2022 Ford Maverick Hybrid OE Floor Mats

5/21/2022

The Hybrid floor mats have been dif­fi­cult to find and buy since I first bought the car in Jan­u­ary 2022. On top of it, after­mar­ket deal­ers like Weath­ertech, Husky Lin­ers, and Tux­Mat offer for the gas Mav­er­ick and not the Hybrid. First, I went with the Weath­ertech cut-your­self-mats, and then the OE mats became avail­able so I bought them.

Weath­ertech Trim-to-Fit Floor­mats

Ford OE Hybrid Floor­mats

Notes

The OE floor­mats are stiff and mild­ly flex­i­ble, but they fit snug­ly espe­cial­ly in the back. The dri­ver’s mat snaps well into exist­ing nip­ple-like hold­ers. The pas­sen­ger has one, too, but the floor­mat only has a cir­cu­lar cutout to fit over top of it. They look good in the car and have a cov­er for the hump in the back. The back mats come in 2 pieces. The instruc­tions call for the flap to be placed under the pas­sen­ger-side floor mat. Own­ers have expressed dis­like of the fact that Ford did not extend the mat cov­er­age under­neath the gas ped­al. Most like­ly, this is for safety/liability rea­sons.

Usage: After 2 weeks, I like it. Used through heavy rain so far with no obvi­ous slip­ping of my shoes. The dri­ver side has yet to move as I step in, thanks to the floor fasters. No pas­sen­gers have com­plained as of now. Looks good and sleek.

The Weath­ertech Trim-to-Fit floor­mats are very flop­py and mal­leable, and I’d describe it as soft yet stur­dy. It comes with attach­able floor grips for the dri­ver’s side, but I still felt like it would slide a lit­tle when I stepped into the cab. Grip­pi­ness is mod­er­ate, and I was not afraid of my shoes slip­ping when they were wet. I was more wor­ried about the mat hold­ing still because those red things are not very use­ful. Since I am no longer using them as floor mats, they now work fan­tas­ti­cal­ly as a bar­ri­er and tail­gate pro­tec­tor when I’m load­ing, unload­ing, and dri­ving with things like stones and pavers.

Weath­erTech’s car­pet secur­ers whose points end­ed up bent after about 3 or so weeks of use. The Mav­er­ick­’s nip­ple-fas­ten­er things basi­cal­ly made the Weath­erTech mat puffy and not ide­al

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Screws took a T45 dri­ver bit.

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.