Buggy interior question

karatejosh

karatejosh

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So I'm in the last 5%of my buggy biuld and I'm trying to figure out paint and other finishing touches my buggy is probly going to be a shiny black on the outside with a few small red accents but my question is what is everyone using on the inside areas like the floor that see a lot of abuse I was thinking of something like line x ??
 
If you use a bedliner, be careful of where your exhaust is. If the pipes/muffler are too close to the floorboards, it will melt the bedliner. Are the floors steel or aluminum? If aluminum, I would leave them raw.

The floors in my pickup have rhino liner on them. My muffler has melted some of the bedliner in the extra cab part.
 
I used 1/8 aluminum for the floor of mine with a couple dimple died holes for drainage. I left all of the interior bare aluminum. I had Herculined mine when it was still full bodied. That stuff traps dirt and it will never look clean.
 
You can always go to Walmart and buy some cheap-ass universal floor mats, and velcro or rivet them down.
Then when they get nasty, just pull 'em out and hose them off.
 
Ok thanks guys leaving it raw will obviously be the easiest thing to do and I will be putting floor mats in it no madder what but if it stays raw will the aluminum get scratched real bad
 
Mine is powder coated and I laid some grip tape down later so I wasn't sliding around when getting in and out.
 
What makes sense is a combination of a lot of all of what has been said.
Raw
With grip tape
Floor matts over them
Floor mats will help keep engine heat out, and cold in winter diving
Grip tape will help hold mats in place.
If you wanna take mats out, you have the grip tape to keep you from sliding around getting in and out
Win Win Win Win
 
karatejosh said:
Ok thanks guys leaving it raw will obviously be the easiest thing to do and I will be putting floor mats in it no madder what but if it stays raw will the aluminum get scratched real bad
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Mine have been in since April. I'll take some pictures tonight. There will be some scratching but not a lot. Will it stay shiny, no. It really depends on how much mud and crap gets inside, thats what does the scratching.
 
Here is my floor after roughly 7 months of use. I don't have floor mats so this is direct contact.

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The aluminum will hold up better natural. If not coated with something high end in paint or liner moisture will get trapped. It will corrode much faster than you think. Also between dissimilar metals with a moisture trapped electrolysis will be much greater. Some of the worst corroded fire trucks I have seen have been undercoated or cheaply painted units built from aluminum.
 
my floor is similar to livetorun's but it was slick during ingress and egress, so i went to tractor supply and bought some traction tape, it came like 10 pieces 12" x 2" with rounded ends, worked great for me.
 
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