Debate! Your thoughts please!
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From: arkansa
Debate! Your thoughts please!
Now I love my truck and have been doing all I could slowly for years. Here is the debate:
Some say I should spray the bed with rino bedliner and some say sandblast and paint.
I thought as close to the orginal looks best, but I am not exactly a purist.
Advice?
Some say I should spray the bed with rino bedliner and some say sandblast and paint.
I thought as close to the orginal looks best, but I am not exactly a purist.
Advice?
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I painted mine. I didn't think it would make any sense to rhino line a nice straight and solid bed. I always do a double take on a nicely painted bed as they just look better.
Rhino line is the easy way out as it hides big scratches, scuffs and dents, not to mention repairs. I have a spray on liner on my Ranchero.
I also figure that a late model truck can haul rocks and gravel which is really what a liner is for. I use mine for hauling boxes and engines and stuff. A bed mat works good for that!
Eric
Rhino line is the easy way out as it hides big scratches, scuffs and dents, not to mention repairs. I have a spray on liner on my Ranchero.
I also figure that a late model truck can haul rocks and gravel which is really what a liner is for. I use mine for hauling boxes and engines and stuff. A bed mat works good for that!
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Nowadays you can have your liner custom color matched to the rest of your ride. Makes it an easier decision for me 
If you're going to actually put stuff in the bed on a regular basis....get the liner. If you're not going to haul anything in it...paint it.
If you're going to actually put stuff in the bed on a regular basis....get the liner. If you're not going to haul anything in it...paint it.
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Yeh, what truckdaddy said, you can get a real close match on color for the spray on bed liners these days...
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I'll put my vote in for the spray on bedliner, whatever brand you like best. I have Rhino in the F350 and like it alot. When I got a new tailgate, I didnt reline it and painted it instead. In short time, the paint got all scratched and looked bad, so I ended up using a do-it-yourself brush-on liner and so far it's doing alright, alot better than the paint did.
When my friend got his truck repainted, he had the inside of the bed painted too. It didn't take long for him to scratch it all up.
The factory paint seems to be tougher and adheres better than any other-than-stock paintjobs. Part of it is probably the baking process that hardens the paint.
When my friend got his truck repainted, he had the inside of the bed painted too. It didn't take long for him to scratch it all up.
The factory paint seems to be tougher and adheres better than any other-than-stock paintjobs. Part of it is probably the baking process that hardens the paint.
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From: Purdue
ya I would recommend the spray in for anything unless your truck is strictly a show truck. I had mine painted and right now the paint is almost 100 percent gone and that metal w/ rust as soon as it's exposed.
