How To Measure Your Truck Bed For A Tonneau Cover

Get the truck bed s length.

How to measure your truck bed for a tonneau cover.

Step 2 moving along your bed rail extend the measuring tape to the inside edge of the top of your tailgate. So if your truck bed measures 76 you can go with the product listed for a 6 5 foot bed. Put down the tailgate and stand at the end of the bed. Most bed lengths of tonneau covers are rounded so your number should be within in 1 2 inches.

Record the measurement in inches. Your truck bed length is determined by the distance between the inside of your tailgate and the inside of the bulkhead. When you measure truck bed length you may find that the exact number does not match any lengths listed on our product pages. Use measure and start from the bulkhead of your truck and measure all the way to the inside edge of the tailgate.

Convert inches to feet. Place your measuring tape at the bulkhead of your truck bed. This is the first thing you need to know and for some trucks the only thing. Measure your truck bed length.

Measure the distance between the bed rails starting from inside to inside of the rail. Extend the measuring tape to the far end of the bed in the center and up against the bulkhead. That s because most truck and accessory companies round off their measurements to the nearest half foot. Take the measurements from where the tailgate begins until where the bed ends.

The last measurement you will need is the length of the truck bed. Your new tonneau cover must be an inch or half an inch less the dimensions you get here. Extend your measuring tape longways in the center of the bed to the far end up against the bulkhead.