Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Plastic Option - Truck Bed Liner

By Veronica Carrillo

Bed liners of several kinds have become almost must-haves for pickups. Without some kind of protection, pickup beds soon turn to rust buckets. Simply using a pickup for casual hauling is bound to cause scratches, if not dents, and lead to corrosion in time.

Plastic material used to make the drop in linings can hardly be damaged no matter what the job. It isn't that the plastic liners just protect beds from scratches and scrapes either, which they do.

Spray liners are after all really a paint application over the existing bed paint. But it is special paint. Partly it is special because it dries and cures very rapidly. The paint usually is a two part product mixed right at the spray gun. Engineered to cure fast, that means the time to get the project done is very short. Usually that means the truck only has to be at the applicator just a day or so.

See, the material in the better liners spreads out the impact forces over a large area thus protecting the underlying bed from all but the most serious hits. If you need protection for a pickup bed, the thick linings made of plastic really offer it in heavy measure. But there's more.

The guarantee that comes with liners is not that the liner won't be harmed, it is that it will be repaired. Repair just means a respray, that's all. Another basic feature of liners professionally installed is proper preparation. Like for any paint coating, proper surface prep really is key to a coating that sticks. Scrimp on surface prep and the coating likely will be gone with the wind.

One truck bed liner that offers the plastic advantage but also is easy to install and drains extra well too is the DualLiner model. The DualLiner comes in multiple pieces instead of just being in one piece. That way it's possible to get a better fit and assure proper drainage from the liner as well. It's worth a look. - 2368

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