Choosing from among the many pickup truck bed covers is difficult simple because there are so many options.
Think about how you use your truck and how much you want to spend and you can usually quickly narrow down the options.
Here are 5 tips for getting the best tonneau for your purposes.
1.
If you don't want to spend a lot, soft covers offer much value.
That's because they accomplish two tasks that most pickup owners are looking for.
For one, the soft covers put both the bed of the truck and the cargo under cover and out of the weather.
Secondly, by covering your cargo, it's hidden away and that accomplishes the first level of security for loads, putting them out of sight.
Soft covers offer top value.
2.
Extang covers are a great starting place to look.
That's because they are top sellers.
That's partly for the main reasons many brands are top sellers.
They offer less expensive models and lots of different models.
The specialty is the soft covers too.
Other brands to look at include TruxPort, Access, BakFlip, and Lund as well as several others in the soft cover business.
3.
Another very popular option is the race look you get with the tilt hard tonneau.
Gaylord and Undercover are worth a look.
One makes a fiberglass tonneau cover and the other provides a tilt forward cover of lighter plastic that weighs only about 60 pounds for a full size version.
The tilting lids provide full bed access and turn a pickup bed into a trunk-like box.
Look out though, taller cargo prevents closing the cover.
4.
You can skip the tall cargo limits with folding tonneaus.
A tri fold cover has the advantages of other hard covers but with good bed access as well as no limit of height of cargo.
In addition some of the folding tonneaus come in at a very moderate price tag.
5.
Forget limitations with a retractable tonneau cover.
That's because you get perfect bed access as well as weather-proofing as good as any other model.
That includes putting cargo behind a metal cover for best security.
And then you get the choice of remote access as well so the cover moves open and closed with remote control.
That's an electric tonneau much like remote access trunks.
It's the no-compromise bed cover.
One of the more popular pickup truck accessories,pickup truck bed covers offer more security as well as other advantages.
Keeping cargo hidden away and keeping the bed out of the weather are only part of the story.