3rd party websites of official options / accessories (Utility)

[Trace26]

• SOLIS Folding Solar Tonneau - https://www.worksport.com/products/solis
• NEXUS Flip-Up Hard Tonneau Cover - https://www.worksport.com/products/nexus
• Tri-fold Tonneau Cover - https://www.worksport.com/products/al4
• BedBoss Lite Structural Floor - https://legendbedboss.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqV3nvwWxTh4bvlmczfKVR4cA-EWOjvrBl9iNaUmvm0jAuegBoT
• Toolboxs - https://www.uwsta.com/
• MOLLE Paneling Kit - https://builtrightind.com/collections/universal-molle-panels
• All "Air" products - https://flated.com/collections/all
• Basecamp 3.0 Tailgate Pad - https://trustcache.com/products/basecamp-3-locking-tailgate-pad

 

[tubes]

Super helpful. Thank you.

 

[dmon4u]

Waiting to see what WeatherTech comes out with. Slate is not listed yet.

 

[Johnny-Longtorso]

So how do these companies make this happen? Did Slate work with them providing technical details required to go to market? Do they actually have shipping product for a vehicle whose final design could still actually change?

EDIT - OK, I see this is largely generic fitment stuff. I literally so no mention of Slate by name on any of the links I clicked...

 

[Trace26]

So how do these companies make this happen? Did Slate work with them providing technical details required to go to market? Do they actually have shipping product for a vehicle whose final design could still actually change?

EDIT - OK, I see this is largely generic fitment stuff. I literally so no mention of Slate by name on any of the links I clicked...

These are not generic fitment items.
These are the companies that are producing some of the items on Slates website.
They are not selling them directly.

 

[kvermeer]

Waiting to see what WeatherTech comes out with. Slate is not listed yet.

I was surprised to see WeatherTech disappear from the Maker - weren't they named as one of the OEMs? The old Maker had 4 options - 5, really: rubber liner, carpet liner, rubber mat, carpet mat, plus whatever the base was underneath the full-coverage liners. Now there are just rubber floor liners and carpet floor mats offered as accessories. What's the base? I can't tell!

I thought I remembered seeing that the rubber mat was made by WeatherTech, but now I'm not so confident. Regardless, I don't think Slate is so vertically integrated that they'd want to mold their own floor mats in-house, there are lots of existing floor mat manufacturers that are really good at that with whom they could partner.

 

[Sturm]

I asked this on another thread, but got lost...

BedBoss Lite - according to website, it needs D-Rings. If Slate Truck doesn't have?

Is there any installation besides laying it in the bed...relying on weight? Or, will there need to be some screws into the infrastructure?

Slate/Build still says (details)..." Includes: One (1) Bedboss Structural bed floor with integrated tie downs. Installs without drilling."

Regular BedBoss has "integrated tie downs"..."lite" does not...

 

[Trace26]

I asked this on another thread, but got lost...

BedBoss Lite - according to website, it needs D-Rings. If Slate Truck doesn't have?

Is there any installation besides laying it in the bed...relying on weight? Or, will there need to be some screws into the infrastructure?

Slate/Build still says (details)..." Includes: One (1) Bedboss Structural bed floor with integrated tie downs. Installs without drilling."

Regular BedBoss has "integrated tie downs"..."lite" does not...

I'm assuming since it's designed for slate it will attach using something designed into the truck. Slate has another bedliner option that sounds like the lite version you referenced.

 

[Luxrage]

I'm assuming since it's designed for slate it will attach using something designed into the truck. Slate has another bedliner option that sounds like the lite version you referenced.

The "lite" bedboss is just a big sheet that gets bolted on the bed. The "original" bedboss has these tie-downs built in. But those are only offered on big pickups.

I'm sure the reason is the original bedboss is probably 2X the weight. Plus the slate gets the T-bars.

 

[Sturm]

The "lite" bedboss is just a big sheet that gets bolted on the bed. The "original" bedboss has these tie-downs built in. But those are only offered on big pickups.

I'm sure the reason is the original bedboss is probably 2X the weight. Plus the slate gets the T-bars.

I get ya, and I understand the difference. I guess my biggest concern is with the "gets bolted on the bed" thing. Bedboss claims "without the need for drilling" but, I'm pretty sure the Slate bed is one continuously molded sheet with no holes or attachment points (ie d-rings that it normally would attach to the BBL side towers).

Thus? Either the BBL just lays in there and relies on weight or, like you stated, you do have to drill some holes (slight weakening of integrity of bed?). If it just relies on weight and fit, a $50 horse stall mat from FleetFarm would be more economical...although it probably wouldn't offer as much structural rigidity or distribute the weight as well.


Thanks for the feedback!

 

[ack154]

Waiting to see what WeatherTech comes out with. Slate is not listed yet.

I stopped using WeatherTech a few years ago. Their coverage for the past couple cars I've had has not been great. They hardly ever cover the dead pedal and a bunch of junk falls behind the mat and gets ground in and trapped in there. Plus, that plastic/rubber material seems to wear/fade pretty quickly over time and doesn't clean up well. I've even tried a couple of the different floor mat cleaning products. They just always end up looking faded and crappy.

I've started using TuxMat in our last couple cars and their coverage is excellent and they seem to clean up really easily. So far so good.

I think I'll want to see inside the truck first before deciding what I put in there.

 

[Trace26]

I get ya, and I understand the difference. I guess my biggest concern is with the "gets bolted on the bed" thing. Bedboss claims "without the need for drilling" but, I'm pretty sure the Slate bed is one continuously molded sheet with no holes or attachment points (ie d-rings that it normally would attach to the BBL side towers).

Thus? Either the BBL just lays in there and relies on weight or, like you stated, you do have to drill some holes (slight weakening of integrity of bed?). If it just relies on weight and fit, a $50 horse stall mat from FleetFarm would be more economical...although it probably wouldn't offer as much structural rigidity or distribute the weight as well.


Thanks for the feedback!

Oh I was saying that Slate will more than likely have pre-existing holes or bolt locations for different accessories. I think Slate refers to them as "access points".

As an example, the plastic bed panels are bolted in, so it's possible that this new bed replaces those and uses the original bolt locations.

 

[kvermeer]

I guess my biggest concern is with the "gets bolted on the bed" thing. Bedboss claims "without the need for drilling" but, I'm pretty sure the Slate bed is one continuously molded sheet with no holes or attachment points (ie d-rings that it normally would attach to the BBL side towers).

I disagree, unless you're just talking about the rear center section. I think the bed is like 7 separate pieces fastened together, which is the whole reason for wanting a bedliner. There are mount points for the rollbar for SUV mode, an insert that bolts in that covers the footwell, it looks like the wheel wells are one piece each and there's an insert fastened near the taillights and a separate component for the midgate: it wouldn't take that much engineering to remove the stock fasteners in each of those locations and put a new bolt through a Bedboss and into those spots.

Personally, I'm on team rubber horse stall mat, carpet remnant, and/or plywood sheet cut to size. If I wanted more than that, I'd go with a drop-in 3-sided insert:

I had one of those in my Ranger, if you parked on a dowhill slope you could end up with a couple hundred gallons of water in the bed (the tailgate was nothing like a watertight seal, of course).

 

[Sturm]

Thanks guys...good input!

 

[Trace26]

I ‘saved for later’ a TRI-FOLD TONNEAU COVER but I don’t think I’ll actually get one. Slate prices it at $1000. Worksport looks to be $800 more. I’m probably not going to need the additional charge and I’d be worried about theft.

I'm confused, you seem to be comparing two different products?