Quotes on Line-x bedliner in the interior?

[Phildoh]

Seems high if you're doing all the prep work. For $1100 that should be a drop off price, and even them masking all the bolt holes and other pesky items. If you do it all (prep) and drop it off, I'm thinking in the 500ish range, since it's smaller than a pickup bed and those go for 500. Maybe they quoted you so high to avoid the work/hassle? Shop around!

 

[Hornd]

I think a whole used Cruiser Interior is worth about $1100.
If you think about it they are not spraying above the windows so it's not much more surface area than a pickup bed.
I think $400-600 after prep is more reasonable.

 

[LINUS]

I think a whole used Cruiser Interior is worth about $1100.
If you think about it they are not spraying above the windows so it's not much more surface area than a pickup bed.
I think $400-600 after prep is more reasonable.

It's a job that'll make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.

It's labor intensive, more than 2 pickup beds = >$1000 to me.

 

[IoN6]

$1100 and your doing all the prep work ?

In my Line-X experience the only prep they do is mask everything off. No scuffing, no sanding, no nothing.

 

[half k cruiser]

In my Line-X experience the only prep they do is mask everything off. No scuffing, no sanding, no nothing.

I do the same thing when people want me to come spray paint on there house. Mask off everything you don't want painted and I will do the rest, lol. Except I don't price gouge.

 

[IoN6]

I do the same thing when people want me to come spray paint on there house. Mask off everything you don't want painted and I will do the rest, lol. Except I don't price gouge.

Yes, masking is part of prep. But so is prepping the surface to be painted. In your example, would you just paint over existing pealing paint?

 

[half k cruiser]

Yes, masking is part of prep. But so is prepping the surface to be painted. In your example, would you just paint over existing pealing paint?

I was actually making a joke, sort of. For painting the majority of the work is prep, like peeling paint as you mentioned. If I have to do the prep work the price goes way up. If somebody else is going to do all the hard work and all I do is spray, well you get a significant discount. Despite the product I've sprayed, paint, epoxy, bedliner, the spraying has always been the easiest part. Line - X may be different, I don't know, maybe its especially hard to spray. Either way $1100 to do a prepped tub seems like price gouging.

 

[IoN6]

I was actually making a joke, sort of. For painting the majority of the work is prep, like peeling paint as you mentioned. If I have to do the prep work the price goes way up. If somebody else is going to do all the hard work and all I do is spray, well you get a significant discount. Despite the product I've sprayed, paint, epoxy, bedliner, the spraying has always been the easiest part. Line - X may be different, I don't know, maybe its especially hard to spray. Either way $1100 to do a prepped tub seems like price gouging.

Ah, sorry

I had the bed of my F150 done 4ish years ago, it was $450. And they did zero prep.

 

[LINUS]

In my Line-X experience the only prep they do is mask everything off. No scuffing, no sanding, no nothing.

That **shouldn't** be the prep.

It has gotten far more lax than when I was in the liner business, but we spent 3-4 hrs of prep with a grinder & 4 1/2 80 grit hard disc. I would hit the 'valley' ribs hard, and the 'peaks' flat surface all to the point I was at bare metal you didn't want to rub without a calloussed hand, and even then your skin was left in the bed.

I was the guy( ~21-23) who operated the shop side, the owner ran the office side & did the phone & quoted all the drop-in customers - but for Rhino in early/mid 90's we were the shop you wanted doing your liner, even among local Rhino dealer shops. That owner has 3 shops now & I would prep my own & let his guy spray mine to this day. Good guy, ran a tight ship.

I know a local Line-X shop who went to the new franchise workshop, yet he only uses a D/A sander & scuff the paint. Regional Line-X shops know he's a slacker & won't repair his sprays. My stereo shop buddy used them when he was just opening & his personal liner pulled up a 1ft sq area, without him picking at it. Sad.

Their response was "you peel & re-prep, we'll shoot it" - he knew my days in Seattle & he asked me - I was amazed at how low the average guy is treated, especially since they came onsite to my acid refinery & did a flow catch-bin area we let acid flow like a sewer, treat to neutral Ph & let drain days later.

It's 100% the prep to how your liner lasts & performs - when my Tundra goes to the Rhino shop I'll do my prep & let them mask & shoot.

A D/A sander with loose grit (<200 for sure) -is fine on the sides of a truck bed, but you need ~2hrs w/ a coarse disc on the bed floor to really get tooth worth calling a 'lifetime coating'.

My way let a guy keep his bar oil dripping, gas evaporating, no guard on the bar, --chainsaw in the bed flopping sometimes & all it did was make little cuts in the liner & make the liner soft when gas hadn't flashed off yet.
In my 2.5yrs doing this while in school in Seattle (Everett shop location) - I did maybe 1/2 dzn patches, and most were forklift damage - 1 was chainsaw & logger damage where my GF who lived in Forks (yeah, the Twilight Forks ) -was why I logged & guys brought their work trucks to me when I was back over here on weekdays since I claimed 'you break it, I respray it'.

I think it was 3 in that time that were my Forks buddies, and only 1 was the chainsaw thing.
Back then there was only the single Rhino formulation & a bed was $900, but our prep meant guys brought a truck from all over the Puget Sound to our shop. And why the newly minted owner then has 3 locations now. His ex-wife has 2 locations she got in a divorce, so you could say he'd grown 5 locations.

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:::Cliff Notes::: ---Prep is everything, if functional liner then going bare metal & rough tooth isn't overkill. Like paint, prep is everything to final result.

You're buying the prep, and also ask the repair policy from the franchise owner prior to paying. It's a PITA to pull liner for repair w/o the right tools.

HTH everyone.

 

[scrowley]

$1100 seems steep to me. The prep is all the hard work. Masking takes time but is relatively easy. Once you know the process and your tools the spraying is the easiest part. I would say 600-800 to spray and mask with materials.
But I am one for doing all work myself. Just have to jump in and try. Research. Buy the tools and materials.
Harbor freight sells a hvlp hopper sprayer. Holds a gallon. Sprayed good for me couple times I've used it.

 

[ZeGerman]

Good to know! Thanks btw on your videos and posts on the headliner, luckily I didn't have any kinks in my sunroof drain pipes! I had to be very patient with my headliner, but got it off, the problem will be getting it back on. I hope it will maintain it's shape, we shall see. I'll post my experience about it here shortly...

You're welcome! If you can get that headliner back in, then hats off to ya. I did not even have the patience for it with a razor blade in my hands

 

[PIPA]

Thanks so much guys for the advice, help, and insight. I'm brand new to the whole shebang and have been learning much from the people on ih8mud. I'll keep an open mind on all of this and follow through on what happens. I still have yet to strip the paint off and was holding out until I either get it professionally sprayed or do it myself. The extra money that could be saved could go towards other things that need to be taken care of. Of course going professional doesn't hurt either, sure I might have to eat the cost, by my hope would be that I'm getting a professional job done, but then again learning this stuff myself might be worth the aches and pains. So I've got a lot of thinking and planning ahead of me it looks like!

 

[scrowley]

@PIPA . It's the interior sheet metal. Why does it have to be perfect? Perfect place to learn imo.

 

[scrowley]

Also why linex? I never seen anyone else strip any exterior Panels to bare metal to spray or brush on monstaliner, al's liner, or any others. Just scuff really well with 180 grit. Clean with prep cleaner.
Could always brush and roll it on too. Still provides almost same texture with correct roller cover.