An Online Pickup Bed Liner

Here's the deal... You can get an online pickup bed liner of several types all for much less than what it costs for a custom spray on bed liner. In fact some liner options even work well along with spray in liners. After all, who wants to spend tons of money on a spray coating and then immediately start tearing the thing to pieces? Here are the ways to protect a pickup bed that you can easily find online.

Plastic Drop In Bed Liner

Tough describes plastic bed liners that drop in. The material is almost cut proof and the thickness of the liners means that almost any impact gets soaked up by the liner before it makes it to the bed underneath. A really serious option if you haul rough cargo and hard to hurt whatever the load. Look for deals online where the price is discounted because of all the competition.

Roll On Bed Liner

Put on a roll on bed liner and you get the look of a spray liner with much less money spent. Several suppliers make the truck bed paint and several put it in a complete kit that includes everything required to do the project. Herculiner, PlastiKote, Dupli-Color and several others all make the material. It's a matter of surface preparation after careful cleaning and then the paint gets literally rolled on. The finished coating looks almost like a spay on liner.

Spray On Coating

But you can spray on liner material yourself. Paint makers furnish spray gun recommendations that let you put the paint on with your gun. It's a great way to go but not really necessary. How so? Roll on the paint and as it cures the coating settles out to completely remove application marks whether brush or roller. Save the clean-up required with a spray coating and just roll it on...

The DualLiner Difference

Another way to go that's a bit of a hybrid is the DualLiner. What you get here is what looks like a plastic bed liner but it's more. The DualLiner consists of interlocking custom plastic panels to cover the sides and front of the truck bed. That includes protection fro the wheel wells as well as the other areas. Than you get a plastic gate covers and the final part is the actual floor cover. That's a rubber mat made to fit. By combining plastic with rubber you get maximum toughness that still is simple to maintain and drains well too.

Truck Bed Mats

Often mats get put over expensive spray on liners. That's because mats can soak up almost any impact load with no harm to the mat and no harm to the liner or the bed underneath. All the protection that comes with rubber bed mats comes at nearly no cost too. Either carpet mats or rubber mats cost so little it just makes perfect sense to use them as sacrifice layers over more costly linings.

If you aren't set on a custom spray on bed liner, you have several online pickup bed liner options. In some cases, both plastic liners and bed mats offer truck protection that works as well or better than spray coatings and is especially appropriate under bed covers for trucks. Or if you want the look of a spray coating without the high cost, a roll on bed liner may work, especially on older pickups.