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

If you are hoping that after applying this it will look like it was sprayed on then don't purchase it. If you are looking for something that appears that it will withstand a nuclear blast then look no further. I did apply it quite heavily. My truck bed is only 5ft and two coats used the entire can. Forget the rollers and apply it with a brush. Purchase at least 6 of the cheap disposable ones. You will need them for touch ups. Think of this DYI as you would with any painting project. The prep work is where it matters. Sanding pads (the scotch bright type) are better than sandpaper for roughing up the surface. Wear gloves and a respirator, not a dust mask. The fumes are abundant. A mixing paddle on a drill is preferable to a stir stick. My biggest mistake was applying the first coat too heavily. The medium (liquid part) can pool away from the texturing if you don't spread it evenly. My first coat took a lot longer to dry than stated on the can and it's easy to miss the direction about NOT letting the first coat fully dry before applying second coat along taped bounderies and then removing the tape before that dries.My vehicle is a work truck so I was looking for protection over aesthetics and I think I succeeded with that. Also saved myself a butt load of money over a professional installation.

I wasn’t expecting it to be the best bed liner out there and I’m sure there are companies that can do it better but my truck isn’t a show truck. I beat the h3ll out of my bed and this looks so much better than a scratched up bed on a brand new truck. It doesn’t come with a sanding block or pad so I would suggest getting that as well when you order the kit. I also recommend a can of the spray version to help edge small stuff and apply another coat where needed (also for touch ups). Take your time sanding (i wiped my bed with brake cleaner after sanding) and taping and it turns out awesome!

What can I say? I installed this and absolutely loved it. It helped me cover a part of my bed that was messed up. I did something silly and ended up with a 9in hole in my bed. I welded the hole up, but it looked hideous following the fix. I decided to go with a bed liner for protection and a cover up. My bed looks great now. Make sure you tape off the portions you don't want the bed liner. It is very sticky and thick. Make sure you prep the bed for the liner. I've had this installed for roughly a year. I'm still impressed by the quality. I did have some come up in a few spots, but that's because I was lazy in prepping. I bought the spray can herculiner and you can't even tell the difference.

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.

Great so far. Definitely can be a messy product if your not careful and don't do the prep work before hand with taping off, etc.. Besides that solid product and very gritty so if your expecting a smooth surface, it's not that but super tuff and durable and once it dries it's on there. Hands included so wear gloves lol.

Very happy with the product. Was able to wash the drops and mess I made on concrete with a high pressure washer.

I was given a quote for $750 I bought 2x 1 gal kits and was able to due my 93 F-250 long bed for $200 myself. It’s a great product but it is a all day process so start early!