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BDBWTE Senior Enthusiast

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I decided I didn't want my bed to rust out and it's rusting bad with my drop in so I've been helping my buddy tape, sand and shoot rhino liners the past three weeks for a free liner.. by the way trust me 400.00 is well worth the time a person puts into a truck to spray a rhino liner.. If they get it done in less than 4 hours than your getting a no sand, single coat, low material POS.. It will be less material but it will look nice and not hold up. but anyways I have to give it up I've been against them forever until I sprayed mine in the correct way.  I got the quicky before and it fell apart. Anyways a typical bed gets about 9 gallons of rhino to coat it over rail.  I put 16 gallons of rhino in my truck under rail and the liner is a heavy 1/4 to 3/8" everywhere.. It's holding up great.. So if your liner is thin and they do it fast tell them you know what's up and you want a good liner sprayed.  Also make sure they DA your bed down and don't just hit it with a buffer with a scratch pad it's the cheap fast way.  He told me that most of the time that's what they do to get better returns on their money..  Hope this helps..
cowboy02 Senior Enthusiast

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Bang for the buck is it better then just a bed linner?

 

When it comes time to sell It I would think you would be better off as you could remove the drop in and walla.. You have this truck that looks like you never haluled anything in it.  IMHO

Shadowfax Enthusiast

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I love my rhino liner. I had them spray it about a quarter of an inch thick on the bed and on the sides and had a nice lil overlay put on the bed rails. It looks good and has held up superb. Its all about the quality of the independent vendor who does the work.

 

Since I've gone sprayed I'll never go back. My older S-10 had a drop in and it scratched the bed and tailgate all to #### and back, and my rhino liner is just as thick ore maybe thicker than that drop in was on my 91.

silverado man Senior Enthusiast

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Bang for the buck is it better then just a bed linner?

 

When it comes time to sell It I would think you would be better off as you could remove the drop in and walla.. You have this truck that looks like you never haluled anything in it.  IMHO

Good luck getting a droppin to not scratch the crap out of your bed.  I took mine out last weekend to clean under it and my be was scratched to Sh!t.  I want to get a spray in someday but just cant afford it right now.

k1500chevy97 Senior Enthusiast

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My uncle took my 03 farm rig up today to have the spray in liner installed .

It looks pretty good he said he got it in about 8:00 and they called him at about noon and said it was done .

It looks pretty good over the rail black in color

cowboy02 Senior Enthusiast

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I agree that a drop in "has the potential" to scratch the bed up.  However with a "Spray in" you never really can take it out.  So............  With that said what makes the spray in soooo much better?  I mean if you get a crappy job done your screwed and then they are going to have to sand the s*%t out of your bed to do a good job anyway.  So in general I would guess that the Rino isn't that great of a option if you want to be able to revert back to just a bed with no liner.......

 

:werd: I guess..........

BDBWTE Senior Enthusiast

BDBWTE

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When you have a truck re shot they don't sand they old one out.  They take a DA with 40 grit rough up the finish of the liner, wipe it with acetone, shoot a special primer on the old liner then spray right over top.. FYI
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I have an 'over the rail' Linex spray in.  

 

As was mentioned earlier, it is all up to the quality of work done by the dealer and how well they prep and spray.

 

Our local Linex dealer (Decker Linex) :thumb: is absolutely excellent.  You can go to the county fair here and see all kinds of pickups with many different kinds of sprayed in liners.  It is extremely easy to spot the Decker jobs.  They are top quality.

 

It is also easy to see the differences between the quality of each dealer's work when you can see 2 Linex or 2 Rhinos side by side but done by different dealers.  It is very easy to spot the quality work.

 

For anyone thinking about getting a spray in, ask people who already have them and after looking at the quality of the job on their vehicle, then ask where they got it done.

 

 You get what you pay for!

Shadowfax Enthusiast

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I agree that a drop in "has the potential" to scratch the bed up.  However with a "Spray in" you never really can take it out.  So............  With that said what makes the spray in soooo much better?  I mean if you get a crappy job done your screwed and then they are going to have to sand the s*%t out of your bed to do a good job anyway.  So in general I would guess that the Rino isn't that great of a option if you want to be able to revert back to just a bed with no liner.......

 

:werd: I guess..........

Heres my take on the whole bedliner situation. They are supposed to protect from big dings, dents, and corrosion that will eventually cause your bed to rust and corrode...

 

Both types work really well with the dings and dents... However every drop I've ever seen taken out of a vehicle has never protected against trapping moisture underneath them and have scratched the #### out of the bed and enabled rust to start forming.

 

With a spray on, they are gonna scuff your clearcoat and then spray the liner in and its a permanent deal. Also most of the reputable manus give a lifetime warranty on the spray ons (I.E. Line X, Rhino) and will repair them free of charge.

 

The spray protects against corrosion and what not, and mine is thick enough that I don't think im gonna have any dents anytime soon.

 

If you plan on buying a bedliner or a spray on to prevent from just scratching then you might as well not buy either, because the drop in is gonna scratch the bed sooner or later all to heck, and trap moisture underneath it thus rusting the bottom out. The spray ons are gonna just scuff the clearcoat so that it adheres to it and its not going to let moisture thru at all.

 

I've always approached the bedliner deal as it should protect from deep gouges, dents, dings, chemicals, moisture being trapped, and etc. But never from scratches because regardless of what you do with either its either gonna get scuffed or scratched to #### with the drop in.

 

At least with a spray on, the only thing thts scuffed is the clearcoat, and once the spray on is put in its never gonna get worse than that. With the drop in I had in my 91, when I pulled the drop in out, there were spots where it had rubbed so bad the primer was showing  :chevy:

 

No matter how much you screw those things in and etc, they will always move no matter what, I found it out the hard way.

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