Wheel Wells: Line-X or Husky Insert?

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Rapster

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I got tired of waiting for inserts, so I sprayed them with Rustoleum Bed Liner this weekend ($7 per can. Used one can per side.). I am very pleased with the look. I have 100% no painting experience, but within two hours I was able to clean, prep, and paint both wheel wells. As long as you make sure everything is masked off appropriately and you hold the can sufficiently far back to prevent runs, it is very easy to do and looks great.
Do you have pictures you can share of the before and after or any during your process? Thanks
 

Nickshu

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I bought a set of the Husky liners and was not happy with the way they fit. I wanted liners because they hang lower and offer more protection than just undercoating or bedlinering the wheel wells. So I trimmed them around the shocks and tried to get them fitted as well as I could but still found the fit very wonky. Yes technically they will fit but I could not get them to fit up to my standards of how something should fit on a brand new truck.

So I ditched the liners and bought some professional-grade 3M undercoating (spray cans), masked everything off, scuffed, prepped, and sprayed with the 3M undercoating. Came out great.

Unfortunately since I trimmed up the Husky liners I ate the cost of those.
 
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Boost_it638

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I sprayed mine with U-pol raptor liner, happy with how it came out. It's all in the prep befor spraying them. The kit was around $100 with the spray gun on Amazon.
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I hate the way the liners look and did it myself with rust oleum bed liner. As mentioned, prep is key the spraying is the easy part.


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I used rustoleum primer and bed liner in my 2013 and 2019. Paint held up in the 2013 for 6 years until I sold it. Maybe one or two chips at most. I did mild offroading several times a year, including snow, mud, gravel, dirt.

1 hour prep, 1 hour paint. Save couple hundred. Well worth it. I recommend everyone to do it.
 
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