Video Transcript for Mount: UWS Truck Bed Toolbox on a 2013 Ram 2500

What's up everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we'll be checking out this UWS truck bed toolbox. It's gonna be a low profile and crossover style and we're gonna put it on a 2013 Ram 2500. Right away I wanna get into what I meant by low profile and crossover style. So low profile means it's not gonna sit up that much above your bed rails. It's a little bit over two inches.

So it's still underneath your headrest back there, so it's not gonna block the view when you're looking out the back. And then crossover style means there's a gap down here between the bottom of the toolbox and the bed, so you can still fit longer items in there that you wanna haul. So you don't sacrifice your entire truck bed just to get a toolbox. It's gonna be black powder coat aluminum with a diamond pattern on there. Do I like that That means it's not just the glossy flat black.

This is gonna hold up longer, I feel, with scratches or when you throw something up there on accident and ding it a little bit, it's gonna blend in because of the pattern and it not being just a flat glossy black. Now it's also, being aluminum, it's gonna hold up to the elements just fine. So it being in your truck bed full time isn't gonna bother it at all. Now let's check out the inside of the box. We've got the two latches.

There's gonna be one on the driver's side and passenger side. The driver's side one locks. You got the keys that come with it. So you can turn that, pull that out. And then now the latch won't open the lid, so then nobody else can get in there if they don't have a key.

But unlocking it, we got this little latch you pull on and you can pull on either side when it's unlocked and it'll open and goes up in place on its own. I like that. That's gonna be quicker to get in there and get those tools when you need to get 'em. The gas struts really do help pushing up. You also look on the lid itself you got the foam all around the outside. That's gonna help weather seal it. And another thing I wanna point out about the lid is that it comes down a little bit more over the top. So if it's just closed, this is out on top, it'd be there. But when I push it down, you see it comes down quite a bit more over the top of lid which means the water's not gonna be able to get into the toolbox that way. So as our lid opens with it pushed all the way back in the bed, we don't have to worry about hitting the glass. You can see there's plenty of room in between there not even close to making contact. Looking at the latches, just want to show how they work at the same time in unison. I pull on this lever, it unlocks that one. And the same thing would happen if I went to go use the one on the passenger's side. Something else while we're looking here is this nice guard that guards that rod that connects both of 'em that way, just in case you throw something heavy in there, it doesn't or is not gonna hit the rod and damage it. Taking a look on the inside of the toolbox, gonna have 8.4 cubic feet of space. So that's gonna be great for a bunch of tools to throw in there and store those. Keep 'em all organized or at least all in this one section of your truck, not sprawled out amongst your trunk's bed. Another thing that's gonna be helpful is this tray up top. Now you can pop this off if you don't want it in here. But I think this is pretty useful for maybe your most common used tools. We can set up this way, that way they're right here when you need to grab 'em and this can slide to either side. So if you don't want it here, you wanna get to something underneath, you can just slide it all of the way over, put it on the other side too. You're gonna have screwdriver holders on both sides. So you got the holes here. It's nice that you don't have to take up space in this tray for the screwdrivers or throw 'em down in here. 'Cause that's one of those things you don't kind of want to dig for. You can be right here on the side. Now, one thing I would be careful of is where you put them depending on their size, they could run into the gas strut. Sometimes on these boxes, the gas strut has its own section. Kind of like this to where it'd be sectioned off and you could close it and it wouldn't be bothered. But since this is in line here, it depends on the screwdriver. So you go to close this, it's not gonna be in the way. You'll be just fine. Now, if you we're to put the screwdrivers over here, now when I go to close the lid the gas strut's gonna hit the screwdrivers. So that's just something to look out for, so you don't damage this when you're closing the lid. Installing the toolbox is really easy too. You got this slot right here, here it comes with the hardware you need. So there's gonna be a j hook that goes underneath the bed rails. And then we'll put a flat washer and nut on top of that, tighten down on both sides. And that's how it's installed. It's really easy. You don't have to drill any of your holes. I can shake the whole truck back and forth and you see there's no rattling on this toolbox. Another thing to point out up here at the lid is you can adjust the striker. So if it's not catching quite right down here you can adjust it side to side a little bit if you loosen these up. So that's just something to know. If it gets a little outta whack, the more you use it you can adjust that. Let's go over some measurements top side. It's gonna be 69 inches across, and then 19 and one quarter inch from front to back. Looking down here at the base it's gonna be 61 inches across and 17 inches from front to back. Looking down here, it's gonna be about eight inches of space from the bottom of toolbox to the truck bed. Just wanted to give you that number so you know what kind of items you're gonna slide underneath there, so you can use your whole truck bed. Overall I like this toolbox with the low profile design, not taking up any of the window view, and with the crossover style with that gap at the bottom, I can still throw ladders or longer things in here and still use the truck bed and not sacrifice it just to have a toolbox. But with the toolbox, keeps all my tools nice and organized up here and not scattered about in the bed of the truck. I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out and I hope this helps..