Tag: 2022 Maverick

2022 Ford Maverick Tie Down Anchors

Writ­ten: Feb­ru­ary 23, 2022 — Updat­ed: Decem­ber 30, 2022

The 2022 Ford Mav­er­ick requires Ford OE anchors (as of right now). When I first bought the truck, these pic­tures were of the Curt brand D‑ring anchors I found. At the time, nei­ther they nor any oth­er D‑ring anchor out there fit.

Curt 1–1/2″ hole
Uh oh…
Bot­tom hole is cen­tered

Ford OEM D‑Ring Floor Anchors

Ford now offers the D‑ring anchors on their parts site. You can find them here: D‑rings (Comes 1 per pack­age) and screws (Comes 4 per pack­age)

Materials

  • Need­ed: T‑Handle Ratch­et­ing Tap Wrench, M8 x 1.25 thread tap, cut­ting oil, Qty: 2 - Hook Tie Down — Rear, Cen­ter — Part #: NZ6Z60550A74A, Qty 1: Screw — Part #: W721941S450B
  • Cost: $105.98 (2 D‑rings) + $9.90 (1 pkg screws) + tax = $122.84
  • Dif­fi­cul­ty: Easy
  • Time: Around 5 min­utes a hole

Install

My tap and die set. You only need the M8x1.25 tap and wrench
Ratch­et­ing wrench with tap
1.25

Watched a few YouTube videos first. I seemed pret­ty straight­for­ward. I’d been lol­ly­gag­ging on instal­la­tion because I was ner­vous that I’d mess up and break the tap. It’s real­ly not hard, in fact it’s quite easy once you get through the first hole tap­ping.

All that’s need­ed to do it
Vir­gin holes
Dry-fit

Basi­cal­ly, you don’t want to force it. Get the cut­ting oil on there. The begin­ning is the most cru­cial part in get­ting it lev­el and threads start­ed. Some down­ward force is need­ed right in the begin­ning, but as soon as the tap can stand up on its own, then it’s time let the tap do its thing by just turn­ing the han­dles. The ratch­et­ing func­tion was para­mount for the Mav­er­ick giv­en how close the holes are to the bed sides. Turn the tap and feel it cut until you feel resis­tance. Then turn it the oppo­site direc­tion to clear the met­al shav­ings. Don’t for­get the cut­ting oil. All of the videos instruct­ed a short back-and-forth motion. I found it eas­i­er to tap, then back out a ways, then go for­ward again. Halfway through, I would back it all the way out, clear the shav­ings out, and then go back in to pre­vent it from real­ly get­ting stuck in there.

Just get­ting start­ed
Halfway
Test fit, not quite there

Even­tu­al­ly, when you hit the bot­tom of the hole, it gets super easy. That’s how you know you’re done. When fin­ish­ing, it was much eas­i­er to free the tap from the han­dle and just unscrew it like a reg­u­lar screw­driv­er with­out the ratch­et­ing func­tion.

Right around here, it starts get­ting super easy to tap
Eas­i­er to just ditch the ratch­et­ing han­dle at the end and unscrew it by hand

Yay! I timed the last hole tap and it took me 4 min­utes and 15 sec­onds to do; that’s with me tak­ing my time, back­ing all the way out halfway through, clean­ing up shav­ings. Easy does it. The first one prob­a­bly took some­thing like 10 min­utes. I have to say work­ing around my roll up ton­neau cov­er real­ly gets the back aching. LOL.

Close up of thread­ed
vs. unthread­ed (how the Mav­er­ick comes)

Screws took a T45 dri­ver bit.

T45
Screw it in there!

Boom! Done! MUCH eas­i­er than I thought it’d be!

