Stock bed rail covers and tailgate cap is/are soft easy to damage. What is anyone doing as a replacement or a fix?

[MarkD]

Hi,

Back in '21 the '05 1500 died and I had to go out and buy something off of the lot. So I've gone from a 6-1/2 foot bed to the 5 foot 7 bed. This means more of the longer items (wood, metal etc) now rest on the gate cove. ...and since Ram was nice enough to make these out of a softer ABS... These things are scratching up quickly/easily. What has anyone done to help this? ...aftermarket caps or hitting the stockers with Line-x??? I have to admit that my '05 had Line-X on the rails and tailgate. So they could take a beating.

Thanks,

Mark

 

[mikeru82]

Sounds to me like you've answered your own question there. Bed liner works great for that.

 

[jws1982]

You got it. High-use of those plastics will damage them for sure. Any adhered or spray-on barrier like line-x would help.

To pull an idea from the r/c car area, clear lexan held down with shoe goo would work well too. It’d also have a good chance to come off cleanly later.


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