I'm sorry that it's been so long since I've logged on. I coach little league football and from August 1st thru the first part of November I don't have much of a social life.
Back to the title of the thread... This next week, the wife gave me permission to schedule an appointment to have my bed sprayed.
My question is which brand is better based on actual use, Line-X or Rhino Linings?
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Back to the title of the thread... This next week, the wife gave me permission to schedule an appointment to have my bed sprayed.
I guess this means you don't a set of hanging balls on your hitch.
SORRY I just had to say that.
Now back to your thread-I have a Rhino black liner that is now in it's 8th month, still some what shiny and still is protecting the bed. No real chips or gouges to speak of (the ones I have came from some very heavy sharp objects being thrown in). I had them run an extra coat on the tailgate as it gets lots of use. I guess I should have had them do the same to the bed. If you go to search, you will find another thread where both Line-X and Rhino are compared.
I have both, albeit for different purposes, but I do have experience using both. My truck has Line-x in the bed and I love it. My 02 had line-x and it held up great. Now, I use the truck for Home Depot runs, dump runs, and camping trips, so the use is medium duty. I have Rhino in my Jeep and it has held up great. The jeep gets less heavy/sharp objects thrown at it, but it does have fluids leak on it from time to time; brake fluid, gear oil, etc... Rhino is 'softer' and seems to have a little give, where line-x seems better for traction. I say these are both high quality liners and the real importance is the installer. A crappy tech can ruin the best product.
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I have to definitely agree with JeepPuller. Both are quality bedliners, and it really does come down to the installer. If they do a thorough job preparing the bed, the bedliner will likely outlast the truck itself.
I would also agree that Rhino tends to be a bit softer or more rubbery feeling while Line-X tends to be a bit more like highly textured plastic. Having been around both, my preference would be Line-X. I say this because trying to push/slide something around the bed of a truck with Rhino Lining can prove frustrating sometimes. While some will undoubtedly argue the other side of that point, I maintain that a safe driver should tie-down anything that is riding around in the back of a truck to prevent it from becoming a projectile in a car crash (hell, even a bad pot hole). One definitely should not rely on a bedliner preventing things from sliding around.
My other side interest in Line-X has been in military applications. I have seen dozens of different uses for this liner--beyond use in the cargo box of a truck--and all of them have held up remarkably well. Granted, I do not doubt that a few of those installations were formulated slightly differently, but the base compound seems to translate to other applications quite well.
Just my two cents.
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I was settled on the LineX Xtra for my 09 6.5 bed XLT in razor red. It's going to be black because the red "might not match closely enough" (artist wife ... happy wife, happy life )
Part of good research is observation so I checked out what others have in their trucks. A fellow at work has had an Ultimate liner in his truck for several years. Still doesn't look too faded and none the worse for wear after "using". No major visible damage from several recent loads of concrete waste either. So, I'm looking for opinions/experience on the Ultimate Xtreme polyurea spay-on liner. It's high pressure job per the web site. I did search the forum but didn't come up with anything on this system. Should I stay with L-X Xtra?
Ultimate Linings and Xtreme Liner merged a few years ago and they offer several bedliner products. If you go that route, you definitely want "Xtreme HP". However, the Xtreme and UL bedliner products are aromatic (will fade). UL and Xtreme do not offer a lifetime warranty that's valid nationwide.
Rhino has several products: Tuff Stuff (older low pressure), Tuff Grip, Hardline, and Solarmax. The last three are high pressure products. Solarmax is the only aliphatic (fade resistant) product. Solarmax is not actually a Rhino product, a company called Bayer makes it. Rhino buys it and slaps their name on the chemical barrels. All of the Rhino products listed will be a bit softer than LINE-X, except for Tuff Stuff, because they contain more a higher percentage of polyurethane than polyurea. Tuff Stuff is 100% polyurethane and is significantly softer, but it also has a much lower tear strength.
Standard LINE-X is aromatic, but LINE-X with Xtra is aliphatic. LINE-X color matches use the same pigments as the pigments in your truck's paint. But, light may reflect differently off of the bedliner because the bedliner is a single stage process and has a textured surface. Your truck's paint is a smooth surface and has at least three stages (base, middle, clearcoat). LINE-X is a high pressure product. LINE-X was the first to offer a nationwide lifetime warranty, Rhino copied LINE-X's warranty in October of 2006.
Thank you TruckDaddy. Just what I needed to know to make the decision. Chemistry says it all for what I want out of the liner. This truck will get LineX Xtra in black. It'll go with the black rail covers and contrast nicely with the razor red. My 82 had a drop in and when it was traded for this 09, it sounded quite crunchy when I walked in the bed during the last year.
Hey now... I AM the boss in the house, and I have her permission to say so
I was just busting your B___s.
I had replied before but I think monitor for the Forum zapped me. I have to remember that certain words can't be used in certain context. Each forum has their own threshhold of what is allowed. Sorry to the powers that be. Chris
Guy I worked with has the Rino sprayed in the bed of his truck. It's a 1/4" thick, and he says he can feel the weight of it plus it made the ride quieter.
Yes, I have. Toff operates mostly in Texas. Toff dealers either have a low pressure bedliner or a high pressure bedliner, or both. The low pressure product is similar to Rhino's old low pressure 100% polyurethane bedliner. I can tell you that today, high pressure is the way to go. Toff does not offer a nationwide lifetime warranty like LINE-X and Rhino.
This one used to be a Toff color match, but it's not so much anymore. It was stripped out and then LINE-X installed.
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