Bed liner

[LuvMyTruck]

I have a 2002 Ford Ranger XL (white truck)with a 7 ft. bed. I recently found a 7 ft.bed liner In a 1992 Ranger XL (red truck). Will it fit my 2002?

 

[19Walt93]

I have a 2002 Ford Ranger XL (white truck)with a 7 ft. bed. I recently found a 7 ft.bed liner In a 1992 Ranger XL (red truck). Will it fit my 2002?

I don't think so, I believe 93-2011 interchange but not the earlier ones. My friend is closing up his used car dealership, last I knew he had 3 Ford bedliners for your truck,after I took one for mine.

 

[RonD]

1983 to 1992 beds were 2" narrower than 1993-2011

 

[JoshT]

1983 to 1992 beds were 2" narrower than 1993-2011

Inside or outside? If inside, I learnt something new. I thought the inside was essentially unchanged from 82 until when ever they added the extra bed bolts.

 

[RonD]

You may be right, according to this just the outside dimensions of the bed changed: https://www.therangerstation.com/tech/ford-ranger-dimensions/

67" to 69" overall width
But inside seemed to stay the same

Learn something new every day

So bedliners should fit any year style side 6ft

 

[Josh B]

My 87/88 whatever it was had a bed mat which fit perfectly, and when I got the 93 I moved it over. It was a good bit longer, rolled up a bit in front, fit the wheel wells, fit the sides, and rolled up a smidge on the tailgate, which is absolutely no problem, it doesn't hamper me open or closing the tailgate.
That rear gas filler thing doesn't exactly fit right either but it doesn't bother anything

 

[JoshT]

My 87/88 whatever it was had a bed mat which fit perfectly, and when I got the 93 I moved it over. It was a good bit longer, rolled up a bit in front, fit the wheel wells, fit the sides, and rolled up a smidge on the tailgate, which is absolutely no problem, it doesn't hamper me open or closing the tailgate.
That rear gas filler thing doesn't exactly fit right either but it doesn't bother anything

That sounds like long bed vs short bed.

 

[Josh B]

True, but I think the 93 bed is as long as it gets with the supercab. The 87 was a short cab, long bed. It fit the 93 well enough I just decided to keep it.

 

[Josh B]

I was a big reader of the papers then, Nashville had 2, Tennessean morning and Banner afternoon. When I had time off I'd read them both, at least the high spots.
In 96 I began looking for another truck, and knowing in those years Ford was actually selling them at not much more than cost, due to the extreme competition of Nissan, Toyota, Gobbledegook and others I looked only at the truck columns of Ford F150s and Ranger
At 6am I was about 15 minutes to downtown, at 9am I was about 3 hours.
About 4am I took off to the paper and pulled into the main office parking lot as they brought out the first stack of papers. Went to a coffee shop and checked the ads, at 9a I was looking at my new truck. I had looked at 2 previous and the tailpipe swipe killed them both, but this one was clean
It had 234K when I got it, has almost 400K now, been a real good truck

 

[scotts90ranger]

I've heard repeatedly the inner bed stamping is the same for the whole run from '83-11 at least on the standard 6' beds and 7' beds

 

[JoshT]

True, but I think the 93 bed is as long as it gets with the supercab. The 87 was a short cab, long bed. It fit the 93 well enough I just decided to keep it.

There were only two bed lengths available prior to the reintroduction. 6 foot short bed and 7 foot long bed. All extended cabs came with the short bed. Regular cabs could come with the short or long bed, but you said yours was long. As I said sounds like short bed vs long bed.

I can't say exactly where the 12" was added, but IIRC the wheel base on the regular cabs was 6" longer, so likely evenly split to the front and rear of the bed. So if your liner were centered on the wheel wells it would be approximately 6" too long to the front and rear of the bed.

 

[00t444e]

I wouldn't use one of those if it was free, they trap moisture and rust the bed out underneath, had 3 trucks that did that, spray in bedliner is the way to go.

 

[Josh B]

There were only two bed lengths available prior to the reintroduction. 6 foot short bed and 7 foot long bed. All extended cabs came with the short bed. Regular cabs could come with the short or long bed, but you said yours was long. As I said sounds like short bed vs long bed.

I can't say exactly where the 12" was added, but IIRC the wheel base on the regular cabs was 6" longer, so likely evenly split to the front and rear of the bed. So if your liner were centered on the wheel wells it would be approximately 6" too long to the front and rear of the bed.

My 88 was a long bed, my 93 is whatever came with a supercab.
You're right on the front, it rolls up about 6 inches. I like that because it gives the bed a pad in case I haul something heavy it wants to slide, which it wouldn't do on a rubber mat anyway.

The tail end only rolls up a couple inches, giving it a bit of wind resistance curl in case I want to hyper-mile a ways

Each time I've cleaned it out the bed has shown no excessive rust spots, seems this pad has little rounded dots speckled across the bottom that gives it a better lift than if it were plum flat, so any water easily drains

 

[scotts90ranger]

I wouldn't use one of those if it was free, they trap moisture and rust the bed out underneath, had 3 trucks that did that, spray in bedliner is the way to go.

My '97 has a drop in liner for many more years than the 4 I've had it and the bed is perfect underneath other than some slight scuffing, but I'm not in the rust belt... I've had a bed mat in the '90 for over 20 years and it's just fine too... I've heard that repeated all the time about them rusting the bed out, I think the moral of the story is just not to live in the rust belt...