Husky WeatherBeater Review: Our Floor Liner Pick Over WeatherTech

Buy the Husky Liners WeatherBeater. It's the floor liner we'd put in most trucks ahead of a standard WeatherTech FloorLiner, though by a narrower margin than the online argument suggests. It runs up over the driver's footrest, the dead pedal, where WeatherTech can stop partway. Its nibbed underside grips the carpet, its edges stay flat for years, and it costs noticeably less on the same cab. Don't buy it for softness. Husky markets it as soft underfoot, and it's a hard, rigid tray.

Be careful with what you read about "Husky" online. Husky also sells a softer line, the X-act Contour, and most of the Husky-versus-WeatherTech argument never says which one it means. Where a point below rests on the brand rather than the WeatherBeater itself, we say so. Plenty of WeatherBeaters live in cars and SUVs, which tells you a lot about the material and how it ages and little about fit, since fit depends on the listing for your cab. And the sets with the longest records were bought years ago; one made this year hasn't had the time to prove the same.

The short version

What works:

• Footrest coverage: it covers the dead pedal, the main reason to pick it over factory mats. WeatherTech's own FAQ concedes only partial dead-pedal coverage on some vehicles.
• It stays put: Husky molds what it calls StayPut nibs into the underside, and the liner stays planted on the carpet where a WeatherTech can slide.
• Flat edges for years: WeatherBeater sets still look new after six, eight and about ten years, and Husky draws far fewer curling complaints than WeatherTech, though most of that comparison is about the brand, not this line.
• Price and terms: noticeably cheaper than a WeatherTech set on the same cab, with a limited lifetime warranty, and made in the USA.

What to watch:

• Hard, not soft: Husky's listing says soft underfoot. Husky's own FAQ says it's less rubbery than the X-act Contour, and the people who stand on it call it rigid.
• A slick top: like any hard liner, it gets slippery under a snowy boot. WeatherTech draws more of those complaints, but Husky isn't exempt.
• Lower walls in spots: WeatherTech climbs higher at the transmission tunnel, the center console, the accelerator side of the footwell and the front wheel-well trim. The Husky covers more in other places.
• Fit misses: some 2024 Crosstrek orders shipped in boxes labeled for the previous model years, and a few sets needed forcing onto the latch holes. Read the box label before you install.

Which trucks and cabs it fits

Floor liners fit by cab and by row, so forget bed length here. Husky sells the WeatherBeater as front-row liners, a one-piece rear liner, and three-piece front-and-rear sets. Then it splits those by rear under-seat storage, transmission and, on some trucks, hybrid versus gas. We confirmed every listing below on its own product page. The fitment table under the score panel carries the part numbers and the restrictions each listing states.

• F-150 (Gen14, 2021 on, and Gen13, 2015-2020): a SuperCrew with the fold-flat rear storage takes the three-piece set, which is listed for 2021-2026 trucks only, Lightning included. A SuperCrew without that storage takes the front pair plus a one-piece, full-coverage rear liner, both listed for 2015-2026. The SuperCab has its own three-piece set. The front-pair and set listings say they won't fit trucks without factory carpet, so a vinyl-floor work truck needs a different part.
• Silverado and Sierra 1500 (T1XX): a three-piece set for a Crew Cab with factory carpet and the rear under-seat storage, a front pair for the Crew and Double Cab, and a front pair for the standard cab. We didn't confirm a rear liner for a Crew Cab without the under-seat storage or for the Double Cab, so check fit for those. If you have a 2019, match the generation as well as the year: GM sold the previous-generation Silverado 1500 LD and Sierra 1500 Limited new alongside the T1XX that year.
• Ram 1500 (DT): a front pair for the Crew and Quad Cab (listed 2019-2024), a three-piece set for the Crew Cab with factory under-seat storage that the listing says won't fit the Quad Cab, and a three-piece Quad Cab set (2019-2025). There's a 2025-2026 Crew Cab set as well, but its product page didn't let us confirm the fit. The Ram listings say Ram 1500 without mentioning the Classic, so if you drive a Classic, confirm on the listing before you order.
• Tacoma: the 4th gen (2024 on) Double Cab has a three-piece set and a separate one for the Hybrid. The front pair for the Double Cab and the two-door XtraCab (the listing calls it the Access Cab) is automatic-only. On the 3rd gen, the three-piece Double Cab set and the front pair are listed for 2018-2023 automatics, and the Access Cab has its own rear liner. If you drive a manual, or a 2016-2017 truck, none of the front listings we confirmed covers you.
• Tundra (3rd gen) and Maverick: the Tundra gets a CrewMax set, a CrewMax rear liner and a front pair shared by the CrewMax and Double Cab. The Maverick has separate three-piece sets for the EcoBoost gas truck and the hybrid, and a one-piece front liner for the hybrid.

