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Old 01-09-2023, 11:46 PM   #6
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Re: Undercoating

I've sold Raptor Liner and other DIY bedliners wholesale to body shop jobber stores (for nearly 20 years) and can tell you that you're considering the wrong product for the job.
Bedliners like Raptor and others are nothing more than sprayable thick urethane. Ron Morton, who owned Dominion Sureseal, invented Gator Guard that used epoxies in the late 90's but found they chalked with age so he messed around with urethane to the point that he got it to "work" as a sprayable bedliner. Hard, textured finish and a successful marketing program made it a success as a DIY bedliner but it was never designed or meant to be used as "undercoating".
Undercoating is a bitumen based product that never hardens completely and because it doesn't, it absorbs sound and flying road debris far better than any "bedliner" ever will!

Stick with a product called "undercoating" for undercoating and leave the bedliners to the beds...as they were designed for.

Keep it simple... it doesn't have to be anything else.
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