Why you Should Never Install a Plastic Bedliner in a Truck

When you first buy a brand-new pickup truck, you might be pretty excited about your purchase. After all, being able to get your hands on any new machine is a pretty exciting time. However, it probably won’t be long from there before you start to do little odds and ends that make the truck even better. One of the first things that a lot of people choose to do with their pickup truck us to install a bedliner because a raw metal bed just is begging to be dinged up and scratched and turn into rust after a while, so to protect it, bedliners are invested in.

This time, we take a look at why this owner of a Ford pickup truck decided that maybe having a plastic bedliner in the truck wasn’t that great of an idea. Now, if you had one of Ford’s newer aluminum beds, this probably wouldn’t have been an issue but the fact that it’s one of the older steel beds did cause rise for concern. As the plastic liner would sit on top of the bed and allow water to get in between, as you can imagine, the rust grew ferociously, taking what was once a solid steel bed and turning it into nothing more than the brownish red and crumbling surface that it has become.

If you follow along in the video below, you’ll be able to see all of the carnage that has accumulated in the northeast part of our country as this bedliner has taken its toll on the steel beneath it. Maybe, in some areas of the country, a bedliner like this might be a smart idea but it appears as if doing it in this area just wasn’t something that would pan out to be the best choice of aftermarket modification. Maybe, if you have a steel bed, looking into a roll on liner would be a better idea.