Car and truck lovers across the country eagerly await the results of Cars.com’s “Best of” analysis each year to find out what vehicles and accessories will receive the website’s coveted awards.
This isn’t a contest that a manufacturer can pay a fee to enter. Instead, it’s something much more valuable: Cars.com objectively looks at what’s being produced in the vehicle industry that year and their recognition of the highest levels of quality and value.
In March 2021, Cars.com announced the vehicle winners of their Best of 2021 Awards, including the best vehicle of the year and the best pickup truck of the year. For the first time, the best vehicle of the year happens to be a pickup truck: the incredible, highly innovative Ford F-150.
Several months after this pickup truck won the 2021 award, Cars.com saw that the bed was starting to show some wear and tear.
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They knew they needed a bed liner but which one should they choose? They began researching their options for bed liners for the F-150 and they selected DualLiner!
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Cars.com considered both drop-in and spray-in bedliners for their F-150 before dubbing DualLiner as their choice. They called DualLiner a hybrid that “combines the best aspects of a drop-in bedliner — though much better executed — with a 3/8-inch-thick rubber mat for the floor.”
Here’s more about what Cars.com had to say about the DualLiner:
“The DualLiner’s front and side panels have the benefits of a custom-molded drop-in liners, but instead of gaping holes surrounding the tie-down points, this product is secured by them. The front load guard panel snapped into place, managing to fit underneath our existing tonneau cover, installed in March. We removed the D-rings (two screws apiece) and the cleat plates (four screws) from the box sides, and the DualLiner side panels took their place with minimal coaxing before we replaced the hardware using hand tools to be safe, given the truck’s aluminum construction. Once again, though, we thought we might have to notch the panels to allow for the Tyger Auto tonneau cover’s aluminum C-clamps, but they tucked underneath unmolested.
They went on to say…
“The panels are designed, and the tie-downs distributed, well enough that the side panels hold the front one in place, and the D-rings and cleat plates hold the side ones tight to the box walls. The unrolled rubber mat fits into a channel molded into the panels along the floor, so all parts of the system hold each other in place.”
“We were impressed with how neat everything looked, and how well the various apertures fit…”
We were impressed with how neat everything looked, and how well the various apertures fit the box features like the LED lights and Pro Power Onboard outlet panel. Will this fitment last? We shall see. Our particular installation was slowed by having to work around the existing cover, but sped by removing much hardware with power drivers. One person could probably do this whole installation in an hour or less.”
The best part of that process, and the ownership thereafter, is kneeling on a rubber mat that provides comfort along with grip.
If you’d like to enjoy all its benefits for your vehicle, select your truck bed liner by entering your make, model, year, and bed length here.
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