper looks great 8 months later. Only suggestion would be to hit the d-ring tabs first/with extra bedliner. After a few winch pulls the coating is peeling.
Wash the bare metal with a scotch brite pad and rubbing alcohol
4 coats of Self Etching primer
4 coats of regular flat black paint on the inside of the bumper
4 coats of Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating
Bumper looks great 8 months later. Only suggestion would be to hit the d-ring tabs first/with extra bedliner. After a few winch pulls the coating is peeling.
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I did the bedliner as well. It's been holding good for the last 2 years. I did rip the coating in the inside when I was installing it over the frame. I'm not sure it would hold if I was to do rock crawling and banging it on rocks. For the way I use it it's holding fine.
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#8
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Since no coating will "hold" when you use the bumper to guide you onto a rock, I like the idea expressed on multiple replies above to use a final top coat of some form of spray on bed liner. You absolutely will need to touch up after hard wheeling. I'm not real picky, I have factory textured powder coat bumpers and touch up with Rustoleum (or similar) bed liner or VHT chassis spray. Basically, anything I have handy that is semi-gloss or flat black. If you look close, you can see the changes, but I really don't care. My bumpers serve the purpose well and get used for what steel bumpers were meant for. If I were doing a Jeep for my wife, I would haul them to a powder coater and get a nice textured finish. For my use, that's a waste of money. So just decide what you think you will do with/to them, and go from there. If you go the powder coat way, have them do 2 coats. Otherwise, you may develop rust spotting if you live in a snow/salt region.
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I haven't done a bumper, but I had the bed of my Ram 2500 sprayed with LineX ten years ago and it is still in fine shape - and it has taken a beating hauling all sorts of stuff. I don't think I could remove it if I wanted to. The only downside is that you have to have it done by a dealer - no home kits.
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I did u-pol raptor liner on my jcr bumpers - has held up great thus far; and has been easier to clean than the dupli-color bed liner I've used in the past (had a tough time getting the brown color out after run in's with mud).
Cleaned with SEM Solve, scuff/sand, cleaned again, two light coats of self etch primer, then one very light coat of raptor liner followed by two full coats.
You can get a lighter texture than I did by spraying at a higher PSI.
Cleaned with SEM Solve, scuff/sand, cleaned again, two light coats of self etch primer, then one very light coat of raptor liner followed by two full coats.
You can get a lighter texture than I did by spraying at a higher PSI.