BAKFlip FiberMax Hard Tonneau Cover - Folding - Aluminum and Fiberglass

Video Transcript for BAKFlip FiberMax Hard Tonneau Cover Review

What's up everybody. It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna be checking out this BAKflip FiberMax Hard Tonneau Cover. So this is gonna be a good option if you wanna cover up that truck bed because you can fold it in three different spots, still get access to anything in the bed. You can even fold this up against the back cab, have full access to your bed, or it easily removes if you just want it out of the way for that trip where you need to go get some gravel or something you can load it up, and it's out of the way. Let's check it out.

Two things I think about when looking at tonneau covers, at least what I want out of it, would be covering up your bed. Make sure nobody can see what's inside there. Making sure it's secure. And I want it to be easy to use and even install. So this hard tonneau cover checks those boxes because it is hard.

So you can set something up here and not worry about it. It's gotta weight capacity of 250 pounds, so it can hold up versus some of those other kind of tonneau covers like a soft tonneau cover where it kind of just has the three points with the bars that go across. So then things are gonna bow when you go to send there. So if you accidentally set your cooler in between those bars, it's gonna go down and it's gonna stretch it out and ruin it. Or if it just snows or rains, it also can collect that.

Now those are nice, 'cause you can roll 'em all the way up to the front and it doesn't cover up any of the back of your vehicle. But with that though, those aren't secure. So when you roll those out, they're soft tonneau covers. Those can easily be messed with. Somebody can tamper with that.

It's gonna be harder to do it with this one because you have the security of if your tonneau cover, I'm sorry, if your tailgate is locked, they can't get to these latches. So therefore this is locked too. So even though it doesn't have a built-in lock, it is very secure with this tailgate up and locked in place compared to some of the other bigger ones that have the canister on the inside. Those are nice because they all just seamlessly roll up into that canister and you don't have to remove anything but you gotta remember that canister takes up a bunch of space in your bed. So if you want to use your bed pretty often and you wanna use all of it, that's maybe not the best option for you. That's why this one I think is a little bit better just because you have that trifold and you can fold it up to here, clip it in and use most of your bed. You want even more of the bed, pull it up towards the cab, set those arms in place, then you have full access still. And your tonneau cover, you don't have to uninstall. With the tonneau cover up and against the cab and out of the way, you can see the rail system that you need to install. So this goes on the sides of your bed. You have a three clamp system you install to hold it in place. You can see it's on there pretty good. I'm shaking the whole truck back and forth. There's no movement here. So you know it's on there nice and sturdy. There's a no drill installation. So that part was nice too. You just need a ratchet and a socket to tighten up those clamps and get them in place. You don't have to make any holes in your truck other than depending on where you want to put the drain tube. So if you look up here towards the front, you can kind of see the tubes that come out there. We did have to drill holes in the covers down there at the bottom. That's what worked for us, but you just pop that cover out and you can drill that. So it's not like you're drilling through the solid truck or anything like that. It's just a cover over that hole. One of the special features this one actually has is the ability to drive down the road with the tonneau cover up against your bed or the back of your truck. So, how it does that is you have these arms here that are attached to the rails and they have a point here where you can put 'em back. They put up and kind of prop up the cover. They have a hand out here with a slider and some bracket. You can slide that up to release the arm or when you go put it in there, you push it down, get this hand tighten, then this doesn't move. You can see I can move it back and forth. It's not popping out place or anything like that. It's staying put. So you know it's gonna put that pressure to hold this against the back of your cab. While it's up and easier for you to see, I wanna show you how the cable works. This cable is what you pull on to release it. You can see the strikers come in on the sides is what releases it and allows you to fold it up. So as I pull on it, even though I'm on this side, it pulls the other one on the other side too which is really handy, 'cause it would be a pain if you had to go side by side to do this. So it's an easy one person job to fold up the tonneau cover. So look up here at front, right on the weather strip, it's going to be the bulkhead seal. That's because we don't have a drop-in bed liner. So there's a little bit of a gap here in our bed but that's what that strip's for. You attach that and it takes up that spot. So you can see the weather strip goes over that and with that foam underneath or that seal underneath, it's gonna keep that rain out. Something else you might not notice just by the first look at it, but here from the side, you can see how low profile it is too. It doesn't stick up a whole bunch from the top of your rails and your stake pockets are still exposed. So it doesn't take that away. So some of the tonneau covers you put on there, come over onto the rails just a little bit and take up that space. This one leaves that completely open to be used. Insulation is pretty easy, which is good. 'cause you don't want to have to spend all day putting this on there. You don't have to drill any your holes like I mentioned before. The nice thing about it is maybe get a second set of hands. You just have to install the rails and some clamps. It really doesn't take that long. Now we have a couple different videos on our site with different vehicles. If that's for you and your truck, check those out and see how it's done. Overall, I like this tonneau cover. It hit a lot of the things that I wanted to do with the truck. So, you know, it being a hard tonneau cover, it can hold up to setting something on there. It's also better than a soft tonneau cover with the bowing and stuff like that. The weather, like breaking and baiting it down. This is gonna last out longer than that. It also folds up and it's got a couple different options with the folding. Whether you buckle it in or put it up against that back glass, you have options to access your full bed if you don't wanna just fully remove it 'cause that's easy too. So you can get it up and outta the way but otherwise you'll leave it out. It looks nice in factory low profile. You still got your stake pockets here. And with the tailgate locked, nobody can get in there and mess with anything. So that's what it's all about with this. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out and I hope this helped..