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MoJeepin

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Well thank goodness I haven't installed my receiver yet. I went to pull the decals off and the paint chipped right off... Meaning this thing would be a rust bucket in less then a year!

Prepping it up for truck bed coating and will start that today since it supposed to be 70 here

 
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Wow that's probably one of the worst paint jobs I've seen. I'm ordering the same receiver in a few weeks and will probably do truck bed liner too after seeing that.
 
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My hitch is installed but it will be coming off in a couple months. The plan is to spray my bumpers with box liner and I will likely do the same with the hitch. The picture you posted looks like a really bad paint job. Mine was fine but it's still powdercoat and I don't trust it. I've seen railings rusted to the point of almost falling off buildings just weeks after being coated. My skid plates looked fine until I sanded them to box line them. Found rust spots under the coating that you couldn't see before I started.
 
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I haven't noticed anything wrong with the paint on my hitch receiver, maybe you just got a bad example or something. Guess I'll need to check it come spring and maybe plastidip it.
 
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MoJeepin said:
That was just from peeling off a UPC code...

Onto the coating!
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Looks good! What brand did you use there? Is that the smooth stuff or the textured stuff?

Rosso I'd suggest something like MoJeepin used for doing a hitch. Plasti-dip works wonders but I don't think I'd trust it as an undercoating. For something like a hitch you want it to be permanent.

Anyone looking to do larger areas or multiple parts, you can get sprayable 2 component boxliner. It's supposed to be a little tougher but it's a bit more of a procedure. Here's a link to the thread about my skids, going to do my hitch along with round 2 of parts.

http://www.jeeppatriot.com/#/forumsite/20820/topics/276241
 
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Hrm, yeah, maybe I should look more into Rhinoliner if I'm gonna put protectant on the hitch, but I already have the plastidip. Will know better what I need sometime later though.
 
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