Video Transcript for Hands-On with the Leer Hard Tonneau Cover

What's up everybody. It's AJ with etrailer.com Today, we're checking out this Leer Tonneau Cover and this is going to be a good, hard tonneau cover to help protect whatever's inside your bed. It's also makes your bed more secure, because with this on top of it, somebody can't get in there, your tailgate locks, people aren't going to get in to the inside of your bed. That's nice. This vehicle has a fifth wheel on the inside, so it's actually protecting that from the elements, when it's not in use. And if you do need to stack a little bit above your bed, or carry something that sticks out of the bed, it easily folds up and gets out of the way and secures where you can drive with it folded up.

Let's check it out. I said it was a hard tonneau cover. You can hear how tough it is. It's going to hold up to all those elements and it's not going to be an issue, you know compared to a soft style one, to where, if it snows that's going to weigh it down, even though it's got bars, usually in the middle that weight, that helps support it. It doesn't always help, or even rain puddles up and collects, its going to lower and stretch out your tonneau cover.

This one is gonna to hold it up to that. It's not going to cause any problems, that snow can sit up here. The rain is going to run right off of it. No issues. The other thing is security.

With the soft tonneau cover, you can kind of get a knife and slice right in there. If somebody wanted to, they could, even if your tailgate locks. This one it's a lot harder, it's not going to be easy to get in there. You're pretty much protected. With your locking tailgate, nobody's going to get to your stuff, that's in your bed.

The other thing I like about the cover, is how low profile it is. You don't think about that. Some of the other ones have that bigger foam strip, or the rails sit above the bed rails on your truck. This one's right in line with it and make sure you get the right one for your truck. If you look at the fit guide on our website, enter in the information, your vehicle, you'll find the tonneau cover that's right for you. So it's be just as low profile on your vehicle. And it really looks nice. It like blends in with the bed. Pretty much looks factory. I'm talking about how nice it looks, but that doesn't mean anything if it's hard to operate. So just open the tailgate and get right to it. On both sides, you kind of have these pinch levers here, that you just push them together and then you can lift up the first panel. And right away, that's pretty nice, 'cause it's not spring loaded. Some of the ones that are spring loaded, those are usually the soft cover, again, that I keep talkin' about. Those are so tight, that when you go to do this, it flips up immediately. So me keepin' my hand here, is not the greatest idea. I mean, it's, it's not going to hurt you. It's just, it's going to pop up. This one, you don't have that. You can just pinch this here, that easy to lift up that first cover. Now it works on the other side, just the same. So that's another thing, I've worked with some other ones where you can, it's just a cable or there's a button that you kind of have to reach and do both sides at the same time. And that's a pain. This one works way, same way on this side. So you'll need to pinch those two together to start folding. So whatever side you are on the cover you can get it to fold up. So once we've done that. You just fold it in, on its sections. It just rests on itself. It's very easy. And then you have another switch here, in the center, just like the one towards the end and you can do it either end, just pinch it together. Then it releases it up. One more here at the end, same thing, pinch 'em together, releases it on both sides. And you can tilt it up, like this. Once you get here, you actually have these prop rods. They fit in this catch here. And then you just put this end, over, this right here. The metal stud that's sticking out there, that's going to help hold it into place. And I'll come around on that side and do the same thing over there. Another thing I wanna point out. You can see these yellow straps. These safety straps are connected in here, so that even if it comes loose, somehow let's say, you've had it for on there for a bunch of years and you haven't checked it or tightened it or anything like that. 'Cause that's probably good to do once a year, is come back through and make sure it's nice and tight still This keeps it connected to your vehicle. You're not going to worry about this coming off while you're driving down the road. And with both these prop rods up, you can actually drive it like this too. So if you need this up and you're carrying some lumber that goes outside, extends outside the end of your bed, you can still do that with this cover. But you might not want to always go, with this leaned up against the back window, 'cause it does take up the entire back window. So we can set it down, back into place. And we have these clips. You can come around. Clip it in like that. That's going to hold this and keep it from flyin' up. You're gonna put one of these on each side of it and that's going to keep this down, so you can drive with it like this. You don't have to fully fold it all the way back out, when you want to go drive and you can use your back window at the same time. I think that's one of the good things about this cover though is that how many options you have when unfolding it. Sometimes those tonneau covers you really only have the option of foldin' up against your window. You can't see anything or it's closed, or sometimes they just tilt up and you don't get much out of it. This one has several different stages and it also locks, in three different places. So you've got the back, the middle and over there. So that way, you know, it's secure. It's not going to flop up on your, while you're driving down the road or anything like that. It's secure in many places, which means it's not going anywhere. Overall. I think it was a pretty easy installation. I've done quite a few different tonneau covers and you know sometimes, they do get a little difficult for no reason. This one seemed pretty easy. I liked the clamps a lot, the way they had that extra screw at the bottom, to kind of keep it straight, while you're tying it down was really helpful. Because with the cheaper tonneau covers, I always struggle with that part, tightening those where they don't have a lot of teeth on those clamps. So they'll kind of go like this as you try and tighten it down and it strips or something like that, while you're going. It's a huge pain, but this one didn't have that. That's pretty awesome. I like that. They keep it straight and it was easy installation. You know, I can't really say it was that hard. You just got to follow the instructions. Like you're watching me do it and you'll get it installed in no time. And it's nice and secure. I like the safety straps too. That way, if something wants to come loose somehow, it's going to keep that tonneau cover connected. It's not going to go anywhere. You won't have any issues. Well, I think that does it. I hope this helps. And thanks for hanging out..