Spray in Bedliner

I work with a lot of folks who have 2nd and 3rd Gen Tacoma's. Their composite / plastic beds look pretty haggard after a few years since they do get scratched from regular use. When I was considering a 3G, I wondered if a person could add an aftermarket spray in bedliner to make it look a little nicer, but I saw several threads on different forums (including Tundra forums) where the spray on liner would eventually peel.

For the 4G's, I saw that some trucks come from the factory with a spray in liner, and a lot of folks earlier in the year thought they weren't worth it from a cost / benefit standpoint, but my truck didn't come with that, and I'm using my truck bed most weekends, so its already scratched up pretty good. I do have a mat on the floor of the bed, so that helps some to keep the bottom from getting too scratched up, but the sides are getting marred up pretty badly already, and a piece of firewood sliding around dislodged one of the bed lights already (but luckily it just snapped back in).

Now that the 4G's have been out for a while, has anyone had more success with aftermarket spray in liners holding up, or is the verdict that they will still eventually peel and look worse than a scratched up composite bed? I prefer the look of the spray in liner, and have had several on trucks I've owned over the years that have held up very well from heavy use, but I've never had a composite bed before and really don't want to waste $$ on one if it will just peel (either from damage or age or...). Thoughts? Anyone have an aftermarket spray on liner that's had good luck with it?

 

I’ll know the answers in 5-10 years.

 

It’s a truck.

 

I don't think anything it hears particularly well to low energy plastic. Can't imagine professional spray in bedliner being any different

 

Don't know anything about their durability, but if I was going to have it done, I'd give it a good scrubbing with soap and a good rinse, then on the highway for 30 minutes to dry out. Then take it to the installer. If they do more prep fine, but at least you know it's clean.

 

I have a TRD Sport with the factory sprayed bedliner. Still looks great, but only time will tell. Had the truck for 3 months, 4,000 miles. Light truck bed use so far

 

Put a tonneau on it and forget it.

It's a truck, perfect bed is telltale of a truck that should have been a mini van.

 

An awful lot of words for a simple question. If you're composite bed get scratched up your liner would get scratched up.

 

I'm with you. These composite beds are TOUGH stuff. I can't see a spray in liner holding up better.

 

I use my trucks to haul stuff, and my 2016 bed looked fine when I traded it in. I told the dealer I didn't want the bedliner–because I wanted to be able to slide stuff in and out since I run with toppers.

 

I like the mat because for day to day I leave it in but if I'm hauling my snowmobile or anything I'd like to slide in and out it takes seconds to effectively convert the bed.

 

I may just have to try it, and find out for myself. This seems like a weirdly divisive topic like oil change intervals and "best" tires, haha. Yes, its a truck. Yes, it gets used (a lot) as a truck. But no, I don't like the gouges/deep scratches already in the composite bed. I've hauled firewood, broken concrete, lumber, hay, rusted steel pipes, and some of these materials are hard on the composite bed. No, it is not broken and still totally functional; just already looks like an old Pendaliner drop-in from an 80's truck... I suppose its just a looks thing for me - the harder spray in liners have always been more scratch and gouge resistant in my work trucks.

 

Personally I would just find a local service company in your area that offers professional spray-in bed liners, and go talk with them. Get them to give you referrals of owners that you can call and discuss. Get feedback from many different truck owners, not just guys that have Toyotas.

That's the only way you'll know if spray liners hold up well long term.

BTW, I've heard good things about Line-X Platinum.

 

Mine's got the factory spray in bed liner and is supposedly in transit to the dealer right now. I'm not going to be a particularly heavy user and and considering getting a bed mat just to keep things from sliding around as much, but I should be able to comment over time about the lighter duty end of things. I tend to keep my vehicles in good mechanical shape but focus less on the aesthetics; they're tools when it comes down to it and should be used as such.

I just have to wait for the thing to show up. Its status updated to "in transit" on my dealer's website the day the dockworkers' strike started, so I'm really hoping it snuck out before they started picketing...

 

What geo are you in?

 

Central NY. I read someplace that means my truck would have been container shipped to the Port of New York and New Jersey, then trained to someplace around Albany, then trucked down the 90 to here.

 

Not true at all, I’ve had a 1st gen Tacoma with line x and a 2nd gen tundra with the factory spray liner I literally threw all kinds of shit in there really hard and not a mark, with the shitty plastic Tacoma bed you put anything gently it will scratch and leave a mark, it chips super easy as well. It’s just a shit design Toyota used to save money and because they use shit metal that rusts really easily

 

Bummer. Mine came via rail into the distributor yard in Houston. Should have mine soon, with the sprayed in bed liner.

 

It's sprayed at port, not at the factory, so it's subject to more workmanship variation with prep, etc. Some 3rd gen Tundras folks had reported the liner peeling (looked almost like plastidip in pictures).

I prefer the bed slippery for ease of cleaning and to slide toolboxes and cargo on it.

 

I think it's ridiculous to spray line a composite bed, but my 2024 has it. Idiotic but a money maker for toyota.