Month: February 2022

2022 Ford Maverick DIY Bed Mat

Writ­ten: Feb­ru­ary 23, 2022

  • Cost: $22
  • Time: 1 hour or so
  • I decid­ed to install a DIY floor bed mat in lieu of an offi­cial Ford Bed Mat ($140!) or anoth­er after­mar­ket one, because I’d already spent way too much mon­ey on this truck.
  • Bought gym mat foam floor­ing with which I have much expe­ri­ence over the years doing craft projects, in the home gym, and using in the back of my Out­back for the dogs, pavers, plants, etc. They are tough yet cushy. Easy to clean. Easy to replace. Afford­able.
  • Oth­er sup­plies: Sharpie, Strong Scis­sors (this type of foam will kill scis­sors)

Tips

  • I decid­ed to use the edg­ing pieces as edge guards, but you don’t have to and could just cut the nubs off.
  • Since the pieces don’t fit 100%, I just traced the lock­ing nubs to make my own inter­lock so that they would be more secure-fit.
  • Your choice to add tape on the under­side or even glue them togeth­er
  • If you use the floor anchors, don’t for­get to cut out the foam around it. I decid­ed not to use mine.
  • Sad­ly, I for­got about the inter­lock­ing thing towards the tail­gate, but I don’t feel like doing it again.
  • For a clean­er look, use the Sharpie on the under­side of the foam pieces
  • Adher­ing the pieces togeth­er will pre­vent them from com­ing apart eas­i­ly. You can use rub­ber cement or oth­er adhe­sives to achieve this
  • If you get Sharpie in unwant­ed places, use rub­bing alco­hol
  • This isn’t real­ly a tip, but I just want­ed to men­tion that plac­ing this foam down makes sit­ting or kneel­ing or stand­ing in the bed much nicer on the butt and back and hands. Warmer, too.
Heavy Duty Scis­sors
Inter­lock­ing foam floor­ing
Don’t quite fit
Turned the edges up
Snip off the nubs for flush­er fit
Draw­ing marks to cut
Trac­ing inter­lock­ing por­tion
Cut­ting out inter­lock­ing por­tion
End Result!
See the non-inter­lock­ing pieces. Oops.
Was able to mold around arch­es
🙂

In Use

I have decid­ed that the bed mat will not be tem­po­rary and that I am so glad I decid­ed to use the gym mat foam. Loaded up some soil and oth­er things from a home improve­ment place. They’re easy to slide things back and forth on and I don’t have to wor­ry about scratch­es or dirt or water. I real­ly like this option. As a side note, the ante­ri­or wood divider fits per­fect­ly long­ways in the bed.

Only halfway filled up!
4 new tires just fit
Even under the ton­neau cov­er!

Alpine S‑S65 for 2022 Ford Maverick

I men­tioned before that I bought the cheap­est option truck because I care most­ly about the hybrid and the abil­i­ty to DIY stuff. Well. The sound sys­tem is def­i­nite­ly cheap. TOO cheap, in fact. It sounds absolute­ly ter­ri­ble and I got tired of it, so I decid­ed to buy new ones.

Now, this is nei­ther a guide nor gallery of process pho­tos like I nor­mal­ly do, because I did not install it. There are plen­ty of videos on YouTube to view if you are curi­ous.

All I can say is, WOW, it sounds so much bet­ter, so if you are on the fence about upgrad­ing your speak­ers for your Mav­er­ick, do it!

These are fac­to­ry speak­ers. They cost $27 from Ford
Appar­ent­ly small mag­nets mean cheap in speak­ers and this is SMALL.

For those of us who don’t want to deal with amps and sol­der­ing, etc, for this car, just do the front door speak­ers. My base XL came with 6 speak­ers: 2 tweet­ers in the dash near the wind­shield, 2 car door speak­ers, and then 2 basi­cal­ly tweet­ers in the pil­lars in the back. The tweet­ers are very small in the front and hard to work with, and worse for the back, so I opt­ed to leave them alone and just get 2‑way speak­ers for the door.

This is what the inside of the door looks like
This is the back­side of the door trim

I end­ed up going to Best Buy after pok­ing around online, so that I could hear the dif­fer­ent audio sys­tems that they had. Ulti­mate­ly, I chose the Alpine S‑S65 2‑way 6–1/2″ speak­ers.

Items Need­ed: Speak­ers, Metra speak­er wiring har­ness adapter from Crutch­field (Bron­co Sport works per­fect­ly for the Mav­er­ick which Crutch­field has noth­ing for yet), and Metra speak­er mount­ing brack­ets.

Like night and day dif­fer­ence. 🙂