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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 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.