- Hey guys, Shawn!
With Custom Offsets,
Custom Offsets TV on the YouTube.
We have a shoot I never knew.
People have been asking, I keep scorpion lining my vehicles.
People have started commenting on,
they're wanting to know more about it.
This isn't our typical wheelhouse,
see what I did there, Fuller?
But, I figure we might as well answer the question,
'cause you keep asking it.
So we'll make a quick video, shoot I never knew
about scorpion lining, rhino lining, linexing,
basically bed lining a vehicle
and why the hell I keep doing it, so,
I'll start with the one I did first.
The Custom Offsets Avalanche was originally plasti dip.
So I plasti dipped this entire truck, top to bottom.
It went on really well, I did it myself,
it cost me $600, I loved it, it lasted for like two years,
and I was waxing the hell out of it and everything.
It kept the matte shine to it.
It actually worked really well.
Then I went to remove it, because plasti dip is so,
it's easy to remove, well,
I must not have done it right because it was a nightmare.
I'll never plasti dip anything big again in my entire life
and I'm still upset about it and that was two years ago
and I still don't have any fingerprints
from removing all of that plasti dip.
So, when I redid it I decided to use bed liner.
In one of my concepts, and this is a scorpion liner.
They're one of the ones that lay it a little more flat, so,
Fuller, if you come kinda get a close up on that,
you'll see that it's not very rough.
It's got a texture to it but it's almost closer
to a plasti dip texture.
It's got a little bit of roughness to it
but it's not like the real rough bed liners,
and that's why I kind of chase the scorpion.
And then it's got a matte look to it,
and then on the bumps it's got a sheen.
So it's kind of matte, kind of shiny.
It's hard to explain, but hopefully you're following me.
And, so, I went and had them do this
and when I did it, I literally had them shoot everything.
We went in and we shot the tow mirrors,
and we shot inside the door jambs.
So you'll see we got real close
to getting everything in the door jambs,
and then also the inner doors.
So we got all of this area here,
and that made a big difference.
This is a white Avalanche.
So I think it would've looked terrible
if we would've left this white.
When I plasti dipped it I left these white
and I always yelled at my wife
when she would open the doors at shows,
because they would see the sins
of not doing the jambs, so,
it was a must that we did the jambs.
And we did these, and they,
I mean they close and operate great.
The build up of the liner didn't do anything
for function and fit, so I've been really happy with it.
As you can imagine we had to remove
all the taillights and signals
and pull all the bolts out of it and everything
and re-put them in with all the RTV sealant.
And then the other thing we did is
we went right over the top of the plastic.
If you have an Avalanche,
I've had a lot of Avalanche guys say
they're gonna just get their plastics bed linered.
I highly recommend it,
it doesn't have the fade problem anymore.
But be careful when you're scuffing it,
because any deep scuffs into the plastic
and you actually see them right through the liner.
Even though this builds up pretty good,
you still see any imperfections through that liner,
so don't think you're gonna take a beat to hell,
scratched up, gouged truck, either plastic or metal,
liner over it, and you're not gonna see that.
You will see the scrapes and scratches.
So you do wanna prep it,
just like you would if you were painting,
or at least close to that.
I did the covers on this thing.
I did literally everything in the liner
so that it would be durable.
So, the cost on a truck like this,
because it doesn't have a lot of stuff to take apart,
most of it was able to pull off pretty easy,
and then they did the entire vehicle,
is right around $2000 bucks.
If it were a pickup truck where the box has to come off,
so you can do the back of the cab,
I think he said it'd be around the same price,
about $2000 bucks, installed, sprayed on there.
I think you should be able to find
a price like that anywhere.
That seemed like a pretty typical price point.
So this is the black one,
and that's a pretty standard color.
With these liners you can get all different colors.
So they've got a huge color pallette,
and then you can start getting custom mix colors,
but then you're gonna start spending money,
'cause each of those containers of the pigment
or whatever starts to increase the price.
So, when I went to do the Hummer,
they kind of thought it was gonna be around the same price,
and then shit got really weird.
So, same thing.
You'll see that we did this one,
this is also scorpion liner.
I think it added like $500 bucks to do a custom color,
'cause I really wanted it to match
our building the best I could.
Really going for the gray and black look.
Again, I did inside of all of the door jambs
and inside of the doors.
This used to be a yellow Hummer,
so it'd have been real obvious,
and I'll show you some spots where we didn't do it
that it really stands out.
So I wanted to make sure and do the jambs really good,
but because it's got a lift gate and these vents,
and lots of marker lights and roof lights,
there's lights for your lights,
the whole lift gate had to come off.
They had to remove anything that they weren't gonna liner.
I didn't do the step up bars
and I didn't do the plastic down here.
On the mirrors I just had them do the insert,
so that was an area that they had to tape off.
And then, in the engine bay,
because the Hummer's got a nice,
rectangular engine bay that's sealed from the hood,
I just literally had them tape this off
and then not do inside the engine bay,
'cause you don't see it when the vehicle's
all put together, ready to rock and roll.
