2024 Silverado factory bedliner spray warning / heads up.

[Denis Patenaude]

Hi.

 

My previous truck was a 2011 GMC Sierra which I had the bed sprayed a at linex shop in 2012.  The linex bedliner never chipped or cracked.  I've had gravel in there and stuff sliding around, banging against the side for 12 years.  Never an issue.  The truck was rusted out and the transmission was done but linex was still good to go.  Fast forward 12 years.   I just purchased a 2024 Silverado with the bed already factory sprayed.  I would have preferred to get it linex sprayed but employee pricing was one, and it was available. 

 

Sun, Sep 8 2024 I bought a Gorilla Ladders PRO Slim-Fold 55-inch x 14-inch Adjustable Height Aluminum Work Platform.  I keep it in the back of the truck.  Flat aluminium top, which I had on the bottom, and plastic feet.  It never occurred to me that I should be worrying about plastic...

 

Less than a month later, today, Nov 3rd, I was emptying out the truck and this is what I found (see pictures).

 

I sprayed some fluid film on the exposed area until I can get it in to the garage for warranty repair.  I live where the roads are salted all winter so hopefully this doesn't reoccur at some point and cause more issues when it was supposed to prevent them.

 

If you are ordering a truck, DO NOT the bed factory sprayed.  Have it done by a shop that does linex or similar quality product.  It can't take plastic sliding over it  for less than a month.  That work platform wasn't in there for the full month either, although I can't remember how long it wasn't there.

 

 

 

 

[15 Z71]

2 hours ago, Denis Patenaude said:

Hi.

 

My previous truck was a 2011 GMC Sierra which I had the bed sprayed a at linex shop in 2012.  The linex bedliner never chipped or cracked.  I've had gravel in there and stuff sliding around, banging against the side for 12 years.  Never an issue.  The truck was rusted out and the transmission was done but linex was still good to go.  Fast forward 12 years.   I just purchased a 2024 Silverado with the bed already factory sprayed.  I would have preferred to get it linex sprayed but employee pricing was one, and it was available. 

 

Sun, Sep 8 2024 I bought a Gorilla Ladders PRO Slim-Fold 55-inch x 14-inch Adjustable Height Aluminum Work Platform.  I keep it in the back of the truck.  Flat aluminium top, which I had on the bottom, and plastic feet.  It never occurred to me that I should be worrying about plastic...

 

Less than a month later, today, Nov 3rd, I was emptying out the truck and this is what I found (see pictures).

 

I sprayed some fluid film on the exposed area until I can get it in to the garage for warranty repair.  I live where the roads are salted all winter so hopefully this doesn't reoccur at some point and cause more issues when it was supposed to prevent them.

 

If you are ordering a truck, DO NOT the bed factory sprayed.  Have it done by a shop that does linex or similar quality product.  It can't take plastic sliding over it  for less than a month.  That work platform wasn't in there for the full month either, although I can't remember how long it wasn't there.

 

 

 

 

They must have cheapined them up. My 2015 Sierra had a factory spray in liner it held up great for all 9 years I had it. My 2024 did not come with one. I kinda like not having one. Sprays out easy and sweeps out easy. Mine usually has mud in it from my dirtbikes. 

[jwhjr]

It's a truck

[rrmccabe]

The odds of having a bed rust through because of this is a million to one.  I have factory spray in liner  on my 2024 and had one on my 2017 High Country. Neither had any issues.

Many truck accessory dealers are using different flavors of spray in bedliner because Linex is expensive because of licensing issue or something. I forget the details. So most bed liners around here will be another brand and I dont feel that they are better or worse than GM.

If I could have found a truck on the lot I wanted without a liner I would have bough it and put a full bedrug in it. but I could so ended up with factor spray in bed liner and the bed rug mat.

[Z45]

Seems like the fault of whomever loaded the bed to not secure the load, IMO.

 

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"The innovative application techniques of spray-in bed liners developed by Ground Effects for General Motors will provide consumers with a best-in-class product that complements the new Indiana-built Sierra and Silverado products," said Ground Effects Ltd. President Jim Scott. "This facility will allow General Motors to provide automotive accessories at the factory level instead of shipping out of state or installing at the aftermarket level, which is a huge benefit to Allen County - the home of both light- and heavy-duty truck manufacturing."
 

PS - The upfitter  (Ground Effects) who does the bedliners is right next to the assembly plant.  According to them the liner is applied by robots, not humans. 

Edited November 11, 2024 by Z45

[Denis Patenaude]

"Seems like the fault of whomever loaded the bed to not secure the load, IMO."

 

Fair point.  The platform wasn't secured.  Thing is, I've been carrying stuff like that for years.  Doesn't mean it was smart , but the previous truck had Linex which wasn't as slippery so I got away with it for 12 years.  I'll be getting a bed mat since I had some dewalt toughsystem in the box this week and they were moving around like they were on ice.

 

 

[Port Tack Farm]

I've had GM factory spray in liner on my Canyon Denali and in our new Sierra and would go without a rubber bed mat too.  Great combo.

[newdude]

I've had 3 trucks with the factory spray liner.  Never had an issue.  Brake rotors for scrap, ladders, etc.  No gouges, tears, nothing.  

Edited January 6, 2025 by newdude

[diyer2]

My 2012 has factory liner, my previous truck had Linex. Linex thicker, better quality.

[Grumpy Bear]

 Line-X 

[Aubie_01]

I wish my truck didn’t have the spray in liner I really prefer the factory drop in plastic bedliner.

[15 Z71]

On 11/4/2024 at 8:55 AM, jwhjr said:

It's a truck

Exactly that's why I don't care to have one.