The spray-in bed liner is like 100 grit sandpaper...

[4x4Pete]

I've used both spray in and drop in liners. They both have good and bad points. Drop in liners are harder to clean out when you have had a load of top soil in there. Spray in don't grip as well as they advertise. As long as there is something in there to protect from scratches- gravel or stone, it will last a long time. I prefer spray myself.

[15 Z71]

To protect the paint? Are you planning on taking out the spray in liner too see the paint under it in a few years?

[4x4Pete]

Not to protect the paint. To protect the metal. Both liners work great for that. But to the OP anything slid on either liner seems to get beat up. A piece of cardboard works pretty good to protect painted furniture.

[hurricanoday]

I think if it wore down people would be posting saying the bedliner isn't strong enough. I moved a washer and dryer no problem, I think I would be more mad that the bedliner looked like crap.

[6D9 Matt]

I plan to add a DeeZee mat over my liner, for when I need a softer surface.

[redwngr]

When I ordered my truck, I didn't expect it to be so abrasive. We moved this past week and I had to be careful not to slide things across the bed. I had to load it and then pick it up and move it toward the front of the bed.

Will this abrasiveness wear down over time?

That's exactly why I order spray-ins.

 

Rough surface helps to hold things in place.

[Slatemetal15]

In my opinion, a spray in liner is 10x better than a drop in. I have line-x premium and it looks great, holds up great, and nothing slides around. My previous truck had a drop in liner which rubbed all the paint off the bed rails where I couldn't even take it out without it looking terrible. Plus everything slid around like crazy. The drop in liners may be better now than my '01 had, but I am very happy with my spray in liner.

 

 

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[BuyAmericanIron]

I love my factory spray in bed liner and would recommend it to anyone.

[99-ls1-ss]

That's exactly why I order spray-ins.

 

Rough surface helps to hold things in place.

I agree that they hold things in place. I do like that about it. I was just surprised at how sliding a box or something like that across the liner left a trail of "sanded off" box material. I will be fine once all of the moving is done.

[m3n00b]

I love my OE spray in. It grips well and feels stronger than anything else on the truck.

[crewl1]

I'm another user who added a Bedrug mat over my factory spray in.

The rough finish was eating up the covers on my sound equipment.

The Bedrug mat is perfect, stuff stays in place until I want to slide it out and no worries about the covers getting torn.

[Brian S.]

In my opinion, a spray in liner is 10x better than a drop in. I have line-x premium and it looks great, holds up great, and nothing slides around. My previous truck had a drop in liner which rubbed all the paint off the bed rails where I couldn't even take it out without it looking terrible. Plus everything slid around like crazy. The drop in liners may be better now than my '01 had, but I am very happy with my spray in liner.

 

 

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Prefer drop ins myself. I never take it out, so I have no clue if the paint is scratched underneath. They get traded in with the truck.

 

I prefer them because:

A. On a day like today or Saturday when I'm transporting my Royalex canoe, the liner isn't sanding the shell off. (and they stopped making Royalex in 2013, so it's not like you can go buy another very easily)

B. In the winter when I'm carting wet, snowy ice fishing gear, the channels in the bottom keep my stuff out of the water.

C. Easy clean up, hose them off.

 

Stuff I don't want to slide I bungee or ratchet strap.

[dagwood2001]

When I ordered my truck, I didn't expect it to be so abrasive. We moved this past week and I had to be careful not to slide things across the bed. I had to load it and then pick it up and move it toward the front of the bed.

Will this abrasiveness wear down over time?

 

Dude, it's a pick up truck. Not the rear of a Volvo XC.......

[Slatemetal15]

A drop in liner just has to many downsides. They trap water underneath and cause rust issues. They also trap dirt and debris. Plus a spray in liner looks 10x better. The drop ins just look bad to me with the big cut out holes for tie downs.

 

 

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[99-ls1-ss]

Dude, it's a pick up truck. Not the rear of a Volvo XC.......

Dude, I know. That's why I'm hauling furniture in it. That doesn't mean that I want my furniture sanded down to raw wood...