Best Floor Liners for a Tacoma: Husky WeatherBeater, Matched by Cab

Buying floor liners for a Tacoma means matching four things: the generation, the cab, the transmission and, on the 4th gen, gas or hybrid. Husky, TuxMat and 3D MAXpider sell the hybrid (Toyota's i-FORCE MAX) its own set, several listings stop at automatics, and a lot of 3rd gen listings start at 2018 rather than 2016. Miss any one of those and the liner won't sit right, so read the fit tables as carefully as the picks.

Most Tacomas should get the WeatherBeater. It isn't soft, and its walls don't climb the highest, but it keeps mud, salt and slush off the carpet, covers the footrest and has the longest record of staying flat. TuxMat and the WeatherTech FloorLiner cost more and pay off only for particular owners. The 3D MAXpider Kagu, the only set here we haven't reviewed, fills gaps in the others' lineups: a full 3rd gen Access Cab set sold as one listing, and a second confirmed choice beside the TuxMat for a 2016-2017 Double Cab.

The best Tacoma floor liner for each job

Decide what the floor has to put up with, then find the listing for your truck.

• Most trucks, work trucks included: the Husky WeatherBeater. Its nibs hold it on the carpet, it covers the dead pedal and it draws far fewer curling complaints than WeatherTech. It's a rigid tray, about as hard as a WeatherTech, so it lifts out and pours clean after a muddy day.
• Winter grip and the most carpet covered: TuxMat. A textured vinyl top over an EVA foam core runs up the footwell sidewalls, so it covers more than either tray and isn't as slick in snow and ice. It holds less in a spill and costs the most of the four on the Tacoma layouts we could match.
• The door sill: the WeatherTech FloorLiner. Its contour follows a Tacoma's door sill closely. The one listing we confirmed is the 4th gen Double Cab automatic. Edges that curl over time are its most common complaint.
• A 3rd gen Access Cab or a 2016-2017 Double Cab: the 3D MAXpider Kagu. It's the only full 2018-2023 Access Cab set sold as one listing, in versions for trucks with or without rear seats, and its 2016-2023 Double Cab set is the one confirmed alternative to the TuxMat on a 2016 or 2017. Its listings don't name a transmission. We haven't reviewed it.
• A manual transmission: no confirmed listing names one. The manual section below covers what to look for and what to check after install.

The four liners compared

We've reviewed three of the four, each laser-measured for one vehicle and sold by cab and layout; the Husky WeatherBeater, WeatherTech FloorLiner and TuxMat reviews lay out each maker's material, coverage, install and warranty terms.

We haven't reviewed the Kagu. Its 4th gen and Access Cab listings describe a thermoplastic rubber surface, an XPE foam layer, an anti-skid backing and raised side edges; its 3rd gen Double Cab listings mention only raised edges, a patented bottom layer and a sound-absorbing inner layer.

Neither tray is soft, whatever the box says: owners who stand on the WeatherBeater mostly describe it as rigid, hard or stiff, much like WeatherTech's original FloorLiner. The softer lines are Husky's X-act Contour, which we like for its grip though owners say newer sets run thinner, and WeatherTech's FloorLiner HP, which we haven't confirmed for the Tacoma.

Find the listing for your Tacoma

Work through it in this order: generation, cab, transmission, then gas or hybrid on a 4th gen. The table shows what each listing's own product page confirmed, and the listings we found but couldn't confirm:

For each listing's exact wording and part number, open the fit table under its pick. Buy new: the Husky, WeatherTech and TuxMat warranties all stop with the original buyer, so a used set comes with none.

On a 4th gen (2024 on) Double Cab, settle gas or hybrid first. Husky, TuxMat and 3D MAXpider list the hybrid separately, so buy the set listed for your powertrain. WeatherTech's set says automatic only and is silent on the hybrid, so a hybrid owner should confirm with the seller before ordering. For the gas truck, TuxMat's set is one we found but couldn't confirm; search for the TuxMat 4th gen Double Cab set and check fit for your truck.

The two-door XtraCab has the fewest choices. Husky's front pair covers it alongside the Double Cab, automatics only, and its listing calls the cab the Access Cab. 3D MAXpider lists a full Xtra Cab set that we haven't confirmed, and nothing for the rear area of an XtraCab is confirmed from any of the four.

On a 3rd gen (2016-2023), the model year splits the listings. Husky's three-piece Double Cab set and its front pair read 2018-2023, so no Husky front liner we confirmed covers a 2016 or 2017. The TuxMat set and one Kagu set read 2016-2023, which gives an early Double Cab two confirmed choices: the TuxMat, for automatics only, and the Kagu, whose listing names no transmission. Kagu also sells a 2018-2023 Double Cab set, and the 2016-2023 one carries a passenger's-side no-retention note in its title, so compare the two listings' photos before you choose.

