Yates's Duramax
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Looks good so far, not 100% percent match on the white but looks 1000% times better than black would have looked.
Do not ever do this:scared: face towards me again :crossarms:
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I'm sure it's all good now, they just had issues like you wouldn't believe when it first came out. Couldn't tell you the number of trucks I had to wire wheel out the bedliner to respray them.
Originally they would do the black liner and just the texture would be a color then on top of that would be a clear "sealer" so it didn't fade or turn brown(that's the natural color of LineX). Then the sealer peeled like crazy so customers would come back to have it fixed and the only way to do that is start from scratch. If you spray over an older liner there is no telling what is embeded in it an most likely the new liner on top would either bubble up as soon as you sprayed it or would peel off a week later in sheets.
LineX then started making entire liners in the color but once again they faded VERY quick if it was exposed to UV rays. Supposedly they were working on a new compound but that was around the time I left and that was almost a decade ago.
I'm sure it's all good now, they just had issues like you wouldn't believe when it first came out. Couldn't tell you the number of trucks I had to wire wheel out the bedliner to respray them.
Originally they would do the black liner and just the texture would be a color then on top of that would be a clear "sealer" so it didn't fade or turn brown(that's the natural color of LineX). Then the sealer peeled like crazy so customers would come back to have it fixed and the only way to do that is start from scratch. If you spray over an older liner there is no telling what is embeded in it an most likely the new liner on top would either bubble up as soon as you sprayed it or would peel off a week later in sheets.
LineX then started making entire liners in the color but once again they faded VERY quick if it was exposed to UV rays. Supposedly they were working on a new compound but that was around the time I left and that was almost a decade ago.
I am by no means an expert on it but from what I was told it is now a mixed color similar to how you do paint and then sprayed. I thought line x came as the base color, brown, and had to be mixed with the black to give it it's color?
I used to want white Line-X but they said extra $500 and they wouldn't guarantee it against fading and all that so I decided nope. But I will be getting black Line-X once I finish bed tubs and notch cover...
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It is my first rodeo with white Line X so I cannot comment on the longevity of it and doubt I will keep the truck long enough to know.
Yep, it's a two part material. The actual polyurothane, which is the color(black, white, red, etc) and the activator(brown). Both come in 55gal drums and if you look at them they are kinda the consistency of oil. By themselves they will stay in that state but mix them together and a chemical reaction takes place and it heats up and within 30-45 seconds it gets rock hard. They spray guns are similar to paint guns but instead of a can on the top with paint it has two high psi hydro hoses with each of the components that mix at the tip of the gun once they exit it. Normal pressure on the system and guns is around 350-450 psi. That is why LineX usually looks more like a factory liner or less "clumpy" that other low pressure systems.
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