I'd like to remove my stock plastic bedliner and do a roll on liner.

Does anyone know of the best DIY bedliner kit?

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks!

 

No such thing. IMO roll-on or other DIY are still never what a high pressure, high temp spray-on.

 

Herculiner .

http://www.herculiner.com/

 

I would recommend a spray in like Line-X...in the long run you would be much happier.

 

Honestly, i don't use the bed of my truck enough to justify spending that of a spray in.

When i do use it though i want something that is going to make whatever i put in the bed stay put, has to be strong, etc.

 

My $65 mat does that better than the roll ons. They are just not worth the time or money in my opinion.

 

I agree.

I dumped my bed mat a while back for a bedrug. I would never even consider any type of liner, but the bedrug is perfect.

 

While we're on the topic... The brackets that hold my chrome running boards to the bottom of the truck were painted black from the factory and over the years stones and whatever else have chipped it all away and it looks bad. Has anyone ever coated these things with black roll-on bedliner? Does that sound like a good idea to do?

 

Yep, you're probably going to be much happier with a bedmat than a DIY bedliner.

 

I did the Herculiner because I was in the same boat as you. I do not use my bed in such a rough manner to warrant the expensive spray in ones. IMO its all in the prep work. Do a good prep job and it will last.

 

I have had great luck and plan on using U=Pol Raptor on my new 2010 F150. It is a spray kit, very popular in the Jeep world. Would be the best $100 you have ever spent!

 

Let me say that a one-gallon, $100 kit does not get you a "bedliner". It gets you a slip resistant surface, but it's not thick enough to be considered a "bedliner".

 

I will agree with you! Thats why I spent the extra $40.00 and got an extra qt and put it on nice and thick.

 

Just thought I'd chime in, I know some who has done a diy liner (don't know what brand) from 3 years ago and it has held up VERY well. Would put it up against any of those expensive *** line-x or rhino liners any day. Went and got a price from dealers who do that, and because I have an 8' bed I'm looking at $600 for the rhino and $650 for the line-x. Well they can kiss my a**. I see a lot of nay sayers on this thread, my question to you folks is how many of you chiming in have ACTUALLY done your own liner? I apologize to you guys if this comes off as offensive as I'm not trying to start something here, but alot of you are responding like you are experts on the subject. I certainly am not an expert, and have never done 1 myself, but have been researching this subject for a little while now as this is the route I'm going in the near future, and have found some very interesting information. Really looks like the prep work is THE most important issue, and what brand you decide to use being the second most important. I plan on using the Raptor liner as a buddy of mine who works in a local shop uses that brand and has had great success with it, that coming from customers of his (though the liners have not been on for very long) they all seem very happy with the results. As for only getting 1 gallon, I will throw a little more money at it and get a couple of quarts more.

 

If Raptor works for you, then great. It's good to have choices.

This is just for fun:
If you look at U-pol Raptor's MSDS, you will see that it contains 683 grams/liter of solids (which is about 68%). That means that 317 grams/liter is solvents that evaporate away (which is about 32%). So, for every gallon of Raptor you buy, you only get about 3/4 of a gallon of actual "bedliner". So, using a useful formula that I have and assuming you have a short bed truck (6.5 ft) which has about 78 sqft to spray with the bedliner, then one gallon of Raptor will give you about a 15 mil thickness (or .015 inches). That's pretty darn thin. Just to compare, LINE-X and Rhino will apply about 8 gallons solvent free.

Durability wise, Raptor (which is made in the UK) unfortunately does not publish technical specs. The only thing we know is that according to their site, it's "2K paint". However, assuming it's like all the rest of the solvent based store bought bedliner products, it's honestly not as durable as the professional products.

Again, I'm not trying to start any thing here, if one (or two) gallons of Raptor works for you, then that's all that matters.