Overnighting-while-Urban, or OU
BKA has raised some salient points about 'stealth camping' (or overnighting, or camo camping, or overnighting under the radar..). In thinking about this, I want to ask the question of you seasoned (or...
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Taking trackhead's lead I shot this email off to Monstaliner:
"An acquaintance coated his fiberglass truck camper using your desert sand bed liner coating to good effect.
I would like to use your bedliner to coat both my 2001 Dodge 2 series pickup and Lance truck camper all the same color, probably sand, and as flat finish as can be had.
Does this coating stick to aluminum siding (used on the Lance, below)? Or, do the tiny cracks need to be retained for ventilation?How much product would I need for this: Not the roof. Do I remove the decals before coating? Does this product stick to glass surfaces? I would like to coat right over the front window of the camper. Does it stick to the rubber window molding gaskets? And, how about coating chrome parts? Or, would these be better with a wrap? and steel winch bumper?
I'm sure you have the answers to these questions.
regards, jeff reynolds"
We have a window tinting guy in our town who is pretty adept at matching the tinting sheets to the surrounding pigment color. I guess I'll find out if all this is going to 'ugly up' the TC enough so Jeanie will not set foot in it, and there will be no overnighting. I do like the sand color as it is not menacing, and non-reflective; like the hide of a deer crossing in your headlights; almost invisible. The darker gray color Monstaliner has is more menacing.
I've had a similar problem before when my CJ-8, over 30 years, slowly and inexorably got higher off the ground; so high Jeanie could not swing into it with out a step stool. The stirrup on the pass side of the Dodge is, at least, a 'fix' for the truck.
Looks like this will be another odyssey into terra incognita.
jefe
P.S. to Jim: I'm thinking a wrap would be prone to abrasion from passing tree branches and other obstructions. I had entertained that application and was willing to go that way until the Monsta came onto the scene. Highly abrasion resistant.
P.S. to Bedlam: looks like rear super singles have finally caught on...somewhere.
"An acquaintance coated his fiberglass truck camper using your desert sand bed liner coating to good effect.
I would like to use your bedliner to coat both my 2001 Dodge 2 series pickup and Lance truck camper all the same color, probably sand, and as flat finish as can be had.
Does this coating stick to aluminum siding (used on the Lance, below)? Or, do the tiny cracks need to be retained for ventilation?How much product would I need for this: Not the roof. Do I remove the decals before coating? Does this product stick to glass surfaces? I would like to coat right over the front window of the camper. Does it stick to the rubber window molding gaskets? And, how about coating chrome parts? Or, would these be better with a wrap? and steel winch bumper?
I'm sure you have the answers to these questions.
regards, jeff reynolds"
We have a window tinting guy in our town who is pretty adept at matching the tinting sheets to the surrounding pigment color. I guess I'll find out if all this is going to 'ugly up' the TC enough so Jeanie will not set foot in it, and there will be no overnighting. I do like the sand color as it is not menacing, and non-reflective; like the hide of a deer crossing in your headlights; almost invisible. The darker gray color Monstaliner has is more menacing.
I've had a similar problem before when my CJ-8, over 30 years, slowly and inexorably got higher off the ground; so high Jeanie could not swing into it with out a step stool. The stirrup on the pass side of the Dodge is, at least, a 'fix' for the truck.
Looks like this will be another odyssey into terra incognita.
jefe
P.S. to Jim: I'm thinking a wrap would be prone to abrasion from passing tree branches and other obstructions. I had entertained that application and was willing to go that way until the Monsta came onto the scene. Highly abrasion resistant.
P.S. to Bedlam: looks like rear super singles have finally caught on...somewhere.
