Why isn’t my carpet kit fitting?

I recently bought a used shell/carpet kit off Craigslist. It came off a 2003 V6 RCLB, onto my 2005 V8 RCLB. I bought it mid road trip, so I installed it quick and then took it off to weather strip once I got to my destination.

I stupidly didn’t test the entire kit before putting the shell back on. The kit appears to be sitting flush, but is 1-2 inches too narrow for the plywood to rest in the middle. My 2 options seem to be to remove the shell and take off the bedliner, or to cut and rebuild the plywood/foam/carpet on the slide in parts of the carpet kit.

Any reasonings, recommendations, or solutions?

I ideally didn’t want to ditch my bedliner, and I’m not home so I don’t have any tools besides the sockets my buddy loaned me.

 

Photos would be excellent. I can’t imagine the bed box dimensions to be different but anything is possible.

 

let me empty out the back after lunch. I’ll post some photos then.

 

this is about what the overlap looks like, I’m working on getting the other piece in solo. It’s a bit large.

 

Here are better photos of the issue

 

Either your bed is narrower or his was wider for one reason or another. I would be it's the bedliner. You could probably lose an inch between the plastic on both sides. Obviously its a pain, but I would say the best route is to trim the middle piece and rewarp with carpet. It's not that hard with a good staple gun and a roll of carpet from home depot.

 

Yes, it's your bedliner.

I bought a rubber mat for my bed because the bedliner is so slippery -- I didn't like things slipping/rolling around so much. I had to trim 3 sides of it because it was too big. It was the correct size -- just not with a bedliner.

 

Seemed to be the case. It was still a very tight fit, but it’s working now. Not as seamless as I had expected, but it’s working now.

thanks gents

 

What’s ur plan for that Bed liner?

 

On every post of mine, I got someone asking for the leftover parts haha

I’ll be holding on to it. It’s for a longbed.

 

Lol. Smart choice.

 

Never seen a “carpet kit” like that.

 

first time for everything, I suppose