HERCULINER HCL1B8 Roll-on Bed Liner Kit,Black, 1 Gal.

This worked great and saved a ton of money. Not sure what paying a company to spray your bed goes for but i know at least $1,000 like 10 years ago. Probably double that today. Block out an entire day, wake up early, have lots of rubber gloves, knee pads, sanding gloves (harder tip protection), acetone bottle and some extra rollers, paint trays and brushes cant hurt. I used what came with the can, the sand paper, rollers and brushes and it turned out great but the paint brush and rollers hardened after the first coat. Was able to get 2 coats with one can and had a little left over. They make a spray on bed liner than you can use for touch ups over the years or to get spots you may have missed or better straight lines. My only issues were caused by my impatience, not taping off properly and not anticipating the drips. Even though it is thick, its runny when you first opem the can. If i could go back and do it again, i would have used a wooden spoon or cheap long instrument to scoop the thick grit from the bottom of the can and mixed it in the tray with the rest that i poured out. On my last coating it thickened up substantially with a lot more grit than it initially had. First layer was more clear and runny black like water color paint in some spots but as it dried i went back over it, prior to doing the 2nd coat. I lathered this stuff on THICK as well. However, i have a 2024 Colorado with a 5ft x 5ft bed. Use that info to help you plan better for your ride, maybe youll need a spray can to help you finish out or buy another can. All in all, great product. Cheap and reliable so far. No chipping or cracking and it looks great (when its cleaned😂) i’ve been camping several times, turned the back into a pool on the 4th of July and hauled a ton of furniture, wood and a few dump runs and just took the photos after all that. It looks pristine when its cleaned. Everyone has said it looks professionally done

Super great! I’m so happy with it! Looks great, amazing texture and thickness, it adheres extremely strong! I haven’t had any scratches or issues with it either. The texture is very grippy too. My advice! 1. Prep really well, I sanded everything, blew out the debris with a blower and cleaned everything with purple degreaser and then acetone. This step is extremely necessary. 2. Next I opened the can, which was completely normal, not sure why people struggled just remove the clips and use a flathead screw driver. Don’t shake the can, you need to mix it with a paint mixer attachment 3. I found that the rollers broke very easily, so after they broke, I just used the paint brush it came with and I had much better results. I did each layer a day apart due to work, and I did 2 layers. It laid very thick and nice with the brush, and I was able to cover every inch in my Chevy s10 long bed. This bed is about 90 inches or so and i still had some product remaining after a generous thick coat

Considering I was drinking it came out really good. After the first coat I questioned my decision. It comes together after the second coat. Well worth the money.