For that reason, that's what the yellow looks like,
and then that's where I stopped.
You could definitely get in there,
but that wasn't my cup of tea.
But they had to remove the hood.
They basically said, and, I mean,
all of this stuff had to come off,
so they basically said by the time they were done,
they will likely never do an SUV again,
at least not a Hummer,
because of all of the pieces and parts.
This one, they said, would probably be around $3500
if anybody else wanted to do it,
because they learned their lesson on this one.
So, if you look close on this one
you'll see that this is,
So, this, because of the charcoal,
or the gray, is all sheen.
So you'll see it doesn't quite have
the flat that the black carries,
'cause that flatness comes from the black.
And then this one, with the pigment in it,
actually gave it a sheen.
But I keep it dirty,
so then it still looks more of a matte look.
So, cost almost $4000, with this one,
with all the pieces and parts,
and it's a huge vehicle, and they had to do the roof,
and pull the roof racks off and everything,
and then about two grand for that one.
Plasti dip on these would've been probably $700 bucks
and probably, you know, almost a thousand dollars,
but you would have spent time.
And it'd have been almost impossible
to do the door jambs and everything
without taping everything off, so.
What he basically told me, and what I've learned is,
when you're lining, you basically have choices, right?
Plasti dip, which, you're not gonna spend as much money,
but you're gonna have the problems
and it's not gonna be done as well.
And then you could do a wrap.
To me, a wrap on this vehicle just
wouldn't have had the durability.
I plan on beating the piss out of this thing,
and this is kind of my winter vehicle slash
my "go up into the North woods and wreck it" vehicle,
and that's why I put the wheels on it.
They look fancy,
but they're actually a used set that I had sitting around
that I've actually knocked some chrome off of already
and that's the plan, is to get them powder coated,
once I get them nice and racked.
That's why we've been doing winter
wheel experiments all winter.
This vehicle, I wanted to be durable,
and that's what the liner is.
I mean, there's no doubt.
Somebody egged it this last weekend,
which was really funny, ha ha.
But it didn't do anything.
I just went with a hose and washed the egg off of it,
so it's anti-egging capabilities.
Right, Fuller?
'Cause I'm pretty sure you're the one that did it.
So, what else was I gonna tell them Fuller?
Tell me more?
I think I'd better go to my cheat sheet.
And then optionally, we have paint.
So, what they said is you basically could've
painted this vehicle for the same price we lined it,
because it's the same process.
You still have to prep everything.
You still have to take everything apart,
then you have to put it all back together,
and then the taping off and everything.
All these side vents had to come out.
Everything had to come out of here.
So this one was the same.
That one was definitely cheaper.
I don't think anybody would totally do a color change.
Oh, this reminds me of what I wanted to tell you about.
For $2000 bucks, so I would say this is cheaper than paint,
more expensive by double than plasti dip,
but this is gonna last forever.
This is going nowhere.
This.
So, the paint had some bubbling going on,
some rust starting to creep out,
so when I did the liner
we had them go ahead and use some
preventers to try to stop that rust
and grind out what they could.
I didn't have them cut it out and weld it.
Going back I wish I would've.
We had hoped that that bed liner could hold it back.
It held it back for about three weeks.
In three weeks the rust was already bubbling through.
So now what I do is I just spray plasti dip on there
and I've got probably three and a half inches
of plasti dip on here,
which is really odd and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody,
'cause that's just a poor way to take care of things.
But that would be an example where it won't stop rust,
it won't get rid of rust.
It's gonna bubble right through it.
So don't have that false hope that
you can take your old rusty truck
and cover it in bed liner and nobody will know.
It'll just hold it together like some magical glue.
It's gonna come right through there.
And that came through the plasti dip, too, so.
I'm checking my notes, Fuller.
Oh, cleaning, you wanted me to talk about cleaning.
So, as far as cleaning these,
I like to just take them and power wash them.
Sometimes I'll use the,
you know the brush at car wash
that you're never supposed to use,
especially on your painted vehicle?
That is perfectly awesome on a truck that's been linered.
But I just power wash these things
and then get right back to it.
The little bit shinier,
and this one's a little bit more knocked down, too,
'cause I told them to keep it as flat as possible.
This one, I can actually go around it with a spray detailer
and it works really well.
That one is a pain in the butt
and it rips up all the rags,
'cause it does have a little more texture to it,
and it's got that matte so it,
you end up seeing all the white marks
if you try to use the detailer.
So I pretty much just stick to power washing on that one.
I think that's it.
You guys just kind of asked
why do I keep linering these vehicles
and I figured I'd give you a run down on some of the costs.
Let us know if you have any more questions
that I can try to jump on, or Fuller,
some of the guys will help out,
and we'll answer any other questions, but,
it's not really a cost savings,
it's more about durability, you want it to last,
and the bad ass look of having
your entire truck bed linered,
and the fact that kids will ask you if it's bulletproof
and you can actually convince them that it is.
- Is this bulletproof?
- Well, I hope so.
The way this world's going.
(laughter)
Peace.
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