It was bound to happen. You lend your truck to a friend who says they have a couple of pieces of furniture to move and it comes back to you with scratches in the bed area of your truck. It wouldnt have been so bad had they apologized, but now you have to deal with unsightly scratches that can only make your trucks value deteriorate quicker. Had you thought about it, you would have stuck a bed liner in your truck ahead of time to prevent the problem from happening in the first place.
The above account actually happened to me as I was trying to help a young couple out with a good deed. I was warned in advance by a friend that the couple would take advantage of me and he was, unfortunately, correct. Lets just say that it was a bitter lesson learned.
Twenty years have passed and I no longer have that old F-150. My current people mover is an SUV, so I have no open area to deal with. Yet, I likely will have a pickup truck again in the near future and I have looked closely at some of the products available to owners today, particularly bed liners.
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