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Old 10-08-2017, 07:24 AM
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Just wondering..... Do you leave your BoxLink Tie Down Cleats in all the time or do you remove them when not in use?
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I only removed mine when I had Line-X installed.
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Can't seem to find a reason to remove them.
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Mine are in all the time
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I've left them in.
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Just got this thing, so have had nothing but a load of air in it. I got looking at the box link things, my opinion so far, things look useless to me. Haven't read that section in the owners manual yet either, so I could be missing something.
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Originally Posted by johnday
Just got this thing, so have had nothing but a load of air in it. I got looking at the box link things, my opinion so far, things look useless to me. Haven't read that section in the owners manual yet either, so I could be missing something.
How do you keep the air in if you don't strap it down using the box links?
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Originally Posted by johnday
Just got this thing, so have had nothing but a load of air in it. I got looking at the box link things, my opinion so far, things look useless to me. Haven't read that section in the owners manual yet either, so I could be missing something.
Don't mean to imply anything here, but you know that there's these cleat thingees that lock into the mounting plates, right? The reason I ask is because my cleats were in a separate package under the rear seat. If I didn't know they were there, then yeah, the mounting plates by themselves look pretty useless.

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Originally Posted by johnday
Just got this thing, so have had nothing but a load of air in it. I got looking at the box link things, my opinion so far, things look useless to me. Haven't read that section in the owners manual yet either, so I could be missing something.
The Boxlink system offers a few options:
1) keep the OEM Tie Downs. They are very sturdy and I like them.

2) add one or more BoxLink accessory offered by Ford. They are nice, but expensive. Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-thru-17-F...dWloOf&vxp=mtr

3) many E Track accessories can be used for tie down needs.
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Personally, I use the cleats that came with my truck almost every day.
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Originally Posted by Wolperdinger
Don't mean to imply anything here, but you know that there's these cleat thingees that lock into the mounting plates, right? The reason I ask is because my cleats were in a separate package under the rear seat. If I didn't know they were there, then yeah, the mounting plates by themselves look pretty useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_94aTt-UZsc
Mine were laying in the back floorboard. When I tried to install them, two of them were too tight and I could not install them. I took it to the dealer and he had a tech try and he couldn't get them to fit either. So they replaced them with some out of another new truck and they fit.



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