Bedliner - Removed 16yrs later..

Just removed the bedliner on my ole '98 just to have a look see...:

 

And?

 

Sorry, struggling with pics on my phone. Not as bad as I feared. This is after sweeping and cleaning with soft brush and soap. Some bare metal spots on wheel wells and some light surface rust but nothing severe. Now, I need to decide if I will just throw it back in or go spray in this far down the road. This is my occasional drive retired woods truck now. 201k miles.

 

Darn. Looks better than I thought it would. Maybe I'll do mine........

 

That looks amazing. I pulled my plastic bed liner when I noticed it was chaffing away the paint on my bed (over rails). I just spent the money on LineX. Its tough as nails and it protects the bed 100x more then the plastic liner. Its worth it IMO. I got my liner done at the LineX on Blanding just past Crystal River Seafood.

 

10-4!!! Safari I believe it's called. I have a 2014 tundra now and they did the linex premium for me. Love it!!! I just have a hard time dropping that coin on my ole '98 taco but still considering. I need new rear leaf springs first. They are flat as a pancake...

 

Wire brush,sand whatever works on your rusty areas and rattle can some rustproofing paint and put the liner back. 16 yrs and that nice bed...

 

I'm looking for a NOS liner with the toyota logo - the OEM version.

Does anyone know if somebody / anybody still sells them?

 

I like this approach!! Thanks for the tip.

 

You must have taken good care of your bedliner to have a bed In that condition. Impressive Seminole!

 

Hey Seminole make sure you get over to the Jacksonville Area thread. Theres a good crew of guys there from the forum. I went to a couple of g2g when I lived there.

 

I wish I knew people actually want the bed liners. My last 3 Tacomas had these things. At first hint of chaffing, those things were yanked and tossed.

I much prefer the bed mats.

 

I am a bed mat man. But I am impressed with how good the bed looks in op's truck.

 

Yeah, I had a liner, went to a mat. I like it except for the fact that my wheel humps are getting seriously beaten up now. I wish I had kept my liner...

 

Those aren't scars, those are medals.

 

Yeah If your wheel bumps are that bad, a bedliner isn't probably for you. I had another truck where bedliner was punctured let moisture in and it wasn't pretty! Personally, I will never use one again. lol

 

I love the bed mat, cheaper and keeps stuff from sliding all over the place. I have the spray in on my GMC Sierra and that is nice, but spending that much on an older truck is hard to do. Especially since $400-500 could buys some nice sliders, rear bumper, etc!

 

My truck has a spray in and a bed liner. The first owner did the spray in, 2nd owner said the spray in was scruffy, so he put in a bed liner.

Don

 

Like the way you think!

 

I bought my truck with an insert bed liner. When I removed it found at least as much junk and a whole lot if paint worn off. I put a shell on it and a platform so I never see it and it never gets wet. I might do a spray on liner down the road some day b