Bedside Anchors

  • Bed Side Anchors
    • Cost: $20 (4 anchors) + $7.50 (25 screws) = $27.50
    • Bought some anchors off Ama­zon which fit per­fect­ly with the Mav­er­ick­’s pre-drilled, unthread­ed, M6 holes.
    • Also bought M6x1.0 — 25mm screws. Decid­ed on the flange head, but you don’t have to
    • Sad­ly, I nev­er did end up installing these, because I could­n’t find what I did with them, and then I sold the Mav­er­ick.

2022 Ford Maverick Bed Measurements

2022 Ford Mav­er­ick XL Hybrid with Co-Pilot

I got the cheapo cheap­est pack­age (only added the Co-Pilot sys­tem). While it cer­tain­ly feels low cost, this gives me wig­gle room to upgrade!

Includ­ed are some mea­sure­ments I’ve tak­en of the FlexBed, pick­up bed, along with a clos­er look at the fac­to­ry screw holes.

Note: My bed nei­ther has a drop-in nor a spray-in lin­er.

Rear of Bed (near cab)

  • Green: rear wood plank divider slot
  • Blue: widest mea­sure­ment above the wheel wells
  • Yel­low: Indent on top of wheel wells
  • Pink: points to the direc­tion of truck cab, rear wall of bed

Tail­gate

  • Red: max­i­mum width open­ing of the tail­gate
  • Green: Height to top of tail­gate lip from the low­est part of bed floor (the con­cave, not con­vex por­tion of floor ridges)
  • Blue: denotes the tail­gate and both D‑pillars

Bed Side

  • Hot Pink: denotes truck cab, tail­gate, and bed floor
  • Beige: loca­tion and dis­tance between bed­side anchor screw holes
  • Medi­um Pur­ple: dis­tance between first set of bed­side screw holes
  • Orange: dis­tance between sec­ond set of bed­side screw holes
  • Yel­low: dis­tance between third set of bed­side screw holes
  • Light Blue: dis­tance between fourth set of bed­side screw holes
  • Green: length of bed­side screw hole chan­nel
  • Red: length of wheel arch shelf
  • Light Green: Space between rear of bed and rear wood divider
  • Medi­um Blue: approx­i­mate length of groove on top of wheel arch shelf
  • Dark Pur­ple: width of both wood div­er slots
  • Dark Blue: length of wheel arch shelf before it curves to the side of the bed
  • Gold: length of area between D‑Pillar and where the wheel arch starts to curve
  • Light pur­ple: dis­tance from top of bed to floor of bed

Flex Bed Notes

  • The length of the bed = the length of the ante­ri­or wood divider slot (43.5in or 110.49cm), mak­ing the Flex Bed an almost square flat wall to flat wall (see pic­tures at bot­tom of post)
  • The pre-drilled bed side holes are in unequal incre­ments
  • Bed side anchor point holes are all about 2 inch­es apart
  • The Bed­side screw hole chan­nel is use­ful for turn­ing and fit­ting the wood dividers for the flexbed
  • Floor tie down anchor point holes are dif­fer­ent from the bed side ones (scroll down to see more)
  • M6 x 1.0 are rec­om­mend­ed fas­ten­ers (Met­ric), with 1⁄4″ is most sim­i­lar in size (SAE)

Bed Side Anchor (near D‑Pillar)

  • The anchor holes (side and floor) are not thread­ed, so you’d either need self-tap­ping hard­ware or a tap­ping set.
  • Side anchor holes are M6 sized

Bed Floor Tie Down Anchor Point

  • Floor anchor holes are not thread­ed
  • They are larg­er than M6 screws, so are like­ly M8 sized
Hard to find anchors for this hole dis­tance
M6x1.0 is too small

Bed Side Screw Hole

  • Bed Side screw holes are thread­ed
  • M8 screws fit per­fect­ly inside
Thread­ed
M6x1.0 and 1⁄4″ are too small

But the M8x1.25 fits per­fect­ly!!

Pic­tures for Per­spec­tive

You can see the piece of wood which is the ante­ri­or wood divider. It fits per­fect­ly length­wise in the bed. The pos­te­ri­or divider is in place.