Spray on truck bedlinner

[austinado16]

Man, if I could get it done for that cheap, I'd be down there tomorrow!  I can't imagine any issues with the product.  It's impervious to everything, and specifically made to go over painted metal.  As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't get any better than that!  

I'm dealing with a rotted out roof and the subsequent damage to the ceiling panels right now. I've spent a lot of my own time and money repairing it.

As far as weight goes, there's no way the spray-on bed liner weighs more than the ceiling panels I'm installing.

[flyfisherman]

Long before the spray-on bed-liner came onto the scene, we use to spray the pick-up truck beds with rubberized undercoat. Now, there were (and maybe still are) two different types ~ the first was a nasty kind that never totally cured and always became soft when it got hot. The other, the premium kind, would totally cure to a dry state (in just a matter of a couple of hours or so) and it was paintable. If fact, body shops had been known to use it as a gravel guard and painting over it with a finish coat.

The advantage of the premium undercoating would be the cost, a lot less weight would be added to the top and it could be painted over. Obviously, the undercoating seals and that's what you wanted for the #1 reason for applying it.



Fly

[bigmopar4x4]

We just did it on our '01 Coleman Cheyenne with the crappy ABS roof.  Our roof has the typical sag and started to have small cracks all over it.  We had it sprayed in white urethane (not black, then just painted white) which requires a top coating with UV protection.  It didn't come out as uniform (texture-wise) as a regular black spray-on bedliner, but it looks so much better than it did and pretty much solved the cracking problem for us.  

As far as adhesion to the ABS, the shop called the manufacturer to inquire how it would coat our roof.  After an adhesion test with a special primer and lots of sanding, he said "it's never coming off".  He also said it probably added about 20 lbs to the roof.

It wasn't cheap at $500 through Hi-tech liner here in So-Cal, but the guy who did it said that he'd never do another one at that price. We were quoted up to $900 at Line-x and Rhino liner refused to do it.  Still a bargain to us as we were quoted $3000+ to have a new roof installed since we aren't the original owners....we'll see how it lasts.

John

[AustinBoston]

Our roof has the typical sag and started to have small cracks all over it.

Watch for seal failure in the front and back (when closed), which ends up being a much bigger problem than cracks in the ABS.

Austin

[dademt]

I've got the rhino liner on my truck and it did add some weight.  I could feel the difference.  They actually sanded the paint before applying it so there should be some surface prep done.  The stuff is amazing.  While it has faded in the last year, I can throw cinderblocks or anything else it and it doesn't ever get damaged.  Great stuff and can't recommend it enough.  I had mine done over the edge and actually wrap down the side a couple inches.  It has saved my paint a couple times already.  If it will not be excessively heavy and you don't mind color fade, I doubt you will ever have any service to do on it.  I would be interested as I would consider it in the future if I have any problems.