I can grab a rattle-can of paint from the hardware store! Why pay to have something powder coated?!?!
This is an easy question. Powder coating is for show winners and people who want their finish to last darned near forever, plain and simple. If you want your item to look “good enough” for a couple months, come across like everybody else’s, scratch, chip, rust, run and sag, then a can of paint is probably what you need. Paint required maintenance to keep it looking good! Powder coated items do not. If you get dust on paint and simply wipe it off, you will scratch the paint and ruin the gloss. A powder coated item can be cleaned with Windex and a soft cloth and it will look as good years from now as when it was first coated. Powder coating is for people who want the parts on their classic cars to LAST, resist rust, and look first-rate. This is one of the main reasons that people have rims, rear axles, leaf & coil springs and other suspension components powder coated. The abusive environment under a car, with heat, flying rocks, gravel and road dirt flying around, you NEED a durable scra
