First off, you'd be surprised what a spray in bed liner can handle. I've tossed engines and engine parts into the bed of mine, transmissions, gardening tools, engine hoists, bricks, scrap wood with nails hanging out everywhere, mulch, sand bags, propane tanks, you name it. After 8 years of ownership my F150's bed looked the same as the day the spray was applied once I washed it. The finish also prevents things from sliding around and denting the bed walls. While it doesn't make the bed impervious to dents, it does improve dent resistance. It also resists corrosion.


You are kidding yourself if you don't think a scratched up, hammered mess of a finish in the bed doesn't effect resale value. Virtually every scratch, dent, stain, or anything else does. Usually none of these things individually effect it too bad, but it effects the total impression the dealer has of the vehicle and how it was cared for.


The cost of the spray in liner is nothing compared to the cost of these trucks. There is simply no reason not to do it and every reason to get one. Try it and you'll be convinced.

 

Keep the stock rims and just put some bigger tires and spacers when you get the fender flares also crank the tears to make it level. This will make a big difference

 

Protect it from what ? Lol I don't have either

 

I heard nevr go beyond 1.5" ?

 

I nevr got low balled on a trade cause of the inside of the bed, if the sales guy said sumthing I'd laugh and go to the nxt dealer !

 

I agree with the spray in bed liner are really tough and guys really do look at the bed when they buy a truck because that's how you can tell how it's been treated

 

Keeping the stock rims and adding spacers is one way to go. Personally I dislike most of the factory wheels, but that's just me. I like the 20" sport wheels and that's it.

To protect the bed from dents, scratches and corrosion due to actually using it. Spray in bed liners will improve resale value. Take it from the guy who's had a dozen trucks now.

You may have heard that, but this topic has been beaten to death on the forums. The general consensus is that your mileage may vary. From what I've found on this forum, it seems that 2.5" is pushing your luck and 3" leveling kits will lead to increased component wear. 2" and less should be fine.

Do what you want. I guarantee that a bed that isn't dented or scratched to hell will lead to a higher trade in value. I knew a guy with a scratched up bed who got low balled on his trade. He came back to the same dealership two weeks later with a drop in plastic bed liner and got more for his trade. They came up nearly a grand. This may have been for other reasons, but I've always received the high side of trade-in value by taking care of my vehicles. Part of doing that is keeping the bed looking nice inside and out.


Having shopped for used vehicles, I'd pass on a truck that's got a scratched up bed. Even if everything else looks good, it tells me that the previous owner didn't care enough about the truck to spend a few hundred bucks on a bed liner. If he wasn't willing to do that, what else was done I wouldn't have approved of? What may have been neglected? That tells me that it isn't a vehicle I want to own.

The damage resistance the spray in bed liners have is a lot more than people realize. The material is somewhat rubbery and when applied in thick enough amounts it does provide some shock dampening. It provides scratch resistance in several ways. Not only is the material durable by nature, but it keeps things from sliding around which prevents dings and scratches as well.


There are all kinds of videos out there of truck beds with liners being subjected to all kinds of crazy things. Seeing is believing.

I'm usually the first one who wants to rail on white trucks. I refer to most white trucks on this forum as "work truck white" for that reason. Having said that the OP's truck has two tone paint and the chrome package. Both things go a long way to making it look like a premium trim level and not some fleet piece of crap.

Relax, when you post pictures of your ride on a public forum accepting some flak is part of the deal. Anyone who doesn't get that should punch the eject button now and stop posting. I agree that its a dick move, but in countries where free speech is valued, you take the good with the bad because it's worth it in the end. To be perfectly honest I'm surprised people are as nice on this forum as they are.


There is no reason for anyone to get butt hurt over someone else's opinions. Least of all, about the way their car or truck looks.

 

Get it painted black.

 

Lack of a spray in bed liner on a scratched up bed would seem to be a $600 loss during trade in as the dealer has to do it to sell it. The next owner gets a fresh bed paint job, so win/win situation.

IMHO, I would devaluate a used truck with a spray in bedliner, as I assume it has been abused and not been babied. Or it was painted to cover up the abuse. YMMV

 

Huh so I wonder if somebody leases a pick up and keeps it up but doesnt have a Bedliner or spray in, does the dealer tell him when he has to turn it in that he must pay cause the bed is dented or scratched ? I doubt it !!!