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I want to paint a whole pickup with bed
liner. Gray is the target color. HF sells
black bedliner reasonable priced. Looking
for experts and hobbyist advice....would
it work to mix like 1 quart of white to a
gallon of this berliner, add hardener, and
spray with a ceiling texture gun on to the
truck? Any hope this would work? Any
change in method or concoction you guys
can recomend? Thanks.
 
The paint would have to be the same type of paint. I also think you could adjust a cheap H-F spray gun and do a better job than a ceiling texture gun unless you want a textured finish. If the bed liner is an enamel add enamel white and it will mix well. You just want coverage not texture I am thinking .
 
Well coverage and texture is ok....I was thinking the white tractor paint at tsc or atwoods for the tint from black to gray. I should say dark gray is target and the HF bedliner dries to a dark dark gray anyway, rather than pure black.
 
(quoted from post at 15:18:12 03/12/22) I want to paint a whole pickup with bed
liner. Gray is the target color. HF sells
black bedliner reasonable priced. Looking
for experts and hobbyist advice....would
it work to mix like 1 quart of white to a
gallon of this berliner, add hardener, and
spray .....
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(quoted from post at 15:33:30 03/12/22) The paint would have to be the same type of paint.
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(quoted from post at 16:39:20 03/12/22) I was thinking the white tractor paint at tsc or atwoods for the tint from black to gray
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I think what the doc was getting at is incompatability issues between different paints.

If you've ever had paint lift and peel because they are not comparable, you would never go through all the prep again to have that happen
 
The bedliner is called a vinyl polymer
paint, the tsc is enamel, so I guess no
here? Glad I asked before I just ------
away money and effort.

There is tintable bedliner on ee
bay....but it's quite expensive. I was
hoping for a couple hundred fix for a
thousand dollar problem. Lol
 
Check into a product called Raptor Liner. A Jeep runs around town that was coated with it and it looks good. The guy said that it comes in many different colors and wasn't hard to apply.
 
You could pull up the MSDS sheet on the liner paint, see what the base is, oil or water.

Then try a small sample mixed with whatever base paint matches.

If it blends, or doesn't, you'll know. Mix enough to actually apply some to a test surface, let it cure and see what you get.

Once you do the actual mixing, keep accurate measurements so you can recreate the same tint.

A hopper would probably work if that's what you have. Turning the air pressure up and using the smaller nozzle will give a smother finish, low pressure will give a more textured finish.

If you don't have a hopper gun, Harbor Freight sells a pressure pot type sprayer that works well with thicker paints.
 
You can alter the color of black paint to make gray by intermixing with the same white paint however the ratio is more likely to be 1 qt black to 3 qts white. A lot depends on what color gray you are looking for. The first step would be to thoroughly clean the truck with a wax and grease remover frequently changing rags. Then you would need to roughen the paint surface with 180 grit paper so the bedliner would have something to get a bite on. Just keep in mind that it won't stay looking like that, it will forever look dirty and blotchy when exposed to the elements.
 
I don't know about mixing paint, but I do know that to paint a truck with bed liner you need to scuff it VERY well. A friend of mine bedlined his truck, and the paint peeled on every spot he didn't scuff very well. Around the windshield rubber, around the door handles, etc. He now has a splotchy bedlined truck that will be twice as hard to fix. Looked nice when it was fresh, though.
 
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