How To Measure Truck Bed Size For Tonneau Cover

How to measure your bed size.

How to measure truck bed size for tonneau cover. Measure your truck bed length your truck bed length is determined by the distance between the inside of your tailgate and the inside of the bulkhead. Measure the distance between the bed rails starting from inside to inside of the rail. In order to ensure you re purchasing the correct size for your tonneau cover or bed rails you ll want to make sure that your bed is being measured correctly. Put down the tailgate and stand at the end of the bed.

If you are fitting your truck bed for something like a bed rug or a tonneau cover you may need to know its dimensions in fractions for instance 6 2 feet. Trucks usually come in 2 3 different bed sizes the most common being 5 5 foot 6 5 foot or 8 foot. Divide the number of inches by 12 to determine the length of your truck bed in feet. When you measure truck bed length you may find that the exact number does not match any lengths listed on our product pages.

Moving along your bed rail extend the measuring tape to the inside edge of the top of your tailgate. Get the truck bed s length. I ve already got a tonneau cover so let me just fold this back for you. Take your measurement at where the bed ends and the tailgate begins.

A lot of people think you need to measure the bed rail caps or something like that but you ll need to just extend your tape. Your new tonneau cover must be an inch or half an inch less the dimensions you get here. Record the measurement in inches. First up bed length.

The model that you purchase needs to be the model made specifically for your bed size. You can do this by simply dividing the number of inches your tape measure will show total inches as well as feet by 12.