Spray-In Bed Liners & Bed Mats in Terrell, TX

Spray-in bed liners

A spray-in liner is sprayed straight onto the metal, so it follows every contour of the bed and seals the seams, the bolt holes and the area under the bed rails where water normally sits. Once it cures it is part of the truck. There is no gap behind it for grit and rainwater to collect, which is the failure that eventually rusts a bed out from the inside.

The surface is textured rather than slick. Loads stop sliding into the tailgate every time you brake, and you can stand in the bed in wet boots without going over. For a truck that hauls tools, feed, gravel or anything else that gets dragged across the floor, it is the finish that lasts.

Most of the job is preparation. The bed is cleaned and scuffed so the material has something to key into. Then everything you do not want coated is masked off: the rails, the lights and the tailgate gap. A bed sprayed over old rust or a dirty surface will lift at the edges within a year. That is why the prep takes longer than the spraying.

Bed mats

A bed mat covers the floor and nothing else. The sides and bed rails stay as they are. It lies loose, comes out in one piece when you want the bed back, and there is nothing to bolt down or cure before you load the truck. It is the cheaper way into bed protection, and it goes in the same day.

What it is good at is the floor. It stops cargo sliding, it takes the dent out of anything dropped in, and the carpeted kind is quiet — no drumming from a toolbox or a spare wheel rolling about. What it does not do is protect the bed sides or seal the seams, so on a truck that is working hard it is a floor solution rather than a rust one.

It suits a truck that hauls occasionally, or one that already has a cover keeping the weather off and only needs the floor looking after. Plenty of people run a mat for a few years and spray the bed later.

Which one is right for your truck

If the truck works for a living and you intend to keep it, spray it. A sprayed liner is the only one of the two that seals the bed sides, seams and bolt holes. Those are where rust actually starts, not the middle of the floor. It is done once, and you stop thinking about it.

A mat is the answer when the floor is the problem and the rest of the bed is sound. That could be a truck that hauls on weekends, a lease you are handing back or a bed you want returned to bare metal later. It costs less, goes in while you wait, and does not stop you spraying the bed further down the road.

Either way, tell us the year, make and model along with the bed length. A short bed and an eight-foot bed are different amounts of material and different amounts of time, and that is most of what moves the price.

What the day looks like

Bring the truck in with the bed empty. We will look at it with you before anything starts. If there is existing rust or an old liner to come out, that changes the time. We would rather tell you at the counter than over the phone afterward. A sprayed liner is a leave-it-with-us job because the prep and cure take most of the time. A mat goes in while you wait.

A lined bed pairs with the two things most people add next. A tonneau cover keeps the weather off what you are hauling and keeps it out of sight, and a cross-bed tool box gets the tools off the floor so the liner is doing its job on cargo instead of shifting steel. If you are tying loads down, bed rails give you something to hook to that is not the sheet metal.

We are at 607 E Moore Ave in Terrell, open Monday to Friday. Call the shop on (972) 563-0113 or send the truck details below.