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I have a drop in liner in mine. I do construction work and haul tools and engines around all the time, stuff that i know a spray in liner wouldnt hold up to. the drop ins will prevent your bed from getting dented from heavy objects, like, say, engines falling off the hoist into the bed. Its possible to get rust underneath, but just pop it out once a year or so and clean out underneath. I am all for drop in liners

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<X style="MARGIN: 0px">If you drop an engine on a bedliner there is a good chance it'll crack. If it's an oem Ford bedliner it'll be trashed. There liners suck. If you drop an engine on a bed lined with Linex it will no doubt dent the bed. Linex liner are very durable I had one in my 02 and owned that truck for 4 years. I did gouge two small areas on it and I did get a few dents in the bed. Thats one of the reasons I went with a Bed Rug on top. I won't own another Bed liner because they rust out your bed period. The shift around and ware off the paint. I don't care if you take it out once a month to clean under it, it won't help. Nothing will set still without locking it in place with a bedliner. <XX>
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<X style="MARGIN: 0px">Rhino is the liner that has the horror stories about the peeling issue. My friend got one and they are a very soft material. Obviously that cuts easy. The fact that you are only allowed to take a Rhino liner to the place that it was installed for warranty work also doesn't make it the better choice. <XX>
<X style="MARGIN: 0px">The Linex line would never be an issue for warranty anywhere. It also has an anti-skid finish. It's a harder material than others.

This is very true. It's the rust under them that always happens that bothers me with them.

 

well if the paint is never scratched off they they wont rust right??? i think i will get my tailgate sprayed with line x only because those dam thing always rust down on the bottom...my old 150 my dads 350 and now my sisters b/f's 350...they must be prone to it

 

If you are going to use your truck bed 100% of the time as if it were a car trunk, I think a bed liner is nice. I have hauled an occassional pallet of sod and such and am glad I chose a Rhino liner.

 

I hate to bust your bubble, but i never said that a line-x wont dent cause it will. The line-x will mold with the dent, take a hammer and beat the dent out wala no more dent and the line-x still looks good. If you drop a piece of equiment in your bed on a drop-in it will dent the bed you dont see it because the drop-in covers it but its theres no way around it.

I never claimed either liner superior to the other. I like my line-x cause now hay and cow manuar, and fertalizers dont get up under there no more ,and so much easier to clean.

 

Best value hands down if you are ever rear ended the body shop is going to have a hell of a time repairng spray in liner you can baet the lights out of a drop in i have never seen one break or crack

the key take it out once in a while and clean undrneath it no problems

You can get one real cheap at the spray in bed liner place they usualy trade them in i have seen piles of them

 

That's incorrect. LINE-X is easily repairable as is most other spray-on brands. It is drop-ins that are not repairable.

 

If your ever rear ended and the liner needs repaired the body shop won't handle it. You would just have it re-done at whoever did it and demineralized alcohol is what is used to remove Linex.
Cheap bed lines do and will crack. Not the better made ones but they do sometimes tend to warp. I've seen both cases.
btw, if you so much as drill a hole in a bedliner the manufactor will most likely VOID the warranty. This happened to my brother with Pendaliner. He cut out the stake body holes for tiedowns and his did warp after a year or two and his "LIFETIME WARRANTY" was voided...


That will not stop it from rusting the bed no matter how clean you keep it.
You would have to stop the liner from vibrating in the bed to stop it from wearing through the paint to stop the bed from rusting out.

Right on, That's because most realize spray in liners are better.

It's not that I'm totally against bed liners because they do protect against dents. If they had a soft underside like they where underlined with rubber and they had an anti-skid surface I'd have one in my truck.

 

Just get a spray in Liner then add the drop in. You get no rust and dent protection. LOL!!!

 

I'm a LINE-X dealer and we repair spray-on bedliners for independent body shops and auto dealers every so often. And, yes, we have a bunch of drop-ins that we would like to get rid of. Also, below is a REAL pic of what a drop-in can do over time.

 

Now that's what I'm talking about. Thanks for the picture.

 

Ah yes! I have seen this many times, but I have never seen a bed rust from it. My last truck's(dodge dakota) bed looked like this before I put in a bed liner. That truck lived in one of the wettest places in the US(Seattle) with rubbed off paint in the bed under the bedliner. I removed the bedliner a month before I traded it in(after all the reading I had done it had to be rusted out), but there was not a spot of rust. Of course the paint did not look all that good, but who cares it was under the bedliner. I threw the bedliner back in and traded it in. That truck had the bedliner in it for 12 years before I removed it.
This time I have no bedliner. After the paint is scratched nothing slides. I think I will go with the bed only....it will be fine.

What I am trying to say is that although I am sure that a bed has rusted from a bedliner, it just does not happen often enough for this to be a issue. If you do not like bedliners for other reasons then so be it, but the rust issue is a non issue most of the time.

 

Thanks for all your help and very good comments. I've taken the advice of all and decided the route I'm taking. Mike O.

 

i feel a BED RUG is the way to go i have had a drop in and a spray

 

Drop-ins, spray-on's, and Bedrug all have advantages and disadvantages and I sell ALL THREE. None of them are perfect, so buy whatever meets your needs.

 

I can agree with all the people that reccomend Line-X. I had one in my previous truck for 3 years and it looked great. You said that you weren't going to use it for heavy hauling, but just general use and appearance. You can't go wrong with Line-X. I would stay away from a do-it-yourself spray in liner.