I'm playing around with the idea of removing my plastic bedliner (I don't want the bed rusting out) and noticed that Herculiner stuff that comes in a paint can the other day... How easy is it to install? The price is right, but how effective is this stuff? I don't want it to peel off, or scratch off...
Ever heard you get what you pay for? There ya go. The $50 dollar bedliner is just that - a $50 bedliner. If you plan to use your bed at all to haul stuff quite a bit of the time, then pry spend the $ to get a decent liner (line-x, rhino, etc). Additionally the "cheap" liners tend to fade a lot more than the others. Jmo.
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Originally Posted by FarmForward
You gotta wonder if this guy's parents saw each other across the table at a young age...
I used it in a tool box and this is the key, the liner is only as good as the prep work. Even with lineX, if the install fails to do a good prep, it's not going to last. However, Linex is much more durable than herculiner.
I will be trying Herculiner here in the next few weeks and I will let you know what I find. From what I understand, the prep stage is the most important and all liners (spray or roll) will fade.
I was considering using the paint style bed liner as an under coating. Any thoughts on it being used that way? I have a 76 Chevrolet 3/4 ton that was my Grandfathers he bought it new and I grew up riding around with him in that truck. It has a lot of chevy rust, in the normal places. I was thinking about using it on my frame and the underside of the bed and cab, also on the inner fenders. I was also considering it for the inner fenders and underside of my 78 Ford truck.
Do lots of prep and it should be fine for those locations. However, I'd just use permatex's HD undercoating. I use it as touchup under trucks I work on and on my own. It looks similar to the OE undercoatings, just get the heavy duty and not the regular. The HD is supposed to stay rubbery and not dry out and get hard.
I used herculiner in the bed of my last truck to dress it up, it had 6 yrs worth of scratches from the not-so-often mulch job or motorcycle load. Didn't use it that often for real hauling so the cheap stuff seemed to be fine. If I had a real working truck I'd do the professional route...
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I did it. I sanded with 80 grit and it seems to be sticking good. The tailgate I got in a hurry and used the scuff pad only, and it looks terrible. If you have 8+ hours to prep it then go for it, it will look good. If you don't have any patience you might as well go the professional route.
