how do you prevent water from truck bedliners lips from bleeding into polishing job?

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I wash and hand-dry a truck with a bed liner. When I go to polish, water from the lip of the bedliner (on the side of the truck) bleed into the Meguiar's polish I am using - making it VERY difficult to polish easily. A week later, there are white marks from the lip of the bedliner that look like white opaque paint was under the lip and bled down.



Any ideas? Am I not drying it enough? How do you dry under a bolted down bedliner?



Thanks in advance!
 
thecarguy said:
I wash and hand-dry a truck with a bed liner. When I go to polish, water from the lip of the bedliner (on the side of the truck) bleed into the Meguiar's polish I am using - making it VERY difficult to polish easily. A week later, there are white marks from the lip of the bedliner that look like white opaque paint was under the lip and bled down.



Any ideas? Am I not drying it enough? How do you dry under a bolted down bedliner?



Thanks in advance!
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Did you try stuffing a towel in all the drain spots?



-Evan
 
My first truck had this problem. I removed the drop-in bed liner and took a small bead of silicone around the rail (I'm assuming your issues are related as well to having an over-the-rail bed liner). I put the liner back in and allowed the excess to set and dry. Once this was done removal of the excess was as simple as going around and peeling it off.
 
Ahheck01 said:
Did you try stuffing a towel in all the drain spots?

-Evan
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I thought I did.



Do all chemicals have this problem - bleeding into if waters/residue bleeds on? Or is there a chemical that will not have a problem with bleeding?
 
Your best bet is to blow the water out from under there when you decide to polish. All products get finiky when water drips on it. You could try the silicone route, take the bedliner out or get a rhino lining maybe. It's just like the mirrors and emblems that have water drips, there is water under there that you can't rreach. Blowing it out with air would be your best bet IMO.
 
i use the blower on my craftsman vac and go around all those kind of places on my truck then just touch up with ww again as needed... seems to work real well for me.
 
truzoom said:
Blow it out.. seems to be the quickest way. I've got the factory plastic bedcaps and they'll hold at least a cup of water (cumulatively).
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Same thing here... I use my air compressor or leaf blower just depends on the mood I am in.
 
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