Installing A Plasti Kote Bed Liner

It is just thick, very sticky paint with lots of rubber bits for texture and cushioning. There are many different brands of liquid bed liner, but Plasti Kote is one of the least expensive choices. Despite its small price tag, this liner is tough, and is a big improvement over a rusty bed.

Enter our test case for the Plasti Kote liner, a rather battle-worn 1980 Plymouth pickup. This truck has seen a lot of use, it's the kind of truck that you can wear the rubber off of again and again... and it keeps on ticking!

The bed of our truck was pretty rusty and scratched, so we decided it was time for a bed liner. This is what we did to bring it around...

First, we washed the bed to remove excess grease and oils. Then, we went over the truck bed with an assortment of wire brushes and sandpaper. This loosened the rust and got the bed "roughed up" so the paint would stick better. Next, we put rust converter all over the rusty places in the bed. Some rust converter turns into primer, some doesn't. We used some of both kinds on our truck bed.

Before priming, we used masking tape to mask along the outside of the bedrails. We also taped newspaper down the sides of the truck on the outside to keep the primer and liner off the truck's paint. After that, we primed the bed with aerosol can primer to prepare the bed for the liner. The rest was pretty easy. We just put the liner on with a roller and paint brush. The liner was thick enough that it smoothed out well on its own.

Now after two years of hard work, the liner has several places where it has been chipped off. Although we have not experimented, it looks like an easy fix to take a little of the bed liner paint and dab it on these places. Also, the liner would be a lot better if you bought two cans of it and put the liner on a lot thicker.

So, there's a real bed liner installation story. These Plasti Kote liners are a good value as an inexpensive bed liner. Do you want to protect your truck? Enjoy a weekend project? What are you waiting for? Go for it!!!

Brand new trucks cost a lot, it just tends to make sense to protect your truck and help to make it last. One method in which numerous pickups begin to indicate age speedily is within the bed. Especially if a truck hauls much of anything, deterioration quickly add up to prospective injury in the bed. Truck bed liners are often added among the first add-ons to either avoid deterioration inside brand new trucks or to make an effort to cease additional issues in older pickup trucks. Different styles and varieties of liners provide different advantages.

The original, stock pickup box mostly appears like some thing had been left off as well as it was not quite completed. The right bed liner can also add a customized appearance as well as finish the vehicle look in a way that is personal to you. Now that spray in bed liners can be found in many colors the option is there to help to make the bed match the look of the remaining portion of the truck. Then again, selecting from the other liners such as plastic material drop in liners and carpet liners as well creates many choices to be made even after you understand you'll need a liner for your pickup truck.

Appearances aren't the sole grounds for liners, or maybe even the very best reason. If significant safeguard is necessary and you do some real work a few liners excel at hard use. The proper plastic bed liners specifically work nicely for rough and coarse loads, like concrete blocks or scrap. Dent security in those circumstances tend to be as important as scratch safety. Obtaining the proper liner could make a genuine distinction within the long-term lifetime of a truck. Both a plastic liner and also the proper spray on bed liner operates in some really rugged application.

But often liners cost a great deal and perhaps your more aged pick up truck might go with something with a reduced entry price. That simply leaves out some options and leaves you with a few other high quality ones. The roll on bed liner with truck bed paint offers the look of the higher priced spray in liner and also actually tends to make older pickup trucks look better but also for much less cash compared to professional version. It makes for a real deal liner. Another often disregarded choice is available in the truck bed pads. Simple to miss, mats perform some things better than any other bed safeguards option but cost practically next to nothing.

Picking from almost all your options in truck bed liners may be quite the puzzle. Many options offer you some extent of defense however, many evidently are usually exceptional for tough use. More long lasting liners at times cost a lot though, yet at least one option offers genuine impact and also scratch elimination for almost no cash. Then if you wish to perform some work yourself, it might be capable of producing a look for your pick up truck that appears much more expensive than it actually is. Possibilities for bed liners make it possible to obtain great looks as well as defense for not much expense.