which bed liner?

You will get 10 million different responses to this but I would say the consensus is if it's a spray in get it. I have a Rhino and it is good others will say Penda and others will say line-x all 3 do the job very well if done properly when you go to the dealer check out the thickness of some of the jobs he is currently doing and look for a 1/4 inch on the bottom and just a little thinner than that on the sides.

Jerry P

Just sold a '84 F150 with a "thick plastic slide-in" bedliner.

Pretty cool to throw stuff into it, if you know what I mean. :)

But everytime you'd take a corner faster than an old lady the stuff would slide across the bed and slam into the side. :( Really slick stuff.

Do the spray-in type do that too? Somehow I picture them being "stickier".

Alvin in AZ

I have a Line X spray in, in my 98 F150 has a gritty feel to it. Don't have the sliding problem. Also got mine color matched to the truck.

I will never go back to a drop in liner.

Tim

Apparently, the Penda drop-in has a non-slip surface(?). My concern about spray-on liners is that they really don't protect against dents and scrapes if you're hauling heavy stuff. A load of broken concrete would do damage.

Hum...for my $0.02...when I get another truck, I am going to go with a spray-in liner. In that great debate between drop-in and spray liner, I come down on the spray because of the rust issue. Unless one is very careful, water will accumulate under the drop-in, and rust is a problem around here (not as bad as SOME places, but, bad enough). As for dents and such...*shrug* I have yet to see a truck that is really being used for "truck" things that does not pick up a few of them, no matter what the liner is. That is kind of the territory for a truck, after all. Now...having said that, I expect that even a drop-in liner is not going to take a load of broken concrete all that well, and, likely is not going to go a long way to protect from dents, etc. It would probably depend a lot on how the concrete is put in there. If it is tossed on, one 10-15 lb chunk at a time, most any liner treatment will work ok. If it is one bed-load from a high loader, dumped in from 4' up off the deck, I suspect that no liner will do that well to protect the metal. YMMV. Regards Dave Mundt

A load of broken concrete never punctured my Rhino niether did a load of broken bricks.

Jerry P

I love my Rhino, but it's expensive. I paid $500.00 for an 8' bed. I called around and everyone had the same price, so I suspect some price fixing. No regrets though.

Does anyone know how the spray on liners do against chemicals such as paint remover, break fluid, acid, etc...

I use Line-X in carts for work and let me tell you - it does prevent dings. I use carts for 100lb peices of 4/0 cable stacked 7 or 8 per cart, at each end is a sister lug with 6 90 degree points. Since Line-Xing these carts there are no dings

They also have photos of a building they tried to blow up with and with out the spray on coating. Needless to say the spray on prevent destruction.

Sean M Higgins - Higlet snipped-for-privacy@higsrigs.com