93-12Smoke

I am planning on having the Goat repainted the end of this summer and I am having problems deciding how to have it done. I am going to stick with Red but am seriously considering having the rockers sprayed with bed liner. I had this done on my previous truck (Silver Tacoma w/ sprayed bottom 6”) due to the amount of rock chips from the mud tires. On the Tacoma I had it sprayed up to the rubber molding and in my opinion I think it made the truck look good. If I have the Dodge done this way it too will be black bed liner due to the fact the people I have talked to about the colored bed liner say it fades real bad and the red will turn to pink. My dilemma is if I have it sprayed up to the trim then I think it will be too much. I could take the trim off and not go to high but then I don’t have that trim to protect the new paint from the ever so nice people at Wal-Mart who use your car door as a door stop for their car door. Any thoughts? I attached a photo of the tacoma incase someone is not following what I am talking about.

Crossy's son

I like the idea IMO.

I always liked silver/red. But I think black on the bottom would look nicer up to the lower body line because the black trim would make the silver rhino look weird.

93-12Smoke

Yeah if I do it, it will be black bed liner.

RollinCoalSmoke

I did my 93 with the black bedliner, the truck is white. I put a coat of sealer over the whole truck and was worried that the black would show thru the white. Prior to or while wet sanding the truck I sanded the bedliner just like I did the rest of the truck then i went over the whole thing again with a scotchbrite pad and rubbed the daylights outta the bedliner then painted the whole truck brite white. The paint is only 3 weeks old but it's not bleeding thru yet. Hope it doesn't but it might. Good luck on however you do it.

EatMySmoke

Found a truck that matches your idea. Hope this helps.





Dawson

DU.DP.

go with the pic that style there! that is an amazing looking truck!

93-12Smoke

Yeah that looks awesome. Thanks!

xjjones

they do make some colored bed liners don't know if they fad or not

93-12Smoke

yeah I looked into the colored liners but I was told the red has a tendancy to fade to pink.

mjozefow

What about clear 3M film? That way you get protection that is removable.

I have Line-x in my bed. The great thing is that it will never come off no matter what. The bad part is that it will never come off no matter what.

If I were buying a truck, I would prefer that any mods the PO made would be able to be taken off. Might impact your resale value.

My .02.

Edit: Maybe even vinyl graphics of some sort?

93-12Smoke

I plan to drive this into the ground and then make a mudder out of it when it is no longer able to complete its task of pulling the current mudder. So resale is no concern.

b.seaman

i did on my '92 and i have the dark forest green above the trim. The only thing i don't like about it is how course it is. Body shops have actual chip guard which is less aggressive than actual bed liner, if i was going to do it again that is what i would use.