My '98 came with a charcoal gray painted steel bumper. When I got it 2 years ago, i had the front bumper repainted. I've tried to keep up on the chips, but this winter, there is just too much. It looks like a teenager's face in full bloom (okay, not really, but that's what it feels like).

I've been looking at spray bed liner stuff. Duplicolor's gray bumper paint looked interesting. But then I found Plasti-dip. If I used Duplicolor's gray bumper paint, then used a clear Plasti-Dip coat...I'd think that'd protect it against rust and whatnot. I'm just wondering how it'd hold up over time. Anyone have any experience with either product?

for prep, I was going to wire-wheel the whole thing down to bare metal, rustoleum primer it, duplicolor bumper coat, clear plasti-dip. I'd think that'd be a pretty inexpensive way to do it and keep it somewhat looking nice. (I would run a sample to make sure it at least looks decent though)

 

bumper's really started rusting now around the valence so I decided to look into this a bit more. I picked up some black Rustoleum bed liner at Lowes and sprayed it on a test piece of metal. Sprayed some light gray paint on top of that and it turned out looking nice. I think I'm going to bed line it, then put a coat of dark gray paint on it.

I don't mind touching up, but I do mind the rust.

 

Just clean up as much as the rust as you can before painting it and you shouldn't have any problems with it.

 

Yah clean the rust up, don't just spray over it. Then get some good thicker bedliner, someone actually had a thread on this recently with a good looking product.

 

I plan on taking a wire wheel on a snag grinder to it, take it all down to the metal, then bedliner. I'll just put a cover coat on it, then use the rest of the can to bulk it up. Finish it off with a coat of the color of paint I want for looks.

But since this is just for looks, this may not get done for a bit.

 

sucks that it took 8months for someone to respond to you...

 

If you take it down to bare metal put some primer down on it. It'll help out quite a bit. I saw that nobody has helped out after this long so I figured I'd at least try to help out.

 

I've never really done bedliner before on something like this. you think steel/primer/bedliner would provide good enough adhesion so it wouldn't peel off?? It would be a nice clean surface...

 

bedliner actually likes a lil grit so id grind it prime it and then use a scrubbing pad to ruff it up some

 

^^ Yep what he said.