Video Transcript for Pace Edwards Bedlocker Retractable Hard Tonneau Cover Review 311-BEC0101

Colin: Hi, everyone. It's Colin here at etrailer. Today, we're going to take a look at Pace-Edwards' line of retractable hard tonneau covers. Now, as you can see, it's working right now. This is a really high-quality cover. It's got an electrical motor where we can just open it and close it at the touch of button with included remotes.Now, like I said, this is going to a very high-quality cover.

Just being able to open and close your cover at the touch of a button is a really convenient feature. We no longer have to undo a latch when we open up our tailgate and pull the cover all the way open, whether we've got a canister, maybe you got a hard roll-up cover, and you have to roll that all the way up to the cab. Even those trifold covers with the aluminum panels get heavier as it comes back.By the touch of a button, maybe your arms are full of cargo that you want to go to throw in the bed of your pickup, instead of having to set all that down and then open up your cover till we get it all in, all you got to do is reach in your pocket, press the open button on your remote. Your cover is going to open up. Now you can access your truck bed.

You don't even have to open up the tailgate either if you just want to grab something out.You know what's nice about that is if you have loads that are going to be propped up on your tailgate instead of keeping it open, you could just go ahead and close your cover up to the point where it's going to make contact with the box. Right before it does, we'll just click the open button to stop it. You can actually travel with it in this position.Now, a couple of things that I really like about this cover, besides fact that I can open it with a touch of a button, it's a hard cover. So, you can see we've got really durable aluminum slats, making the cover very rigid and tough. It's going to help deter theft.

It's also going to have a very low profile look to it. It's not one of those covers that's going to stick 1", maybe 1-1/2", above your truck bed. At it's tallest points, we're barely at 1/2" right here. So, you're really not even going to notice it when you're looking out your rearview mirror. It's also going to help improve your fuel economy.Another thing that's great about it is that you're no losing any of that visibility when you want to open up your cover.

So, as we open it up, with a hard roll-up cover, you would roll that all the way up to your window right here, but that would be taking up about half that visibility. So, I won't be able to see everything that's behind you. Whereas with our canister option fully open, we have access to our truck bed, and we're not losing any visibility.Now, what you do want to keep in mind, though, is that the canister is taking up some space on the inside of your truck bed. However, you can see underneath, there's still space to store stuff as long as you're not making contact with those drain tubes. So, you got some smaller toolboxes, maybe some boots that you want to throw underneath the canister, you have that option, so you can use that space.This is going to come with two drain tubes so that if any water would we're to build up inside your canister, it has an option to drain out without going on the inside of your truck bed.Now, we've got our power cord ready here. We have our connection made. We just have a cord coming out of our canister from the motor. Then our cord right here, we have run through our stay-pocket hole. It goes down to the frame of our truck. We ran it up to our engine bay, and then ran it over to our battery to draw that power.Now, there's also a cord right here. This is an optional switch that you're going to install on the inside your truck. So, if you're on the inside, you know that you're going to have to access your truck bed and you need that tonneau cover open, you can just flip that switch inside your truck bed, and then it's be open when you get out of your truck to utilize that truck bed space.We have two clamps on each side rail making sure our tonneau cover's side rails stay secure against our truck bed. What's nice is that our rear clamps actually include this kickstand right here to make sure that the back of our cover right here stays level with the front. That ensures that our cover is operating smoothly, and it's not going to grind inside the rails.The entire cover, including our cap right here and our side rails, is a really nice matte black powder coat finish that offers a really stylish look to add to your truck. It's also going to help and resist that rust and corrosion. So, it's going to be around a long time.We do have a nice weather seal on the back of the cover. Right here, it's making contact with our tailgate, so it's going to help ensure that the elements stay out of your truck bed. That combined with the toughness of and the durability of the cover, it's going to help your contents protected.There is a manual override switch right here. All we got to do is pull up this lever. That will disengage the motor, and we just property it up. This is handy for times where maybe your battery has died and you need to open up your cover. You just pull that switch up and then close it or open it manually.Now, our truck right here is already equipped for some lights to be able to illuminate the bed of our pickup in case we don't want to open up the cover. However, if your truck does not have that, we got other options available here at etrailer if you just want to throw up a couple of lights. That way when you open up your tailgate, you can just turn them on, and you got vision inside the bed of your pickup.Overall, thing's a really nice cover from Pace-Edwards. We got another electrical retractable tonneau cover on website. Its' from Retrax. inaudible 00:05:05 just kind of compare them. They both operate, obviously, with the remote where you can open and close it with a touch of a button.The one thing I will stay about the Retrax that's a little nicer is that they have a spiral track system on the inside of their canister. So, when the cover is opening, it doesn't roll up on itself. It has its own little canister where it rolls up. It stays in that spiral system to where it's not going contact with itself while it's in the canister.The Pace-Edwards, it does just roll up on itself. However, there's really not too much worry about with it. It's not really going to damage itself at all.Now, one thing that nice about the Pace-Edwards is that one, it's more economical. It's going to be a little bit more affordable. Like I pointed out earlier, I like how we have these kickstand clamps right here to make sure that our cover stays level, especially our side rails right here. It's going to ensure that our cover operates smoothly throughout it opening and closing.Well, I appreciate you all for watching, and I hope this information helps you out. That will do it for our look at the line of Pace-Edwards hard retractable tonneau covers.