I just want some opinions. I have a front and rear bumper that are used good and a little rusty. I want to refinish them and I'd like opinions on what you think the best option would be. I want them to look good. I do wheel and when they get banged up I'd like to be able to touch up the scratches and scrapes to prevent rust. What should I use and why?

 

To be able to touch up without a lot of hassle, it's pretty much paint. I've used good old rustoleum in the spray can forever and had super results for the price. I fabbed my own front and rear bumpers/tire carrier for my TJ five+ years ago, primed them with the red primer and finsihed with satin black. Other then a few small rock chips on the front bumper, they still have no rust. Unlike some of the already rusty year or two old powder coated parts I own, from companies I won't name. If you want something a step up from rustoleum, but with spay can convenience for easy touch up, I've been doing parts in a product from Eastwood called extreme chassis black. As the name implies, it's a chassis/frame paint product, aimed towards people doing auto restorations, and it's very durable because I belive it's epoxy based instead of enamel.

 

That's what I was thinking. I figured powdercoat would be out. Would rattle can bedliner or paint be better?

 

A few guys here have used Dulpicolor bedliner on various parts and it looks pretty damn good. It gives the part texture and touching up a scratch comes out perfect. Take a look around. If that's the look you're going for, it's a cheap solution and looks great.

 

I thought the original poster meant real bedliner, IE Line-X for example. Classifying that Duplicolor product bedliner is about the same as taking some dirty water and calling it water bedliner.

 

duplicolor spray on bedliner.. it holds up well, and is easily touched up. if you wheel your jeep, you will scrape your bumpers....

 

I'm very partial to powder coating things because of the winter road salt which I'm sure you have in northern Indiana. Being about an hour away from Chicago you probably have some pretty good choices as well.

The different finishes that can be done with powder coating enable not just a variety of textures but also pretty much indestructible. My second choice would be paint as I wouldn't want anything that provides a little grip action when I ran my bumper on it.

 

I dont know how high your lifted, or if you are tall.. but I use my front bumper as a platform when im performing maintenance on my JK.. the grip that the bedliner provides has been so far, a help more than a hinderence.

 

LOL, I'm only lifted 3" with 35s but I'm 6'4" with monkey length arms.


eeh eeh!

 

If I were to do a bedliner I would most likely do it myself. Which would hold up better, bedliner or paint? Which would require less touch up work? Will the bedliner look good after its touched up or would it leave the finish uneven?