Tim13

Yeah, you know the one. It's the small clear piece of tape that Ford puts on the leading edge bottom corner of the bed, just behind the passenger cab. I'm guessing it's there to prevent road debris from chipping the paint. Either that, or it's there for the adhesive on the tape to attract moisture, and start the bed to rusting......LOL!

In any event, mine is coming off on the passenger side. Short of going to the Ford dealer, does anyone know of a source for this piece? I don't want to spend $15 to $20 for the 3M door edge stuff, as it's reviews are sketchy at best, with regards to the adhesive 3M uses. I also don't think standard packing tape would have a strong enough adhesive either.

Any suggestions?

Tim

Masi1926

There has to be a way to buy that 3M tape in a small piece.
Worst case, try one they sell for the fog and headlights. Then cut it.
Could always tape it off and spray another layer of clear, or plasti-dip. I'm sure there's lots of options, I'm not thinking of at the moment, as well.

Lethal Weapon

Let's see if I can copy & paste from eBay mobile app to this GT mobile app???
I found a piece of 3M film for only $7 that should be sufficient in size for you:

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...obalID=EBAY-US

RLXXI

That tape is only there to protect it during the build, the dealer should have removed it while performing the pre delivery inspection.
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Dutchmanxtr

If you have a local shop that installs the 3M, drop by and I'll bet they will give you a scrap.

Lethal Weapon

Good idea.... Now that you mentioned that, I know I have a few pieces left over myself that I used to protect my paint where my Amp bed steps are. (Also used it on my Harley to protect the gas tank paint from any seat rub too).
OP.... PM me, I'll get ya fixed up for free!

21RRF150

iTrader: (1)

No it's a stone shield. I've replaced hundreds of them after painting boxsides. They're on the edges of ptm rear bumpers too. If you have the kick out side steps, the whole lower part of the boxside will have it as well.

RLXXI

We always removed them during PDI as instructed by Ford, granted that was a little over 11 yrs ago.
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21RRF150

iTrader: (1)

Yeah, these are definitely supposed to be there. Some trucks have them some trucks don't. My truck used to, but I ripped mine off after I saw them hanging, I have gravel guard so it really doesn't matter. Some trucks have a gravel guard, some trucks don't. I remember constantly writing supplements for the stone shields because our appraisers at the body shop I worked for always forgot to order them, a lot of the time I would have to make them myself out the 3m sheets.


Here's a pic of my rear bumper stone shields. Dirty but whatever...

RLXXI

Had those stuck to the edges of my chrome bumper, I yanked them off as well, I wonder why Ford would tell us to REMOVE ALL PLASTIC prior to delivery, it also makes me wonder why some trucks would have it and others not, that right there tells me it's only a temporary item, also there are no part #'s for it in the parts books.

To myself and everyone that did PDI at my dealer there is no differentiation of what plastic or where it was applied, thus pull it off per Ford's PDI instructions.
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