Automotive Articles - Pickup Bed Mats -- 5 Reasons To Get One


by Al Bullington - Date: 2010-02-24 - Word Count: 464 Share This!

Pickup bed mats protect more than just truck paint. A cheap rubber or carpet mat serves several functions that may not be so clear at first. Temporary protection furnished by bed mats offers several advantages at not much cost at all. Here are reasons to look at the cheap slide in protection.

1. Temporary Is Good Permanent liners may be best for some users, but tough use may make you think otherwise. Damage a "permanent" liner and at the least you get to deal with the repair process. A liner that goes in and out easily offers advantages.

For one, if you face a messy hauling task, think of the advantage of just slipping the liner in and then slipping it out. That way you get to clean the mess outside the truck and not in it. That suggests one of the real reasons for using a temporary mat. It helps keep your truck clean as well as damage free.

2. It's Cheap, You See Many bed liners cost big money. In contrast many slip-in liners cost very little, almost nothing. Since the cost is so low, why not use the cheap mats as a sacrifice material to protect not only your pickup bed but your more expensive linings as well.

For just a small price, you get a tough liner to isolate your bed and other liner from the messiest cargo.

3. No Dent Protection Thick, tough rubber and even carpet liners put a wide layer of protection between impacts and the metal of a pickup bed. That shock absorbing layer spreads impacts out and protects from dents that cause expensive damage. That's damage you want to avoid too.

Repairing scratches is one thing. Fixing dents presents quite another and more expensive project which is better avoided if at all possible.

4. No Skid Keeping loads in place presents no problem with the right mat in place. If you want to slide loads, plastic drop in liners work well for sliding cargo on as does the original paint coating. If you want no skids, a rubber mat or even carpet mats will fill the bill.

5. No Scratch Worries Either Why not scratch a cheap pickup mat rather than the expensive truck bed paint? In fact the rubber mats soak up scrapes with no damage at all in most cases. What would produce expensive scratches on paint results in nothing at all to rubber.

Pickup bed mats, in either rubber or carpet material, make using a truck for hard hauling less painful. That's because the cheap material will soak up damage that otherwise can cost you a small fortune. Check out our newest website about the underrated option for protecting pickup beds: truck bed mats.

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