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You can roll on a liner or you can spray on a coating. We installed a do it yourself bed liner on our truck and learned in the process. Are you ready to put a bed liner in your truck? It's a spray on or roll on liner because the material is a liquid before application. Or you can get multi piece mats that fit the floor and walls of the bed. The plastic drop-in is custom fit to your truck. Spray on liners provide many advantages, but the cost prices them out for many owners. But the protection for the bottom of the bed equals or exceeds any other option. These offer protection only for the bottom of the bed and not for the sides. A moving plastic liner may wear away paint and make a perfect spot for rust to start. The do it yourself option makes good sense though on battered older trucks since you get a useful coating for just a little money and time. That's mostly because careful surface preparation must be done or the paint will peel. We did it and the resulting surface looks very much like the spray coating. You may be tempted by the do it yourself bed liner paint option. Spray on liners offer a guarantee for life which certainly has value.
The obvious first choice for a liner is the spray on bed liner. The volume of paint and the resulting thickness means it is very difficult to penetrate all that liner. You can get a custom fit liner that's in multiple pieces. A plastic liner almost won't cut. You can easily scrape and gouge a sprayed on coating. It takes the hit rather than letting the bed surface take the lick. Since a plastic liner is so thick, it absorbs impact. That doesn't mean it's not getting beat up. On the other hand, a plastic liner is all but indestructible. Haul a pile of concrete blocks in your spray on liner and see what happens.
If you damage a spray on lining, it stays damaged until you get it fixed. That's supposed to be an advantage of a spray on coating. Save time and money with a bed liner kit. The trick is that a roller applied coating looks like it was sprayed on. You can't tell the difference. Just follow the paint manufacturer's recommendations for spray nozzles. You can spray on a liner too.
The obvious first choice for a liner is the spray on bed liner. The volume of paint and the resulting thickness means it is very difficult to penetrate all that liner. You can get a custom fit liner that's in multiple pieces. A plastic liner almost won't cut. You can easily scrape and gouge a sprayed on coating. It takes the hit rather than letting the bed surface take the lick. Since a plastic liner is so thick, it absorbs impact. That doesn't mean it's not getting beat up. On the other hand, a plastic liner is all but indestructible. Haul a pile of concrete blocks in your spray on liner and see what happens.
If you damage a spray on lining, it stays damaged until you get it fixed. That's supposed to be an advantage of a spray on coating. Save time and money with a bed liner kit. The trick is that a roller applied coating looks like it was sprayed on. You can't tell the difference. Just follow the paint manufacturer's recommendations for spray nozzles. You can spray on a liner too.