bedliners for 73-87 swb discontinued?

[TKCR]

A good place to check, is junkyards & pic-n-pulls. I have seen several while picking parts in the yards.

[Factory Guy]

Not to start a war with anybody about bed liners...

Here is my 2 cents worth. If you want to try and protect the bed from denting the hard plastic ones will give you the best protection. Will they protect it from everything? In a word no.

If you want rust to form under the bed-liner get a hard plastic one as the bed liner will MOVE and chaff the paint causing the paint to wear off and a slight amount of moisture from condensation will cause it to rust. More cases of rust then not.

Spray in if prepped properly should not grow rust underneath.

Spray in has a tendency to fade over time.

Spray in IMO does little to protect the metal in the truck bed from damage.

[TKCR]

Originally Posted by Factory Guy

Not to start a war with anybody about bed liners...

Here is my 2 cents worth. If you want to try and protect the bed from denting the hard plastic ones will give you the best protection. Will they protect it from everything? In a word no.

If you want rust to form under the bed-liner get a hard plastic one as the bed liner will MOVE and chaff the paint causing the paint to wear off and a slight amount of moisture from condensation will cause it to rust. More cases of rust then not.

Spray in if prepped properly should not grow rust underneath.

Spray in has a tendency to fade over time.

Spray in IMO does little to protect the metal in the truck bed from damage.

I have had them all, and each one has their pros & cons. I have had the hard bed liner, and it did scuff the paint. It never did rust, because almost every year, I took the bed line out and cleaned underneath the liner. And I made sure all my drain holes were clear.
Then I moved on to the spray in. Loved it. It was for my GMC Sonoma back in the day. It was a 2 tone Sea Foam Green, with the secondary color of grey on the bottom. I had the spray in bed liner color matched to the grey.
Present day:
My 86 C10 has a carpet bed liner. Bottom and up the side of the bed walls. But Big Red gets pampered these days. I don’t haul anything damaging.
My 2006 Chevy Colorado, when I bought it used, already had the spray in bed liner. I wanted to get a Bed Rug, but a full cover rug was no longer available, so I just got the Bed Rug mat and tailgate mat. It sure is nice on the ole knees. I do have a cap on the Colorado, so the bed doesn’t get wet. I do haul a lot of seat cores, so it does get dirty, but it can easily be taken out a cleaned.
I used a stock photo from bed rug.com. I don’t have a photo of mine. But I have had it for several years now and it has held up very well.

[RUN GMC]

Originally Posted by bigarmzz

i went to the local 4x4 parts dealer around here to buy a bedliner (under the rail) for my 86 swb, he called me a day later and said that they arent making them anymore?

so i called summit, they said basically the same thing

what the he**?

anyone else run into this problem?

is there anywhere to buy one on the web? (shipping would prob be nuts )

Try here..........

https://www.carid.com/1987-chevy-ck-...d-mats-liners/

[Scott91370]

Well hello 14 year old thread...

[Bloodhound]

Originally Posted by Scott91370

Well hello 14 year old thread...

The timing was great. Looking for one myself and didn't know anyone was making new ones.