Best Body Schutz??

[Bingster]

I want to coat the inner fenders with a rubberized coating over the new paint.

There are a lot of brands of body schutz - I assume that's the proper name for it - and I wanted to know if any is better than then other.

I'd prefer a spray can for ease and cost. Eastwood makes one. 3M as well. Others also.

Thanks.

[desoto1939]

It sounds as if you want to spray on the old rust protection under the fenders.

First questions is WHY???

They found out that this really casued more rustout then it prevented.

Whena small stone chpped the undercoating and small pin hole was made. Then when running inthe rain and snow and wet weather the water would get into the hole and then run down behind the rustproofing.

After time has gone by then you would start to see rust out coming from the inside of the fender.

Since we do not drive our cars in bad weather and I am assuming this is what you are going to do then I would not coat the inner fenders. When they just have the paint you can wash the mud a grime off and make sure they are clean.

Just my two cents. The newer cars are now made with galvanized fender and also plastic inner fender to help prevent rust out.

Rich Hartung

Desoto1939@aol.com

[Bingster]

Thanks Rich. Maybe I should re-think my plan. I guess in past posts I saw that some guys thought the rubber coating would prevent rocks from denting the fender from the inside.

[chopt50wgn]

R&M makes a very good rubberized undercoating. If you plan t put it over a painted surface, I would go over it with a scotchbrite pad to give it some tooth to bond. This stuff lays down to look like a vinyl top after drying.It is also paintable after it drys.

If you leave inner fenderwells in just paint, a stone will chip paint a whole lot faster than having a rubber like surface to bounce off.

[dezeldoc]

What i have been using as of late is the raptor spray on bed liner. It is tintable (so you can mix the color in with it) it has a better hold out to damage from rocks, nails and such, and you will not have moisture get under it or through it. Nothing worse than star marks on the fenders of a newly painted car from rocks. It is pretty much imposable to damage the metal from road debris with this stuff.

Edited November 21, 2012 by dezeldoc

[48ply1stcar]

I used a truck bed liner. Although I was lucky enough to work on the inner fenders when they were off the car. It was winter in Minnesota and I was on the garage floor with a heat gun and a putty knife scraping off the undercoating. I had the inner fenders sandbasted then I used an ecthing primer and a spray truck bed liner.

So how much work to you want to do?

[Bingster]

Well, the inner fenders will/are already primed and painted. So the question will be to rubber coat or not to rubber coat. Is this bed liner material really that good?

[Bingster]

I've looked into Raptor and it seems like a great product.

However, it is a hard material when dry. The traditional rubberized coatings would seem to me to better insulate with regard to sound deadening.

Any info?

[dezeldoc]

The bed liner is still pliable not as hard as one would think. It works great as a sound deadener, and as mentioned before will keep moisture out unlike the rubber that will not.

[48ply1stcar]

I missed that the fenders were painted. I painted the engine side semi-gloss black. (wish I had gone gloss) the wheel side shown is the bed-linner. The finish is hard, and I would say no help on sound deadening. I use it because I thought it would be easy to touch up.