I am ready to get a spray in liner...

I had a 99 ranger 4x4 with a rhino liner and was very happy with it...
this was before I ever heard of line x and before all the options Rhino offers

a few things to keep in mind...
-my truck is black so a color match is not important
-I have a hard toneau cover (undercover) so exposure to the sun/weather
is not a problem

just wondering what you all think about these 2 products...

I understand opinions vary about liners but I don't like the look of a plastic drop in liner (like the one that came with my truck) and a bed rug isn't an option since I use my truck for work and play...

Thanks

 

line-x i hear great things about em, rhino not so much... rhinos fade and peel, line-x doesnt

 

I have a Reflex spray on liner that the dealer put on. So far I have no complaints.

 

Line-x all the way. Way better quality bed liner. Rhino doesn't even compare in my opinion.

 

I'll give you some FACTS.

First of all, you need to know that Rhino has four different bedliner products. Rhino dealers may offer only one, some, or all of them. Their products are Tuff Stuff, Tuff Grip, Hardline, and Solarmax.

Tuff Stuff is their older low pressure bedliner product. Tuff Grip and Hardline are newer high pressure products. Solarmax, which is actually made by a company called Bayer, is their fade resistant product. (Most Rhino dealers do not offer Solarmax.)

LINE-X has many products also, but only one product, XS-100 (high pressure), is recommended for bedliners.

According to the technical data sheets from Rhino and LINE-X:
LINE-X has more than double the tear strength of Rhino Tuff Stuff and LINE-X has a 45 degree higher temperature tolerance.
LINE-X has a 31% higher tear strength than both Rhino Tuff Grip and Hardline and LINE-X has a 45 degree higher temperature tolerance.

Here's how they rank from the most soft to the most hard:
Tuff Stuff, Tuff Grip, Hardline and LINE-X (which are about the same)

I'll skip Solarmax and LINE-X Xtra since fading is not an issue.

 

"I use my truck for work and play..."

You said it your self...

LINE-X All the way...

If you used your bed more like a big trunk then sure Rhino is fine...

I had Rhino in my old truck and used the bed mostly as a trunk.
Until it came time I was building an engine for it and hauling around parts and engine block, etc...

After that... Rhino IMO. Not so good...

My 150 has LINE-X now and a beat the S*** out of that stuff...
Not one problem with it!!! to Line-X

 

Line-X for the win!!

Seriously, you can't go wrong with Line-X, just be sure you go to a good shop.

- NCSU

 

Whats the price difference between Rhino and Line-X? I have also been thinking about getting one of the two.

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Dealers are free to set their own prices. Find the nearest LINE-X dealers using the dealer search function at golinex.com

 

The only thing Rhino's Tuff Stuff and Tuff Grip offer is slip resistance other than that their pretty worthless if you wanna compare on product. Their Hardline is an ok product it's comparable to line-x but line-x has it beat as far as physical properties goes and so does few of other brands. But it also comes down to installation, how well does that dealer prep it, I've seen both crappy rhino and line-x liners(way more rhino though).

 

Just remembered an older thread that compared thickness between line-x and Rhino. So I Went through and searched for it, I thought it was very shocking how much thicker Line-x is compared to Rhino.

https://www.f150online.com/forums/be...ness-test.html

Go Line-x. I did, and couldn't picture my truck any other way.

 

would it be pointless to get line-x and then put a plastic liner over it? Sorry may be a dumb question. But Im just worried about rust. I have a soft toneau cover so I would think having both would be added protection.

 

I didn't check the link to the thickness test, but Rhino sprays an even amount over entire bed, Line-x Sprays 1/4 inch on the sides and 3/8 inch on the bottom and tail gate. (thats what the guy did on my old F-150).

 

The drop-in would provide dent protection, but you loose cargo space and the use of the anti-skid from the spray-in. Rust really shouldn't be a problem with just the spray-on alone.

Which Rhino product are you talking about? Their Hardline and Tuff Grip(both high pressure)is applied more uniformly whereas the Tuff Stuff(low pressure, what most people think of) is not. Tuff Stuff tends to sag and get pulled down into the valley's from gravity during the curing stages.

Nobody in the industry applies bedliners at 1/4" if that were the case they would be using 11 gallons of product per truck and that would be a small truck. 1/8"(125 mils) is the standard but not to say some apply it thicker but not more than 3/16(190 mils) for commercial and contractor vehicles.

 

I ment 1/8, my bad