WeatherTech FloorLiner vs TuxMat: Coverage Wins Unless You Need a Tray

Of these two, buy TuxMat. On the F-150 SuperCrew the two sets cost about the same, and for that money TuxMat covers more of the cab floor, gives surer footing under a wet boot and hasn't developed the edge curling that follows the FloorLiner around. We score TuxMat 7.0 and the FloorLiner 6.3. They're built on opposite ideas: TuxMat is a textured vinyl top over an EVA foam core, cut to run up the sides of each footwell, while the FloorLiner is a stiff, laser-measured TPE tray with a wall on every side.

The FloorLiner earns its place when the floor has to hold liquid. A tray keeps a knocked-over drink, a footwell of snowmelt or a day of fishing runoff inside its walls until you lift it out and tip it, and TuxMat holds less. An owner who has run all three big brands keeps TuxMat in day to day and puts a WeatherTech tray back in for fishing trips.

Neither one is the floor liner we'd put in most trucks. That's the Husky WeatherBeater, which beats both in our head-to-heads: a tray about as hard as the FloorLiner that draws far fewer curling reports, covers the footrest by its owners' accounts and costs noticeably less than either set here. What follows is for owners who want one of these two anyway, for TuxMat's coverage or WeatherTech's warranty.

It isn't a rout, for two reasons. TuxMat hasn't been around long, and its oldest sets are about three years old, while older FloorLiner sets have lasted the life of a truck. And if it's the FloorLiner's hard, slippery feel that bothers you, WeatherTech's softer FloorLiner HP is the closer rival to TuxMat; we haven't reviewed it.

Where each one comes out ahead

TuxMat leads on:

• Reach: its sides climb the footwell walls and stretch toward the sills and seat bases. The FloorLiner's walls stop lower, and WeatherTech's own FAQ says manufacturing limits can cap some of them.
• Footing: the vinyl top gives a little underfoot and stays less slippery with snow on your soles. A slick top when wet is one of the FloorLiner's most repeated complaints.
• Edges: no sign of the curling that is the FloorLiner's most common complaint by a wide margin. TuxMat's weak spot so far is its stitching.
• Install: TuxMat quotes under five minutes, tool-free and with no trimming. WeatherTech gives no install time and molds trim lines into some sets.

The FloorLiner leads on:

• Holding a spill: a raised wall on every side makes a basin that keeps standing water, slush and mud contained until you pour them out. TuxMat lets more get away when the spill is large.
• Track record: one Wisconsin truck went 15 years on a single set. No TuxMat has been on sale long enough to show what it looks like at ten.
• Warranty wording: WeatherTech's covers defects in materials and workmanship, and it has swapped out a curled set. TuxMat's covers manufacturing defects and carves out normal wear and tear.

What they share: each set is cut for a single vehicle and sold by cab, seats and rear storage, neither maker lists weight or load figures, and both warranties stop with the person who bought the set. We confirmed listings from both makers for three of our trucks, the Gen14 F-150, the T1XX Silverado 1500 and the 4th gen Tacoma, though on the Tacoma the two confirmed sets don't name the same version of the truck.

The spec sheets side by side

Every cell below is taken from the makers themselves: WeatherTech's and TuxMat's product pages, FAQs and warranty terms.

No weight or load figure is published by either company. WeatherTech builds the FloorLiner in the USA and sells it only as pairs or full sets, which means a ruined driver's piece costs you a pair.

Two lines from the makers deserve a second look. TuxMat's line about protecting up to 2.5 times more carpet is measured against a 2025 Tesla Model Y's factory mats, so it says nothing about TuxMat against a FloorLiner in a pickup. TuxMat does cover more; nobody publishes by how much. WeatherTech, for its part, answers a question in its own FAQ about why the driver's dead pedal is only partly covered, which tells you where its walls fall short.

Walls that hold or sides that cover

These two guard the floor in opposite ways. The FloorLiner is built to contain: a stiff tray lipped on all four sides, so whatever lands in the footwell stays put until you carry the liner out and tip it. TuxMat is built to cover: there's no deep basin to hold a puddle, but its soft sides run higher up the footwell and out toward the sill and the seat bases, where a tray leaves carpet showing. If your mess arrives wet and all at once, the tray wins. If it's grit, salt and slush tracked in a little at a time across the whole floor, coverage wins.

