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3 potential problems with FMJ: 1. It's 100% polyurea, it will be hard as a freaking rock! A better choice is a bedliner that's a hybrid polurethane/polyurea. 2. Their product is aromatic meaning it will be black and shiney when new. But, in 3 to 4 months, it will lose its gloss and then in about a year or soe, it will have begun to fade to gray. 3. They don't offer a NATIONWIDE lifetime warranty. Risk there is that if you have a problem and your dealer goes out of business, you have no warranty.

OK, you folks are gonna hammer me for some of this, but here it goes. Bedrug is a good product, but I think it looks sort of...sissy for a truck.

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Nice pics! Superliner, Speedliner, Scorpian are all solvent based polyureas. They are similiar to marine paint. You mix resin with activator and then brush it on, roll it on, or use a hopper gun. All three products require a primer to be applied first so that the bedliner product will stick to the bed. Superliner was started by ex-Speedliner employees. All three take an hour or two to dry and about 72 hours to cure. Since they are more like a paint, they will hold their color, but they do lose their gloss. Even Speedliner's website states that after 2,000 hours (that's less than 3 months), the liner can lose up to 20% of it's gloss. I'm not bad mouthing any of these products, that's just the way it is. LINE-X (and Rhino) do not contain solvents and do not require a primer. LINE-X dries in 4 seconds and cures within 24 hours. There is one HUGE problem with Superliner, Speedliner, and Scorpian. Since they contain solvents, dealers MUST be in an OSHA approved spraybooth. These spraybooths are very expensive, cost prohibitive for most dealers, and most dealers do not have one. OSHA is currently VERY active in Texas and they are visiting a lot of bedliner dealers. Last summer, they shut down the Speedliner dealer in Arlington, Texas. BTW, the solvent in Speedliner is ethyl acetate. EA is EXTREMELY dangerous, its vapors are literally explosive. Not only do bedliner dealers have to comply with OSHA, but there are also State and local laws regarding solvents. For example, in Texas, you cannot spray more than two gallons of solvent per week without being in an approved OSHA spraybooth. One truck gets about 4.5 gallons of bedliner product. I think it's just a matter of time before these types of bedliner products will be forced out of the market.

Good questions and I don't mind answering them. 1. Spray-on bedliners have been evolving since the early 1980's. Generally, these are the types on the market: 100% polyurethane, 100% polyurea, blend of polyurethane and polyurea, and solvent based polyureas. In the last year or so, there has been a move by many companies to the blends. For example, Rhino and Toff, who used to only be 100% polyurethane, now use blends. The reason is because both polyurethane and polyurea give the liner desirable properties and thus tend to be the best product for spray-on bedliners. (I can go in to that deeper if you wish.) So, blends are currently the industry's preference. 2. The number one complaint of spray-on bedliners is fading. Some companies have offered UV resistant topcoats but none have been durable enough to withstand the use of a truck's bed. LINE-X approached Dupont and they both spent over two years formulating the Xtra product. Xtra actually achieves a mechanical bond (unlike the other products on the market) and IS durable enough for a truck bed. Xtra is a one-time application, is maintenance free, and no other brand has a product like it. So, why do regular bedliners fade anyway. Well, that's because they are made of aromatic (not UV resistant) chemicals instead of aliphatic chemicals (is UV resistant). Aliphatic chemicals are very expensive and more difficult to work with. Aliphatic bedliners would be too expensive. Keep in mind that these bediner products are used for a lot of other things other than bedliners. UV resistance is not always necessary. 3. The answer is basically the same as number 1. As companies are switching to blends, they are also switching to a heat/high pressure application system. 4. The LINE-X warranty can be viewed at www.goline-x.com. The warranty does not cover abuse, such as if you wreck your truck including the bed, LINE-X will not install a new free bedliner. I think you see the point. LINE-X was the first and still is the ONLY franchised bedliner company to offer this sort of warranty. ReNew: I don't know a lot about the product now, I will know a lot more after February 15. However, I do know that ReNew will not be necessary for LINE-X Xtra bedliners. If you have any other questions, fire away! LINE-X Xtra color match: No more rock chips!

With LINE-X: 1. It's a preferred blend of polyurethane and polyurea and does not contain any solvents (Superliner, Speedliner, Scorpian, and Herculiner are solvent based). 2. If you get the optional LINE-X Xtra product, it will resist fading and loss of gloss, will be more scratch and stain resistant, and will contain a Dupont Kevlar micropulp for extreme durability. Xtra is available in black or for color matching. BTW, Xtra is made by Dupont only for LINE-X and no other bedliner has a product like it. 3. The application process uses the preferred heat/high pressure system. 4. You will receive a written limited lifetime warranty that is valid nationwide. For those who already have a spray-on bedliner: If it's faded and not looking so good, LINE-X will soon have a new product called ReNew that is a PATENTED method of renewing nasty looking bedliners, ANY brand. The ReNew process includes the use of LINE-X Xtra.

I sell Zaino (to walk-ins only, not through the web.) This is a minumum job: Z-AIO, then Z-CS However, this is what most folks are doing: Z-AIO, then Z-CS, then Z8 But, some are doing more: Z-AIO, Z2, Z6, Z-CS, Z8