I've always wanted to do this for my F150, but never had a chance. I've been looking at Rhino as well as Line-X for years, but I wouldn't hand over my truck for a day, since I'm using it all day long, besides, those products are not DIY, nor are they cheap. I just picked up a 95 Jeep Wrangler and it was the perfect opportunity to do this bed-liner. Once it is done, I can use the Jeep and strip down the F150, so this was my test-bed. I'm a heavy DIY guy and I love doing things myself, mostly because I don't trust shops to actually do the job right, well, or up to my standards. I am also a "spray" guy and love to spray everything because from experience, spraying produces much more even layering as well as the added benefit of hitting those really hard to hit areas. Well, first of all, the package was actually very well thought out. The kit comes with a gallon of liner, a scuff pad, a paint brush, a 4" roller handle, and two texture rollers. Granted, I found little use for the paint brush, except to slather off the liner from my stir stick. It does little good for the actual paint-job. The scuff pad - well, most reviewers who give this product a positive review say that this one scuff pad (about 6" square) is enough and all you need. I actually would disagree, but my philosophy is, this liner kit costs roughly $100, will probably take about 1/2 day to do (once you've emptied, stripped and cleaned your vehicle (which would be another 1/2 day to a day, if you had nothing better to do), you should do the job right and do it well. I do lots of powder-coating in my shop and that stuff if HARD to remove. So, if you were to screw this bed-liner up, it will be even HARDER to remove and do again, so spend the extra time to do it right. If Amazon will allow me to upload pictures, I'll upload what I did. In total, it probably took me about 4 hours to remove everything; seats, carpet, roll cage, hooks, screws... you name it. Then it took me 4 nights to not just scrub but strip the paint off to bare steel, with little paint left in the tight corners that my 4" grinder, 6" DA sander and 2" abrasive surfacer couldn't reach. I would say, the interior was about 99.5% stripped to the metal. A 6" square scuff pad wouldn't be able to do that. I went through about 10 6" 40-grit sanding pads, and about 10 2 inch abrasive pads. Once that was all done, I had to mop the interior - twice. Then with the towels. Once I was fairly satisfied, I went over with alcohol. I should have went with acetone, but I didn't have any handy. On to the liner. I still wanted to spray the liner, since I also purchased, the Astro undercoat gun, but never used it. I'll probably use it when I'm ready to coat the underbelly of the Jeep, but that's another day. I tried rolling the tail gate and it came out NICE! Of course, you have to stir the liner in the can to mix up the rubber bits that are all sitting at the bottom. The first coat seems to go on really thin, and I was a bit worried that I had made a mistake, not with rolling but with the Herculiner product. It did look nice though, but you could see some bare metal in some spots, especially tight corners. This was done early Friday evening, so I was able to get the first coat down before the wife called for dinner. After dinner, I went back to the shop to apply the second coat. This was about 1-1/2 hours later and the paint was still tacky in some areas. It still looked nice. I COULD have walked away and called it good, but like I said, it felt a little thin and you could see metal in some tight corners, so I started to apply the second coat. This is why they supply two rollers, since the first would probably dry up and become unusable after you come back for the second coat. The second coat goes on quite thick, maybe 3-4 times thicker than the first coat. I actually like the texture of the first coat better than the second, but the "more texture" look from the second coat is growing on me. It is now Sunday and I've mounted the driver's seat, sat in the chair, dusted up the liner, my 4 year old has been climbing in and jumping out the back, dusting up the rest of the Jeep and it seems to be taking a beating. So far, so good. With the stripping and prepping job that I did on the box, if this liner starts to peel, I'll either say I did it wrong and you need the paint under-coat, or the product is no good. But I've got this stuff all over the shop floor (Jeep floor has drainage holes and I didn't realize it was going to drip through), I'm not sure how I'm going to get that stuff off. I've also got some one my hands, fingers and arms and it's just starting to come off... so don't get any on ya. I wore nitrile gloves, and this liner gets everywhere because you really need to spin the roller to get the liquid all over it, so you will get it on your gloves/fingers, which in turn will get all over YOU. Now, I can't give it a 5-star because I was expecting this to be 'softer', like Rhino. I was led to believe it would be softer because the texture bits are pieces of ground up rubber tires so you would think it's softer and has some give. I think this is some sort of 1-part urethane resin or something, which cures HARD, regardless of the rubber bits within. So, although this stuff is tough, it will rough you up if you fall into it. Oh, I only used about 3/4 of the product so I will probably save it to do under the hood or inside of the fenders. It also looks so good that... get this... even my wife and 16yo daughter love the look of it. So, this stuff is awesome, looks awesome and REALLY easy to do... even without spraying! ------------------------------- -- UPDATE -- ------------------------------- It's now 9/23/2013, obviously it's still holding up but I wanted to mention that I had 3/4 gallon left and I wanted to do the underbelly and/or fenders and/or the roof of the hood. So I removed the hood off the Jeep and I went to town on it with the 6" DA. I didn't go down to the metal like I did the cabin, so we'll see how this holds up, especially with the addition of engine heat. I just applied the first coat so this is fresh in my mind. I'm still planning on doing two coats for the hood and we'll see how the second coat goes. What I wanted to mention is this, if you still have some of the Herculiner left, go buy some texture rollers right away, because when you're ready to coat something else, you won't have the correct rollers and like me, I had some (12") wall texture rollers laying around that I didn't want to go to waste so I cut them in half and started to paint. First of all, the fabric shredded in a weird way that makes it awkward to roll, but that's not the point. These are the fuzzy texture rollers and they leave splotches of rubber bits where you first touch down. Then you start spreading the resin around... mostly without the rubber bits so it's completely uneven. I'm not going to bother getting new texture rollers since I'm hoping this stuff will help deaden some engine noise, nothing more. This doesn't affect my rating on the product at all, just a tip for all you guys planning on using this product.

