Truck bed liner...

[hott92lude]

I'm thinking about coating the underside of my car with truck bed liner.. (linex).. or atleast coating my Unibody framerail things, the underbelly of the car, and my front and rear wheel wells.. has anyone done this? Should I even bother? Most of my factory "undercoating" on the frame rail things has been scraped off.. the factory stuff is just too soft...

[MetalNeverDies]

i have that same problem. i have been trying to figure ot what to do about it. truck bed liner might be to thick and heavy though... dont really know much about it though

[Hoooch]

I dont know if it would help but they have that paint on bed liner....seems pretty legit. Its called Herculiner i think.

[JacksonRally]

Andy it does nothing for strength. But if it were to be done I say use the DIY Herculiner, you would be able to control the thickness of the coats. Even the nice Line-x can be sprayed on thin. As far as repairs a little heat gun and a gasket scraper take the stuff right off.

[RA Limited]

Andy, i think the reason the lined shed stayed together is the same reason a tinted window will stay together when broken- it's being HELD together... that doesn't mean it is stronger, that just means all the broken pieces are stuck together.

[RS-ti_Andy]

true.. butt... nvm ill find the video.. lol epoxies are strong..nuff said

[newbie101]

andy i think i remember seeing something like that on discovery channel or something... and it was just like RA said it held the broken pieces together

[hott92lude]

I'm....pretty sure my car wont crumble like a brick... so it may not make it stronger structerally.... BUT it will Tuffen up the underside of my car af far as large rock/debri

[JacksonRally]

yes it does... i know u have a shop and all.. but when i read all about it and did my research for a bed liner for my old truck.. they applied it to a brick shed.. and one brick shed with out it.. and blew up a bomb in both.. the one with the bed liner stayed together.. other blew apart.

it isnt flexable... its rigid.. and in order to make something more rigid is to make more strength.

Cool cause you have actually touched this stuff and worked with it....no did'nt think so. All you do is "research" cause all you do is sit behind your monitor and act like your learning something then try to post up. Get off your @ss and do something. Go out and take something apart and learn how things actually work. You can read about stuff all day long and still be a complete moron and not know what to do when it comes to the real world.

Now, this stuff is flexable. It is not stiff. Like others said about window tint it could probably hold a thousand pieces together but you will not see a noticable increase in rigidity. And the Discovery Channel show was about carbon fiber.

[lorenkb]

yes it does... i know u have a shop and all.. but when i read all about it and did my research for a bed liner for my old truck.. they applied it to a brick shed.. and one brick shed with out it.. and blew up a bomb in both.. the one with the bed liner stayed together.. other blew apart.

it isnt flexable... its rigid.. and in order to make something more rigid is to make more strength.

Jesus Andy, lay off the BS advice.

Strength != Rigidity. Just because a brick wall was given additional plastic deformation chraracteristics doesn't mean it was made any stronger, or any more rigid.

[409industries]

Dang. Yeah the liner will do nothing for strength, but will do what its designed to do... limit damage due to impacts (mainly in this case rocks from underneath). However, these spray on liners are supposed to protect beds and things like that from ladders and stuff like that moving around on metal. I only wonder how it would hold up to the CONSTANT abrasive abuse of flying gravel.

Try it out and get back to us with the results!

[RS-ti_Andy]

rhino liner vs. line-x are they different?


hurculiner// i have done on 3 trucks.. maybe we dont realize its flexable cause its on metal surfaces.. still "protects" which is what i was saying. i have scrapped off a piece of bedliner and it was a strong chip of balck.. lol explane how that is flexable.. not that rubberzed crap..

i have been workng on things my whole life.. and yeas it hasnt been as long as u old farts but in chemical composition the polymers in the bed liners show other things as what u are tell me..

fine im done.. untill u have scientifically proven research and all your statements are factual im not listening to ur opinions to drive my research down

[aresbykes]

so uhm... i know people who have painted there jeeps with that rhino lining crap.. and we've scrapped the sides of it on like trees and it stayed on the jeep... don't get me wrong.. it will not prevent dents and stuff.... but it WILL stay on and wont let your body rust because of rocks taking hunks of underbody paint stuff off.. it's good ****.. i want to get it done, but if i got it done i would want them to take the pebble crap out so it's smooth and wont hold onto mud and other crap

[RS-ti_Andy]

so uhm... i know people who have painted there jeeps with that rhino lining crap.. and we've scrapped the sides of it on like trees and it stayed on the jeep... don't get me wrong.. it will not prevent dents and stuff.... but it WILL stay on and wont let your body rust because of rocks taking hunks of underbody paint stuff off.. it's good ****.. i want to get it done, but if i got it done i would want them to take the pebble crap out so it's smooth and wont hold onto mud and other crap


yeah exactly.. like my jeep.. i rhinolined the whole back part helped a little on the "bodyroll"

and my friends had it on there jeeps and it rocked lol

[hott92lude]

Yeah... I just cleaned my car... thoes rocks wreaked chaos on my paint x.x... Huculiner is lookign to be in the near future...

[RS-ti_Andy]

sweet get pics up when ur done.. btw.. use gloves haha that hurculiner will stain your hands for a while lol

[hott92lude]

LOL... I change oil all day... doesnt matter one bit if my hands are stained.

[RS-ti_Andy]

ohh ok then lol