Just wondering..... Do you leave your BoxLink Tie Down Cleats in all the time or do you remove them when not in use?

 

I only removed mine when I had Line-X installed.

 

Can't seem to find a reason to remove them.

 

Mine are in all the time

 

I've left them in.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.
Personally, I use the cleats that came with my truck almost every day.

 

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.