I put off applying this to my truck, because as others have mentioned, I thought I must be mad to be scuffing my 40K truck to save a few hundred dollars. The truth is my truck originally came with a drop-in liner which I hated, and I really wanted to replace it with something that protected the truck as much as it protected the contents. So there is a video on Herculiner's website that talks about the three easy steps. Let me say that in my case, it wasn't three steps and it wasn't easy. I feel like to do a good job, this application really requires some elbow grease and time. As you can see in my photos, I am extremely happy with the results. Except for a couple of spots where the liner pooled or ran a little, I wouldn't change a thing with the results. However, the installation video and instructions do miss the point a few times. Let me address those: The video and the included scuff pad, insinuate that the scuffing part of the job is a quick, almost trivial step. It is not! It is probably the most important step. I knew that one little scuff pad wasn't going to be enough, and I wasn't brave enough to use an orbital sander or any kind of sandpaper. So I bought a box of 3M Scotch Brite Scuff Pads (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MBPTH56/), and promptly went through all of them and the included little one in the process. I didn't get down to the primer or anything like that, but I made sure that all surfaces, especially near the back edge, the tail-gate, and the wheel-wells were properly scuffed up. I didn't wash it with soap and water because I didn't have time to wait for it to completely dry. So I blew off all of the paint dust off with an air-hose, wiped it down with rubbing alcohol, and then cleaned it twice with acetone. With humidity in the 70% range and temperature in the 80s, the liner was still very tacky after 4-5 hours, so I let it sit overnight in the garage and applied the 2nd coat after about 14-16 hours. Here is where my installation tips become really important. WEAR A RESPIRATOR! I thought that because I was applying it outside on a breezy day, everything would be OK. Boy was I wrong! That is some strong stuff, and I did not hesitate to wear a proper respirator the next morning with the adequate Vapor Cartridge Filters (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XBKLLE/). The first coat went on in about 2 hours, and the second coat a little faster. But I definitely felt better after the second coat during which I wore the respirator. Don't make the same mistake I made. Other than the respirator, the other thing you'll probably need is a quality texture roller. I had no issues with the roller on the first coat, but when applying the second coat the plastic roller (the second one included in the kit) began to fall apart almost immediately. It was a pain and a mess having to stop and remove the little bits of plastic that were being left behind by the roller. MY guess is that the very nature of the liner, which is rough and textured, makes the roller disintegrate in the process, which is why the first coat had no issues. So, before you start and have to run to Lowe's or Home Depot mid-project, get yourself something like this roller (https://www.amazon.com/Linzer-RC-119-0900-Texture/dp/B000PSBIF8/), and cut to suit your sized applicator. I know others have mentioned it, but I had no problem with the brush. I discarded it after the first coat, and used another inexpensive one for the second coat. I did remove the tail-gate to make access easier, and honestly I don't think I would want to apply the liner with the tailgate on the truck. One last bit of advice, is to wear double gloves. I was using nitrile gloves but every time I had to change them it was a pain putting the new ones on because my hands were sweaty. On the second day, I started with two gloves on each hand. When I went to change gloves, I just peeled off the top pair, and replaced it with a new set without worrying about sticky hands. The extra work required to scuff the truck, the mandatory respirator, the disintegrating roller, and the additional cure times notwithstanding, I can wholeheartedly say that I love this product and I would use it again if needed.

I I used the Herculiner bed liner on my truck, and I’m very impressed with the results. The application was straightforward, and it provided a thick, durable coating that looks great and offers excellent protection. It’s held up really well so far. I’m very pleased and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a tough, DIY bed liner solution.

I read the directions and started working on this. The directions said you could use a pad sander but I found that took too much finish off so I used to scour pad provided and with a little pressure it worked great to scuff the surface. I used the blue paint tape to tape the edges and other areas that I did not want to get the Herculiner on. This tape worked well - was easy to remove later and nothing got there I did not want it to go. I stirred the Herculiner for quite a while to get it where it needed to be. The directions tell you to stir periodically and you need to as the mixture does settle. The paint brush worked well to go around the edges and seams the first time, but had to use a new brush for the second coat as the first one was hard as a rock even wrapped in plastic. The first coat takes a LOT longer than 1-4 hours, ours was closer to 18 hours before I felt ok to stand on it. The second coat went on great and seemed to harden a little faster. They say you can use it after a day or so for light hauling, but I would not suggest that. The rollers worked great and was nice that they provided 2. I used a small, plastic, disposable tray to but the Herculiner in. It was easier to move the tray around in the bed of the truck instead of the can. We have a short-bed truck and had plenty left over. I put it in a Tupperware tub and sealed it so it would not harden. Checked the mixture 2 days later and it is still useable. It really turned out well, very pleased with the results. Was much easier than I anticipated and looks very professional. Just be aware that the time between coats is much longer than what is stated in the directions.

I chose this roll-on product as I did not have an area to spray and didn't want to pay to have it professionally done. It feels very durable so far. I used it to cover a fiberglass camper topper. I would suggest 3 layers at least, especially if you planned to use it in the bed of a truck.