I have a hard time spending money on my truck as I'm generally more of a saver, not a spender. That said, I finally mustered up the nads to order a gallon and a quart of Herculiner to do my F-250 long bed. It cost right around $100 from amazon and should be here shortly after the weekend.

With only 55k, it hadn't been lined yet, but with my tossing hard metals in there scratching up the place and my motorcycle wheel chock taking the paint right off, I figure I really ought to throw in a proper bed liner. The fun part will be taking my 5th wheel mount off and all the prep work. Pics to come.....probably.

Of course my next step would be the addition of a tonneau cover, which is closer to $500. I'd gotten a cheaper one before to try out. It was complete junk and didn't even fit. I complained to the company asking to send it back and they said they couldn't take it back. I demanded that they do and threatened legal action under false advertising laws and they ultimately (and grumpily) sent my money back and told me to 'do what I pleased' with the cover. There wasn't anything I could do with it but throw it away, which kinda sucked, but whatever - their policy, not mine. Anyways, I'm not really excited about dropping that kind of coin on a proper cover, but I imagine I'll have to.

 

Man I don't want to busy your bubble but you wasted your 100 dollars. NO MATTER HOW GOOD you prep the bed for that cheapo liner IT WILL come off extremely easy, it wears out just as fast

 

Yeah, I did Herculiner one time. It wasn't great and didn't last long. If you go through with it, make sure you wear gloves. That stuff is impossible to get off skin.

 

Really? Everywhere else I've read (non-affiliated reviews such as amazon and other forums/threads), most people that have actually used it seem to think it's fairly solid if the bed is prepped well and about the best 'consumer grade' liner available. I don't expect it to last 10 years without a single chip, but at about 1/4 the cost of rhino or line-x, it looks pretty reasonable based on the reviews I've read.

 

My cousin is the manager at the local camping world and they did both the beds in the company 2500hd trucks. They did prep and I mean prepped the bed above and beyond and the material basically faded away from jist sitting outside in the parking lot. From what I seen the liner jist came off whenever they threw something in the bed and then pulled it out. Me personally I used it twice both on my play mud trucks, I did prep the interior floors and the other was the exterior of my 79 Bronco. Neither time did it hold up or last.the floor of my 85 f250 lasted maybe twenty minutes, first time I had a bunch of girls in the front with mud cover cowboy boots the liner just peeled up. The exterior of the Bronco again peeled off from the tiniestbranch rubbing on it, I'm not even gonna say what happened when I used my pressure washer to somewhat clean the mud of the trucks!

 

I echo the sentiments above. I lined the inside tub of my Wrangler and then the bed of my F150. You cannot get this stuff to last. It will chip and peel if anything touches it, no matter how good you prep. If you can return the Herculiner, do it. If you use your bed, you will be disappointed with the outcome within weeks and then you'll have a real mess on your hands when you want to put in a real bedliner.