A few years ago I bought a 1996 Ranger with a black plastic bedliner that covers up all the hooks and holes. As a result, there is no way to tie anything into the back, and it makes the truck much less useful to me.
I am tempted to try to remove the damn thing. Mostly I have the truck to be able to do occasional light hauling, and unless I can tie stuff down securely it's a lot less useful to me.
- Any advice on whether I am likely to regret removing the bedliner? I plan to buy a kayak soon, and maybe the bedliner would protect the bed or the kayak against getting scratched? Or perhaps the bed would rust out sooner without the liner?
- If I do decide to remove the bedliner, am I likely to have trouble doing so? It seems to be screwed onto the sides of the bed with screws that have oddly big flat (3" diameter) plastic nuts, but I imagine it might be affixed in other ways that I cannot see. I ran into a few old posts on usenet indicating that some people may have trouble removing bedliners, although this may have been with Toyota trucks.
Many thanks for anyone's thoughts or advice. (Bu thanks, no need to point out that someone who knows as little about trucks as I know shouldn't really own one. :-) )
Hal