8 of the Best Ford Accessories to Protect Your Vehicle This Fall

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Your vehicle spends the next five months getting worked on by things that don’t announce themselves. Wet leaves press into carpet and leave tannin stains that no amount of shampoo lifts out. Road salt comes in on boot soles and settles into the fibers, and because salt pulls moisture out of the air, the backing underneath stays damp for weeks at a time. Mud dries into grit, so every press of the pedal grinds it deeper like sandpaper.

None of it is dramatic on any given Tuesday. It’s just cumulative, and by March the driver’s footwell looks a few years older than the passenger side for no reason other than that nobody put anything in the way.

You spent real money on a Bronco or an F-150 and the parts taking the worst of it are the parts you could protect with a liner or some simple protectors. So, why buy them from Ford? Fitment. 

Ford cuts them for your exact trim and floor type rather than close enough, and a dealer honors the warranty. Plus, you can use Code REDEEM15 to get 15% off eligible accessories on purchases up to $1,000 through December 31, 2026.

1. Bronco 4-Door All-Weather Floor Liners

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The Bronco is the one vehicle here where water gets inside on purpose, since pulling the roof panels for an afternoon and misjudging the clouds means the floor takes the weather directly. Do that a few times between now and spring and the carpet holds the evidence.

Ford’s four-piece TPE set covers both front footwells and the rear floor on the 2021 through 2026 four-door, with the Bronco logo molded in and raised edges deep enough to hold standing water rather than let it find the seat rails, so it drops in with no trimming.

The only decision you have to get right is your flooring. Ford builds two versions, part M2DZ7813300AA for carpeted floors and M2DZ7813300BA for vinyl, and they aren’t interchangeable. Look down before you order. There’s no trim or package restriction beyond that, so Badlands, Wildtrak, Sasquatch and everything else take the same liner.

Third-party retailers list the carpet version near $275 and the vinyl version near $270, and REDEEM15 applies to both, so confirm the current Ford number at checkout.

2. Bronco 4-Door Cargo Area Protector

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Everything that goes in the back of a Bronco this season is wet, muddy or both. Firewood, a cooler that sweated through the afternoon, boots nobody wanted to put on the seat, a dog that found the only puddle on the trail. The cargo floor is where all of that lands.

This is a molded all-weather tray with the Bronco logo, shaped to the four-door load floor on 2021 through 2026 models, and it drops in and lifts out without tools. That last part is the whole point, since a liner you can carry to the hose and spray off gets used, while one that needs unbolting stays in the garage.

Two traps when you go to buy it. Ford’s cargo category page shows the two-door version first, so check you’re on part M2DZ58047A74BA for a four-door. And there’s a separate four-door cargo mat made by Husky Liners that looks similar and isn’t the same product.

It lists around $190 against an MSRP of $191.99 through third-party sellers, which makes REDEEM15 worth about $29 here.

3. F-150 SuperCrew All-Weather Floor Liner, 3-Piece

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The driver’s footwell ages faster than anything else in the cab, because it’s the one place that takes a wet boot every single time you climb in. Ford’s three-piece all-weather set covers both front footwells and the full rear floor, with deep channels and a raised outer lip that hold water, slush and whatever came off your soles instead of letting it run under the seat rails.

It’s cut for the 2015 through 2027 SuperCrew, and the fitment is particular, so read this part twice. It fits carpet flooring only and Ford states outright that it won’t work with vinyl floors, and it’s the version for trucks without the LUX under-seat storage package. If your truck has that package, you want the liner in the next entry instead.

Anyone running a work truck or hauling a wet dog twice a week gets this back in one winter. MSRP sits around $225 through OEM catalogs, and REDEEM15 takes 15% off, so confirm the current Ford price before you check out.

4. F-150 SuperCrew Floor Liner for Trucks With the LUX Storage Box

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This is the same all-weather liner idea built for a different truck. If your F-150 came with the LUX under-seat rear storage box, the standard three-piece set won’t sit right, since the box changes the shape of the rear floor the liner has to cover.

