I have a 2005 f-250 CC with a plastic bed liner. I'm getting the sense that the bed itself is not draining since when I pull out after a rain storm...a heck of a lot of water hits the black top.

Perhaps under the plastic bed liner, there was a previous spray on or other liner solution and possibly clogged what ever is intended to provide drainage.

so google around on this subject and the playing field is divided....

some say no drain holes are needed since there are gaps in the assembly and water can get out thru the gaps.

others point to rubber capped holes about an inch above the water line and say those are the drains (the caps look like a quarter in size).

so at this point, it looks like its time to pull out the drill and identify 2 low spots near the front of the bed corners that are not in the proximaty of gas tanks, electrical harnesses, brake lines, fuel lines, fuel vents, bed cross bracing, etc...and drill two holes.

so rather than be told after the fact why I should not drill these holes, by all means, tell me now before I do so.

thanks

 

uh-i would pull the pos plastic liner out and clean where the floor of the bed meets the back of the bed (below the rear vision) that is your drain slots and can get clogged w/debris. this of course wont stop the pos plastic liner from filling w/water and sloshing out w/accel from a stop.

 

Yow. At first I thought this question was about old folks homes and the bedpan possibilities.

I feel much better now.

 

well i answered didin't I?

 

Especially the slots getting clogged with debris!

 

I got a 5 gallon bucket of dirt/crap from under my pos bed liner. Best thing I ever did was take a sawzall to it and put in in the dumpster. lol

 

Speaking of crap, I think we are really talking about bed pans, not liners here.
Does this qualify for hijacking?

 

It is in my humble opinion that destroying beds is what bed liners do best. They vibrate while going down the road and in time wear the paint off. Water then gets behind it and starts rusting the now unprotedted metal.

 

so yes...the forum was correct...we do not have to worry about our truck beds being so water proof that water will pool.

took a drill to the bed liner and drilled thru the liner til I hit the bed.....soon as the first hole opened....all the water in the bed pan gushed out onto the street.

the truck bed did not hold the water at all.

 

well I would quickly make sure that you prep-paint any damage to the bed from the drill bit, rust has no mercy

 

the thing about drain holes is that is one more place for stuff to ENTER too !

I too vote to remove the plastic bed liner and repair any damage....
only joy I got from them was once armor oiling it in prep for selling the son's old Ranger and a few of his soccer buddies where showing off catapulting over the side into the bed and it was WORSE than ice when they landed - no injuries but lot's of laughs !

 

If you park outside and don't have a topper, you will always have condensate and moisture forming between the bed liner and bed. I doubt drilling hole in the liner will make this better or worse, but having 10 gal. of skanky rainwater in your bed can't be that much fun. If you have never removed the bed liner, you should do it. Apply a lot of wheel bearing grease to the bed surfaces that are rusty, and reinstall the liner. If it's been in there a while, it will have removed all that paint it ever will.

I put a rubber mat in the floor of my truck - I can remove it if I want a slippery bed for unloading mulch, or leave it in for a nonslip surface. I chopped up my plastic bedliner and made 'floor mats' for snow shovels out it. Plastic bed liner center sections make a nifty 'floor' for an offroad truck roof rack, too.