My first time 2006 bed liners

I just bought a 2006 Toyota Tundra SR5 TRD 4 door, it has a plastic liner in the bed did it come from the factory? Can I jerk that puppy out spray a liner in or does that plastic after stay if it was factory?

 

It is factory and often hides surprises underneath. Pull that bad boy out and go get your bed lined!

 

I agree. Bro, its your truck. You yank that sucker out get your bed lined and keep on trucking.

 

Welcome from NY.

Spray liner is so much better.

 

If you go to the below Toyota web site and input your VIN #, you can see the specs of what came with your truck. This will include an entry similar to the below entry of whether the liner came from factory or was Port installed if interested !

Vehicle Specification | Toyota Owners

 

Definitely important to clean underneath every so often. I just got a tonneau cover and am hoping that helps keep it clean between the bed and cover. Spray in lining isn’t cheap unless you do it yourself, so I’m holding onto the liner for a little while.

 

You can do anything you technically want, it's a standard bed underneath the liner on a 1st Gen, unlike some newer Tacos which have plastic bed. I left my plastic liner in and intend to leave it that way, I'll only share why in case it's food for thought.

I've done spray-in liner various brands over the years (at this point only Rhino, Line-X, Bullet) in beds of trucks and some utility vehicles. I've had mixed results, I assume a lot of it has to do with two things, one is what you use your truck for, the other is initial prep by the shop I've always used whichever comes in cheapest.

I'd say I'm about 60/40 with various brands where 40% of liner jobs I've had done have a failure of some level, either water gets under or behind the liner, the liner separates or perforates with time, sun, or use.

In one case with a mid-90s GM pickup, the passenger side bed drain wasn't properly prepped and sprayed, leaving something exposed, and the bed rotted out from under the liner. I found out when my foot went straight through the bed floor while washing the truck. I've lived in the southern US nearly my whole life, not in the rust belt, and that truck was a southern truck that hadn't been within 100 miles of a beach or salted road its whole life.

I use my truck as a landscape truck and hauler more than anything. I think usage dictates life span. Hauling stone, mulch, fill dirt, sod for work, hauling kayaks and bikes for fun. I'm always shoveling stuff out of my trucks. Plastic liners work a hell of a lot better for that stuff, knowing you've got to replace them periodically and it's a 15min job. You can't avoid nicks and wear caused by the friction of a flathead shovel across a spray-on liner dozens of times per month. Plastic liners seem to handle it better and are swappable.

I guess all this is to say: I haven't tried every brand, I have no experience with Raptor for example, which I hear is superior, nor DIY at-home liners. I'd proceed with caution and think it through. Powdercoat has the same flaws: Water can get under coating, and if it does, it often has no way out and you're screwed.

 

I just took my old bed liner out and put on the raptor roll on, i really really like it, just make sure if you do the roll on that you take your time getting that bed liner to stick in every nook and cranny of the end, its sooooooooooo sticky!

Dave

 

Taking it out also means it isn’t rattling at every little bump when you’ve got your rear window down. That was my biggest complaint.

 

Liner for me . . . When I do some demo on jobs, I fill 5 gallon buckets to the top with tile, mortar, cement chunks etc. . I just put them in the bed and a quick shove ant they slide all the way to the front . . . Boom, done. I'll fill the whole bed and some times double-stacking them. Once I was lazy and got to the dump . . . I lowered the tailgate, put it in reverse, gave it some gas and hit the brakes . . . they all slid out ! LOL. Can't do that with a spray-in. I've had mortar spill. thin-set, grout, cement slurry spill and dry, and taken a mallet, smashed it, sprayed-out with a power nozzle and good to go. Shoots, I've even put some muriatic acid in a spray bottle and gave it coating to get the cement residue out.

All that being said, I WISH I could have a spray-in, but it'd be thrashed in a matter of months. The thing I hate most about the liner is it's murder on the knees crawling around back there.

 

My rattling and thumping stopped when I slid a slightly-oversized 2x4 in the two divider slots provided in front of and behind the wheel wells. Hard to explain, but I reckon you may know what I'm talking about? Looks like those slots in the liner support 2x4 or 2x6 or maybe larger. Having boards across there push the liner to the wall and provide a little extra weight on the liner itself.

This is ultimately my take also, and yes murder on knees and sucks to clean when you need to. But very easy to pop out once or twice a year and clean under it when necessary.

I mean, being able to support and divide loads without tiedowns is a plus too, but being able to totally replace the liner if something catastrophic happens, that's also a big plus. Dealership still sells Toyota liners for our trucks, I think it's $240 shipped for a replacement if I order online and pickup at my local dealership.

 

Anyone who needs a double cab bed liner hit me up

 

Thanks that was and will be very useful!

 

rather old topic, but im w/school of Toyota [or generic] plastic liner; nearly impossible to damage with even heavy tools, hardware and const debris.
My only gripe about the plastic liners [as well as hard on the knees] is that they can be 'Slick-as-snot' on vibram bottom shoes/boots...i've considered using a rubber matt overlay for traction [or just switch to flat rubber soles]. Seems cray that I have to cover my bed liner to not fall on my ass!

 

Agreed....the bed liner can absorb the knicks and dings of equipment in a way that spray in liner cannot.
I just recently lifted up the tailgate side of the bed liner to get a good look underneath. It seemed fine but I'm going to spray Fluid Film under there for rust protection.