Video Transcript for How the Guardian Comfort Custom Truck Bed Mat Fits - 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

Hey, guys, Connor here at etrailer.com. Today we're gonna be taking a look at the custom bed mat for our 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. Now our truck bed mat here is gonna be a custom-fit for our Chevy Silverado. If we take a look around the outside parameter, we'll see it has a nice and tight fit to the edges of the bed wall. Now what I found particularly useful about this truck bed is the 3/4 inch foam padding, which is really gonna save our knees when we're climbing in and out of the truck bed. It's also gonna help protect some of more of our valuable cargo, if we have any glass that we need to haul, or any pet cages, or things of that nature.

So if we take a look on the underside of the bed mat here, we see we have these sort of indentations that align with the channels in our truck bed. Now these are gonna be through each of the channels, and it's essentially gonna give us a nice and flat surface. We don't have to worry about the bed mat being wavy or dipping down into these pockets here. So another nice feature I really like about this truck bed mat is that it's water repellent, meaning we don't have to worry about water absorbing into the cover, staying there, and creating any mold or mildew issues over time. Now, this is gonna hold true for other chemicals such as oils or other liquids of that nature.

However, ideally, we will be pairing this with a tonneau cover so we can really keep the truck bed clean and free of any dirt and debris. And we sell a bunch of these here at etrailer. So as far as installation goes, this is gonna be super simple. It's definitely gonna be something you can do at your home by yourself because there's no special tools required or anything like that. Now what I do recommend is after you've gotten the cover out of the box, you wanna sort of lay it out in the truck bed and then you wanna place some weights on all four corners so that way you could sort of help unroll it and fit better to the shape of your truck bed.

We wanna let that sit for a couple hours just so the cover sort of flattens out, has a better fit. Now, something I do wanna note, which could or could not be an issue depending on where you live and what sort of climate you're in, is the temperature that we need to install this bed mat. The manufacturer recommends 68 degrees, and this is gonna allow for proper adhesion of our hook-and-loop fasteners. However, if you do live in a climate where it's gonna be lower or higher than that, you can always bring the truck inside until it gets up to temperature. So now that we've gone over some of the features, let's show you how to install this yourself.

To start our installation today, we want to take our bed mat out of the box. We wanna try to lay it on our bed as flat as possible. We have our tailgate down here just to give us a little bit more room to work. We don't need to worry about setting it into position right now, but we do need to unroll it as much as we can so we can access these hook-and-loop fasteners here on the under side of the cover. Now included in the kit, we have two hook fasteners here, and these are gonna attach to the loop fasteners sewn into the bottom of the cover here. So our first step is to align both of these hook-and-loop fasteners on either side of the bed mat. So we're just gonna simply take one strip here and try to lock it into place with the corresponding strip on the bottom of the mat here. And once we have it on there, we want to go ahead and push it to make sure the hook-and-loop fasteners locked into place. Now we can move on and do this for the other side. And now that we have the hook and loop fasteners attached on both sides and the channels here, the next step is going to be to set the bed mat into position in our truck bed. Now we do need to pay close attention to which side we have facing which direction, because this is gonna matter. If we take a look here, we see we have some smaller wings on the front and some larger wings on the back. These smaller wings are gonna be up towards the cab, whereas the larger wings are gonna be towards the tailgate. However, it should make sense and it should fit into position pretty well once you get everything lined up. And now that we know how our bed mat needs to be installed, we can go ahead and loosely set it in place. (bed mat scrunching) We might have to press it down just to avoid these cargo hooks here on either side. But again, it should sort of sit in position where it needs to go. (bed mat scrunching) And now that we have our bed mat in place, the next step is gonna be to clean the channels here. That way we get good adhesion with our hook-and-loop fasteners. Now I have found the easiest way to do this is to take some sort of marker, tape, anything we have on hand and mark the location of the channels that we need to clean. So once we have a piece of tape here, we're gonna wanna simply just pull our bed mat up and find the channel that aligns with the hook-and-loop fasteners. So that's gonna be right here for this side. We can just place our tape down there. And then we can get another piece of tape for the other side. And again, pull the bed mat up so we can see which channel corresponds to our hook-and-loop fastener. It's gonna be this one right here. And now we can remove the cover and begin to prep our surface. Now if our truck has a spray-in bedliner, which you can see we do here, the next process is gonna be to take a piece of sandpaper or steel wool and we're gonna wanna scuff this channel here that we marked out previously. Now this is gonna help the hook-and-loop fasteners adhere to the truck bed's surface better. However, if you just have a painted truck bed, you can skip the step. (bedliner scratching) So we're gonna wanna do this all the way from the cab down to the tailgate, and we need to repeat that process on the other side as well using our marker that we used earlier. Now, once we've scuffed up our two channels we've marked out earlier in our truck bed here, the next step is gonna be to take a soapy water solution, and we're gonna wanna clean these channels down to get all the scuff and dirt and debris that we just created earlier. So using the two channels they're marked, go ahead and spray these down. (spray bottle hissing) And once those are both sprayed down, we can go ahead and take a rag or a towel and just give those a good wipe down and then we're gonna let 'em dry. So our last step here now, once we have these channels cleaned, we have the surface scuffed up, is gonna be to imply this adhesion promoter. However, this is only gonna be needed if we have a spray-in bedliner. If we have a metal truck bed, then we can install the cover after we have our surfaces cleaned and prepped. So now that we've applied our adhesion promoter, the next thing we're gonna do is give it some time to dry. And then once it's dry, we can go ahead and set our truck bed mat into place and then we can peel off the backing tape on the hook-and-loop fasteners. (bed mat scrunching) So we're gonna do this one side at a time. And once we have the backing tape off, we can go ahead and lay it, make sure it aligns with the channel we've marked out earlier. (bed mat scrunching) Once it's flat in the position, we wanna make sure it's aligned properly, front to back, and then we can just go ahead and start pressing down on this channel here till we get good adhesion. Now I found it easiest to just sort of use your knee and your hands and work your way up at the center line. If you're not sure if you're on the right channel, you can also sort of vaguely see these two little lines here for the threads on the back of these strips. That's gonna help us make sure we're pressing in the right location. Now we can work our way over to the other side, and we can peel the backing sticker off of the hook-and-loop fastener. (bed mat scrunching) Once we have that removed, we can press it down, and then just sort of work our way, front to back, pressing firmly on the bed mat to making sure it secures itself to the truck bed floor. So now once we have everything in place, we have our adhesion down, we can go ahead and remove our stickers that we used to mark the channels. And now that we have everything installed, that's gonna do it today for our custom bed mat for our 2019 Chevy Silverado.