| A pickup bed mat works well even over an | | | | looks but what happens when you start doing rough |
| expensive spray on liner. That's because the cheap | | | | hauling with such a coating in place? Then is there a |
| liners do some things as well, no better, than more | | | | way to use a pickup and protect the expensive liner |
| expensive bed liners. Here's what that may mean for | | | | itself? |
| your pickup over time. | | | | The coating can and does suffer damage as a result |
| Certainly a main reason for any sort of bed lining is | | | | of hard use. This damage can be repaired with |
| preventing damage to the bed of the pickup. One big | | | | another coat of spray. But it is still subject to |
| way that truck beds get harmed is when they get | | | | damage. There's also the hassle of returning the |
| hit and dents result. Impacts with enough force will | | | | truck to the applicator and waiting to get it back. |
| cause dents and dings. | | | | Then again, the repair still is just another coat of |
| Scratches certainly cause problems but nothing like | | | | expensive paint, subject to damage again. |
| dents do. Careful use of touch-up paint makes | | | | That's where a cheap bed mat right over a spray on |
| scratches disappear in a jiffy. Dents are forever | | | | lining can save the day and prevent damage to the |
| without some serious, and expensive work. | | | | truck box. And then, maybe as important, the spray |
| That's right, dents often produce permanent damage. | | | | liner can be protected by a mat riding over the more |
| That's why preventing dents has more value than | | | | expensive liner as well. |
| stopping a few light scratches. | | | | That's a major plus for a mat. It's cheap protection |
| Plastic truck bed liners certainly do well at stopping | | | | for a much more costly bed liner as well as almost |
| dents. Rubber bed mats protect equally as well. In | | | | assuring that the box of your truck will stay free of |
| both cases the liner material soaks up the impact | | | | dents to the floor and free of most scratches as |
| shock before it gets to the metal of the bed. The | | | | well. |
| liner or the mat not only absorbs the shock, it | | | | A rubber bed mat right over a pickup bed, even over |
| spreads the force out over a larger area making it all | | | | a spray on liner, virtually eliminates the chance for |
| but impossible for the pickup box to get dented. | | | | dents and does it at almost no cost to the pickup |
| Look at a spray on bed liner. You can't beat it for | | | | owner. |