I'm probably giving away an idea that someone will turn into a million dollar company with this question. i'm talking about the hard plastic liners, not the spray type. how hard could it be to add color to the liquid plastic before molding it into a liner? How cool would that be to have access to several colors to choose from to match your truck.

 

probably not enough demand, and liners are mostly for people who work their trucks and wouldnt care too much about that. they should make colored bedrugs that would be cool.

 

Lot of the spray on liners do come in color to match the truck. I'd never bother with a slide in unit, leave it in for a few years and instead of dents and scrapes you have a rusted out bed.

 

They do make bed rugs for trucks. I've seen them. They are form fitted with velcro to hold them up the sides. Friend put on in his truck. Pretty much only for trucks with caps. I think it would get torn up pretty quick if it got wet all the time.

Looks just like the carpet in late model trucks.

As for colored bed liners(plastic), they are pretty much made from all recycled plastic. Virgin colors would make the cost prohibitive.

 

Is the rust factor really that bad? i'm trying to save a few bucks by getting a used liner at a wrecking yard. 500 bucks for Line X is high and i can still get dents.

 

i do have a bed rug, but they only come in gray and i think a darker one thats almost black. didnt even get to pick the color but that thing is awesome.

 

Ford does make a color-matched bedliner for the King Ranch models, because the cargo box "edge caps" on those are tan, not gray like all the others.

 

Actually, adding color to plastic is not all that complicated. The warehouse I work in has a production facility attached to it and makes plastic items in a variety of colors. Plastic in its "natural state" is a sort of milky white when melted, and the factory adds color to it from barrels of liquid color. I've seen black, blue, red, dark green, tan, and even yellow. Should'nt be any reason a bedliner could'nt be colored the same way.

 

In Kansas it is. You get water under the liner and its trapped, in the winter months you can easily get the salt/water mixture under it and the bed is toast. It helps if you make it a habit of pulling it and washing bed every couple months.

 

thats how my dad's is on his dakota, you throw stuff on the bedliner and it shifts, scratching paint under there, then road salt gets in there and its all over

 

They do make spray on bedliners to match the vehicle. Rhino Linings is the company.

 

what about a spray-on bedliner? You can get those colored. Can't believe nobody's mentioned it...

 

is his original post he specified drop ins and not spray ons.

 

Exactly, he said he wanted a drop in, not a spray in.... They have been mentioned.
In my part of the country its not bad to have a drop in.... My 90 GMC has had one most of its life. Ive only owned it for a few years, but ive pulled it out twice, washed the mud/drit leaves that get under it out...
NO rust in it at all, paint is scratched to heck however.

 

Perhaps I should have added a smiley face to my post