Hello,
I had a drop in bedliner put in a dealer at the time of purchase. Anyways when driving down the interstate the back of it blows up. I am guessing wind is getting underneath it and causing it to blow up in the back. It's not minor, it blows up above the back of the tail gate and folds the back corners up. Is this normal or atleast something that happens, I never had that before in other trucks. I'm going in for a oil change do you think if I mention it to the dealerwould they do something to fix this? Thanks for any help. Bill

 

drop in bedliners are not real good for the truck because they catch water underneath, promote rust, slippery, etc.

however, they are not supposed to blow up while driving. it sounds like its either not locked under the bed lip, or not the right liner for your truck, or something. assuming you bought it recently, and paid good money for it, and its self destructing by folding the corners, then YES you should report it. beware that the dealer will likely say, oh they all do that. that's just how they are. its supposed to do that. etc. etc. you should reply... BULL****. fix it, replace it, or refund my $ if you don't have success with the dealer, ask for the dodge number where you can report the defective equipment he installed on your truck and don't hesitate to call it. declare it to be a safety issue that will kill the person driving behind you when it blows out. i have seen camper tops blow off on the interstate. very scary.

 

^ i agree 100%

 

yeah it can't be, because when i pushed mine up to clean underneath (i have the same liner), it wanted to go down on me, not up. they need to fix that, or just tell them to take back the bed liner and go get a LineX...that's what i'm going to do when i get the chance.

 

Or just tell them to take out the bed liner and replace it with anything, rhino, linex, bedrug... I had one of those plastic liners on my last truck, they will destroy your bed. They scrape the paint off the bed and hold moisture in so it rusts out like crazy.

 

I'm the first to admit that I bitched and moaned about the cost of the line-x (so much that they agreed to tint my windows for free if I'd just shut up .

That said, I can't BELIEVE how much I love this bed liner. Granted I went w/ Line-X cause they're local and its a 45 minute drive to the Rhinoliner place (which was $50 cheaper) but I have ZERO complaints about the liner itself. A godsend when I was trying to wrangle my bike in and out of the bed by myself at the track. You'd have to dump five quarts of oil back there to get it slippery and even then I'm not sure you'd lose traction.

Just throw boxes, tools, a handtruck... whatever back there and unless you're running a race its right where you put it. No sliding.

The cost stings but I haven't had one minute of buyer's remorse, hate to say it but it really is worth every penny.

 

Like everyone else said, get rid of the plastic drop in and either run without a liner or get a spray-in one. I wish I had pics of my brothers old truck when we removed teh drop in one. Had a rust hole in teh middle of the bed. Liner was put in when the truck was new. Took 5 yrs to rust a hole through.

 

The problem is the cheaper the drop in the worse the problem with warping and usually the worse they lock them in the truck. Some are even just wedged in and thats it other have plastic keepers that help lock them in based on truck design. But all rub your paint off over time. Then adventually cause rust..... I love Line-x they and Rhino are the only ones with Nation wide Lifetime warranties.. Yes the rest have life time warranties well ususally they do but they are dealer honored only and if the dealer goes so does the warranty. But Line-x is honored dealer to dealer to dealer. And man what a liner Check this colts truck out the only issue is its aint a dodge....

http://www.millenniumlinings.com/colts_truck.htm

This was the first white liner I have ever seen till I saw one on a local AAA Club wrecker the other day and it was done by Line-x also... Man even it looked good....

 

Mine had a dealer installed bed liner when I bought the truck. It was in there tight as crap. I actually had to cut the damn thing out to get it out. I did the herculiner to save a few hundred bucks and could not be happier.

Under the old liner were rotten leaves and a LOT of moisture.

I'd get rid of the thing and put a spray or roll on bedliner.


Sean