Line-X: looks better, more durable, stronger, lasts longer, lifetime nationwide warranty.

It's a no-nonsense simple decision, folks.

 

Okay this is Smelchi again. I still haven't found my password.

Now this is a little worse than most of the Rhinos that I have seen but most, if not all, of them have the drips in the stake pockets and along the rail.

It's no wonder 48% of the new trucks sold in my area get Line-X.



This is the way they do their tailgates. It's so uneven you can't even hardly tell the original shape of the tailgate. Not to mention they sprayed right over the bed bolts.



This is the worst picture yet. I have another of the drips all along the rail that would make you vomit. It's no wonder they are going out of business like crazy around here.



Now maybe not all of them look this bad but I have seen Rhinos sprayed from probably a dozen different dealers and they all have the same imperfections. Some worse than others.

 

I have had Line-x sprayed in all of my trucks since 1998. I NEVER had a problem with any of them! I recently went to a friends and looked at his Rhino job that was done just a year ago, and its pealing and tearing. Enough said, Line-x is the best. I also use a fitted rubber bed mat in mine, cause i use it as a truck at times. So if someone would buy this plastic piece of crap that came in my truck, i could get my 5th Line-x job done!!!

 

So Rhinolinings I guess that I can tell people that it takes 24 hours before a Rhino Linings customer can actually use their truck again unless they want to damage the liner.

So really what we should be comparing is cure time not drying time. Line-X is minutes and Rhino is hours. For me that's a huge selling point. Because I can have a customer sit in my showroom for an hour and a half and leave with a truck that can be used immediately.

 

I'm starting to feel sorry for the Rhino guy, we've sort of ganged up on him.

NO FLAMES RHINO GUY!

I appreciate the opportunity to discuss bedliners on this forum!

 

I mean no disrespect either but he did question the drips and runs that are prevelant in my area with his product.

I just wanted to make sure that I was giving the customers that call my shop the correct information about the product. Because if I don't have my facts straight about my competition then I look bad. He answered my question and I will no longer be using the term "dry". I will be telling them "cure" time. Or explain how long it takes before full use.

Just the facts and only the facts.

 

You dont have to listen to the dealers to make a decision, just spend some time reading the threads in this discussion board. From my view, a majority of the people on here prefer the Line-X.

I just picked up my truck from the Line-X dealer an hour ago. It really looks great.

Why did I go with Line-X? I visited both shops and talked to both of the owners. Here is what I experienced:

Line-X: Very professional. Very neat and orderly office, showroom, and spray shop. Owner took me in the back and showed me how they did it, showed me trucks they had done including her own that was sprayed a year ago. Answered all my questions with honest answers even if it was a shortcomming of the product.

Rhino: Filthy shop in a battery dealer. Grungy, smoky, and generally disorganized. No trucks to show me. When I asked about the warrenty he told me (and I quote) "Well, thats really a grey area." After I left I thought to myself that someone that works there shurly must have a truck so I drove around to the side and there was what I believe was the owners truck. There was a Rhino liner in it that looked like the pictures posted earlier. It even had a bed mat in it over the liner. No wonder the guy didnt offer to show me his own truck as an example.

The answer was clear to me. Of course all of you all on here also helped with my decision. Thanks for everyone's feedback.



Tony
Memphis, TN
2005 F-150 King Ranch

 

By the way - to be fair the Line-X dealer did ask me not to put anything heavy in the bed for 24 hours.

I dont think there is any reason to bat the cure time around as an issue. Any spray-on liner is probably going to need 24 hours to cure. At least I would wait that long - not a big deal IMO.

 

What would be considered an average price difference between the Rhino and Line-x?

 

In my area Rhino was about $35 less. After my firefighter discount it was about the same. I would have still paid the difference for Line-X. After paying over $30K for a vehicle I was not going to skimp on a few dollars for an inferior bedliner.

Tony

 

wait till my pics are up if uyou ask me the rhino piocs i seen are horriable and they should be shut down . enough said when my pics are up you will see what a rhino really is

 

A few thoughts:

1. There are dealers who do very good jobs and there are dealers that do very bad jobs no matter what the brand. LINE-X has changed a bit in the last couple of years for the better. They have hired more corporate "big guns", corporate spends more time in the field with the dealers (via a regional LINE-X rep and regional meetings), and the franchise agreement serves as a tool to weed out those dealers who are not up to speed. Who wins? The dealers who do perform and most importantly, the consumer.

2. I've seen many brands of bedliners. If you had twenty brand new bedliners lined up and assuming all the dealers did a good job, they all would look pretty good, because they are all brand new. But, three months, six months, a year down the road, things change and it becomes apparent which bedliners are better than others. Fading, chipping, tearing, etc. curses the inferior bedliners.

3. LINE-X has a written nationwide lifetime warranty. What is better than that? LINE-X dealers enter your name, the truck's VIN number, etc. into a database located in California. If you have any type of problem with the bedliner, just show up at ANY LINE-X dealer with or without a receipt. The dealer can search the database (using the VIN or whatever) and verify you have a LINE-X bedliner and it will be fixed for free, no questions asked. NO bedliner company other than LINE-X does that, period. Why does LINE-X offer this type of warranty? It's because of the superior product we are spraying in truck beds. Rhino lost considerable market share in 2004 according to Frost & Sullivan (an international company that monitors trends in the automotive industry). Rhino is trying to change their warranty to match LINE-X's. Rhino corporate wanted to charge dealers a standard fee to cover costs, the dealers rejected the offer. Go to Rhino's website. I challange you to find ANYTHING regarding a warranty. Their site is totally void of anything regarding a warranty. You can view LINE-X's written warranty right on the front page of website.

4. The purpose of spray-on bedliners is to provide a protective coating to the surface of the bed. They are not make out titanium. If you drop 200 pounds of bricks off a 10 story building into the bed, the spray-on is not going to prevent the bed from being dented. I think some people expect spray-ons to be more than what they are meant to be for.

 

rhino has a nationwide warennty . but the dealer can chose to fix or or push it away . i have done tons of repairs to rhinos that other dealers messed up . and rhino is also a lifetime warrenty just like linex . i have even turn 1 or 2 jobs away cause they where so bad we would have been losing money . and they went to another dealer and had it done . as for the pics spraying over bed bolts hooks etc . that is wrong for the dealer to do rhino says dont not spray over any bolts or nuts or hooks . when i spray all bed bolts come out hooks tailgate bolts etc . what i am trying to say is you all are trying to make rhino look bad . when in fact if done right it is just as good or better than linex . rhino has started to weed out the bad dealers . which i was put up as a dealer because of that . we had a bad dealer that didnt monior chemicals or ratio,s etc and guess where they are out of buisness . .

 

You said it yourself, and i quote " i have done tons of repairs to rhinos that other dealers messed up" I have never, ever, heard of a messed up Line-x. This is why i'm going to have my 5th LINE-X job done!!!

 

Well, geez, from the way you just describe it, it sure doesn't sound like Rhino has a written nationwide lifetime warranty like LINE-X. From your own words, it sounds like Rhino dealers can choose whether or not they want to handle repairs or not.

I personally have called Rhino corporate. I had some of my employees call Rhino dealers. I can tell you that Rhino's warranty is currently in the twilight zone. Each person told us a different story. Look, I'm not bashing Rhino, that's just the way it is. Hopefully, one day when Rhino finally gets their act together, we can see it in writing on their website.