Husky vs WeatherTech Floor Liners: Edges and Price Decide It

Buy the Husky WeatherBeater. For most trucks it's the better floor liner, and on the F-150 and the Silverado and Sierra 1500 it costs noticeably less than a WeatherTech FloorLiner for the same cab. We score it 7.5 against the FloorLiner's 6.3. It covers the dead pedal, the footrest left of the brake, where WeatherTech can stop partway. Its nibbed underside grips the carpet, and Husky draws far fewer complaints about edges that curl. The WeatherTech keeps one advantage: walls that climb higher in a few spots.

Check which two liners an argument is about before you trust it. Both companies sell a hard liner and a softer one. The WeatherBeater and the FloorLiner are the hard pair; Husky's X-act Contour and WeatherTech's FloorLiner HP are the soft pair. Much of the loudest Husky-over-WeatherTech talk comes from X-act owners, so where a point below rests on the brand rather than the line, we say so. A lot of what's written about both also comes from cars and SUVs. That tells you about the material, not about the fit in your cab.

For a daily driver, a work truck or any truck in salt and slush country, take the WeatherBeater. Both are rigid trays you can lift out and pour, so mud every day doesn't change the answer. Take the FloorLiner if no confirmed WeatherBeater listing matches your exact cab and floor. If you want something soft underfoot, skip both and compare the X-act Contour with the FloorLiner HP instead.

The short version

Where the WeatherBeater wins:

• The footrest: it covers the dead pedal. WeatherTech's own FAQ concedes only partial dead-pedal coverage on some vehicles, and on some trucks a WeatherTech leaves half of it bare, or all of it.
• Staying put: Husky molds hundreds of what it calls StayPut nibs into the underside. They hold the liner in place where an unanchored WeatherTech can ride up.
• Edges that stay flat: curling is the most common complaint about the FloorLiner by a wide margin. Husky has a handful of curling reports, and none of them names the line.
• Price: on a Gen14 F-150 SuperCrew, an F-150 SuperCab or a T1XX Crew Cab, the WeatherBeater set is noticeably cheaper. On a 4th gen Tacoma Double Cab the gap is smaller.

Where the FloorLiner wins:

• Wall height, in places: it runs a lot higher up the transmission tunnel on a 2nd gen Tacoma, and it gets credit for a little more height at the console, the accelerator wall and the front wheel-well trim, though those reports don't say which WeatherTech line. The Husky covers more in other places.
• The warranty: both cover defects in materials and workmanship for the original buyer on the original vehicle; Husky adds a promise that the liner won't break or tear under normal use, and neither warranty mentions curling.

Where they tie: both are hard liners, both are made in the USA, and both get slick under a wet or snowy boot, the WeatherTech in more reports. Both have listings we confirmed for the Gen14 and Gen13 F-150, the T1XX Silverado and Sierra 1500 and the 4th gen Tacoma Double Cab. For the 3rd gen Tacoma, the Ram 1500, the Tundra and the Maverick, we confirmed only the Husky so far.

Match the lines before you compare

Compare hard with hard. Husky's FAQ says the X-act Contour has a softer, more rubbery feel and the WeatherBeater is pliable but not as rubbery. WeatherTech's FAQ draws the same line: the FloorLiner is a harder, more rigid material, and the FloorLiner HP and All-Weather Mats are softer and more flexible. So the fair fights are WeatherBeater against FloorLiner, and X-act Contour against FloorLiner HP. A poll or a review that just says "Husky" or "WeatherTech" may be mixing all four.

Here is the hard pair side by side, from each maker's own product, FAQ and warranty pages, with TuxMat added as the third design we'd cross-shop:

All three are laser-measured for a specific vehicle and sold by cab and seat layout, and none publishes a weight or a load rating. Husky and WeatherTech both make theirs in the USA.

Expect a hard liner from either company. Husky's Amazon listing calls the WeatherBeater soft underfoot, but the people who stand on it mostly call it rigid, hard or stiff, hard like WeatherTech's first FloorLiners. A few find it a little softer than a WeatherTech after switching. We'd go with the majority.

