I bought my new '06 Lariat (S-Crew, 5.4L, 3.73, Black on Black) a few weeks ago (and love it, by the way). I negotiated in my deal a Rhino Liner. I picked up the truck from the dealer yesterday after install and although I looked it over pretty good at the dealer (looked for solid contact at the edges - no early peeling, looked for potential overspray). One of the things I did not notice until I got home was that the bed does not sit flush in the corners - there is a gap in the corners where the sides of the bed meet the back of the bed near the cab of the truck... I know that there are 'slits' where the floor of the bed meets the back wall to allow for drainage, but I did not think this existed in the corners. I also thought that as I drove the rig today that the bed seemed to jump around a little more than it should, but that may have been only because I noticed the corners not meeting flush and started to worry about the bed not being secured correctly.... is there a way, outside of taking it to the dealer, to insure the corners not meeting flush is OK, and that the bed is attached correctly?

 

Well, you could go look at another '06 with the same bed. And they shouldn't have removed the bed to spray in the liner.

 

they definently removed the bolts that bolt down the bed.... i assumed this was to move the bed to coat the back wall of the truck bed? maybe a bad assumption on may part. i'll head over to the dealer and take a look at other '06s beds to see if they sit flush in the corners.

 

I'm not a 150 owner, they didn't do anything to the bed on my 350 when they put the Rhino liner in, so maybe they do take the bolts out to spray--I assumed they just put a cap on the bolt tops and peeled or cut it off the bolts after it cures.

 

good point - that may have been what they did - it just looked like the bolts were put on after the liner cured... there is a liner guy in the forum, maybe he will reply?

 

Why don't you simply call the Rhino installer that did the job and ask him. He's got your money, give HIM a chance to give you the details on how he sprayed your bed.

 

who asked you to inject any kind of logic into the discussion?

 

You did !!

 

so i looked at some other new model F150's... turns out that ford not only has the slits at the corner of the bed floor meeting the back bed wall at the cab, but has molded slits in the corners as well (for water drainage i assume) - so this is normal.

i think i was just paranoid about my new truck - this was me stepping up to 'the truck i always wanted' after a good review, so i am a little protective... it will kill me to go get the first 'spring load' of plants, bark dust, topsoil for the sprucing up of the yard

thanks for the replies.... even the damned logical ones!