We know how important your truck is to you. Us truck owners, like to keep our truck clean and well maintained, making sure that we use only the best of what is available to us. When it comes to what we use in/on our truck, we can sometimes be very picky. Most of my truck buddies use very expensive products to insure that their truck will last along time as well as perform to its maximum capabilities. Several of these guys spend over nine dollars per quart of oil, and they change the trucks oil every 3000 miles, not 3001 if you know what I mean. They take there trucks to the local dealership and spend a fortune with scheduled maintenance. For instance, if the owners manual says that they should change their windshield wipers at every 25000 miles that is what they do. Not only do they change them they pay $80.00 for the OEM‘s (Original Equipment Manufacturer) version, you could buy replacement wipers from NAPA for $17.99. They also pay $120.00 for a paper air filter which they could save some dough and get a far superior K and N rechargeable air filter for less than half of the price.

The reason that I brought that up was, because they have a “spare no expense attitude” when it comes to taking care of their trucks, that is until you take a look in the bed of their truck. They took the cheap way out, most of them have the drop in plastic liners that were purchased from a local truck accessory store. I think that this is the craziest thing I have ever seen. Here is a guy that can show you every receipt for every penny he spent on his truck and he gets a bed liner that causes more damage than what it protects. I don’t know how he let the truck accessory sales guy talked him into it. I am sure it was less than the others that he was considering but it is pretty much common sense that a drop in will shift around and wear off the paint.

After seeing the drop in bed liners in there trucks I thought there has to be a way to get real truck bed protection with out permanently altering your truck with a spray on type bed liner. The Spray on bed liners really only have a shelf live of 3 years or less, and after those three years you can not take it out. Just as I started my research (that’s a fancy word for messing around on the internet), I came across a new type of bed liner it is called the Dual Liner, which you could call a hybrid bed liner because it uses a rubber floor mat and it uses plastic panels to protect the sidewalls. Both the floor mat and the sidewalls are vastly improved from its predecessors. For the Floor they use a 3/8ths inch thick (the thickest in the industry that I found) Zero Skid rubber mat. This rubber mat is very sticky so your cargo will not slide around and the mat is lifted off the truck bed by several rubber nipples strategically placed to leave room for water to drain out through the factory designed drain holes. The two draw backs of the old style rubber mat were, one they trapped water underneath the bed liner and, two they had no protection for the sidewalls. Dual Liner took care of both of those drawback of the old rubber mats. Now for the sidewalls they made these different from the old drop ins by making it 5 separate pieces that lock together. Each piece “snaps” into place and fallows the exact contour of the trucks sheet metal. This is much different than how the old drop ins fit, the drop ins do not fallow the contour of your truck which allows them to shift around while you are going down the road, This also covers up the much used cargo tie downs, so it become more difficult to secure your load with a drop in. Dual Liner addressed the draw backs of the drop ins while still giving you the use of the tie downs, without sacrificing the finish of your truck. The Dual Liner is the only bed liner on the market to offer the highest level of dent protection as well as paint protection at the same time. The Dual Liner can be taken out at any time, it truly preserves the trucks bed.  Since the average length of ownership today is 63.9 months, I think for less than $6.25 per month it is an easy decision to make. Especially if you are spending $9.00 on a quart of oil. The condition of your trucks box is now something that you can control. Wouldn’t you agree that choosing the right bed liner for your truck, would be considered maintenance? “Dual Liner, The Real Truck Bed Protection System”

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