Many people have a truck as their family ride. If you just haul groceries, plants, a couple of 2x4's and some plywood once or twice a year then a BedRug or SprayIn is fine.
I'm not trying to say one is better than the other. However, I know a couple of guys that have a SprayIn in their work truck and they say they will never get another spray in. Only drop in's and then get a rubber mat to go on top of the drop in. If you use your truck for work, and I mean real work not just hauling flowers from HomeDepot, then the drop in is probably better. The bed will chip and scratch with a spray in. If you haul heavy generators, tool chests, pipes, shovels, sliding a jon boat in and out etc, they will scratch the spray in and it seems to be more noticable than with the drop in. For most people spay in's or the BedRug is fine but if you do a lot of heavy work out of the back of your truck then you might want to think twice about the spray in.

 

Well, I hear ya'll supporters of the bedrug and like it has been said, to each his own but, you will NEVER see me or anyone else with a bedliner or spray-in liner worrying about what they are putting in the bed. Right now I have blood and feathers and beer cans from Dove hunting this past weekend that I doubt would come out of a carpet, at least not easily...

I am not trying to start a fued here but y'all enjoy your carpeted "trucks", I completely agree they look nice, I said that from the get-go but that's about it.

Additionally, I am with the times but the times do not drive me to do what is "in"... The "times" are influencing people to things because it is "in" - I for one do not have a complex where I need to keep up with the Joneses and have the latest and greatest.... I get what works and what works for me me may not work for you.. To each his own. At least all of us here are smart enought to have bought a Supercrew!

Take care,

Chris (ReelWork)

P.S. I checked out that BEDRUG website and I am impressed but I still think that one would have to be careful about just how much you do to it... I do like the contoured fit of the bed ribs...

 

Ahhh... but would you spray liner folks drop a load of 50+ lb rocks in the bed of your truck?

I don't ever worry about throwing or dragging something in and out of my drop-in liner'd bed.

 

In the SuperCrew I have carried ten loads of gravel. (scoop/bobcat) Used a steel shovel to get the gravel out with no problems. I was not careful getting the rock out. I have had a palet of river stone (over 1000 lbs) placed in the bed. He had to set it on the back of the truck and slide it into the bed. No scatches. I am sold on the durability of the Sprayed in Bed Liner.

The only time I had a scratch on a sprayed in bed liner was pulling a 250 lb lawn mower out of the bed by myself. I put two scratches on the top of the tail gate where the bottom of the lawnmower hit as it fell to the ground. That was a 1996 Dodge Truck.

Before I owned a truck (5 years ago) I borrowed my brother in-laws '94 F-150 truck with a drop in bedliner to get some gravel. I parked on a hill to help with unloading and after unloading half the load I had a hell of a time standing in the truck. I was sliding all over the place trying to get the rest of the rock out. Another plus for the spray in bedliner.

I would have to admit the Bed Rug would be nice if I went camping in the back of the truck.

 

I have the Ford drop in liner, and am very happy with it. I use my truck as a truck, hauling dirt, wood mulch, plywood, trees and bushes (I live on 2 2/3 acres and we're doing a lot of planting), and Lord knows what else. I've had good luck with drop in liners through the years, but this Ford liner is the best looking best fitting one I ever had.
We had an F350 where I used to work, and it had a spray on liner. After living with it for a while, I grew to hate it.
1) I was nearly impossible to slide things in and out.
2) It always looked dirty, especially near the cab where water had evaporated and left a gray stain.
3) When we threw heavy things into the bed it dented the bed. The liner stayed on, but you could see the dents.
4) Heavy and sharp objects would slice it and scratch the coating off.
5) When the truck was hit, the texture didn't match on the repaired panel.
I'd never even consider one.
That's my $0.02 worth!

 

I think we can safely say that if you wanted to know about bedliners (spray-in, drop-in or Bedrug) this is the entire post to end all posts on the subjuct!



I went back and read over most of this thread and basically deduced that if you haul heavy loads that can be damaging to the bed (Rocks, wood, blood from hunting or anything like that) then a Spray-in or Drop-In is the obvious choice. Their is still one decding factor between the two being whether or not one will actually drop these heavy loads in the bed, in which case the Drop-in is a tad better at actually protecting the bed from dents since it is raised/ribbed and provides that slight barrier. A Spray-in would do OK but not as dent dent resistant.

A spray-in excels over the drop-in by being better at non-slip surface and a pretty good pad against dropped in material. Depending on the person and liner, a spray-in also looks better in some trucks but that really depends on personal opinion...

A Bedrug is ideal for someone that typically has a cover on the bed, is generally wanting something that looks a little less rugged and is a little more comfortable feeling and whose main loads will be groceries, personal gear and the occasional wood/supplies/camping gear then go with a Bedrug.

All are good at what they do and one is bound to fit your needs, whatever you're looking for!

Take Care,
Chris (ReelWork)

 

I love my drop in but, then again, I'm not hauling much more than groceries.

I like the look of the sprayed in liner and, really like the look when they take the sprayed in material and use it to cover the black trailer hitch (see Skagel's truck).

RP

 

I think I'll just go with the drop-in Ford bedliner. I have had drop-ins before and never had a problem except for if it was an over-the-rail liner.

Now I need to look at tonneau covers, but that'll be another topic after I dig through previous posts.

 

I just finally managed to get off my butt and take some pics of the truck and made sure to take a few of the bed and bedliner...


Without further adieu -





So, you don't think it is very thick? Check this out! That's just under a half inch (3/8ths?) and it is actually a little thicker just a couple inches in. It kind of tapers off at the tailgate...



See ya!

Chris (ReelWork)

 

Guys,

I had a 1995 F150 XCAB Eddie Bauer Ed. and for my birthday in '96 I took my truck to a guy in New Orleans and had a bedliner sprayed in. He was a shipwright and made those pirous (canoes), but basically what this bedliner was was the same thing they lined boats with....made with fiberglass. This thing was AWESOME. You could drop bricks or haould anything you wanted in the back and it may have scuffed it a little, but he instructed me to use this stuff called Penetrol to revive it if it faded or got scuffed. Haven't seen anybody else doing these, but wold have it done like that again if I didn't live in VA.

Just thought maybe someone else had heard of this before. he could match it to anycolor......which mine was green at the time.

 

Seadoo,

Whats up Dude?