The soft pair has much thinner head-to-head evidence. Owners who moved from the original FloorLiner to the HP call the HP better, and the X-act has its fans, but there isn't enough to pick a winner. If softness is what you're after, shortlist both soft liners and let your cab's listing and price decide.

Side by side on your truck

Floor liners are bought by cab, seat layout and rear storage, never by bed length. Both companies split their listings that way, so the comparison only means something on the same configuration. We confirmed every listing below on its own product page; the fitment tables under the picks carry the part numbers and each listing's restrictions.

• F-150 (Gen14, 2021 on, and Gen13, 2015-2020): both have it. For a Gen14 SuperCrew with front buckets and the rear fold-flat storage box, it's the Husky three-piece set against the WeatherTech 1st and 2nd row set, and the WeatherTech costs noticeably more. The SuperCab has a set from each brand; the WeatherTech SuperCab listing's title and one bullet disagree on the cab, so confirm it. For a SuperCrew without the fold-flat storage, Husky sells a front pair and a one-piece rear liner, and WeatherTech sells a set for trucks with a front bench seat. On a vinyl-floor F-150, the WeatherBeater front pair and sets we confirmed won't work: their listings say they won't fit models without factory carpet. WeatherTechs do go into vinyl-floor F-150s, but we didn't confirm a WeatherTech listing that names it, so check fit for your truck.
• Silverado and Sierra 1500 (T1XX, 2019 on): both have it. Husky has a three-piece Crew Cab set for trucks with factory carpet and rear under-seat storage, plus front pairs for the Crew, Double and standard cab. WeatherTech has two Crew Cab sets: one for a front bench seat, which its listing says is for trucks with no 4x4 shifter and no rear underseat storage box, and one whose listing gives no seat or storage note. The Husky set is noticeably cheaper. For 2019, match the generation as well as the year, because GM sold the previous-generation Silverado 1500 LD and Sierra 1500 Limited new alongside the T1XX.
• Tacoma (4th gen, 2024 on): both have a Double Cab set, and the price gap is smaller here. WeatherTech's listing says automatic transmission only and doesn't say whether it fits the Hybrid. Husky has a separate set for the Hybrid, and its front pair for the Double Cab and the XtraCab is automatic-only too.
• Tacoma (3rd gen), Ram 1500 (DT), Tundra (3rd gen) and Maverick: we confirmed WeatherBeater listings for all four and no WeatherTech listings yet, though WeatherTech's own site lists FloorLiners for each. Those appear as search links in the WeatherTech fitment table. On the Ram, match the DT against the older Ram 1500 Classic (DS) sold alongside it.

If your Tacoma is a manual, check the pedals before you trust either brand. A Husky liner can leave you pressing the clutch harder before the truck will start; a 2021 TRD Sport manual did it the day its new WeatherBeaters went in. A WeatherTech can touch the accelerator near full throttle. With either brand, push every pedal through its full travel before you drive. Four of the six Tacoma listings with a front row that we confirmed, from both companies, say automatic transmission only.

Coverage and fit: the footrest or the walls

The coverage difference is a trade, and which side you want depends on where your boots put the mess. The WeatherBeater covers the dead pedal on the left, and in snow country that's where the meltwater off your left boot collects for the whole drive. The WeatherTech's case is on the right and center. On a 2nd gen Tacoma its walls come a lot higher up the side of the transmission tunnel, and the FloorLiner HP does the same. It also gets credit for more height along the console, the accelerator wall and the front wheel-well trim, without anyone saying which WeatherTech line. Not everyone who's had both agrees: some say the Husky covers more, because the WeatherTech doesn't go as high in front and what comes off your boots lands on the carpet. On Tacomas the WeatherTech's contour follows the door sill closely.

Fit out of the box is close, slightly in WeatherTech's favor among people who've had both brands, though almost none of them names the WeatherBeater. The rigid FloorLiner holds its shape and often looks like a factory part; its misses are sets that never fit and stay warped from the day they arrive. The WeatherBeater fits well on most trucks when the line is named. Its misses are wrong-year shipments, and a rear Husky of unnamed line has sat baggy over a 4Runner's center hump.

