First, resize you pictures!

Second, I'm not going to start a my ways better than your way arguement!!!!

But rspears asked the question:

"any chip, scratch or other flaw, even sharp inside corners where angles meet, provides a point where moisture enters, and rust forms between the PC and the base metal, getting worse over time until sheets of PC can be stripped off to reveal active surface rust. The protective skids and rock bumpers on my Jeep have been perfect examples of this process, and are now coated with satin black Rustoleum which can be renewed easily as needed."


STREETWERKZ said:
I used to ride a sports quad HARD, clear 60 ft table tops, jump off 5-10 ft hills, and generally beat the piss out of the quad, and myself and the powder would hold up just fine. that's not to say I didn't get scratches, but no doubt it took alot more to scratch the powder, than it would in paint.

the process we use is the process the military requires for powder coated part for use in combat. This way it can get a full life of use, and abuse, again up to 2 sticks of TNT (jk)

NO finish will protect metal that has been scared to the bare metal.
One of the common misconceptions is that powder coat will survive a nuclear bomb, when in fact it will only withstand 2 sticks of tnt


And my answer still is, unless you live in the snow belt like we do and it snows in November and thaws out in April and we have snow and ice, salt & chemicals the whole time, Not water spray tests, Ice & snow cuts like driving on a rocky gravel road cutting into you car/frame as you drive day after day you will get cut and gouges in the coating or paint, and then no matter how much you wash it, you'll never get the salt & chemicals off and it's already rusting! Now that you have that going, it's only going to grow & grow, so with paint you sand it, and touch it up, But! if you have it powder coated, you can't just do that. I don't care how good you put it on, if it gets a scratch, the salt will grow rust under it!

I never said anything about the way it looks, we have our porducts powder coated all the time, and once you have a defect in the coating... it's there for good! paint, you just touch it up!

And thats what rspears asked, not how it looks!

Pat