Pace Edwards Full-Metal JackRabbit Retractable Hard Tonneau Cover Installation - 2024 Chevrolet Silv

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Hi everyone, Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Pace Edwards JackRabbit Full-Metal Retractable Hard Tonneau Cover with the Explorer Series Rails on our 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. So, the first thing to note is that this is a retractable canister-style cover, and you'll see that canister in just a second. But the benefits to that (knocks) that hard cover is that it's gonna be a lot more secure. And if you're the type of person that keeps tools or something valuable in your truck bed full time, I always recommend a hard cover because that's gonna be the most theft resistant. And this one is no exception.

It's gonna be constructed of these full metal slats that interlock with one another, and because they interlock, even if someone did try to get a knife between these seams, there's nothing to cut. It's all metal. So to get through here, it would be a task. And I never say anything is thief proof, but this is certainly going to do a good job at keeping people outta your bed. And when talking about security, obviously this will work with your locking tailgate to keep your stuff safe inside.

But this does have an exterior latch, so the way you operate the cover and open it up is done through this trigger outside. But that has its own separate lock and key so you can keep that secured too. And I do like the fact that it has that exterior mechanism because if you don't want to open the tailgate to open the cover, you don't have to. Whereas with some other tonneau covers out there, you'd have to make that choice. And up front here we can see a better look at the canister.

Now the advantages you're probably noticing right out of the gate is the fact that it doesn't add any height to your bed rails. You might be familiar with the folding style of tonneau cover where when it's fully open, it sticks straight up and down and it's gonna block your back glass. That's obviously not ideal if you need to fill the bed up with stuff. But, you can see the downside to the canister style is the fact that it's taking up bed space. The cover's gotta go somewhere.

So, for me, if you're looking for a happy medium between the two, it'd be a hard roll-up cover and that's going to sit in a larger roll at the front, but take up no bed space and block minimal window space. But if you're looking for the absolute cleanest look from the top up, and you don't mind sacrificing that space in the bottom for the canister, then this is a nice look and it's pretty easy to operate. So a lot of people do like it. One consolation to the occupied bed space though is the fact that that canister doesn't go down the whole way. There's quite a bit of room still underneath this and if you had something longer like some lumber, maybe sheets of plywood or drywall that you wanted to slide all the way up to the bulkhead of the truck, you could. And while there are drain tubes on either side of that canister, the way we installed it today, and you'll see this later in the install, we tried to locate those somewhere up high so they're out of the way. And we could still do that without having to run the drain tube down through the floor. Now the reason those drain tubes are there is because water can get into the canister and you don't want it pooling up in there. Those drain tubes allow it to get outside of the truck bed and outside of the canister. Because while there is weather sealing all around the side rails, the bulkhead, and even the rubber seal that will touch your tailgate, water could still get in on top of the cover and into the canister and that's their way of taking care of it. The included pull cord allows me to operate this cover entirely from the tailgate. And as I'm pulling it out, you'll hear a series of clicks. Every 12 inches there's going to be a latching mechanism that engages and allows the cover to stay open at certain intervals. So if you are hauling something that's slightly longer than your bed can accommodate, let's say right there, and we wanted to close up the tailgate and have something like some lumber kind of propped up against the end here, we could still have the cover mostly closed for that improved fuel economy and aerodynamics, and in some cases weather protection,