Husky's own vehicle pages list a WeatherBeater for the 2024 Ranger and 2024 Colorado, but we didn't confirm an Amazon listing for either, so they appear only as search links in the picks. Check fit for your truck. On any truck, work through it in order: cab first, then whether you have rear under-seat storage, then transmission or powertrain. Every listing tells you to check its photos to confirm your cab, so do it. If your back seat rarely sees boots, the front pair alone covers the floor that takes the beating and costs less than the set.

The specs that matter

Husky doesn't name the plastic. It calls the material its ProGard formula, says it's free of latex, PVC, cadmium and lead, and makes the liners in the USA. Grip and fit come from two features on its product page: hundreds of StayPut nibs on the underside, and a laser-measured edge it calls FormFit Edge. Here it is against the two liners we'd cross-shop, from each maker's own product, FAQ and warranty pages:

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, and neither number means much for a floor liner anyway. Husky and WeatherTech both make theirs in the USA.

The Amazon listing pitches the WeatherBeater as soft underfoot. Husky's FAQ is more precise: the X-act Contour has a softer, more rubbery feel, and the WeatherBeater is pliable but not as rubbery. WeatherTech draws the same line inside its own range, calling the standard FloorLiner a harder, more rigid material and the FloorLiner HP softer. So the fair fight is WeatherBeater against FloorLiner, and X-act Contour against FloorLiner HP. A lot of the online argument skips that step.

Shopping used? Read the warranty row first. Husky's lifetime means your ownership of this vehicle: the liners are covered only for the original buyer, only while that buyer owns the vehicle, and not once they've been moved to another one. WeatherTech's warranty is close to it. 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. A used set from Marketplace carries no warranty from either company, and it won't fit a different cab or generation anyway.

Fit, coverage and grip

Keeping water, salt and mud off the carpet is what you're paying for, and the WeatherBeater does it best in the driver's footwell. It covers the footrest wall to wall, which on its own is reason enough to choose it over factory all-weather mats. WeatherTech's own FAQ concedes partial dead-pedal coverage on some vehicles, and its owners describe anything from half coverage to none. Your left boot sits there the whole drive, and salty meltwater runs off it onto whatever isn't covered.

WeatherTech wins back some ground on wall height. The clearest case is the side of the transmission tunnel on a 2nd gen Tacoma, where the WeatherTechs come a lot higher, and the softer FloorLiner HP covers more by the gas pedal and up the tunnel than a WeatherBeater does. WeatherTech also gets credit for a little more height along the center console, the accelerator side of the footwell and the front wheel-well trim, usually without anyone saying which WeatherTech line, and nobody calls the difference a dealbreaker. Some people who've had both see it the other way and say the Husky covers more.

Fit is good on most WeatherBeater sets, Crew Cab trucks included, and the liner doesn't wander once it's in. The misses are worth knowing about before you order. A Crosstrek set arrived with mild warping and a driver's liner that had to be forced onto the latch holes, and at least one owner found the X-act Contour fit better. The bigger problem was 2024 Crosstrek orders: three owners were shipped boxes labeled for the previous model years, and another set's driver clip holes didn't line up at all. Husky's fix was a return label, and one of those buyers went to WeatherTech instead. Check the label on the box against your listing before you install. On fit alone, people who've had both brands lean slightly toward WeatherTech, though almost none of them name the Husky line.

Grip comes in two kinds. Underneath, the nibs hold the liner on the carpet, and Husky owners who've had both brands, without naming the line, say theirs stays put where a WeatherTech slid. WeatherTech's FloorLiner page describes no grip feature at all. On top, a hard liner is a hard liner. Every hard fitted mat gets slick in snow and ice, Husky included, and packed snow on a hard textured surface is slippery whatever the logo; WeatherTech just draws more of those complaints. In winter, knock your boots off at the door sill before you climb in. If grip underfoot matters more to you than containing a puddle, look at the TuxMat below, which uses a different top surface entirely.

On feel, believe the people standing on it over the listing. Five of the six WeatherBeater owners who describe its feel call it rigid, hard or stiff, hard like WeatherTech's first FloorLiners, and only one calls theirs pliable. For heavy boots that's a plus: a Tundra owner who wears studded wading boots runs a WeatherBeater up front because softer rubber doesn't survive them. We know of no WeatherBeater that has cracked in the cold. If you want a liner that feels soft when it's 10 degrees out, look at Husky's X-act Contour or WeatherTech's HP.

