Re: Trucks with Trunks

From: Rader (rlr@bbt.com)
Date: Fri May 22 1998 - 15:38:20 EDT


> > > Mine was ordered factory gel coated (whatever that means) Flame red to match
> > > my truck.

> > Paint won't fade anywhere near as fast as fiberglass
> > gelcoat.

> Do you mean that they're shipped without being painted? The "color match"
> is the fiberglass itself?

  That is what colored gelcoat is, yep. And although the attraction of "no
scratches possible" is nice, the fading is difficult to behold if you pay a
lot of bucks for whatever it is you've got gelcoated.

> installed, which I had painted and clearcoated. Am I going to be susceptible
> to fading

  Yeah, but a painted surface will not fade anywhere near as quickly as a
colored gelcoat.

  Ron



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