Reading comprehension is clearly not your strong point either. I NEVER said I have dents. Look again.
I also was not whining about your opinion just your attitude.
I merely pointed out that as your first post on this site you should have been more tactful. There are great people here to help and you spit on them.

Peace.

 

That was spit? Dang!

I heard a guy got suspended for peeing in the Transmission forum so you better be careful.

The bedliner threads are approaching the heated levels of, dare I say it, motor oil.

 

WOW, quite the pissing match.

The bottom line is this: Both liners are quality products if put on professionally. One is tacky and one is slick, choose one that fits your lifestyle. Sure some look worse than others but are all trucks equal off the lot brand new? NOPE! Mine for instance has had cam phaser problems from day one, others have had none. If it was applied poorly, contact Rhino/LineX corporate and bitch. Likewise, some mechanics are better than others.

End of story!

 

It's all so confusing.
I don't know whether to get the Rhinex or the Line-O.

 

Read his first post, maybe I over reacted to his urban cowboy driveway queen comment and his "go ahead and boo hoo me if you don't agree" attitude. I did not disagree with his opinion only his attitude for a first time poster. I will apologize for over reacting. I am sorry.

Of course if you drop an engine block in your truck it wont matter what you have for a liner, even a drop in and you will get dents. Our local NAPA delivery truck is proof of that!

 

This topic has typically never been a bad topic. Leave it to salesman to make a topic personal (TruckGasm being the exception) and the mass public to take it to even further depths of depravity.

This thread is just getting goofy now. Still fun to read though.

 

No problems with Rhino here. Know people who have their liners too and are quite happy. People who use them HEAVILY, with NO problems, YEARS of use and abuse.

Boy, you Line x guys sure do like to bash! geez! If the product is really that much better, it should speak for itself.

As for texture... who really cares if its smooth or bumpy, really! Where are you taking it, to the auto show?

As for picking up the truck 24 hrs later.... B.S. I picked mine up the same day with the tailgate UP I might add(if that really makes a big difference to you)

Just thought I'd give MY 2cents

 

I saw the statistics a couple months ago, of the spray-in bedliners Line-X passed Rhino last year. If I recall correctly, and I will try to find where I got the info, in '03 Rhino had around 37% and Line-X had 25% and in '04 the numbers were almost exactly reversed. I don't recall if it was increased market overall or gobbled up market share.

Having access to corporate marketing info can be such fun...

 

Here are the market share numbers as compiled by Frost & Sullivan for the 2004 fiscal year. Frost & Sullivan is an international marketing consulting company that monitors the automotive industry for market trends, market measurements and strategies.

2004:
Line-X- 37% market share
Rhino- 26.5%
Ultimate Lining- 19.5%
Speedliner- 4.2%
Everyone Else- 12.7%

2003:
Rhino- 31.5%
Line-X- 26%
Ultimate Lining- 12.3%
Speedliner- 11.8%
Others- 17.8%

Look at Speedliner...OUCH!

 

Thanks Truckgasm, I didn't have time to look for the numbers yesterday.

 

Lightning Bolt there is a big difference between 2,000 miles in a straight line and 2,000 square miles. I service 8 counties in three states. If you want me to name all of them I can. But trust me it's close to 2,000 square miles because I drive them every day.

If you zoom out one more step that is basically all my protected territory. I have dealerships in almost every town on the map except Fort Wayne because there is another Line-X in that town.

Map

 

Okay so I did a little math on my own. It's 42 miles from Coldwater, MI to Auburn, IN and it's 39 miles from Kendallville, IN to Bryan, OH. So class let's do the math.

A square mile (symbol sq. mi or mi² or sq. mile, sometimes sq. m. although this can be confused with square metre) is an imperial unit which is the area of a square whose side is one mile (or 5,280 feet). A square mile is equal to 27,878,400 square feet, 640 acres, or roughly 2½ square kilometres (2.589988 km², to be more exact). In the Public Land Survey System of the US and the Dominion Land Survey of Canada, the size of a standard section of land is one square mile. Note t
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_miles

So with that definition in mind the approximate square miles equals 42X39= 1638 sq. miles. So that isn't exact because I go furthur than that but just to make it simple I picked those four cities.

So Lightning Bolt there you have it. Simple 6th grade math!!

 

 

I think that this issue can be best solved this way:

I've seen crappy Rhino installs, and I've seen crappy Line-X installs. I've seen good Rhino installs and I've seen good Line-X installs.

The Rhino place in the Bryan/College Station TX are far outdid any Line-X place in the area. I saw many a sweet Rhino job on truck beds (because that's all people ever had on their trucks). However, up in DFW, I've seen many Line-X bed jobs and I must say that the Line-X place here does a damn fine job of installing their liner. In my opinion, the Line-X bedliner looks "prettier," but I want a bedliner that looks a little rougher - something that can keep my crap from sliding all over the place when I'm taking corners at 30. I already have a drop-in that lets my crap slide - I don't need my permanent spray-in bedliner to do the same thing.

But, one thing seems to remain the same: the job that rhino does is usually CONSISTENTLY good.

If I ever hear of an issue with a bedliner, it's because the truck has a drop-in bedliner. If I ever hear of any OTHER issue with a bedliner, it's usually a spray-in bedliner that is a company OTHER THAN Rhino OR Line-X.

In my experience (as I am researching a permanent spray-on bedliner myself), I was quoted $349 for the Rhino, $415 for the Line-X.

So, what's the difference? About 65 bucks.

 

I don't know if the warranty is important to you, but if it is, you might want to check into that.

Rhino's website is absolutely silent about a warranty, which is rather surprising. A Rhino warranty is only with the dealer that sprayed it. I hear that they are trying to match LINE-X's warranty but have not quite got it down yet. I bet that once that is in place, it will show up on their website.

LINE-X has a written nationwide lifetime warranty which can be viewed from the first page of their website at www.goline-x.com So far, LINE-X is the ONLY brand to offer this type of warranty. Also, LINE-X dealers enter your name, the trucks VIN, etc. into a database in California. So, three years down the road, if you have a problem, just show up at ANY LINE-X dealer and your liner will be fixed for free. Definately, no other brand does that.

There's lots of bedliners out there, it's good to have choices!