We score fit and coverage at 7.1. The footrest coverage and the nibbed underside are real advantages, and most sets fit well. Lower walls than WeatherTech in a few spots, the wrong-year shipments, the odd fit miss and a top that gets slick hold it there, and much of the favorable head-to-head talk is about Husky the brand, not this line.

Build quality and living with it

The WeatherBeater's best argument is how long it lasts. A Tundra set bought in 2015 still looks new, and a sedan set at eight years and a truck set at six still look perfect. Sets with four-plus years and a year under steel-toe boots show no wear. Husky sets whose line isn't named go further: one rode in a Dodge Ram for 17 years before it split along an edge, and Husky replaced it under warranty at no charge. All of those sets are old, so remember that before you assume a new one will match them.

Husky isn't immune to curling. Sets of unnamed line have curled and lost some shape after a few years, and a Sierra's driver's mat started to warp. Against WeatherTech's long curling record that's a handful, but it's there.

• Cleaning: the rigid surface wipes clean after mud. Next to WeatherTech's smoother top, though, the Husky's texture holds more mud and water, which is good for your carpet and makes the liner itself a little harder to clean. Husky's FAQ says not to use Armor All because it makes the liners slippery. Follow Husky on that.
• Customer service: uneven. The wrong-year Crosstrek shipments ended with a return label and a lost customer. The 17-year Ram set ended with a free replacement.

We score durability at 7.5. Six to ten years on a WeatherBeater set is the best evidence in this review, and Husky's curling record is far cleaner than WeatherTech's. We hold it there because the long-term sets are old and most of the head-to-head durability talk doesn't name the line.

How it compares

• Versus the WeatherTech FloorLiner: the closest match, hard against hard. WeatherTech climbs higher in a few places and edges ahead on fit among people who've owned both. Husky covers the footrest, grips the carpet and draws far fewer curling reports, though most of those comparisons don't name the Husky line. On the F-150 SuperCrew listings we compared, the WeatherTech set is noticeably more expensive.
• Versus the WeatherTech FloorLiner HP: WeatherTech's softer line, and the fair rival to Husky's X-act Contour, not to the WeatherBeater. We haven't confirmed HP listings for the trucks we cover yet, so it isn't in the picks.
• Versus the Husky X-act Contour: Husky's softer, more rubbery line, soft and grippy next to the standard WeatherBeater. If the firm feel is your only hesitation, step up to the X-act, and check the feel when the box arrives.
• Versus TuxMat: a different design, with a textured vinyl top over a foam core that extends up the sidewalls, so it covers more and answers the slick-tray complaint in wet, cold weather. The stitching on a truck set's door-sill side has started to fray, and it costs more than the WeatherBeater.
• Versus the 3D MAXpider Kagu: the cheaper alternative on the F-150 SuperCrew we compared, and the one we'd point you to if the Husky looks too utilitarian or feels too slick for your taste.

Installing it

There's not much to it, and Husky's 15-minute figure is generous. Pull the factory mats out first. Stacking a liner on top of a carpet mat is how it ends up riding forward into the pedals, and WeatherTech says outright that its liners need the factory mats removed. Set the driver's side first, press it into the footwell, and before you drive, push the accelerator and brake through their full travel to make sure nothing catches.

Then do the rear. On trucks with rear under-seat storage, confirm the liner you bought matches your setup before you fight with it, because the storage versions are separate parts. Husky says no trimming is needed, and the trimming reports we know of, for a fuel-door or trunk release, all come from cars.

Where we land on the WeatherBeater

Buy the WeatherBeater if you want a liner that covers the footrest, stays planted on the carpet and has a record of lasting most of a decade, for noticeably less than a WeatherTech. That covers most truck owners, especially in salt and slush country, and work trucks too. It's as hard as the original FloorLiner, so you can pull it and dump it the same way, and studded wading boots and steel toes haven't hurt it. The exception is a vinyl floor: the F-150 front pair and sets we confirmed say they need factory carpet, and so does the T1XX Crew Cab set. Match the listing to your cab, storage and transmission, and read the box label before you install.

Go elsewhere if softness or grip underfoot comes first. Husky's X-act Contour or WeatherTech's HP will feel better under your boots, and a TuxMat covers more carpet with a different surface. If you're torn between this and a standard WeatherTech FloorLiner, we'd take the Husky, mostly for the price and the edges that stay flat, and we'd go in knowing the WeatherTech has slightly taller walls.