Tag: Cheap

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!

2022 Ford Maverick Wood Bed Dividers

  • Cost: $8
  • I used one 2″ x 6″ and one 1″ x 4″ with small­er cut pieces screwed on in order to make the 2″ width.
  • You can see that the 2″ x 6″ in the rear of the pic­ture (near the cab) fits per­fect­ly in the built-in slot, while the front of the pic­ture (near the tail­gate) would like­ly fit two 2“x6” pieces or three 2“x 4″ pieces.
  • Because my bed is un-lined, I did­n’t ful­ly fol­low the mea­sure­ments for the wood put forth by Ford in their videos. They men­tioned that you don’t want a tight fit, but rather an easy fit. The final mea­sure­ments for my dividers (after 4 or 5 attempts) are:
    • Pos­te­ri­or (towards the tail­gate): 54.375 inch­es (54–3/8″ or 138.1125 cm)
    • Ante­ri­or (towards the cab): 43.5 inch­es (43–1/2″ or 110.49 cm)\

Notes

  • Remem­ber that my bed has no lin­er in it at all.
  • My ini­tial thought was to make the boards fit more snug­ly so that they won’t rat­tle on the road, but I end­ed up with too tight a fit, strug­gled to get the piece out, and end­ed up goug­ing the paint. In the end, they fit loose­ly, but I hear no noise while dri­ving.
  • The 2“x6” is rather weighty, so if I were to redo this, I’d do what I did for the ante­ri­or piece and use the 1“x4” with screwed on end pieces to fit. Try­ing to reach into the bed and lift the 2“x6” with one hand is dif­fi­cult
  • The ante­ri­or divi­sion clos­est to the tail­gate is the per­fect-sized space for filled reusable gro­cery bags