bed liner

I can't help with the cover but if you're going to use it as a truck I'd go for a spray on liner. The drop in liners are slippery as hell and rub against the bed rubbing the paint off, in spots leaving shiny metal. I haven't seen anyone use a drop in liner in years ( I installed hundreds of them in the 90's). I sell the Raptor spray in liner from UPOL that you or a bodyshop could do, they are tough but not as thick as the ones specialty bed liner shops spray in at around 300 degrees.

I would stay away from a water based polyurathane paint on liner if you do it yourself ,I did not have good luck with it and it was a valspar(ppg) product to.

I used a spray on liner material from Bondo and it became brittle way too soon in our high UV and ozone climate.  For down here, drop in is better, I think.

” I would stay away from a water based polyurathane paint on liner if you do it yourself ,I did not have good luck with it and it was a valspar(ppg) product to.”

You need to use a two component (catalyzed) solvent based product at a minimum.

Just to be clear, Valspar and PPG are two separate companies. Interesting fact: Valspar opened for business two years after George Washington died, making it the oldest US paint company, and one of the oldest in the world.

The bedliners I sell are all solvent based urethane's. The best ones are polyurea and polyurethane hot sprayed coatings. Google polyurea and you'll see what I mean. As I said, if you have a spray-on bedliner shop in your area where application of these products is their main business, these are the best way to go. They make a good permanent cistern liner too.

Hi Guys,  I used that stuff called Herculiner and it actually worked very well.  It is holding up good as well.  

Cheers….

Even though I dislike the Robertsons, I have the LINE-X on my bed. It is tough as nails. I have slid thousand pound pallets on it and no damage, just scratches.

It is not DIY.

http://www.linex.com/

I stand corrected it has been a couple of years since I seen that can and I mistakenly thought that I remembered seeing ppg as the parent company of valspar.oops

Nope, ppg is the evil empire

I do like the evil empires porter paint