Before the age of bed spread, there was the bed liner, and it does a lot of damage to the truck bed after extensive usage. The plastic bed liner will keep the water inside the bed between liner and metal, and slowly rust away the surface of the bed. Also the plastic bed liner will scratch the metal bed with shaking and moving. So the bed spread was born, which after years of market, there are 2 major brand Rhino and Line-x. Of course there are other brand that owners could apply themselves instead of spend extra money, no need to go to professional, but most of time it won’t look as good.
Over all, there are many reasons why Line-x was chosen, but real reason are there are lot more Line-x dealer than Rhino dealers, and there is one near where I worked, so I can go before I go to work
The whole process takes about an hour, which most of the hour are prep, and only takes 5 to 10 minutes to spread. The Bedlinersplus in Irvine is own by Steve Hillemann, he explained the difference, issues, bolt, over-rail question clearly. He also sales few tonneau cover, and side-step / running board. Anyway, his guys took the truck, tape it up, sanded the bed down so the material would adhere together. The tailgate was painted separately after being sanded, and taped. There are 6 option on basic color (other colors charges extra) to choose from, but since the target truck is black, so the black color was used.
The shop has 6 different basic color that comes free, and other colors will cost extra. Also Endura Gloss UV Top Coat was also applied due to UV & color protection (Cost 100 bucks extra). The rough texture is added by default due to customer popularity, but smooth texture could be achieve if request by customer. The smoother surface can be achieved by not adding texture in the spread, so it is possible not to include roughness in the spread.
