The bed does get warm. But it's not so warm that its bothersome to me. Id rather the bed be a little warm than say the bottom of my seat. That's just my two cents. I keep an ice chest in the bed of mine and ice lasts a whole day easy on a hot hot day. It is a good ice chest though. Stuff in the bed will be warm, but it's not that bad. I added an aluminum heat shield above my rear diffs probably could've done without it, but at the time I felt like it needed to be done. It reduced the temp on the rear diff a few degrees. It gets hot under there but compared to some of the other sided by sides the heat from the wolverine isn't an issue at all. It doesn't melt seats like the older ranger 900's do. And I've heard others say that some of the other bikes are bad about heat like worse than the wolverine.