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I apologize for the non-Contour-ness of this post but thought someone might have some ideas.
Since my 'Tour died, I have inherited an older truck. It's in pretty good shape, but needs a bedliner.
Since I dumped so much $$ into trying to fix the 'Tour, I'm broke for a while. So, I thought that I would try to put a liner in myself.
All the kits I've run across are over $100. Anyone know of a product that is similar and might work? I'm looking for some sort of rubberized material that you can build up through layering... Maybe a rubberized garage floor coating or something?
Any ideas?
EDIT: I just found this Duplicolor kit on ebay. Anyone know anything about it? ebay listing
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Originally posted by Former Contour Owner:
I apologize for the non-Contour-ness of this post but thought someone might have some ideas.
Since my 'Tour died, I have inherited an older truck. It's in pretty good shape, but needs a bedliner.
Since I dumped so much $$ into trying to fix the 'Tour, I'm broke for a while. So, I thought that I would try to put a liner in myself.
All the kits I've run across are over $100. Anyone know of a product that is similar and might work? I'm looking for some sort of rubberized material that you can build up through layering... Maybe a rubberized garage floor coating or something?
Any ideas?
EDIT: I just found this Duplicolor kit on ebay. Anyone know anything about it? ebay listing
Anyone?
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have you researched herculiner? well known DIY bed coating.
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Brother-in-law used it on his F-150 (dupli-color). Has had it for about 3 months or so with normal abuse (ladders, yard bricks, etc). It's held up alright. Does tend to "dent" a little and has somewhat wore off on the top part of the tailga te. I would most deffinetly recomend spraying it on if you do go with duplicolor. When we originally started putting it on, we rolled it and it wasn't sticking very well (it would not stick to the side of the bed, and was VERY runny). We eventualy picked up a sprayer and re-did it all. Came out great. Took about 3 hours to complete including masking, not bad at all. If it was my truck though, I'd be using Line-X's product or Herculiner. You'll pay 100-150 for Herculiner, but from my impression/ readings it's worth the money. 
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I have heard the DIY liners dont hold up nearly as well as the spray in (professional) ones. This is sourced from a chevy truck forum.
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THe DIY jobs/projects can turn out just like a proffesional job. You still have to do all the prep by sanding and working imperfections to get a nice respectible and long lasting end results. some people just go out and buy it, slop it on and expect it to be a pro quality job, and i feel sorry for people with that impression.
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What's wrong with a drop-in bedliner? I put a Dura-Liner in my '06 F-150 for about $165. My old '92 F-150 had a Dura-Liner from day 1 and I had no regrets. It gave me 14 years of protection from all sorts of hauling. It went with the truck to the new owner, my boss. Easy to install (less than 15 minutes with no prep work) or move to a different truck or to sell. Don't limit your options.
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Scratches the [censored] out of the bed if you ever choose to remove it.. they scrape (the plastic) pretty bad, too. They are Flimsy, they rattle, and never stay 100% secure, either.
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My dad has had bedliners in both his '92 and '02 F-150s since he's owned them. We took it out once on his 92 and it definitely didn't scratch much at all. I would just say make the extra 50-75 dollar investment and save the aches and pains of doing it yourself. Most of the time, you aren't ever going to want to take it out anyways.
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Originally posted by Former Contour Owner:
Since my 'Tour died, I have inherited an older truck. It's in pretty good shape, but needs a bedliner.
Originally posted by CoupeofG6:
Scratches the [censored] out of the bed if you ever choose to remove it.. they scrape (the plastic) pretty bad, too. They are Flimsy, they rattle, and never stay 100% secure, either.
If it's an older truck, it no doubt has scatches in the bed already. If that's the case, how many more scatches can a drop-in bedliner cause? I don't know what kind of bedliner CoupeofG6 is talking about, but I never lost one out the back because it wasn't secure. And rattle.......it's a truck, not a BMW.
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