Bed floor separation / gap from side of bed - normal or issue?

[Arukoru]

I'm not sure how we got a bunch of clueless responses after this has been answered.

In conclusion, yes! This is intentional and fine.

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[notfast]

Pickup beds aren't air- or water-tight. But to me, it does seem odd that they opted not to put seam sealer there. The bed should have plenty of drainage already because of the holes in the bed pan at the front wall (closest to the cab).

If it were me and I got no support from Ford, I'd just put a thin bead of general purpose silicone adhesive such as Permatex 80855. Strong enough to keep the dust and water out, but easy enough to remove should the bed pan have to be replaced.

 

[jtpc2021]

I was unloading my gold clubs from the back of my Maverick and noticed light coming through from the underside of bed between bed and floor of bed. This can not be a good thing as it looks like the bedside and floor are not connected. The other side looks fine. I am heading to the dealer to see what they have to say. I am very unhappy about this because I love the truck and now I have concerns

Normal.

 

[TSAINTS1115]

I'm thinking it's their to help drain the seam and the spray liner filled it in a bit. If anything it should probably be a little larger.

 

[James]

It looks like the spot welds didn't knit the two panels together in a small area when the robots assembled the body. It does not appear to structurally weaken the bed and attempts to reweld the area would destroy any corrosion resistance/zinc primer that was applied at the factory. Report this with documentation and pictures to Ford and your Ford dealer in case there is a recall in the future. I would not do anything to seal up the area immediately unless a lot of water and dirt is being flung into the bed interior, wait for instructions or advice from the Ford factory rep. This is just what I would do, thanks for listening to my opinion.

 

[Shay]

They are all that way, for drainage

 

[James]

They are all that way, for drainage

My dealer has one on the lot and is only 1 mile away, I'll try to look tomorrow and see it it is the same. I didn't notice it when I looked at the truck before. You are probably right, you have seen many more Mavericks than I have. Thanks

 

[PostaL]

I would be worried about the edges not being protected by paint or bed lined and bare metal being exposed. Fords way of making sure the bed rust out so you have to buy another vehicle

 

[Arukoru]

I'm not sure how we got a bunch of clueless responses after this has been answered.

In conclusion, yes! This is intentional and fine.

It continues! End the madness!

 

[Big_T]

It continues! End the madness!

It seems we're out of control....

 

[BMCGC]

Listen to Oddball.

 

[NoTrueMavOwner]

This is such bad news. As any reasonable man/sportsman (Skier) would, I had planned on making this my aquatic exploring vehicle.

 

[Bodageta]

You need to make sure no spotwelds were missed. I am a former reliability engineer with similar industry experience. It’s more common than you would think for an early production vehicle and maybe even later miss spotwelds. Usually in the things I’ve been involved with there were enough welds that the missing welds had negligible effects on structural rigidity which would have never been noticed by the customer. If your whole seam is designed to have periodic spot welds and they are missing or missed their mark then that’s a big deal. If not missing welds likely no big deal. Just cosmetic. I wouldn’t take a dealers word for it. I would make them show me and prove that the left and right sides are equivalently joined.

 

[Mikknj]

This should help:

at 3:27 min in the video where Ford is building a Maverick you will see the gap in the 2 panels -
it appears they don't fill that with calk. Don't know why but it seems normal production design element.

 

[ArkansasMaverick]

wow GOLD clubs ... I gotta see those

He must be quite the golfer to have gold clubs

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