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- From: tjones@access.digex.com (Tom Jones)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Truck Bedliner
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:24:32 -0500
- Organization: Desktop Assistance Group, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
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- In article <20000009@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com> tristan@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com (Tristan Colson) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone have any recommendations for good brands of bedliners, or any
- >advice about which ones to stay away from?
- >
- >Tom (using Tristan's account)
- >
- I had a 1984 Mazda B2000 with a Duraliner bedliner, and it outlasted the
- truck with no difficulty. The liner was badly installed (by the original
- owner), so all the screws eventually came out and I had a removable
- bedliner. The space between liner and bed accumulated debris over time,
- and abraded away much of the concealed paint, but it was still very far from
- rust-through.
-
- The removable bedliner had some advantages; it made a great 4-person
- toboganan in the snow, and made it a lot easier to seal the bed when I
- turned the bed into a swimming pool for a few hours. Cleaning was
- also easier when a friend's quart of oil spilled; I could tip the
- liner on end. (To my pleasant surprise, the liner was impervious to
- both oil and PVC solvent.)
-
- It also made sleeping in the bed a lot warmer when I went on cold trips--
- the layer of insulation keeping the sleeping bag and air matress from the
- conductive metal body probably made a huge difference.
-
- There was one reeking disadvantage from the bed not being anchored--
- I often drove with the bed empty, and had no problems, until one
- fateful ultra-windy day on the Interstate when the bedliner flew out
- the back, bounced *really* high off the road, and soared over a barbed
- wire fence. Fortunately, it was rural New Mexico, and the nearest car
- was so far behind it didn't pass until I had fully stopped the truck.
-
- After that I kept the liner bunjied down. I was quite pleased with the
- liner, although in my less adventurous years, I'd probably get it securely
- anchored now.
-
- -tom jones
- Greenbelt, MD
-