I just bought a 2006 with 19000 miles and it has a Line X bed. They did a beautiful job, lines are straight and its bulletproof!! Did anybody see Smash Lab on Discovery Channel with the Bedliner Test?

 

don't let the rhinoliner-brainwashed people tell you stuff is garbage. paint has come along way. i painted houses for three summers, and go to know it really well. anyways, i am gonna paint my bed myself this summer too. i'm not gonna buy "herculiner" or another "diy bedliner". i'm actually gonna spend 1/3 as much, and be able to coat it like 5 times. at the paintstore, they have this paint that has fiberglass shaving or something in it. it's made for painting high traffic floors and what not. this will be more than strong enough for what i need. to give you an idea, it's what tennis courts at city parks are made of. that stuff keeps it's color forever, is water resistant, and all. tennis courts are never beat up. and best yet, it's like $40 a gallon...that's a lot of paint. only downfall is they don't make black...but they make a charcoal color that my buddy says he can tint a little darker.

and, in my opinion, brushing on it better than spraying. spraying gives you a more even finisih, but a bursh actually presses paint into small nooks and crannies. brushing is the best way to paint the outside of a house for that reason...i don't see why it wouldn't apply to sanded metal.

 

I painted quite a few semi's and trucks. You can get decent quality bedliner for DIY, but buy the cheap sprayer from harbor freight of NAPA or whatever. Painting a Car, is nothing like painting a house, not even comparable. For the bed you might be okay with a brush, but never use a brush on anything else. The finish looks terrible. Auto paint is alot different than house paint.

The cheap guns for bedliner are like $20, scuff up the bed, spray it on, throw away the gun. You would be better of with DIY bedliner, than with flooring paint.

 

I went with over the rails and I am glad I did. My liner is black and my truck is blue. I still think it looks fine. When I had it done they didn't have the colors...

 

Brainwashed?? 10 years of perfection to 1 year of failure is hardly brainwashed, it is proven fact.

 

i'm not saying i'd use house paint though. it's like industrial paint. the finish will look fine even if i brush it. i mean, it doesn't finish smooth anyways, so i figure i'll be fine. i've painted metal railing and metal staircases with it..a.nd brushed it on...and brushstrokes i guess are an issue, but they're not as big a deal when the finished product isn't supposed to resemble a smooth finish, as much as it is to resemble sandpaper. but, like i said...i've painted some metal stuff with a similar product (it had 'grit' in it, as opposed to a fine 'fiberglass'...like a tennis or hockey court) and they came out amazing.



umm...what: didn't mean to offend you.

 

The do it yourself kits only have one to 1.25 gallons when you start and then they fume off about 25% of it since they are not 100% solids. I had a buddy who tried it... First dont do it indoors... Second just dont do it. He chipped it inside two weeks it was way to thin. my local spray-on dealer says the last time they put a liner in my truck that they put 6 gallons in my 6 foot box. So basically thats 6 times the material. My friend paid about $100 at walmart and I paid $395 for my Dakota. I got a Nation Wide Lifetime warranty and he got a bad headache the next morning from the fumes. I think I got the better deal.

Here is what a good liner looks like of my local dealers site.

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