Ford’s LUX version fits the 2021 through 2027 SuperCrew, which is a narrower window than the standard liner’s 2015 start, and it’s carpet-only on the same terms. The two versions are mutually exclusive, so the LUX box is the single question that decides which one you buy. Look under your rear seat before you order.

The reader this matters to is the person who speced a higher trim two years ago and has been running unprotected carpet ever since, usually because the first liner they looked at didn’t fit and they never went back to it. Ford doesn’t publish a price on the product page, so get the current number from a dealer or the accessories store, then apply REDEEM15.

5. F-150 Rear Wheel Well Liners

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These are the piece most people don’t know exists, since the rear wheel wells on a pickup are bare painted metal from the factory. Every rock, every clod of frozen mud and every chunk of road salt your tires throw gets fired straight at them at highway speed, so a few winters of that turns into chipped paint, and chipped paint on a wheel well turns into rust in the one place you never look.

Ford’s two-piece set lines the left and right rear wells in charcoal black and takes those impacts instead of the sheet metal, so the paint underneath stays whole. It covers the 2021 through 2027 F-150 and works on both 4×2 and 4×4 configurations, with no cab or bed restriction.

This is a buy-it-once item for anyone keeping the truck past the loan, and it’s the cheapest rust insurance on this list. Check stock before you commit, since at least one dealer catalog currently lists this part number as unavailable while Ford’s own page still carries it.

6. F-150 Molded Splash Guards, Front and Rear

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Splash guards are the accessory that protects the parts of the truck you can’t see from the driver’s seat. Without them, the spray coming off your front tires sandblasts the rocker panels and the lower doors all winter, which is exactly where road salt likes to sit and start working.

Ford sells these as two separate pairs for the 2021 through 2027 F-150, so you need both part numbers rather than one kit. The front set is ML3Z16A550AA and the rear set is ML3Z16A550BA, and both are the styleside version for trucks without wheel lip moldings. There is no combined four-piece molded kit for this generation, which is the detail that trips people up at checkout.

The front pair carries an MSRP around $80 through OEM catalogs, so buying both pairs alongside a floor liner is a sensible way to put REDEEM15 to work. Anyone who washes their own truck will notice the difference in how the lower doors look by February.

7. F-150 Bed Mat

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A spray-in liner stops the bed from getting scratched, though it does nothing about cargo sliding around back there, and on a wet day a spray-in surface gets slick enough to be a problem. Ford’s bed mat is a heavy rubber drop-in floor that grips whatever you put on it and absorbs the impact when something lands harder than you meant.

It fits the 2015 through 2027 F-150 and comes in 5.5, 6.5 and 8.0 foot bed lengths off one product page, so pick your bed size from the selector rather than hunting a second listing. One compatibility note matters: it’s designed to work with spray-in liners, and Ford says it is not compatible with drop-in liners or anything else that already sits on the box floor.

The 6.5 foot version shows an MSRP near $210 through OEM catalogs. For anyone loading firewood, gear bins or bags of salt this season, it’s the item that keeps all of that from becoming a scratch you look at for the next six years.

8. Ford Total Care Cleaning Kit

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At $125, and $93.75 once CLEAN25 takes its 25% off, this is the one item on the list that undoes damage instead of preventing it, since everything above keeps the mess off your vehicle in the first place. This is what you reach for in March, on the parts that got hit anyway.

The kit is a bucket with a lid holding five Motorcraft products, each for a different surface, so you get carpet and upholstery cleaner, leather and vinyl cleaner, glass cleaner, Detail Wash for the paint, and wheel and tire cleaner for the brake dust and salt crust. Alongside those come three Ford towels, a wash mitt, a microfiber shammy, a brush, a wheel detail brush, a squeegee, a spray bottle and a Ford hat.

Buying five cleaners separately costs more than the kit and leaves you guessing which one is safe on leather. Ford did that sorting already.

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