Judged by your profile picture you either surport line x haha you would say that because it would put line x out of bussiness if Toyota and all others have there way personaly i dont care for a plastic bed on a truck (useless choice of material in my opinion)..
I'm a LINE-X dealer. So, I want Toyota to go back to steel beds.
It won't put LINE-X out of business. Ford, Chevy, and Dodge all sell more trucks than Toyota. But, I would hate to totally lose my Toyota dealer that I spray for! We spray a lot of Tundras.
Edit: I had an interesting thought. The other truck manufacturers could take advantage of the plasic liners and advertise "Get a REAL truck that's made out of REAL steel." That might really work for them!
All that talk about how great the new plastic beds are is load of BS! Toyota made the switch to cut costs, not improve their quality. Maybe the plastic has advantages in terms of weight savings and I could see it being a good option for those who don't work their trucks. I think the short bed D. Cab would probably fit this discription best. They should make steel the standard with plastic as a option. If they don't do this Toyota should stand behind their claims that this composite bed is better by offering a no cost extended warrenty covering the plastic beds for say 10 years.
Edit- i didn't finish reading the tread before I spouted off
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you see that truck in his post? He is not just a client of Line-X he is an installer too! LOL Get it! kind of like the Hiar club for men commercials! Ha Ha! Oh come on guys give me a little bit of a chuckle!
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you see that truck in his post? He is not just a client of Line-X he is an installer too! LOL Get it! kind of like the Hiar club for men commercials! Ha Ha! Oh come on guys give me a little bit of a chuckle!
yea i think i got it first when i saw his profile id had a line x truck on it either of which i would surport line x to the tee vs toyota's cheap methods and cost cutting on there tacoma it can be clearly stated i hope toyota goes back to the good stuff. I hope toyota is reading this thread very intresting and hopefully this tacoma buyer get's a new bed..
yea i think i got it first when i saw his profile id had a line x truck on it either of which i would surport line x to the tee vs toyota's cheap methods and cost cutting on there tacoma it can be clearly stated i hope toyota goes back to the good stuff
Amen! I will never have anything replace my Line-X!
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You guys are all acting like all the beds will do this. Even though this does lower my confadence in this bed that bed could have just been deffected. That doesent mean all the beds have the same defect.
That would be crazy if these beds all crack that easy though. I wonder what toyota would do. That would be a huge recall! Then more ppl then ever will be calling toyota "jap crap". That would have a huge effect on toyota sells also.
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You guys are all acting like all the beds will do this. Even though this does lower my confadence in this bed that bed could have just been deffected. That doesent mean all the beds have the same defect.
That would be crazy if these beds all crack that easy though. I wonder what toyota would do. That would be a huge recall! Then more ppl then ever will be calling toyota "jap crap". That would have a huge effect on toyota sells also.
If toyota doesn't make a product right the first time they very well can be called "jap crap" even thought we know very well know it's not jap crap and the quality is very much there..Toyota does at time's has some issues and having a Tundra with those problem matic brakes i give Toyota a hell of a show on fixing my Tundra..This just proves a point Toyota made may be the best currently out there but there not excussed from poor quality nor will they will exceed my expections on building a truck with a poor quality plastic bed on the new Tacoma.I still pride toyota on quality but it's intresting we need to review there error's and as the saying goes try, try again Toyota will learn on there problem's and move on...
Unfortunately it seems as though my concerns about the plastic Taco bed were not all for nothing. Its one of the only reasons I haven't bought one yet. I was more concerned about the extreme cold temperature performance but it seems you don't even need that situation to crack it. I'm trying not to get too excited until I hear what Toyota is going to do about it.
From the looks of the responses to this thread, I guess once someone posts a "Something is wrong with my V6" thread, everyone is going to say the old V6 is a lot better and should of never switched...
Toyota said they're dent resistant, not indestructable... It woud be pretty arrogant to think you can't break it don't you think? The original poster can't even recall what exactly was the point of breakage... All we know is that the truck probably took a hit sometime between the camper install and deinstall...
I personally aren't too happy to see this unfold also, but hey, you KNOW it was bound to happen!!! I know for fact I won't crack my bed for what I plan to do with it, so I'm fine...
Ford Explorer Sportracs have composite beds, and I have not heard of any widespread problems with them, so hopefully this is just an isolated incident.
because it would put line x out of bussiness if Toyota and all others have there way personaly i dont care for a plastic bed on a truck (useless choice of material in my opinion)..
either of which i would surport line x to the tee vs toyota's cheap methods and cost cutting on there tacoma it can be clearly stated i hope toyota goes back to the good stuff. I hope toyota is reading this thread very intresting and hopefully this tacoma buyer get's a new bed..
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