Few things from a new owner

[Oldfart]

Yes. With a spray-in, you can't really "hide" anything. It's going to cover the metal, but any dents or larger scrapes/gouges are going to show right through. The whole reason I want to get the spray-in is to prevent gouges/scratches/rusting to the metal in the first place!

That's the reason almost every truck guy I know, which is a lot, has a spray in liner. Even just camping/shooting stuff and a few Home Depot runs will scratch bare paint. The only guy I know who DOESN'T have one is a guy with a Honda Ridgeline. A few years ago I couldn't drive for a while because of a surgery and I asked him to run me to Best Buy to pick up a new TV. He put down moving blankets underneath and around the TV box so the cardboard wouldn't leave a mark on his bed! F*** that shit with a truck.

 

[Adam Miller]

I just came from a Ridgeline. Mine did have a factory spray in liner. Ugh--I miss the Ridgeline's trunk under the bed.

 

[EricM]

Bare beds suck because everything slides around. Same for hard plastic drop in liners.

 

[SVTTrooper]

Ugh--I miss the Ridgeline's trunk under the bed

you have more cargo space with your Raptor.. and if you had a trunk like the Ridgeline you'd lose having a full size spare plus cargo room. at the end of the day you bought a truck.. not a FWD based car with a box on the back.

 

[Adam Miller]

you have more cargo space with your Raptor.. and if you had a trunk like the Ridgeline you'd lose having a full size spare plus cargo room. at the end of the day you bought a truck.. not a FWD based car with a box on the back.

It's not a massive amount of cargo space I need. It was nice to be able to put luggage or a grill or things like that in a lockable partition where they wouldn't slide around. And you can put a full size spare in the Ridgeline's trunk (at least the first generation). That said, I knew this going in--the trucks serve very different purposes and that trunk area would reduce the available suspension travel. That's life.

 

[SVTTrooper]

where they wouldn't slide around

you could do what I did, on my 13 F150 ecoboost I had my backflip tonneau cover and a tailgate extender. that way it gives you a little area where things don't slide around too much plus the hard cover is secure.

do you have anything now? or is the box open to the elements?

 

[Adam Miller]

I have a Leer 1 piece tonneau and carpeting.

For camping and trips I think I'll get a couple of military or Pelican footlockers and then maybe fabricate something to hold them in place--perhaps to the side so I can still get a motorcycle back there if I want, maybe some RotoPax too. This scrambler project will be done soon and would be nice to use in a lot of the same areas as the Raptor.

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[Ben Lucas]

Very nice bike collection you got going there. Which Honda is that in the last pic ? I used to have one similar.

 

[Adam Miller]

That's a Honda Dominator (NX650), which is my Scrambler project. The whole rear subframe is new, new rims laced to stock hubs, aluminum fuel tank, flatslide carb, Ohlins shock, and I installed an Andreani cartridge kit in the forks.

 

[Canuck714]

851 or 888 with 26 on the number plate? Nice collection BTW