Opinions needed for Bed protection.....

[Humvee21]

Reptar, awesome response. I'm thinking it's either that the sample is just too small and not up to the true quality of a real full size product or that the engines you haul don't have sharp edges or flat edges. But you've definitely made me feel more confident in the product.

Well finally got to getting some pics of the indentures I was talking about. You can see the BedRug was quite deformed.

 

[Humvee21]

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So nobody is having this problem?

 

[Reptar]

it'd be straight up abuse to give a bedrug or bedtred that kind of a beating in the truck. I could see if it were a $500 beater pickup tossing cinderblocks in from a second story window, but a $50k truck I'd be cringing seeing somebody wailing on the bed that hard to hurt the bedrug permanently. I use my street truck as a truck. Had it a little over 2 years. Loaded the bed up with everything from hauling motors, to hauling sheetrock upto the bedrails, and filling the bed with several hundred pounds of steel, iron, and aluminum for the scrap yard, fence posts, etc. etc.. Zero damage.

 

[whtrapta]

I'm very happy with my bed rug. If you put a quad in or a really heavy ice chest with wheels, it will leave indents from the tires, but an hour later they are gone. I don't cover mine. We got a rain and the water built up in the front. I just moved the truck to the garage (most water came out) and shop vac'd it dry so I could use it.
The nicest thing is being able to throw crap in the bed and now worry about it sliding around or scratching the bed. Good feeling

 

[bstoner59]

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So nobody is having this problem?

I do have some spots share the bed extender has indenred the bedrug but that's it. I did just remove the bed extender so time will tell if these go away or not. I carry motorcycles throw wood and other big items in all the time with no issues. Even after months of use and offroading I can take a vacuum to it and make it look good as new.

 

[linexsa]

it'd be straight up abuse to give a bedrug or bedtred that kind of a beating in the truck. I could see if it were a $500 beater pickup tossing cinderblocks in from a second story window, but a $50k truck I'd be cringing seeing somebody wailing on the bed that hard to hurt the bedrug permanently. I use my street truck as a truck. Had it a little over 2 years. Loaded the bed up with everything from hauling motors, to hauling sheetrock upto the bedrails, and filling the bed with several hundred pounds of steel, iron, and aluminum for the scrap yard, fence posts, etc. etc.. Zero damage.

you would be surprised what people do to theyre truck beds. we have seen some stuff that would make you cry not just cringe. people think that trucks are bombproof and bullet proof and should take anything you can throw at them. people think Line-X is the same way. Line-X will take a huge beatdown, but EVERYTHING has its limits!

 

[maliburaptor]

This is my first post to the forum as a new Raptor owner:

I have a Molten Orange Raptor. BedTred arrived yesterday. I held off on installing it after laying it out on the bed. It did not look all that great. Concerned it won't conform to the bed well, and it's pretty much just rubber in look and feel. So, I am thinking of returning the BedTred for a BedRug, DualLiner, or another solution. What do you think?

Ideally, it seem like you would want to enjoy the truck bed color and finish, yet still protect it. Perhaps a color spray-in does that. But can a spray-in really match molten orange, and does a spray-in really wear well?

Seems there may be room for engineering design improvement for bedliners for combined appearance and functionality. Maybe price point is a design constraint.

I think the BedRug will be the choice. Shame to cover Molten Orange with grey-black felt (no problem for black Raptor owners, I know...)

I am just getting started on a slow build. So far, BedStep, which is great, Stubby antenna on the way, bedliner in progress, and we go from there.

MalibuRaptor

 

[Humvee21]

maliburaptor, welcome! What didn't you like about the BedTred? Dualliner is also rubber so I'm not sure that'll help you there. From the few molten orange color matches I've seen... they're not dead on but they're pretty close. In my opinion, not worth the extra $250-300 they charge.

 

[NY SCREW]

just wondering im pretty much set on the bed rug an the bakflip at this point but wanted to see if anyone had pics of the bedrug installed in the raptor or the bakflip f1??? thx

 

[Bullishone]

I have some, check my posts, I posted bedrug with a Retrax pro.