Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi,

Just want to know your thoughts, im getting some sliders made up however in two minds whether to either powder coat them or paint them.

1. Painting option being cheaper is a bonus, but its using a basic motor spray paint finish is ok but nothing like powder coating.

2. I like the look of powder coat stuff however being sliders and seen some dodgy powder coating where it starts to flake up and generally becomes crap

so my concerns are spend more on powder coating but for it to flake off... or have paint and can touch it up...

I've just got mine back from powdercoating, got a full blast, prime and powdercoat for $100 cash on previous rigs I've sprayed barwork myself and its needed regular touchups to keep it looking good.
I did have my snorkel powdercoated on a previous rig (3" mandrel bent mild steel pipe) and it still looked good as new 5 years later when I sold the car.

Powdercoat will give you a harder finish than paint. That said by the time you get them powdercoated then drag them over a rock with a 2,000kg car on top of them wether its powdercoat or paint - it will need a touch up.

you can buy a touch up paint for powdercoat anyway.

If you're going to paint them, look at using wrinkle finish paint, looks great.

I use the VHT product a fair bit on rocker covers etc.

It tends to be pretty durable and it's finish naturally hides smaller scratches and dents. That said, skull dragging a truck over rocks and you're always gonna have to repaint them.

oh ok no worries

i'll how much extra it is to get powder coated and way it up i guess...

It also depends on how much you plan on sliding them over rocks etc, if you are going to be doing lots of work then go the paint as you will strip the powdercoat off also. Powdercoat will last far longer and is tougher than standard paint, but it cannot be touched up and will need to be completely recoated (but paint matches are possible to use to touch up).

As a powdercoater, if I was using on a weekend warrior I would get to powdercoated and ask the guys to use a RAL colour or paint matched colour. Texture finishes look great but can not be touched up with paint to match, so keep that in mind.

dip em in chrome?... fully sic!

Powder coat, then just spray the scrapes along the way .

Bazzle

Who cares, they're sliders and they're gonna get scratched to blazes anyway. If you want em just for show then powder coat them.

Mate buy a product called POR15, i cant recommend it highly enough. Its expensive at about $100 (i think it was, maybe $200) for a starter kit, but that will last you a long time if youre only doing sliders, bullbars, etc...
Its easy to prepare, you can paint it on with a brush (for farks sake dont buy shitty bunnings brushes, i spent about half hour picking out the bristles), then let it dry. It is moisture curing too, so a nice cold wet day is great for curing. Im using it on my bullbar, and soon my rear bar when i get around to removing it. Ive beaten up the bullbar, scraped chains along it, and it still looks good (although i doubt even it will hold up to dragging across a granite boulder, but you can touch it up).
A guy at work actually put me onto this stuff, he used it to coat the firewall of his Kombi.
Anyway read up on it here http://www.por15.com/whatispor15.asp

Doesn't matter which way you go, you will take the paint off them if you are using them.
Best one I have heard is to use pot belly black like they use on cast iron and fireplaces. Stronger than paint, and if it needs to be touched up, it is extremely easy and unnoticeable.

Galvanising?

Might look a bit industrial, but probably the same cost as Powdercoat....
And heaps tougher!!!!
Just food for thought.........

Dano.

can of paint! if u scratch it keep a can up 5 second looks like new!

yeah i may just look at getting them powder coated...

POR15?

suitable for it?

powdercoat

Im a big fan of powdercoating but I sprayed my sliders in the anti chip stuff that they spray on door sills (comes in a spary can now) and then sprayed over that.. came up pretty good and cos bugger all to do, and will cost bugger all to touch up.

nicbeer wrote:POR15?

suitable for it?

As i mentioned above yeh is perfect for it.

I got a quote to power coat some sliders for a GU patrol, does $120 for both sliders seem reasonable?

$100-$120 seems fair enough.

It seems like a reasonable price but I can't understand why you decided on powdercoat rather than paint.

chimpboy wrote:It seems like a reasonable price but I can't understand why you decided on powdercoat rather than paint.

I want a quality finish, dont want the pain flaking ive got 40k truck no point skipping on a few things..

found 2 places in bayswater one was $40 for the pair the other $60 so may just get it done there...

weeman wrote:

chimpboy wrote:It seems like a reasonable price but I can't understand why you decided on powdercoat rather than paint.

I want a quality finish, dont want the pain flaking ive got 40k truck no point skipping on a few things..

found 2 places in bayswater one was $40 for the pair the other $60 so may just get it done there...

Up to you

Those prices are great anyway.

If you scratch the paint, it can be rubbed back and recoated/patched up.
You cant do the same with powder coat, also once scratched, powder coating has a tendancy to flake of in chunks.

to a certain extent, the durability of both will come down to the prep work and the quality of products used

see there work first, my rims were done by a mob in bayswater, they now look like poo 6 months later, all the powdercoat has cracked off the first time i did wheel nuts up!!!
theres a good place out at cambelfeild, ring stu at induro, he will be able to tell you what it is called.

powdercoating always seems to last longer, but costs more to touch up..

I've done both and scratched them both. If you drive a lot of rocks they will both suffer the same fate. I wouldn't bother with the extra expense unless it was a very tidy expensive rig but they do come up well powder coated.