Bed Liner is Rubbing the Paint Off

[Pro40Dually]

I pulled my bedliner out today to clean and check for corrosion on the bed. I found some areas that has the paint and primer wore off to bare metal. Can anyone recommend a product that will prevent the liner from wearing the paint off?

[rhopf79]

Line-X!!

[Jodan]

LOL, my thoughts exaclty when I was reading the original post.

[123Gone]

That's not unusual for drop-in bedliners.

[Gatorman76]

Won't hurt anything. Rust won't build up because the bedliner keeps rubbing it off. If you want, you can paint over the bare spots then put in a rubber bed mat so the liner won't slide back & forth.

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Originally Posted by rhopf79

Line-X!!

Ditto...You can't beat Line-X. It is well worththe money.

[Big_Al1]

Thats the reason I opted for spray-in liner don't have that problem.

[jrallan26]

LineX rocks

[eharri3]

I'll chine in as the lone wolf here and say don't bother with a spray in if you already have a drop-in. Guess what? They scuff the paint before they spray so either way the paint's comin off the inside of the bed. Id say go ahead and touch up your bed if you want, pay 60 bucks, throw a paint saver pad or rubber bed mat in between the liner and your paint, and that should protect much of the painted surface and prevent the liner from moving around and scuffing the paint anymore. Pickup truck beds are galvanized now. You may end up seeing some surface rust under the liner but the bed will never completely rust through. My last truck was 7 years old when I traded it, with a drop in on it the whole time. I never noticed big rusty holes in the bed. I figure there was probably scratching and surface corrosion but didn't really care and never saw any reason to yank the liner out. I really could care less what the bed looks like underneath the liner as long as the rest of the paint looks decent for a long time.

[123Gone]

Respectfully:

Yea, the bed is scuffed and then coated with 80 to 120 mils of product that provides pretty darn good protection. Your paint is about 3 mils, maybe.

"You may end up seeing some surface rust under the liner but the bed will never completely rust through." No sir, I totally disagree. I've personally seen it rusted ALL the way through. Truck beds have a galvanized LAYER which can easily be worn through.

BTW, I have one brand new Toyota Tundra (short bed, no track rail system) drop in liner that we took out this last weekend for $50, come and get it!

Choose the right spray-on and it can look 100 times nicer than any drop-in. I've never seen a drop in that looks like this:

[eharri3]

So you're telling me you've seen a 7 yr old or newer pickup with rust holes in the bed panels?

[123Gone]

Yes, I have and I've seen it more than once. And, oddly enough, the holes always are at least in the two corners closest the cab and perhaps other areas. We refuse to apply a bedliner to these trucks.

I realize a Jeep is not a truck, but we see rusted out floors on Jeeps at least once or twice a year.

[Pro40Dually]

Thanks everyone. I plan on keeping this truck for a looooooong time and have to look far down the road in time and not just when it gets a couple years old and trade for a new. I have seen some spray-on's and they do look good.