How To Measure Your Truck Bed For A Tonneau Cover

Record the measurement in inches.

How to measure your truck bed for a tonneau cover.

Place your measuring tape at the bulkhead of your truck bed. Measure the distance between the bed rails starting from inside to inside of the rail. Use measure and start from the bulkhead of your truck and measure all the way to the inside edge of the tailgate. Get the truck bed s length.

Extend the measuring tape to the far end of the bed in the center and up against the bulkhead. Take the measurements from where the tailgate begins until where the bed ends. Most bed lengths of tonneau covers are rounded so your number should be within in 1 2 inches. When you measure truck bed length you may find that the exact number does not match any lengths listed on our product pages.

That s because most truck and accessory companies round off their measurements to the nearest half foot. The last measurement you will need is the length of the truck bed. Measure your truck bed length. Put down the tailgate and stand at the end of the bed.

Step 2 moving along your bed rail extend the measuring tape to the inside edge of the top of your tailgate. Extend your measuring tape longways in the center of the bed to the far end up against the bulkhead. This is the first thing you need to know and for some trucks the only thing. First up bed length.

Your truck bed length is determined by the distance between the inside of your tailgate and the inside of the bulkhead. So if your truck bed measures 76 you can go with the product listed for a 6 5 foot bed. Your new tonneau cover must be an inch or half an inch less the dimensions you get here.