DYI bed liner. Spray or roll on?

[volleyball]

Line x is expensive and it doesn't last forever. It chips and peels like the others. They will touch it up for you on the franchisees dime. Don't get wet cement on it, it won't come off.
They all have to dry, linex just does it quicker, but so what? You cannot load it up for a day if you don't want it damaged.

 

[carterbeauford]

Line x is expensive and it doesn't last forever. It chips and peels like the others. They will touch it up for you on the franchisees dime. Don't get wet cement on it, it won't come off.
They all have to dry, linex just does it quicker, but so what? You cannot load it up for a day if you don't want it damaged.

it lasted 5 years on my last truck with only one repair including occasional use as a farm truck. the DIY liners wouldn't have lasted a week with what I use a truck for. I haven't found anything else that works better, new used truck is going in for Line-X renew next week to repair a lesser quality spray in liner that isn't cutting it.

 

[volleyball]

You can buy 10 gallons of a roll on for 1 pro job. And you would never go through that much. I've seen brand new line x chipped on a showroom truck. It is all in the prep. If you prep a roll on properly, it holds up very well. Especially in a van.

you have to figure out what you want/like. That makes it best for you, maybe not for others.

 

[G-force]

Yeah Line-X prices alone keep me away, plus I don't like trusting the work to others. I's rather do it myself.

 

[justin1795]

I have had spray ins in my last two trucks and love them. they are 500-600 around here for a truck

 

[mx500]

Had a brand new truck sprayed through the dealership. Not sure on brand. Two months later I Picked up a skid of 1 ton of wood pellets. After the guy dropped them into truck, he pushed the skid further into bed, as I cringed. Not a scratch. Tough stuff. Not line-x, some other brand. It's about a 1/16" thick and there's no way you could scratch it off.
I'll find out what brand

 

[kaffine]

All I can tell you is, if you get any on hands....Be careful going to the bathroom...It's a SOB to get off!!!

It has been a while since I have seen that thread.

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I haven't seen any DIY bed liners that have lasted however that is likely the result of no one doing the prep correctly.

 

[Toymeister]

Line-x corporate office is in this town. Quite naturally there are a lot of line-x trucks here. I have yet to see one that is in bad shape. Ocassionaly I see line-x vehicles as in the entire exterior. Looks odd but also kinda cool

 

[carterbeauford]

Yeah Line-X prices alone keep me away, plus I don't like trusting the work to others. I's rather do it myself.

understandable since there are so many ****** bedliner places. you can't end up with quality of a professionally applied Line-X bedliner with any DIY product though.

 

[W_A_Watson_II]

For DIY, I used the Raptor by U-Pol. For a professional job 'd have Line-X do it.

 

[amolaver]

i had rhino 'professionally' sprayed in my truck bed and i'm dissapointed. i like the just-a-bit-rubbery texture rather than the concrete-like finish of line-x, but a couple of minor 'jabs' - think the corner of a skid hitting the wall of the bed - have torn through it. the installer wouldn't correct without a fee. never again. also, a home improvement store dropped about a ton of lumber in the bed when the banding holding it together failed. it destroyed the tailgate (bent it into a banana), and the rhino dealer wanted $200 to spray the new one...ummm, no. $50, sure. $100, maybe. $200, you must be high...

i think the line-x is more durable, but don't have the experience to say definitively. next truck i'll try it. i got the u-pol raptor kit http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TQIIPG/?tag=atomicindus08-20 (and their 'adhesion promoter http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00397POFC/?tag=atomicindus08-20, sold separately of course) to do the new tailgate, but haven't sprayed it yet. it does seem very well reviewed, but we shall see.

ahm

 

[dowmace]

We spray raptor in all of our work trucks, it's easy and durable. We spill diesel, oil, gas, coolant, etc you name it and the raptor liner doesn't seem to mind. The only issue we have is if you don't scuff the paint well it'll peel.

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[Kevin54]

Most of the bedliner places take the easy way out. They don't prep things like they should. When I had my truck done with a product similar to Line-X, and it may have very well been Line-X, the guy (an independent) that did it, did a fantastic job. All except for the fact that the bed was never sanded like it is and was supposed to be. I found out that all he did was take a Steam Jennie to it, let it dry, then shoot the liner. Luckily mine never peeled.

I have a friend that had Rhino Lining put in his truck, he had bad places in it after loading a few items in the bed, and they didn't want to make it right. To me, it looked like a black pop-corned ceiling shot into the bed. At least mine had a fine texture to it and had a satin finish. His was pop-corned and was a very flat looking finish. I was not impressed at all.

 

[awdblazer]

there is a reason why linex can and will put a lifetime warranty behind their product

 

[volleyball]

there is a reason why linex can and will put a lifetime warranty behind their product

What is that? Hyundai offers a 100,000 mile 10 year warranty.

Line X guarantees a franchisee will guarantee it.