The 3rd gen Access Cab is better served than the 4th gen XtraCab. Husky's front pair covers 2018-2023 automatics, and its one-piece rear liner reads 2012-2023, so it also fits late 2nd gen trucks. 3D MAXpider sells full 2018-2023 Access Cab sets in two versions, one for trucks with rear seats and one without, so look behind the front seats before you pick.

Manual transmissions

A manual Tacoma is the hardest fit here. Husky's 3rd gen three-piece set and front pair, its 4th gen front pair, WeatherTech's 4th gen set and TuxMat's 3rd gen set all say automatic only. Husky's 4th gen gas set names no transmission, but Husky lists a separate manual set beside it, and a manual set for the 3rd gen too; we found both and couldn't confirm either, so they're search links in the Husky fit table. The Kagu listings don't mention a transmission at all, which isn't the same as saying they fit a manual. Check fit for your truck.

Pull the factory mats before any liner goes in, because a liner stacked on a carpet mat can ride forward into the pedals. Then test the pedals before the first drive. On a 2021 TRD Sport manual, a 3rd gen, new WeatherBeaters meant pushing a little harder at the end of the clutch travel before the truck would start, and a WeatherTech can touch the accelerator near full throttle. With the liner clipped in, run the clutch, brake and gas all the way to the floor. If a WeatherBeater won't lie flat where it meets hard plastic, at the dead pedal or the door sill plate, trimming its anchor nibs flush at those spots with a utility knife lets it sit flatter. Husky sells it as needing no trimming, so treat that as a fix for a liner that won't settle, not an install step.

Factory mats or a liner

Toyota's all-weather mats are fine where it rarely snows. Where it does, salty meltwater gets past them into the carpet, and factory liners in a 2017 wore through in seven years. A molded tray holds that water until you pour it out, and the WeatherBeater also covers the dead pedal. Not everyone upgrades: an owner who ran WeatherTechs in a 2015 Tacoma prefers the softer, grippier factory mats in a 2021, while admitting they cover a little less.

You don't have to cover the back on day one. If the rear floor mostly carries a bag, a front pair protects the floor that takes the beating and costs less than a set. If anything that can leak rides back there, oil, a cooler, a wet dog, buy the rear piece too.

Dead pedal, door sill and tunnel

Coverage on a Tacoma comes down to three spots. A wet left boot rests on the dead pedal for the whole drive. The WeatherBeater covers it; WeatherTech's own FAQ concedes only partial dead-pedal coverage on some vehicles. WeatherTech's strength is the door sill: on Tacomas its contour follows the sill closely, and its FAQ says the liner fits flush or covers the sill where the sill is level with the floor. None of the owner sill reports is tied to a 3rd or 4th gen truck, though, so take it as a lean rather than a measurement.

The transmission tunnel is a 2nd gen story. In a 2nd gen Tacoma, WeatherTech's walls came a lot higher up the side of the tunnel than a Husky's. That's the previous generation, and we haven't seen the same comparison on a 3rd or 4th gen, so don't buy a WeatherTech for the tunnel on that alone. A Tacoma owner wishes the Husky had more lip, while some who've had both brands say the Husky covers more because the WeatherTech doesn't go as high in front. On wall height we'd call it close.

TuxMat covers more than either tray, running up the sidewalls, and its top stays less slick under a snowy boot. Packed snow makes any hard liner slippery, the Husky too, though WeatherTech gets more of those complaints. TuxMat pays for its grip in capacity: it can't hold a spill the way a tray's walls hold standing water, so for fish, thick mud or a leaking cooler, pick the Husky or the WeatherTech. After a TuxMat install, run each front seat through its travel and close every door, because the extra coverage has rubbed doors and seats in a car.

How they hold up

No liner here has a better long-term record than the WeatherBeater, with sets that still look new after six, eight and about ten years, while curling is the WeatherTech FloorLiner's most common complaint by a wide margin, though WeatherTech has replaced a curled set on a Tacoma under its warranty. TuxMat's oldest sets are about three years old, and stitching is the weak spot so far, fraying on the door-sill side of one truck set and loosening in a few places on another.

We have no long-term Tacoma reports on the Kagu and haven't reviewed it, so judge it on its listing and the fit table rather than a track record.

Our Tacoma picks, generation by generation

On a 4th gen Double Cab, buy the WeatherBeater set listed for your powertrain, gas or hybrid. On a 2018-2023 automatic, buy the WeatherBeater too: the three-piece set for a Double Cab, or the front pair and the one-piece rear liner for an Access Cab. Spend more on TuxMat if winter grip and covered sidewalls matter more to you than capacity, or on the WeatherTech for a 4th gen automatic if the sill contour is worth it.

For a 2016-2017 Double Cab, the TuxMat set (automatics) and the 2016-2023 Kagu set are the confirmed choices. For a manual or a 4th gen XtraCab, start from the search links in the fit tables, check fit for your truck, and run every pedal through its travel before you drive.