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| Dupli-Color Truck Bed Coating, gallon | 
| Brand: DupliColor
Category: Automotive Parts And Accessories
List Price: $72.00
Buy New: $48.00
You Save: $24.00 (33%)
New (4) from $48.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1655
Color: Black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9
MPN: TRG250
UPC: 026916612502
EAN: 0026916612502
ASIN: B000768CO8
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | The gallon can be applied with the Duplicolor Spray Gun #TRG102 or Roller Kit #TRG103. | | • | Easy to Apply, Quick Drying Time. | | • | Abrasion Resistant, Durable Non-Skid Surface. | | • | Improve Vehicle Appearance. Coatin Color is Black. | | • | Also use inner fenders, tail gates, bed rails, underbody, cargo vans, push bars, metal floors and running boards. |
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Product Description
Dupli-Color Truck Bed Coating is a one-step coating for do-it-yourselfers and professionals. Dupli-Color Truck Bed Coating is a durable, non-skid coating that protects truck beds from impact, scratches, weather and rust. It is a unique black vinyl polymer coating that protects the truck bed and gives the look of a conventional truck bed liner for a fraction of the cost. Dupli-Color Truck Bed Coating in easy-to-use gallon-size container to be applied with a spray gun, roller or brush. Also available in quart size and aerosol.
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| Customer Reviews:
 So far, so good July 7, 2008
We used this product today to put a bed liner in our Ram 1500 truck. When sanded and masked correctly, the finished results were very good! Time will tell if the product will peel or degrade, but as far as appearances go, it's top notch when done neatly and per instructions.
If I remember, I will come back in about a year to report its durability.
You can see a picture of the final result here: [...]
 It is what it is: a Do-It-Yourself substitue for a profesisonal job July 5, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Before I write my review, observations and lessons learned, I need to disclose that I used this product on a motorcycle trailer, not a truck bed.
(1) I quickly found that one should not use a plastic roller pan with this coating. Why? The Dupli-Color Coating degraded and ate completely through the bottom of the plastic roller pan. Luckily I had a metal pan nearby.
(2) The coating is thick and difficult to work with. Even with a brush it was hard to cut-in hard to reach places, crevices and indentations. I thought about thinning the coating, however I didn't see anything in the documentation stating you could or could not do that. I'm sure the thickness/viscosity of the product is how it is intended to be.
(3) It is also very, very temperature sensitive. It emulsified, clumped and crusted-over very quickly during summertime heat (even in the shade). I'd recommend to others a spring or fall application of the coating.
(4) I used a roller - with mixed results. The texture of the finished coat was far from uniform. I used both the recommended "texture" roller cover and a standard roller cover with a medium nap. Neither out-performed the other; in fact, in some areas the texture cover did better but in other areas the standard nap roller yielded a better result (better is defined as both "a more uniform thickness" and "a uniform visual appearance").
(5) I like the bed liner-like texture of the coating on the metal-grid section of my motorcycle trailer deck. It should provide more stable footing when wet. However, it was hard to apply to the grid-deck. I became so frustrated that midway through this part of the job, I spray-painted the steel grid with Rustoleum to ensure everything was covered. Then I went back to the Dupli-Color Coating (I used two types of roller covers, sprayed Rustoleum, then I went back to the Dupli-Color Coating via a paint brush, then I rolled one more time with the texture roller cover).
(6) I would like to see how a spray gun performs with this product. I'm far from an expert, but I assume a top-grade spray gun may be needed. Due to the viscosity of the product I assume it would need to be thinned if one used an inferior or cheap spray gun.
In summary, my review title says it all. It is what it is: a Do-It-Yourself substitute for a professional job. Applying via a roller, no one should kid themselves that their finished product will look anything close to a professional "spay-in bed liner". Given my results, I would never apply this to my truck bed! But for what I used it for - to protect a 2003 motorcycle trailer - it served its purpose. If the Dupli-Color Coating proves to be durable, the effort & expense will have been worth it. Only time will tell.
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