The dead pedal, the footrest left of the brake, is a known gap for the FloorLiner. WeatherTech's FAQ says manufacturing limits leave it partly bare on some vehicles, and owners report anything from half of it covered to none. Whether TuxMat does better there we can't say: its product pages never bring up the footrest, and no owner has reported on it either way. Check the listing photos for your exact cab first.

At the sill the FloorLiner is tidier than its reputation. WeatherTech says it sits flush with or covers a sill that's level with the floor, and on a contoured floor climbs to the sill without fully covering it, and Tacoma owners like how closely it follows the edge. TuxMat reaches for the sill by design, and the reach can overdo it: a set in a Tesla Model Y (a car, not a truck) dragged on the bottoms of the doors and caught the seats when they slid forward.

TuxMat takes fit and coverage, 7.7 to 6.8. No floor liner we've reviewed covers more carpet, and its top is the easier one to stand on in winter; it misses an 8 because it contains less, truck fit reports are thin and its reach can rub. Most FloorLiners fit crisply out of the box. The partly covered dead pedal, a minority of sets that never fit and a liner that wanders wherever the truck has no retention post keep it lower.

Curling, stitching and what the warranties do about them

Durability is where the FloorLiner's reputation suffers most. The rigid core that gives it such a sharp fit is also why its edges cup and lift over time, worst in heat, until dirt slips underneath; a truck's rear liner can curl far enough to catch the door. The material itself seldom cracks or wears through; it's the shape that goes. Four owners think newer sets aren't as good as the old ones, though none of them names the WeatherTech line.

TuxMat's trouble so far is different and milder. Two truck sets have loose stitching: the door-sill seam on one in use for over a year, and a few spots on an F-150 Lightning set two years in, whose owner says they'd buy it again. Against a product whose oldest sets are about three years old, that's a short record with a mild flaw, and its ten-year story hasn't been written.

The warranties meet those failures differently. WeatherTech's covers defects in materials and workmanship for the original purchaser in the original vehicle, and it has replaced a curled set on a Tacoma. TuxMat's covers manufacturing defects and leaves out normal wear and tear, and a fraying seam could be ruled exactly that; filing a claim takes the order number plus photos. Neither one carries over to a second owner or a different truck.

TuxMat takes durability, 6.5 to 6.0. The margin is small: it rests on TuxMat not curling, and it's held down by a record a fraction as long as WeatherTech's.

Underfoot in snow and rain

Winter favors TuxMat. Any hard tray turns slippery once a wet or snowy boot lands on it, and WeatherTech draws that complaint more often than Husky does. TuxMat's textured vinyl stays less slippery and has some give, and one truck owner, more than a year into a set, rates it the only mat worth owning in a wet or cold climate. It won't feel grippy; the top is smooth, just kinder than hard plastic when wet.

Slush doesn't sink TuxMat either. The fear with a foam core is that it soaks up water and stays damp, but a water-resistant vinyl skin covers that foam, and sets in cars that live through salt-and-slush winters have come out looking new. Where the FloorLiner pulls ahead is volume: a footwell of meltwater stays in the tray until you dump it. If a TuxMat sill seam opens, that's where we'd expect water to reach the foam first, so watch it. Clean each the maker's way: WeatherTech says to keep silicone protectants such as Armor All off the FloorLiner, and TuxMat's warranty excludes damage from the wrong cleaning methods or chemicals such as gas or bleach.

Trucks with a confirmed set from each

Both makers split their sets by cab and, on several trucks, by seats or rear storage too. Every listing named here was confirmed on its own Amazon product page, and each pick's fitment table spells out that listing's limits.

