Originally posted by Coolkuehl3:
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.




ANy truck I've ever been in, loaded crap in, etc that had a bedliner, it wa snever really SECURE. Not that it would fall out or something, but if you pushed down on one corner at teh top of the bed, the other side would raise up, crap l;ike that. As well as the tailgate piece is notorious for coming loose, although it usually sees the gist of most abuse. I dunno, drop in bedliners have thier positives, I agree, but in my experience with them, they haven't been "The Best". Im sure it matters, but all bedliners I've dealt with or worked with were manufacturer/ dealer installed (ex. Mopar, GM, and a few pendaliner drop ins)

As far as a truck should rattle, etc, etc, etc.. depends on the truck, really. Hell, I'll drop the cheapest thing I can find in a piece of junk pick up, but if I want a bed liner in my NEW truck that doesn't rattle... I'll reach for the spray on.

AS far as scratching the bed, go look at an 03-04 pickup truck with a delaer installed bed liner and pull it out (well.. don't, but.. ) TONS of small enough agragate get's under neat teh liner and does a number on the bed. I'll have to take pics of my uncles 05 Ram with a dealer installed liner. He pulle dit out a few weeks ago to get a cap installed and it's scraped to [censored] and had a TON of small rocks, salt, etc, etc. I see a drop in bedliner just as helpful/ hindering as a front hood mask or bra.

Just my opinion ofcoarse.

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