Video Transcript for Beginner’s Guide to Installing the Access Lorado Soft, Roll-Up Tonneau Cover on a 2015 Ford F-150

Speaker 1: Today on our 2015 Ford F-150 Super Crew Cab we're gonna be installing the Access Loredo Soft Rollup Tonneau Cover, Part Number A41369. The Access Loredo is a soft rollup tonneau cover designed specifically to fit your truck bed. It has a low profile design, it only sits about an inch above our truck bed. This is gonna help with aerodynamics to reduce wind noise in drag. It's a black polyester cover that won't fade. That, along with the seal at the front and rear, are gonna keep the elements outside of our truck bed.It's easy to operate, just pull on the rope on either side and begin rolling.

Compared to hard rollup tonneau covers, there's no canisters to take up space inside your truck bed. The strips keep it held in place so you're able to drive with it rolled up. With it opened you can see that the rails simply clamp in place. There's no drilling required. And since they sit inside of our truck bed, we still have full use of our inaudible 00:01:05 pockets.Over time, soft tunnel covers can stretch and loosen up.

The included tension adjuster accounts for this and allows you to tighten it back up. As we roll it out, you can see the bows. These are gonna help keep tension on the tonneau cover and prevent water from pooling on top of the tonneau cover. As I lock it in place, you'll see those bows help keep it tight.The hook and loop on each side further helps with tension, giving us a sleek, stylish look. With our tailgate closed and locked, it's gonna provide us some bed security, though not as much as a hard tunnel cover would.

Now that we've gone over the features I'll go ahead and show you how to get it installed. We'll first stall our side rails first. We'll be starting on the passenger side so we're gonna make sure that the hook and loop is going to the outside of the passenger side and that the plastic bracket is at the end towards our tailgate.Now what we want to do is our seal here is gonna go flush up against our truck side rails. We also want it to be flush with the top of the side rail, just as you see it here. Now once you have your rail in place, you can either get an extra set of hands to hold it in place for you, or you can take a clamp and do that.

With it held in place, we can install our first clamp. The clamp has teeth on it. Those need to line up with the grooves on the underside of the rail. And when tightened down it's gonna squeeze the tunnel rail and the truck bed rail together holding it in place.The first one needs to be installed as closest to the cab end as we can get it. For us it's gonna be here. Then, we can hand tighten it down. Once it's hand tightened with a 1/2-inch wrench or socket and tighten it down the rest of the way. Now there's no reason to overtighten, just get it nice and snug. Our second clamp can be installed near the center. We're gonna go just above right of our wheel well.Now, since we've got it clamped, if we need to adjust it, we can go ahead and do that. Just want to make sure that it remains flush. Then we can install that the exact same way as our first clamp. The last clamp installs as closest to the tailgate end as we can get it. So we're gonna go right here. With them in place, gonna remove our clamp and repeat the same process on the opposite side.Now it's time to install our element seal. It goes all the way across our bulkhead and to the other side. Peel back the paper, and push it down in place. Now we can do a rear seal. This installs right here and underneath our side rail. So what we need to do is take a pair of scissors, we're gonna cut the spot there. That way we can fold it up and stick it underneath our side rail. Just going to cut it like that. Peel back the paper. Then we will stick it in place. Just like that.We can repeat the same process on the other side. Now we can turn our attention to our tunnel cover. I've gone ahead and laid it on my tailgate here so we can see. This header here is the front header so it's gonna lay just behind our cab like this. We need to install our tension adjusters. The driver side is labeled L for left. We'll be installing it just over the pre-installed nut within the channel here like this.Take a long bolt and a flat washer and we're gonna thread that in. Now we're not gonna tighten this all the way down, just leave it loosely installed. We can go ahead and do the same thing for the other side. Now we can set the cover in place just behind our cab. I'm going to rest the header down. We're wanna be sure to slide these away from our rails for now. And we're gonna put it right here.From here, we can roll it up. That way we have room to work with our tension adjusters. With our header in place, we can slide our tension adjuster towards our rails and we need to align the hole. We'll take our bolt and then underneath we'll take a flat washer and a nut. Go ahead and hand tighten it. We can take another 1/2-inch wrench or socket and tighten it the rest of the way down. Get it nice and snug and we can repeat the same process on the other side.Now we need to be sure that our header is centered between our rails. We basically just need to be sure that we've got the same gap here as the other side. So you can either measure it out or line it up with your eyes. Now we need to make sure that our flap here in the front is tucked up underneath towards our element seal, just like you see here. So you could work your way down and make sure it's that way all the way across.Once you've got it, you can tighten up the final bolt underneath your header. And we can repeat the same process on either side. With everything tightened down, lets check it out. We wanna be sure that our bows end up between our rails. When we get to the rear, we'll take the rear header, we'll line it up within the strikes like this and then we're gonna roll it towards us until it snaps in place. Just like that.From there, we can connect our hook and loop. What you wanna do is you wanna pull the fabric towards you and that's gonna take out all of the waves and wrinkles. Then we'll do the same for the other side. With everything connected, that completes our installation and we've got you covered. And that's gonna complete our installation of the Access Loredo Soft Rollup Tonneau Cover, Part Number A41369 on our 2015 Ford F-150 Super Crew Cab.