detansinn
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Our F150 Lightning arrived yesterday after months of transit hold delay. We didn't waste anytime installing the Dualliner bedliner.
Why the Dualliner? We very much intend to use the Lightning as a suburban truck carrying furniture, bikes, motorcycles, towing a small boat, spousal errands, etc. I didn't bother to spec any kind of bed lining at the time of the order, because I like a short option sheet. So, I knew that I needed to do something.
Spray in bedliners don't do anything to prevent dents and can be abrasive for some types of cargo. Drop in plastic bedliners result in unsecured cargo sliding around and make compromises for fitment. For our use and anticipated cargo, the Dualliner seemed like the best solution, because it protects the sides from scratches and dents while the rubber mat protects the bed floor and keeps things from sliding around.
Installation Impressions
Other thoughts
Why the Dualliner? We very much intend to use the Lightning as a suburban truck carrying furniture, bikes, motorcycles, towing a small boat, spousal errands, etc. I didn't bother to spec any kind of bed lining at the time of the order, because I like a short option sheet. So, I knew that I needed to do something.
Spray in bedliners don't do anything to prevent dents and can be abrasive for some types of cargo. Drop in plastic bedliners result in unsecured cargo sliding around and make compromises for fitment. For our use and anticipated cargo, the Dualliner seemed like the best solution, because it protects the sides from scratches and dents while the rubber mat protects the bed floor and keeps things from sliding around.
Installation Impressions
- Between boxlink and the standard anchors, you've got 32 machine T30 Torx machine bolts to remove and reinstall. We did them by hand with ratchets and wow, that approach took a long time, but we didn't strip anything.
- Once that hardware was removed, the side pieces snapped in quite snugly. It took a little finagling to get the sides under the plastic bed rails, but the resulting fitment was quite excellent.
- The fitment got even better as we reinstalled the hardware (again, the 32 bolts). It was at this point that it really started looking legit great. We did this part out of order with the video and instructions which suggest that you do this last, but we found it easier to make sure that the hardware bolt holes lined up without the heavy rubber bed floor liner in place.
- That rubber bed floor liner mat is heavy and quite convincing. It's also a very snug fit. It hilariously ripped a whole finger off of my nitrile gloves... twice. Watch your finger tips between the heavy mat and those channels.
Other thoughts
- While I think that this type of bedliner is perfect for our use, I wouldn't use it for mulch, sand, and other messy loads. Compared to a plastic drop in liner, you've got a long groove channel around the perimeter of the bed floor, which will likely catch/collect messy loads.
- The video on their website, while helpful makes this install look much easier than it is in practice. Installation is by no means difficult, but we laughed at the ease she tosses in the bed floor mat.
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