Undercoating????

Just had my full fendered deuce repainted and I want to prevent stars from appearing on the fenders. This happened before when small rocks got thrown up by the tires. At that time the fenders had been undercoated with a rattle can. Anyone have any good/better ideas as to what I can do to further prevent this, aside from respraying the fenders again? As a side note, I have seen some manufacturer's fiberglas fenders have a material bonded to the underside. I don't know if that works for them, but my fenders are steel.

 

Rhino coating for truck beds. Maybe a little more pricey than rattle can, but will protect your paint job for the rest for your days!

 

X2 on the bed liner, but even Duplicolor has a good product out, not sure I would go all the way to Rhino, it is mostly spray on, where the duplicolor is water based and the kit comes with a brush and roller. I understand that it can even be tinted to match paint.

 

I used a roll on rhino liner. Tough as nails, and you can build it pretty thick. By being able to roll it on, I kept it smooth and it was easier to keep it neat than spraying,also looks better than the bumpy texture. The car( 40 dodge street rod) drives a lot of dirt roads with wide M/T tires and so far no rock starring from inner fender gravel hits.
Good luck

 

Thanks for the replies. My truck bed has some form of coating on it (not too thick), but I notice in places that some of it has been scratched off. Is it because it is too thin and so I would have to apply it thicker or is this some form of a "cheapo-wanna-be" Rhino coat? Want to make sure it stays on when rocks hit it.

 

Take the fenders to someone how sprays the Rhino coating,,it's thick and will protect the fenders from staring. HRP

 

Make sure you.scratch the paint first. Almost all liner failures are due to bad prep. Most box liner applicators barely clean the stock paint, at most a quick 3m pad scuff. They rely on the coating to create enough of a film to resist pealing and the fact that the floor usually has a lot of scratches already. If you prep like you are going to paint, I would use about 100grit and the stuff will be permanent.


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If they're clean an fresh underneath what about that rock guard that people spray on their rockers. I think its called rocker schultz, and I believe it comes in black.

 

rhino spray it on with a sholtz gun

 

Just a thought. Peterbuilt trucks have a plastic liner glued to front inner fenders.
Gerry

 

I used transtar inexpensive stuff from autobodytoolmart.com and it worked out great. 3m body schutz is good stuff too.

 

3m undercoating works great.

 

That 3m body Shutz is good stuff. Most of the time the Autobody supply place will let you use the special nozzle when you buy several cans. Easy to use but make sure you wear rubber gloves and watch what you're doing when you're spraying it. Mike

 

Box liner, I use U Pol Raptor

 

duplicolor stuff in the spray can works great and has a good texture and look to it washes up good too...

 

Rino liner works real well. Get the real deal and get it professionially done. I have seen home jobs trap water and that is not a good thing.

While stars make your car not look fresh when I was little some of the old timers thought that they were an important part of an automitive finish. To them it said this car gets driven and is not a show car.

Ok I just wanted to say that so it didn't roll around in my head all day. Rino liner professionally done is you best bet.

 

X2, shoots nice, looks nice, stays put, competitve price, very effective. Read and follow the directions for prep!

 

Bed liner . You´ll need a thick substance of coating that flex a little to dampen gravel flying. Spraycans just lay a thin coating......

 

u-pol rapter can spray or roll, comes black or clear/tintable to body color, you can thin it out for different texture...works very good...have used in the interior also, good sound deadener and sealer, follow instructions.

 

X2, 3M dries to a rubber finish, not a tar finish like other undercoating. With any undercoating or bed liner you'll have to prep it good. I spray one light coat then two heavy coats and let it roll.
28

 

We had Superliner sprayed on the 32 3W on the undersides of all fenders and both sides of the runingboards when we built it some 4 years ago. There is no damage to the fenders and the noards look great too.

 

Drove for a spray bed liner company. They sprayed new truck beds mostly. Roughed up the finish with 80 grit paper. I used Duroliner brush on on the fenders of a 36 I did. Worked great.