
5 Ways to Protect Your Tow Vehicle

5 Ways to Protect Your Tow Vehicle

5 Ways to Protect Your Tow Vehicle
Pickup truck trailer boaters throw all of their gear in the truck bed for the ride to the ramp. Stuff that can damage a truck bed. WeatherTech has a thermoplastic liner called TechLiner (boatingmag.com/weathertech-bedliner) that can be custom-fit. Another Option: Rhino Linings (rhinolinings.com) and Line-X (linex.com) offer spray-on liners.

5 Ways to Protect Your Tow Vehicle
When you’re launching, you’re going to bring mud or water back inside with you. Beef up your interior protection with all-weather floor mats (boatingmag.com/weathertech-floormat) or an interior floor liner (boatingmag.com/weathertech-floorliner). Another Option: Husky Liners (huskyliners.com) offers interior (and exterior) liners for floors.

5 Ways to Protect Your Tow Vehicle
Husky can protect your rig’s paint job with urethane shields (boatingmag.com/huskyliner-shield). The company claims they will not alter the look of the paint. They won’t protect the whole vehicle — just certain vulnerable spots: hood, grille, bumper and doors. Another Option: Husky and WeatherTech also offer urethane shields that protect headlights.

5 Ways to Protect Your Tow Vehicle
One of the most inexpensive, but effective, ways to protect your tow vehicle is to wax it. Applying a coating of carnauba wax will help your vehicle’s paint job repel water as well as resist corrosion and ultraviolet wear. WeatherTech offers a carnauba gel wax for $25. You can find various waxes online for as little as $14 as well as complete kits — including applicators — starting at around $50.