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Painting Truck Bed Liner

Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:33 am
Posted by Homey the Clown
Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:33 am
Do any of you have any experience painting over black truck bed liner?

TLDR Version:

Installing plywood reinforcement on my front deck and back bench of my aluminum boat. My plans were to prime the wood, then coat with a roll on truck bed liner. Problem is that I do not want it to be black. I was thinking either grey or a dark green to match the boat. Have any of you painted over a black truck bed liner?

I am also having an aluminum floor installed, and plan to coat it with the same thing as the wood, only I will scuff it up good, then degrease with rubbing alcohol before applying the primer.

Any advice is appreciated. Any other ideas for coating the deck/floor are welcome, as well.

Posted by Janky
Team Primo
Member since Jun 2011
35957 posts
Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:35 am to
White flex seal?
Posted by NYCAuburn
TD Platinum Membership/SECr Sheriff
Member since Feb 2011
57002 posts
Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:35 am to
They make colorized bed liner
Posted by PillageUrVillage
Mordor
Member since Mar 2011
14813 posts
Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:20 pm to
quote:

Any advice is appreciated. Any other ideas for coating the deck/floor are welcome, as well.


I still think you should go with SeaDek.

Let me know when you want me to christen that boat with a couple of 6 lbers
Posted by Jj283
Houma
Member since May 2015
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Posted on 4/6/18 at 10:53 pm to
Yes. Well with the professional bed liner you can anyway. Good friend has a shop and they do this all the time with boats. Sprays the liner then comes over top with an automotive paint. I’ve also seen him do a few vehicles the same way. Hasn’t had any issues that I know of.
Posted by Homey the Clown
Member since Feb 2009
5720 posts
Posted on 4/7/18 at 6:19 pm to
Update:

Painted on the bed liner, about 4 coats or so. Then this afternoon I painted the truck bed liner with grey marine grade paint. It has to dry over night before applying the second coat. Ill do that before i head to work in the morning. Once that one dries, ima flip em over and paint the underside. I probably didnt need to do the truck bed liner at all to be honest. I thought it'd be thick enough to get rid of the plywood texture showing through, and have a little texture, itself. It didnt get rid of the wood texture, and didnt have all that much texture. Im not that upset about it. It doesnt look bad. That wood wont be rotting anytime soon, either. Its gonna be sealed like a mofo

One thing i messed up on, i was gonna sand the edges of the wood before painting, to give it a more finished look, but i was too excited, i guess, and just started painting.
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