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Everybody wants an expensive, spray on bed liner. Well, almost everybody… A pickup bed mat makes a lot more sense for the way lots of people use a truck. Check out these 7 ways the cheap mats beat the big dollar mats…

1. No dents.

Yeah high dollar liners are thick and tough, but not as tough as a good, cheap rubber liner. Even a carpet liner soaks up the pounding as good as a big buck liner, maybe better.

2. Cheap.

Who wants to spends hundreds of dollars on a bed liner? What are you going to do? Put a bed liner over the bed liner to protect the bed liner? Give me a bed mat that looks good, works well and it’s CHEAP. Continue reading ‘Pickup Bed Mat — 7 Ways It Beats A Spray On Bed Liner’ »

A truck bed mat works in two ways to protect your truck. Used alone it’s one of the tougher bed liner choices. But it’s also a sensible way to protect a more expensive liner. Here’s why it’s the best protection.

Sure a spray on bed liner looks like the perfect finish for your pickup bed. No doubt a spray on liner is tough as well as good looking. After all, in many cases the spray on liner is even guaranteed for life.

It isn’t guaranteed that it won’t be damaged. It’s just guaranteed that it will be repaired. Until it is repaired, you’re driving around with a damaged liner. Who needs that?

That’s where truck bed mats enter the picture.

You have two types of mats you can use… There are rubber mats and carpet mats. Either is tough and can stand much use, but each is a bit better for certain uses. Continue reading ‘Truck Bed Mat — Bed And Liner Protection’ »

A truck bed mat works in two ways to protect your truck. Used alone it’s one of the tougher bed liner choices. But it’s also a sensible way to protect a more expensive liner. Here’s why it’s the best protection.

Sure a spray on bed liner looks like the perfect finish for your pickup bed. No doubt a spray on liner is tough as well as good looking. After all, in many cases the spray on liner is even guaranteed for life.

It isn’t guaranteed that it won’t be damaged. It’s just guaranteed that it will be repaired. Until it is repaired, you’re driving around with a damaged liner. Who needs that?

That’s where truck bed mats enter the picture. Continue reading ‘Truck Bed Mat — Bed And Liner Protection’ »

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Truck bed mat protection comes cheap. Spray on bed liners protect trucks and look good doing it. That protection comes at a high price though. Here’s where the lowly bed mat actually may be better for you…

Nothing beats rubber bed mats for shock absorbing. That means that you’ll likely get no dents under a mat, even though you’re doing heavy hauling. Remember though that mats won’t protect fender wells or sides of the bed.

Preventing dents is so important because dents are tough to fix. It’s easy enough to repair scratches with a little paint. Dents are an entirely different matter. It’s better to prevent dents than fix them. Here’s another thing…

You can prevent bed scratches under mats. These things are almost impossible to destroy. Now spray on liners and plastic liners both excel at preventing scratches to the bed. That doesn’t mean though that you can’t scratch the liners. They both scratch and stay that way, at least until they are repaired. Think about this too… Continue reading ‘Truck Bed Mat — The Best Liner?’ »