Vinyl top

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:22 pm
This top I'm hoping not to alter the texture of it very much. It already has the look of leather and I would like to keep it looking as close as I can to original.

It's too bad they didn't put as much effort in the car running as they did the body. The car just spent two months at a Chevrolet dealer repair shop because it wasn't running right and I had to give up on them and have a wrecker bring it home. Come to find out it was throwing a code, the MAF sensor had gone bad so I replaced that and it's running now.

Currently I working on the paint. One time when the car wasn't running we had day after day of hail storms so I covered the car with blankets and then plywood. After a week the wet blankets ruined the paint on the hood and trunk lid which had been repainted in recent years. The factory paint was unaffected. A professional body shop had worked on the hood so I don't know what urethane clear they used on it. The trunk I took it down to bare metal in 2015 and painted it with Omni MBC base coat and Advantage Urethane. After a week with the wet blankets there was a texture that looked like goose bumps on your skin. I've painted cars with lacquer that held up better than that.

All along I've been wishing to put a coating of something over the top instead of having to grease it every few days.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:18 pm
I think if it was properly reduced you could maintain quite a bit of that original texture.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:18 am
DarrelK wrote:I think you would be surprised how "fine" of a texture you can get with the Raptor. This pic. is my hard tonneau cover I built for my bed. This was done just using their included Shutz style gun which is more like a garden hose than a spray gun.....
The top looks good. I think on mine a minimum thickness of the bedliner would do. There is no cracks or defects to fill, it's just the sheen. The car was kept in a garage most of it's life. I got it in 2012 and it didn't have quite 100,000 miles on it. Most of that mileage was from traveling rather than day to day use.
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