I had to take off my plastic bed caps off my bed today to put my new ranch hand bed caps and OMG!!! I am so pissed. Those crappy plastic things scraped off the paint!!!!! Like it scraped it off really bad. I will be off to the body shop tomarow to see if they cant fix it for me. I am just supper pissed.

But the ranch hands look great on there. i just wish it would cover up all the scrapes.

sorry to hear that, lucky i had my bedliner over the rails. got any pics of the bed rails? im planning on adding there hauler series headache rack and then there bed rails and caps sometime this summer.

Tmg, do you know if the truck has had any paint work done to it in the past ?
It's uncommon for this to happen on factory/good paint.

Man, I might have to reconsider ordering bed rail caps.

Tmg, do you know if the truck has had any paint work done to it in the past ?
It's uncommon for this to happen on factory/good paint.

No i have had it since new. it was the bed rail caps just moving over 5 years and scrapped the paint off

sorry to hear that, lucky i had my bedliner over the rails. got any pics of the bed rails? im planning on adding there hauler series headache rack and then there bed rails and caps sometime this summer.

I will later next week. i am waiting for my tool bob to come back from the powder coater and for my truck to be fixed at the body shop before i take pics.

Man, I might have to reconsider ordering bed rail caps.

Just get metal ones that bolt on. stay away from cheap plastic ones that tape on.

OK, I got ya. I thought that you meant that the two-sided tape had puled the paint off.

Just think of what the plastic drop in bedliners do to the bed.

I have had good results from LineX in my bed and over the bed rails.
It's very durable.

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I had my plastic bed cap since new in 2004. 2 weeks ago i pulled it off to get spray on bedliner, and there was only very little scratching which came off with a little polishing.

Aint it nice how all that stuff made to "protect" just destroys the paint? My 2x had the drop-in liner, mud flaps at all four, and that door edge guard on it. All did their best to rub the hell outta the paint...Just bought my 4x last month with all the same crap, already painted it white and hauled the drop-in to the dump!

I have diamond plate caps have taken them off no problem. I also went back to a drop in liner. I wear line x out to fast.

Put some herc liner or linex under them. Im not a fan of herc liner but should be ok in that application.

all those caps will scratch sooner or later metal plastic etc unless they have that foam under them like a bed cover rail does

when you load stuff in the be or put weight on them they move and flex and will different from the bed rails

Ok i screwed up and forgot to take pics before it went to the body shop. but i will post pics here soon with the new rails.

just think of the future rust problems from the fender flairs vibrating and rubbing, not to mention fenders are already suseptible to rust.

just another little thing to worry about. You guys in the south have it good, with no salt in the winters, its a killer.

I had wade plastic bed rail caps on for 2 years and they did the same thing. I had a mark all the way down the bed on the outside lower edge of the plastic covers. I removed them when I had a rhino shot in the bed. I had them shoot over the rail and far enough down to cover the rub mark.

Just think of what the plastic drop in bedliners do to the bed.

Been there done that, and won't do that again. Over the rail spray on liner is the only way to go!

Anything that gets mounted on my truck or bolted to it gets the Line-X treatment. Or some type of lining.

Flares, mudflaps, bedcaps, liners, etc arent' there to protect the paint. They're there to look better scratched. You're not supposed to take them off. Same thing with a liner. Does a line-x protect the bed? It completely and totally destroys the paint with no hope for return.

My '95 has plastic caps and I see absolutely no rust at all on them. Of course they're still on the truck. If they get scratched up, broken, etc, I can replace them for $60 and they look brand new. If it was bare paint it would cost waaaay more than that to get back to new and it may or may not match.

Same thing with a drop in liner. I put one in for $100. I can throw rocks, tools, whatever in the back and if after 2-3 years it looks horrible I take it out, chunk it, and stick a new one in for $100. I'm out $200 an after 3 years it looks brand new. I'm still half the price of a spray in. And, the spray ins I've seen don't look like new after 3 years (or 5, etc).

Granted, I don't have the rust problem of someone in the northern states. I've done the bedliner replace thing before and yes, the paint is scuffed but there's certainly no rust out. That's one of the doom and gloom things you hear all the time. It certainly never happens around here.

Precisely the reason I refuse to get bedcaps or buy a pickup with them on. With the territory I drive there wouldn't be any paint left under neath of them.

If you care about looks, and I realize you may not, you won't find a drop-in that looks this nice. And with Xtra, they will all still look this good 5 years from now.:

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Thing is, that does look great, but I've never seen one look like that after any amount of time. If used at all, that is. And I don't think the drop in looks bad. It fits perfectly.

...then I suppose you've never seen LINE-X Xtra. Which is quite possible, it's rather new.

All of my trucks have had drop in liners and all of them destroyed the paint underneath. My Dmax had a liner and I couldn't stand it no more, I bought a rug liner which is easier on the knees and put a Topper on. Shouldn't have any more problems.

I'm with you, funny thing is after the bodyshop grinds and 'fixes' the paint that the caps wore off it will probably start rusting underneath the new paint :)



Flares, mudflaps, bedcaps, liners, etc arent' there to protect the paint. They're there to look better scratched. You're not supposed to take them off. Same thing with a liner. Does a line-x protect the bed? It completely and totally destroys the paint with no hope for return.

My '95 has plastic caps and I see absolutely no rust at all on them. Of course they're still on the truck. If they get scratched up, broken, etc, I can replace them for $60 and they look brand new. If it was bare paint it would cost waaaay more than that to get back to new and it may or may not match.

Same thing with a drop in liner. I put one in for $100. I can throw rocks, tools, whatever in the back and if after 2-3 years it looks horrible I take it out, chunk it, and stick a new one in for $100. I'm out $200 an after 3 years it looks brand new. I'm still half the price of a spray in. And, the spray ins I've seen don't look like new after 3 years (or 5, etc).

Granted, I don't have the rust problem of someone in the northern states. I've done the bedliner replace thing before and yes, the paint is scuffed but there's certainly no rust out. That's one of the doom and gloom things you hear all the time. It certainly never happens around here.

...then I suppose you've never seen LINE-X Xtra. Which is quite possible, it's rather new.
Then how do you know how it will look in 5 years? :D

I hate plastic parts on paint. I had a drop-in liner when I got my truck. I have never liked them b/c of rubbing of paint and things slide around to much. I took it out after a couple of days and I had dirt, hay, wood and other crap under the liner. I got a spray-in a couple of days later...I love it.

I had drop in bed liners in two of the used trucks that I have bought, my current 2005 model and a 1990 model I owned prior. Both had bare metal under the drop in liners upon removal. They apparently vibrated and moved around and wore entirely through the paint in spots in the bed and on the rails. This is totally unacceptable to me. I'll never have one in my truck bed for long.

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What about the guys that put sleds in the back of there trucks from time to time? That will WASTE any spray-in liner in one shot. I like the plastic liner for this reason only. Any other ideas? I would like Line-X again, but it gets beat by my sleds.

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What about the guys that put sleds in the back of there trucks from time to time? That will WASTE any spray-in liner in one shot. I like the plastic liner for this reason only. Any other ideas? I would like Line-X again, but it gets beat by my sleds.

in that case, I would get Line-X and when you want to move sleds, put in a mat or plastic liner.