I regret getting spray in bedliner

[Dad]

I wish I just got the bed rug since I have a soft tonneau cover. I’m mostly hauling furniture and other personal items, but the bedliner has been quite a nuisance. When you pull items off the bed, it can potentially leave black stains or scratch the items.

I’m using a rug now to prevent this but I feel like I wasted $500

Not to mention your knees! I have the spray in liner and had the same concerns. I made a bedliner from indoor/outdoor carpet from Home Depot mainly because it was inexpensive and easy to cut to fit. It works well enough for my purposes, but here's a link for a much nicer (and more expensive) bed floor and tailgate covering.
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[stick]

Remember that the purpose of the spray is to dish it out instead of allowing scratches to occur where rust can start. We have a steel bed, so I got the spray as protection against rust. The sealing dope can harden and suffer adhesion failures, allowing rust to start at the seams. I got the spray in; extand xceed hard folding; xlt bedrug (careful, there are two types). really like the combination. i am just not very confident of fords rust proofing as I dont think they hot dip these, just a spray on phosphate coating is what I read?

 

[r100gs91]

Yeah hopefully it will increase the resale value in the future if I ever decide to sell the truck.

Probably should not say negative things about it then, if you want higher resale value. Just sayin'

 

[Adamwayne]

I love mine. I bought moving blankets for this specific reason.

Meanwhile the crappy plastic cap on the top of the tailgate (when closed) is about as durable as a pencil eraser.

I wonder if anyone has put the spray in liner material on the tailgate or bed side caps? My tailcap scratched up pretty bad just rubbing some plants against it. I might try some spray can bed liner on it to so if that helps.

 

[r100gs91]

Used the bed Monday evening for a trip to the food store (1st day of ownership). First day and it's already a grocery getter. I have the Ford SIBL and the Ford Tri-Fold Hard cover. When I got home the groceries were right where I put them. I am going to get a bed mat of some sort, since I had to drop it to get scheduled.
OFF TOPIC- The tailgate and the Ford hard bed cover interface is so good. When you close the gate, the rear edge just moves up about a 1/2 inch. Then it comes back down to make a good seal. First car wash will tell the truth.

 

[Zeno]

Post what you end up getting. I was thinking the same thing.

Because the truck is a unibody I only had sides, inside tailgate and front of bed sprayed. I left the floor painted and put a rubber mat on it. Reason. The bed needs drain water, quickly (notice the gaps)and spraying the floor of the bed is apt to rust from underneath and bubble up the floor over time, and there is no replacing the unibody maverick bed.

 

[Jelvismc]

I have the factory spray in liner and will be getting a rubber mat. Something cheap and generic that I will cut to fit.

Got mine from i75 on eBay it was 69.99 heavy rubber material with molded cut outs for ties downs…fits perfect over the SIBL

 

[Carlitos_92]

…spraying the floor of the bed is apt to rust from underneath and bubble up the floor over time, and there is no replacing the unibody maverick bed.

How is a bedliner going to impact whether the underside of the bed rusts or not?

 

[Zeno]

I took the this advice from an auto body tech who I have know for years and who I trust to leave the spray in off the floor. For heavy duty stuff I use my tundra that has a rhino spray in liner.

I guess we shall see in a few years how fast rust occurs in the bed area.

Because the truck is a unibody I only had sides, inside tailgate and front of bed sprayed. I left the floor painted and put a rubber mat on it. Reason. The bed needs drain water, quickly (notice the gaps)and spraying the floor of the bed is apt to rust from underneath and bubble up the floor over time, and there is no replacing the unibody maverick bed.

 

[Jah.]

Bought ford ranger dibl for $25 (Craigslist) . measured and cut to fit with jigsaw saw . extra material cut to fit tailgate . good enough for me .

 

[Carlitos_92]

I took the this advice from an auto body tech who I have know for years and who I trust to leave the spray in off the floor. For heavy duty stuff I use my tundra that has a rhino spray in liner.

I guess we shall see in a few years how fast rust occurs in the bed area.

That's cool. There are valid reasons to have (or not have) a certain kind of bedliner. But "the bed will rust from underneath if a spray-in liner is present" doesn't seem like a logical one.

The underside of the bed is going to be exposed to moisture regardless, and could rust whether there is paint, bedliner, a bed mat, or chocolate coating on the top side. Up to a point, the corrosion on one face of a metal stamping is mostly agnostic as to what's happening on the opposite surface.

 

[AutobahnSHO]

Bedliner is to protect the truck, not the stuff.

If you dragged stuff in an unprotected bed you'd get scratched paint instead of bedliner on the stuff..

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