Help with Soft Bed Liner Options / Solutions

2014 Tacoma SR5 Double Cab Long Bed. Just added a matching LEER 100R shell. It has the factory hard plastic bed liner; now I want a felt or soft, skid limiting liner over it. Something easier to sleep on occasionally as well. The Bed Rug kit is listed online for $413.00; crazy money in my thinking. I've had one on a previous '03 Tacoma and they are definitely nice. Looking now at wanting to possibly cover just the bed and not the wrap around. I'd be interested to see or hear of some of your creative solutions/applications?

 

The "hard plastic liner" is the actual truck bed, not a liner. If you are just looking to cover the bottom of the bed, what about cutting a nice piece of rug to fit?

 

Carpet might be the ticket maybe with a pad underneath and anchored to the plastic liner? IMHO, I thought the actual truck bed was the steel bed beneath. (before the hard plastic "liner" is installed at the factory?)

 

Is the Bed Rug mat available separately? That would be ideal. I'll search for that online. I'm switching to a pop up camper in a year or two; just trying to minimize expenses until then...
Thanks for the replies.

 

Yes the plastic you see is actually the composite bed, a sort of fiberglass/other plastic mix. Comparable strength to a metal bed without the corrosion factor. If you look under the truck you can see it is full composite.

 

Damn. I thought chevy avalanches were the only plastic truck currently out there.

Mental note to never spill organic solvents in my truck bed...

 

Is the '14 bed the same demensions? If so PART # BMY05SBS
http://www.bedrug.com/products/bed-mats/bed-rug-mat-no-liner.html

 

pic of the bed mat with the tail gate adder.

 

1. Thanks for the photos! That's what I need. Are they long beds? That model number (BMY05SBS)
has "05" and "SBS" in it and wondering if that's for a short bed?

2. Other need is for a tailgate seal/gasket. Major dust kicks up in the desert and infiltrates the bed area. What's the best gasket for the tailgate?

 

I don't know if it's the best but it's free... I never installed the gasket that came with my Access tonneau. If you want it PM me your address and I'll drop it in the mail.

 

PM sent!

 

Why not go with a rubber bed mat, which would be cheaper,easier to dry off when wet along with having more anti-skid surface than a carpeted mat?

 

I use the horse stall rubber mat from tractor supply for $40. It's about 3/4" rubber matting with some good give to it. Items don't slide around in the bed and its easy on the knees.

 

Only problem I have with this route vs the OEM mat is the sheer weight of them which makes washing off the bed a difficult task. Probably weighs at least 60 lbs. OP, I can't imagine even with a bedrug, sleeping on it is still not the most comfortable. Bedrug or OEM mat, I would throw at least a small thin foam mattress in there if I ever needed a sleeping location for camping purposes or a fight with the wife..

 

Awesome black Tacoma! LOL fight with wife... that happens here occasionally. I used to be resolved on buying an old RV for the driveway and just move out there for my retirement years. Thought still occurs.
I do sleep in it regularly with a shell in the Nevada and Idaho deserts. I use a twin flocked air mattress, and a couple of large cloth sleeping bags; one underneath me along with an army blanket so the cold doesn't penetrate too much from below. I then have an old twin-sized goose down comforter over my bag. Little chance of shrunken nuts in the morning with this setup.
I have to be able to crawl around on old knees so the rug concept seems best. Definitely on the tailgate also. Maybe a thick mat would do the same? I vacuum and then wipe the back out; no need to hose it out with the shell and tailgate gasket. It only accumulates dust.

 

You might consider those interlocking foam shop floor mats. They'd be an inexpensive temporary solution. They wouldn't be great to sleep on, but they'd be good for crawling around the back of the truck.

I'm heading out to the foam shop to look for a piece that I can use to make a mattress for my truck.