WOW I can't believe how easy the factory liner peeled off. That's the last time I get a factory liner. It came with the Lariat Sport package so that's how I got it and I don't know if you can delete it with that package. It's rubber mat time. Thanks for the video.

 

It’s not just the ford trucks with weak boxes. My employer bought a few hundred new GMs this spring. The ones that are used to haul stuff every day are all ready pretty beat up. Front of boxes push up against the cab, fenders dented , holes from scaffolding poles. And tailgates bent . I think the older trucks were built a little better. But it used to be only farmers and construction workers bought pickups. Now most trucks go to people that never put anything other than groceries in the box.

 

One of the things you always see, regardless of brand, is the tailgate top edge bent in. In some rougher uses the top edge of the bed rails are dented down too.

I think ford does a decent job with the rigid plastic cap that lines the perimeter of the bed, especially compared to my ram, but I've always wondered why they don't have the top edges of the beds capped with metal pipe. It would be so much stronger.

I don't personally have that issue, and I use my bed, but I also don't treat it like a dumpster.

 

If you have the spray in liner from factory, do they still have the plastic caps for the rails and tailgates ?
how are these attached and are they easy to take off ?

 

I think the GM boxes on their HD's are a lot stronger than an unlined aluminum Super Duty box.

 

Yes, and they are held on with clips/tabs. I have not taken them off but it does not look hard.

 

Thanks, I'll have to think about spraying those areas and take the plastic off

 

It doesn't look good without the plastics, even if you have it sprayed.

 

Good to know !

 

Then the bed wasn't prepped properly before it was lined....

 

Maybe. But I have seen this with Ford, GM and Dodge trucks. With factory and after market liners. These are trucks are used by multiple people that tend to abuse them.

 

This hasent proved true in my area. Oilfield use and literally bending the whole tailgate on the new gm trucks. Sorry but everything on these trucks is being built lighter. The aluminum will puncture quicker but it will hold up to abuse better. My factory liner has been good with a almost 2000lb weight box sliding over it. We will see what it does long term. Cj