Wanted to powerboat skid plate, BUT........

[Badgertits]

Is the OEM bumper powder coated or painted? I really think it’s powder coated. I wonder how I can get the powder color so I can redo the bumper and skid plate at same time.

not sure...might be powdercoat since its one of the only steel parts on the truck other than frame- don’t want it rusting

the skid plate is aluminum

I don’t think it would necessarily look bad to leave that part of the bumper silver & have skid plate a different color

 

[hyrepower]

not sure...might be powdercoat since its one of the only steel parts on the truck other than frame- don’t want it rusting

the skid plate is aluminum

I don’t think it would necessarily look bad to leave that part of the bumper silver & have skid plate a different color

I was considering doing this. The only pix I have seen however are low resolution and I can't tell how it really looks. I think I prefer all or nothing however.

 

[hyrepower]

I was considering doing this. The only pix I have seen however are low resolution and I can't tell how it really looks. I think I prefer all or nothing however.

I think I may just go the plastidip route, I just have never seen or felt that stuff and am afraid it will look like shit real quick. I really may take the bumper and skid plate of and powder coat them all. But not powdering the grey part of the bumper, just the silver.

 

[KAH 24]

Line-X

 

[Traffic22]

Color matched mine. Including the portion of the bumper.

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Not normally a fan of color matched wheels (because they usually don’t) but that is an amazingly nice look. Really awesome looking set up all around.


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[NASSTY]

I'm pretty sure the bumpers are painted, not powdercoated.
I painted mine magnetic grey to match the bumper.

 

[hyrepower]

I'm pretty sure the bumpers are painted, not powdercoated.
I painted mine magnetic grey to match the bumper.

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Now that looks great! The downside is with it being paint, it will get a lot of road chips and scratches when off-roading.

 

[TurboTJ]

I can't believed that ford painted the bumper to look like part of the skid plate. So even if I do powdercoat the skid plate, the bumper part will still be silver. Ugh this sucks as it would definitely be a nice touch to have black skid plate rather than looking like every other Raptor out there.

What if anything have any other forum members done?

Great way to differentiate yourself - have a slightly different colored skid plate. That’ll teach em!!!

 

[zemuron99]

Light scuffing and bedliner-in-a-can.

 

[hyrepower]

Great way to differentiate yourself - have a slightly different colored skid plate. That’ll teach em!!!

I dont get it.... Teach who what?