So, I finally bit the bullet on an Undercover Flex. Knowing full well that it likely would not be water tight.
And of course, it's barely rained all summer, and this week the bottom fell out on us here in the ATL. Good hard downpours everyday, at some point, for the last 4 days.
As expected, I suffered some water intrusion. And it was all in the corners. I'm not surprised at all by the tailgate intrusion. The gaps between the tailgate and the body of the bed are so massive that I don't know how I'm going to seal that up. I climbed in the bed and closed the gate with the tonneau closed, and couldn't believe how much light I could see coming through the tailgate gap.
Anyway, moving onto the cover itself. It's okay in its design, and I would say of average build quality. There are a good few spots of glue that seeped out of their crevasses, and what appears to be dumdum (black sticky stuff) sealing the panels together, that sticks to the rubber seal like gum when you open it after it's been baking in our hot GA sunshine.
The biggest area I see that needs improvement is the ends where the top meets the bed caps. There's nothing applying any substantial pressure to the rubber seals, so the seals don't seal very well. The corners are the worst. Mainly because they aren't really finished, and the shape of the cut end of the seal doesn't meet the bed cap at all.
I installed a front rail cap to help make up for the height differential, and ended up with foam tape on the tonneau seal also. The front rail cap I bought is the BAK PCBHP3, and I'm not very happy with it. It's a different color and texture, despite saying OEM look, and it's too narrow at the ends which flares it out at the sides. But it was $38 and will have to do until I can find something better (which I'm struggling to do).
All in all I'm happy with the look of the tonneau on the truck. I had decided on a hard, over cap, tonneau, but when I went to the store, I just didn't like how they met the bed, or how they looked (lower edges are too straight cut, should be rolled and tighter fitting I think). I also really wanted something I could flip out of the way if I wanted to carry something tall in the bed.
I'm debating making some modifications to improve upon the ends where the tonneau meets the bulkhead and tailgate. But we'll see. I'll post again if I come up with anything useful.
Anyways. For now, here it is.
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