We score fit and coverage 7.1 for the WeatherBeater and 6.8 for the FloorLiner. The footrest coverage and the nibbed underside put the Husky ahead. The WeatherTech's fit and its taller walls in a few spots keep it close.

Grip on the carpet and under your boots

The Husky grips better underneath by a wide margin and on top by a narrow one. Its nibs bite into the carpet and hold the liner in place, while an unanchored WeatherTech can ride up badly on the passenger side. The WeatherTech relies on the factory retention posts. Where a truck has none, as on the front passenger side of the 2nd gen Tundra, it slides, and the fixes are aftermarket claws or added clips, which mean small holes in the carpet.

On top, both are hard surfaces and both get slick. WeatherTech draws more slick complaints, and none of the Husky ones names the line. We'd call the WeatherBeater less slick, which isn't the same as grippy. Packed snow makes any hard liner slippery. Both makers say to skip Armor All and other silicone shine products, which make it worse.

If a WeatherBeater won't settle where it presses against hard plastic, such as the dead pedal or the door sill plate, trim the anchor nibs flush at those spots with a utility knife and it sits flatter. Husky sells the liner as needing no trimming, so treat that as a fix for a liner that won't lie down, not a step in the install.

How they hold up

Durability splits the scores 7.5 to 6.0. The FloorLiner's rigid material is why it fits crisply, and it's also why it curls. WeatherTech edges cup, curl at the door pillar and warp in heat, and trucks and work vehicles aren't spared: rear liners curl in summer heat until they catch the door, and work vehicles see the edges curl in. Most of those reports don't name the line. Husky's handful of curling reports don't either.

Both brands have sets that lasted for years. WeatherBeater sets still look new after six, eight and about ten years, the last in a 2015 Tundra. WeatherTech sets have gone 12 and 15 years, and the WeatherTechs in a 2015 Ram still look new at 223,000 miles. None of those sets is recent, so none of them vouches for one made this year.

Neither warranty mentions the failure you're likely to see. Curling is the FloorLiner's most common failure, though WeatherTech has replaced a curled set on a Tacoma. Both warranties end when you sell the truck, and a set won't fit a different cab or generation anyway.

Which one for how you use the truck

• Work truck, mud every day: still the WeatherBeater. Both are rigid trays that hold what you track in and lift out without folding. WeatherTech gets the credit for pouring because it's usually being compared with a softer liner, but the WeatherBeater is the rigid Husky, hard like the original FloorLiner. A Tundra owner in studded wading boots runs a WeatherBeater up front because softer rubber doesn't survive the studs, and curling follows the WeatherTech onto job sites. The exception is a vinyl floor: the WeatherBeater front pair and sets we confirmed for the F-150 say they won't fit models without factory carpet, and we didn't confirm a WeatherTech listing that names a vinyl floor either, so check fit for your truck.
• Snow and salt country: take the WeatherBeater. Covering the dead pedal keeps salt water off the carpet where your left boot sits, and edges that stay flat keep it from running under the liner. If grip on top matters more to you in winter than holding a puddle, look at the TuxMat below; its textured vinyl top is less slick than either tray.
• Daily driver: the WeatherBeater, mostly on price and on edges that stay flat for years. If it looks too utilitarian, the 3D MAXpider Kagu below is cheaper still for an F-150 SuperCrew with front bucket seats and no underseat storage.
• Manual Tacoma: buy whichever brand lists your transmission, then check the clutch and throttle before you drive.

So which one goes in your truck?

The WeatherBeater, for most of you, work trucks included. It covers the footrest, stays planted on the carpet, keeps its edges flat and costs noticeably less on the F-150 and T1XX. Husky also wins the online argument by a wide margin, but much of that vote goes to the softer X-act Contour and few voters name the WeatherBeater, so we've leaned on the specific differences above rather than the scoreboard.

Go with the FloorLiner if your exact configuration has a confirmed WeatherTech listing and no WeatherBeater. Then plan for the edges: keep it out of the summer sun when it's out of the truck, and ask WeatherTech about the warranty if it curls. And if what you hate about both is the hard plastic feel, you're shopping in the wrong pair; compare the X-act Contour and the FloorLiner HP.