White Spots on Bed Plastics

My truck is less than a year old. It's hard to believe the plastic would already start getting sunbleached. Has anyone else noticed these on their plastics?

Haven’t seen it yet. Another member on here had some luck with those cerakote wipes on his gen 1 to revive the plastic. Or try the dealer.

planetMalone said:

My truck is less than a year old. It's hard to believe the plastic would already start getting sunbleached. Has anyone else noticed these on their plastics?

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Yeah it’s called sun rays, just coat it and you’ll be fine.

Viewsflores said:

Yeah it’s called sun rays, just coat it and you’ll be fine.

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For a vehicle under a year old, it’s suspect. I’ve never owned a car that did it that quickly, and I’ve even owned a Jeep.

HighwaySentinel said:

Haven’t seen it yet. Another member on here had some luck with those cerakote wipes on his gen 1 to revive the plastic. Or try the dealer.

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I have some of those. They work great. Just concerned if the plastic is defective. Seems quite early to be happening.

I’d say yes. Way too soon. Dealer will probably claim you got some kind of chemical on there though. I’d give it a try.

Did you ceramic coat the plastics? If you did, it destroys the plastics and when the product starts to fail that is what happens. I tell everyone I know. Do not ceramic coat the plastics. Even if its made for it. Bigger headache than its worth. I had to replace mine, in less than a year. Lesson learned.

Rick Luna said:

Did you ceramic coat the plastics? If you did, it destroys the plastics and when the product starts to fail that is what happens. I tell everyone I know. Do not ceramic coat the plastics. Even if its made for it. Bigger headache than its worth. I had to replace mine, in less than a year. Lesson learned.

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Oh. Interesting. I had my truck ceramic coated, but I don't know if they did the plastics. I'll find out. Did you try restoring the plastic with something like cerakote? If so, how long did it last?

Rick Luna said:

Did you ceramic coat the plastics? If you did, it destroys the plastics and when the product starts to fail that is what happens. I tell everyone I know. Do not ceramic coat the plastics. Even if its made for it. Bigger headache than its worth. I had to replace mine, in less than a year. Lesson learned.

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I have heard this over and over. I have never had a vehicle ceramic coated and in my research continue to hear that you have to keep it off the plastics.

Agree, looks more like a deposit than plastic degradation. My Raptor has sat the sun all day, every day since March. No signs of this at all. Perhaps rather than coat it with yet more goo try some good cleaning products. So far I have been pretty impressed with Griot’s products. I would give them a call and explain the situation. When I called their tech support was great.