Plastic bed pros/coms

I love my ''plasic bed'' but has anyone used spry in bedliner? dose it stick? would the bed be stronger?

 

With proper sanding it should stick great. It's a resin base, not a "plastic" like polyethylene. The spary would not make it stronger, just prevent sliding and maybe prevent gouging in some circumstances. Most of use just throw in a rubber mat and call it done.

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/203659-cracked-bed.html

not the one i was thinking of but yea rare stuff. out of all the rearendings ive been reading about even on them no one really mentioned the bed cracking. i think that says a good bit on their strength

 

haha yea critics can find a flaw in a flawless diamond, without even seeing the damn thing.

and yea i can see CB rims being a bad thing haha

 

This is true. Fiberglass is much tougher, and both have a similar resin base. The strongest and toughest of all is fiberglass made with woven mat, but that is hand made and very labor intensive. The weight difference bewteen that and carbon fiber is not so great either.

 

alrighty then. now i have. but the bed is bowed and not broken at the bow. i know its still cracked and broken but still it took the hit like a champ!

 

One of the guys I worked with with had his rear spring and hanger come through the steel bed of his Chevy pickup when it rusted off.

 

Stronger then what?

 

cigarette flicked out the window caught a box of newspapers on fire in my bed
its a fuuny story in its entirety but ill spare you guys at the moment
it did leave me with a big hairy spot though
im thinkin about coating the whole bed as oppose to patching the spot
cant imagine any secondary coating being "stronger than" or making it stronger than it already is

 

The only thing that irritates me about the composite bed is that stuff slides really easy. I know it's an easy fix (rubber mat), but I've been too lazy to bother.

 

I do appreciate the lack of rust and dents

But I must say they seem cheap

Mostly user error but I cracked mine where the bed meets the cab the first month I had the truck. A 35 lb. Argon tank came unstrapped and slid forward at a stop and crack

That is also the second thing that bothers me about the plastic... Like an icerink. I guess that's why they have rubberized Bedliner

Just a couple of my thoughts.

It has drawbacks but I think the benifits outweigh them

 

That's kinda what you get for illegally disposing of burning waste... Just sayin

 

There were a couple of reports back the first winter after they came out that people had cracked them hauling sleds.

No pictures and it was the internet, so I'm thinking it didn't happen.

People forget that not too many years ago we did not have double-walled beds in any truck... import or domestic.

So people buy a double-walled bed (heavy) and add a drop-in liner (more weight) that abrades the paint, traps condensation, and causes the bed to rust out.

Or they scuff the shit out of the paint and apply a spray-in bedliner. Done properly, it'll last as long as paint... but when it DOES chip, now you're back to a rust problem. Not likely to be an issue other than work trucks.

My only complaint? It took a fair amount of extra work to get the Velcro mounts for my BedRug to stick properly compared to my '06 Silverado.
And with the BedRug, I was always concerned about moisture causing rust. With the Taco? What's bed rust?

 

i'm still kinda new to actually discussing trucks and truck stuff
with anyone other than my gf
who looks at me like im a loon
so apologies for redundant or questions about the dead horse
but what do you mean by "double walled bed"
ive been tryin to process it
not satisfied with what i think you mean

 

My '84 truck was doubled walled. At that time there were inserts installed/screwed from the inside to the frame of the box. In this case if something was to roll around and hit the wall the dent would not show on the outside.

 

no issues with the bed at all. Loaded up 700sqft of Sod the other week and it took it like a well paid hooker.

 

My shock mount broke while offroading a few years ago. The top of the shock went right up through the wheel well into the bed making a nice little hole. Now its just another spot for water to drain out.

 

The old domestic trucks, and old-er imports (up to the early 80s) had only a single wall bed.
If you put an engine block in the bed and it rolled into the side of the bed, the dent would appear on the outside of the bed. My '76 Datsun pickup was like that. I think the tailgate was double-walled, but it did not have a "latch"... just a couple of levers that clipped onto hooks on the sides.

Domestic trucks started going to double-walled beds in the late 60s.

 

I have had my truck for 8 years, 170,000 hard miles. I am a drywall guy who frankly abuses his truck. Not any kind of problem with the plastic bed. Period.

 

I have had a unique side job for the past thirty years. I pick up shopping carts for a couple of locale supper markets. I have owned, many trucks because I commute to work, about forty five minuets one way. I would trade in my trucks every three years, before I racked up to many miles. Anyway the side job paid for my truck, and gas. I would always have to mount a rack, to the front of the bed, bolting it down on the top rails, no problem with a steel bed. I would then install a bed liner to protect the steel. Loading the shopping carts into the truck, I could get two rows, from the cage behind the rear window, to the end of a dropped tail gate, all carts attached with bungee cords. I could fit a total of 14 or 16, 7 or 8 in each row. This would cause the shopping carts to rub up against the inner wheel wells, because the width of two shopping carts side by side would be very tight. All my steel body trucks with bed liners I never had a problem. My 2006 Tacoma 4x4 reg cab p/u which I bought new, I had worn holes in both inner wheel wells. With in two years, You could see the tires. I went back to the dealer, and the dealer, would not warranty the bed liner. I asked to see a Toyota Representative, and explained, what I bought and used, the truck for, and Toyota put a new bed, in the truck for me. This had to be installed at a body shop. I had the body shop, cut out, pieces of diamond plate, to protect the inner wheel wells. My current truck is a 2008 Toyota Tacoma 2wd, 4cyl. Auto. This truck makes the job much easier because the bed is lower to the ground. The most impressive thing about this truck, is how good it is in the snow, with rear snow tires, and no extra weight in the bed.