• F-150 (Gen14, 2021 on): both, and the rear-seat storage decides the set. TuxMat's confirmed SuperCrew set is for trucks without the optional lockable fold-out storage under the rear seat. WeatherTech sells two SuperCrew sets that aren't interchangeable: one for front buckets with the rear fold-flat storage box, one for a front bench without it. Each maker names that storage its own way, so lift the rear cushion and check what's there against the listing. WeatherTech also has a SuperCab set whose title and bullets name different cabs, and its bench SuperCrew and SuperCab sets cover the Gen13 (2015-2020) too, where we confirmed no TuxMat listing.
• Silverado 1500 (T1XX, 2019 on): both for the Crew Cab, with a storage catch. The TuxMat listing is limited to Crew Cabs that have the optional lidless storage under the rear seat. One WeatherTech Crew Cab set is listed for a front bench with no 4x4 shifter and no rear underseat storage box, which reads like a different layout from the one TuxMat's set is cut for; the other WeatherTech listing gives no seat or storage note, so confirm it. Both WeatherTech listings name the Sierra 1500, and we didn't confirm the Sierra's separate TuxMat listing. For a 2019, make sure the truck is a T1XX and not the carryover Silverado 1500 LD or Sierra 1500 Limited GM sold new that year.
• Tacoma (4th gen, 2024 on): both, but the two confirmed listings don't name the same truck. WeatherTech's is for an automatic Double Cab and never mentions the Hybrid; TuxMat's is for the Hybrid and gives no cab note. So neither listing tells a Hybrid Double Cab owner that both sets fit. TuxMat also lists a gas Double Cab set, automatic only, that we couldn't confirm.
• TuxMat only: the Ram 1500 (DT) Crew Cab for 2019-2024, which the listing says won't fit the Ram 1500 Classic; the 3rd gen Tacoma Double Cab, 2016-2023, automatic only; and the 3rd gen Tundra CrewMax, hybrid included. WeatherTech's own site lists FloorLiners for those trucks, but we haven't confirmed an Amazon listing, so they appear as search links: check fit for your truck.
• Maverick, Ranger and Colorado/Canyon: no confirmed Amazon listing from either maker, though both list sets on their own sites, and TuxMat rules out a Ranger with a vinyl floor. These rows are search links too.

Price, value and installing them

On the two trucks where both makers have a confirmed set for the same cab, price barely separates them: the F-150 SuperCrew sets cost about the same, and on the Silverado Crew Cab the WeatherTech costs a little more. TuxMat charges one set price on every truck we confirmed. So the choice comes down to coverage and footing against capacity and track record. The Husky WeatherBeater, our pick over both, costs noticeably less than either, and the unreviewed 3D MAXpider Kagu in the picks costs less still for one F-150 layout.

TuxMat takes value, 6.5 to 6.0, because the same money buys more coverage and a floor that's easier to stand on in winter. Neither warranty is a reason to pay more: WeatherTech's wording reaches a little further, TuxMat's excludes wear and tear, and both end when the set changes hands.

Whichever you choose, pull the factory mats before it goes in. WeatherTech calls their removal imperative for a proper install, and a liner stacked on a carpet mat can shift or ride up under the pedals. Both attach to the factory retention posts. TuxMat's clips are the ongoing chore, since every cleaning means unclipping the set and seating the clips again. A FloorLiner with no post under it wanders, and the front passenger side of the 2nd gen Tundra is the known case.

After either goes in, press the accelerator and brake to the floor, run each front seat all the way forward and back, and close every door. On Teslas, FloorLiners have bulged up by the accelerator, and TuxMat's extra reach is what finds doors and seats.

Choose by the job

• Commuting or family hauling in snow country: TuxMat. It covers the carpet edges a tray leaves bare and keeps your footing when the boots come in wet. Look the sill seam over now and then.
• Fishing, hunting and soaked gear: a tray, and the Husky WeatherBeater first: it costs less and draws far fewer curling complaints. If it has to be one of these two, the FloorLiner holds standing water and lifts out to pour.
• Mud and gravel every day: a tray again. Nothing we've seen shows how TuxMat's foam copes with grit ground into it, and a stiff liner you can hose off is the safer bet. The WeatherBeater first, then the FloorLiner.
• A truck that bakes in the sun: TuxMat or the WeatherBeater. Heat speeds up FloorLiner curling, and TuxMat has no comparable curling record.
• A cab only one maker confirms: buy the brand with a confirmed listing for your exact cab, seats and rear storage, then run the pedals, seats and doors through their travel before the first drive.

TuxMat over the FloorLiner, the Husky over both

Between these two, buy TuxMat. At about the same price it covers more, it's kinder to your footing in winter and it hasn't shown the curling that defines the FloorLiner's failures. Order the set that matches your cab and rear storage, and watch the stitching along the door sill.

Buy a tray when the job is liquid: fish, slush by the bucket, a dog straight out of the lake. The FloorLiner handles that and has the longer history, but the Husky WeatherBeater does the same job for less with flatter edges, and it's the floor liner we'd put in most trucks ahead of either of these. If you like WeatherTech and dislike the hard feel, the FloorLiner HP is its softer line; we haven't reviewed it.