Scratches in my bed that quick? How thin is the paint?

[gte105u]

Looks good!
Can you pass on the contact. I’m in Houston and interested. Thanks!

Shawn is who I talked to, and this is his signature from when he emailed the receipt. I did it at the Central location in Jersey Village. Shawn offices out of there as well. They had a whole stack of fleet and dealer vehicles same day. Took most of the day but was ok because my office is 10 min away so caught a ride.

Of note, they unscrewed everything, and cleared the screw holes, but they did go over the rubber grommets. I'm not worried about it but if you are take then out ahead.

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[HTX]

Tha

Shawn is who I talked to, and this is his signature from when he emailed the receipt. I did it at the Central location in Jersey Village. Shawn offices out of there as well. They had a whole stack of fleet and dealer vehicles same day. Took most of the day but was ok because my office is 10 min away so caught a ride.

Of note, they unscrewed everything, and cleared the screw holes, but they did go over the rubber grommets. I'm not worried about it but if you are take then out ahead.

SHAWN MAUPIN | OPERATIONS MANAGER C 346.424.9574 E [email protected] TOFFLINERS.COM

Store Locations:
North-4650 Farm To Market 2920 Spring, Tx. 77388
Central- 10819 Paulus Dr Houston, Tx. 77041
South- 6060 Brookglenn Dr. Houston, Tx. 77017

Thank you! Seems like a solid deal. Appreciate the info.

 

[Fast Eddie]

I know, I know, times have changed for the most part, I'm picky about my truck bed also now days. Large percentage are just pretty trucks today, not used for a lot of work activities. When I look back to the 70's and 80's if your truck bed wasn't scratched up your were a PUS**, your not working. We THREW loads of firewood in, throw in your axes, mauls, steel wedges and chain saws after ya cut the tree up. Dump a tracker bucket of GRAVEL in it or dirt and use the steel shovel to scrap it all out. Just 100% Normal. Crap never heard of a bed liner nor cared, probably weren't even invented then. But yes, I'm picky also now, I baby mine too, to old to do all that hard labor now. But at the end of the day, it's still a pickup truck, a cheap pickup truck, what do we all expect, have we gotten to the point that we need to ceramic coat our pickup truck beds? Mean no offense, etc, I hate scratches too, just reminiscing part of my lifespan so far and how much things have changed. And to the OP, dude, don't fret about thin paint, scratch it all up (the bed), get the bummer 1st scratch syndrome out of your system, then get ya a SIBL and forget it all and do truck things, have fun, life's short.

I knew a guy years ago that armor-alled his dibl. You couldn't even stand in the bed without sliding around.

 

[GPSMan]

I knew a guy years ago that armor-alled his dibl. You couldn't even stand in the bed without sliding around.

I knew a guy who Armor-Alled his steering wheel and couldn't effectively steer. 🫢

 

[Fast Eddie]

I knew a guy who Armor-Alled his steering wheel and couldn't effectively steer. 🫢

Don't do the brake pedal.

 

[OleFordGuy]

I knew a guy years ago that armor-alled his dibl. You couldn't even stand in the bed without sliding around.

Whew now when ya get to that level of being meticulous I would imagine he would sorta be hard to live with. But reckon that’s OK, if it makes one happy all is well

 

[Shadowfax]

I've had my XLT since Aug. 2nd.
I haven't opened the tonneau cover or put anything in the sibl bed yet in the 970 miles I've put on the truck.

 

[James K]

Wow, really took our first modest trip in the Maverick, we put a couple of plastic tote bins in the back and put a couple of small suit cases in one. Just went to the garage to take the empty totes out and was shocked at the scratches that went through to the gray primer. It seems like they barely put one coat of blue paint on the bed. I knew the bed would scratch, but this seems ridiculous that it would go through to the primer so easily. Does this seem right?

I'd not been thinking about getting a SIBL, but rather have ordered a bed rug, since I removed it from my order, but now looks like the SIBL is required.

I assume there are an awful lot of very scratched up beds out there if this happened to me in this way.

Odd that plastic scratched the paint. Read a few complaints about this paint so I did a paint on liner right away but had a 20 lbs LP tank cut loose and do the same thing. Now I carry a rattle can in the bed cubby.

 

[jons]

Paint these days is both thinner on purpose as it dries faster and much easier to apply. Also due to environmental concerns paint these days super weak and not what it used to be. Honda is even worse!

 

[Old Fart]

First pickup I bought had a wooden bed (1965 short bed Fleetside Chevrolet) second 1973 LUV (rebadged Isuzu) had a painted bed scratched like crazy, put a section of 48" crusher belt into the bed, guess it's the first rubber bed liner, next was a Nissan XE Hard Body (sales gimmick, POS in my opinion) got a sheet of 1/2" PT Plywood.

 

[shadowthrone]

Heavy things, most likely with dirt on the bottom, slide around and scratch the paint? I would say that seems obvious, but I guess it's not

"Green" paint has been thinner and easier to scratch and chip for at least 15 years now, that dead horse isn't just beaten, it's pulverized. Any modern car has the same problem. Think before you do if you care about the paint, get a SIBL and never care again. Easy!

 

[Axlesup]

I remember when I did that exact same thing to my first new truck which was oddly enough an S10. I scratched the bed by loading cardboard boxes into it.

The fact is new paint scratches very easy. It needs time to cure. By the end of the first hundred degree Tennessee summer I couldn't scratch the paint on my S10 if I tried.

This is why when you pick up your freshly restored car from a body shop they tell you not to wash it for x amount of months and not to wax it for many months more than that. Yes the factory bakes the paint on as does most body shops but it still needs more time and heat to cure.

I kept that s10 for 18 years it was a great truck. At the two year point I ended up having it line-xed not to keep it from getting scratched but because I was getting dents in the bed from hauling motorcycles and Dana 44s.

 

[jons]

I remember when I did that exact same thing to my first new truck which was oddly enough an S10. I scratched the bed by loading cardboard boxes into it.

The fact is new paint scratches very easy. It needs time to cure. By the end of the first hundred degree Tennessee summer I couldn't scratch the paint on my S10 if I tried.

This is why when you pick up your freshly restored car from a body shop they tell you not to wash it for x amount of months and not to wax it for many months more than that. Yes the factory bakes the paint on as does most body shops but it still needs more time and heat to cure.

I kept that s10 for 18 years it was a great truck. At the two year point I ended up having it line-xed not to keep it from getting scratched but because I was getting dents in the bed from hauling motorcycles and Dana 44s.

I like the sound of hauling Dana44s

 

[Erwin]

I put a heavy horse stall mat in my Maverick. $50 and it stays in place. The piece that I trimmed off to fit will fit over the tailgate. I leave it in the bed for when I need it.

 

[AutobahnSHO]

I've had my XLT since Aug. 2nd.
I haven't opened the tonneau cover or put anything in the sibl bed yet in the 970 miles I've put on the truck.

Congrats? Sorry?

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