has anyone used the duplicolor bed liner yet? they sell it at kragen at abour half the price of the herculiner? just wanted to see if any guinny pigs were out there and how it turned out and if it is lasting. thanks
duplicolor bed liner anyone?
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I used it on mine as well as the duraback. Hands down better was the duraback rough black. I would not use the duplicolor again.
How many coats would you say that you used.
I used the Hurculiner on the under side of my 40...Wasnt all too impressed with how the texture blended....
I used Hippo liner on my 60...that stuff was great IMO and id held up great.
Sorry for the Hijack Chris!
The duplicolor is REALLY cheap priced. I was considering that for the 40, but after reading some reviews that I had googled, I opted to do a different route...
Not sure as to what Ill be using on the interior of the tub...interested to see where you go with this!
Keith
What are you doing anyway?
2 summers ago I used it on the wheel wells of my boat trailer. It looked good for a while but once it cures it becomes very brittle and chips easily. Now this may not apply to a truck bed but my wheel wells get peppered with gravel, this has chipped the Duraliner pretty badly. Next time I'll look for a product that stays a little softer. 1 can gave me 3 coats on my wells and leading edge of the trailer frame. Here are some pics:
Wheel wells before -
After -
Most of the texture you see in this pic is from the chipped paint under the Duraliner, it actually cures fairly smooth.
Sorry, I don't have any pics of what it looks like now and my boat is in storage 1.5 hours away, I will say that it doesn’t look new anymore.
Wheel wells before -
After -
Most of the texture you see in this pic is from the chipped paint under the Duraliner, it actually cures fairly smooth.
Sorry, I don't have any pics of what it looks like now and my boat is in storage 1.5 hours away, I will say that it doesn’t look new anymore.
Hard to say how many coats, I just sprayed it until it was all used since it's difficult to store. Texture when spraying is a matter of distance from the surface, speed of application, and air pressure. I didn't say I loved it, but after trying to clean some of the rougher products, I don't think it's all that bad. I wasn't hauling bricks inside the 40, nor was it exposed to rock damage. For interior use, if you want a relatively smooth product (not necessarily bad), it's a good value for the money. It is not as aggressively textured as many of the products out there, and certainly doesn't have the thickness of a professionally applied liner. It's okay. It's going to depend on your intended use, whether you ever want to clean it, and etc.
We have used it as an undercoating on a Jeep we built. Frankly, it sucks. The jeep junk would flake off and rust. Within a year we had to respray the whole underside.
I had an old k-5 blazer that I coated the interior in, and again... It sucks. I sandblasted the whole thing, hit it with a 50grit disc and the s*** flaked off. Even worse, in the front floorboard just along were the exhaust ran it would bubble up. I dont mean like little bubbles but like world record bubble gum bubbles.
Duplicolor customer service is really good though. Both times they sent us 2 free gallons saying 'our bad'...
I had an old k-5 blazer that I coated the interior in, and again... It sucks. I sandblasted the whole thing, hit it with a 50grit disc and the s*** flaked off. Even worse, in the front floorboard just along were the exhaust ran it would bubble up. I dont mean like little bubbles but like world record bubble gum bubbles.
Duplicolor customer service is really good though. Both times they sent us 2 free gallons saying 'our bad'...
Two application problems. Once again, I'm not a big fan of the stuff. However, bedliner is not by nature acceptable for an undercoat. Undercoating stays flexible, soft, and tar like. Hence, no flaking or chipping from rocks. Wrong product, in the wrong place. Second, you didn't follow the duplicolor instructions, which call for sanding the existing paint, not sandblasting to bare metal. Apparently it bonds bettter to scored paint. No idea about the bubbles!
I'm sure that prep is the most important thing, but I hated the duplicolor that I put in my 40. Shipped off and faded horribly.
I replaced with with a gallon of hammerite and the resulting job has lasted longer and looks better. Junk IMHO.
I replaced with with a gallon of hammerite and the resulting job has lasted longer and looks better. Junk IMHO.
I dont like it
Slight old thread but I want to add to this so nobody else buys it. I put it on my first FJ40 that was a pure trail rig. Absolute CRAP!. I would not put it on anything. Little rubber content, cracked and dried and flaked off within a few months. Hurculiner on the other hand did great...it is a little hard to blend it right though and the texture of compared to some of the other brands that you spray is a little rough. It does wear the sharp points off over time though.
it sucks! try raptor liner
well, since this thread is being updated, i thought I wold bring about an update.
We rebuilt a Dew-Eze bale bed for my grandfather and he supplied us with, of course, duplicolor bed liner. We primered the whole bed grey and then sprayed on a flat black, hit it with some sand paper and applied, much to our dismay.
Its been roughly 2 months and MOST of the liner is intact. The problem spots are random, most of which look like about the size of a dime and curled up and have started to peel back. We have used an exacto to cut around the peeling part and sprayed some black spray paint on it, sanded it down and used a spary can of this to touch up. It helps, but random spots appear every week or so.
I am much more impressed this time around, knowing the amount of hell this vehicle is put through on a day-to-day basis as well as inflicting some of that hell.
We rolled it on this time. Used 2 gallons for the top and left the rest of the bed unlined. The bed is 6'x8'.
I've used it on M-101 and it looks great. The 101 lives in a heated garage and has only been used 3x. That said, it went on smooth and if you prep right it should be ok. If you are going to really work the stuff then buy something else. I got the Dup0licolor stuff so I could easily touch it up as needed and I'm not using the trailer much anyway.
Basically you get what you pay for. If you paint a truck with duplicolor paint, you get a mediocre paint job that looks good from 20 feet. All depends on what you're going for
Basically you get what you pay for. If you paint a truck with duplicolor paint, you get a mediocre paint job that looks good from 20 feet. All depends on what you're going for