Water leakage with tonneau covers

[HenryFord]

I am glad you brought this up. I have a cheap roll up cover in my Amazon shopping basket for when the truck arrives. Sounds like I need to order some of that stripping with it. Keep us posted how your alterations go. I don't expect the bed to be water tight, but I expect things to stay "reasonably" dry and out of sight.

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[Maverick123]

... I was considering the Rough Country but it is also an aluminum low profile and what I observed is that the aluminum is indeed light weight. That is part of the problem with smaller panels on a Maverick. There is not enough weight to compress the seals so they leak. I had a FRP Chinese one on a 2014 F-150, still on the truck, and it sealed well. But it was not low profile.

The BAK hard roll up that I got has angled grooves on both ends of each section, which get locked in by metal rails on both sides when you snap down the last section. It's brilliant for cargo security and there's really no possible way for it to flutter or lift while driving. It's leaking a bit at the front since I'm missing the front bulkhead gasket but I'm pretty confident it'll be fine once I add that

 

[HenryFord]

I am leaning toward a cheap Chinese POS. I received a tailgate seal kit today. I could spend as much as I want on a cover but I just spent $750 for one that was USA made and failed horribly. I was considering the Rough Country but it is also an aluminum low profile and what I observed is that the aluminum is indeed light weight. That is part of the problem with smaller panels on a Maverick. There is not enough weight to compress the seals so they leak. I had a FRP Chinese one on a 2014 F-150, still on the truck, and it sealed well. But it was not low profile.

I am in and out of the bed of my trucks constantly so the cheap rollups work best for me as they are out of the way when I need to load up the truck. I have had decent luck with the rollup covers. Only time I ever really had an issue was a trip across Kansas in the winter with 60mph wind gusts trying to blow me off of the road. The velcro on the side getting hit directly kept pulling away and had to be corrected before the hurricane winds ripped it off. Other that that I have had good luck both with cheap Chinese and some name brand American covers. Both have been pretty much the same thing.

 

[Kilonen]

I tried the search feature and little popped up about this. So here it goes. Has anyone found a good solution to channel water from the bulkhead area to the side rails then away from the canyon Ford designed into the plastic side rail caps? Ford engineers in the infinite wisdom, and I guess I should cut them some slack since Ford never designed a truck before, thought it would be a good idea to make the outer edge of those trim pieces higher than the bed side so ALL water funnels to the bed. I wish I had paid more attention to this aspect of the truck before I bought it. My 2014 F-150 was 99.5% water tight with a trifold hard cover. With the Maverick I will need to put anything I want to keep dry in a water tight tote, which I already owned so defeats the purpose of the cover, or accept it getting as wet as if there was no cover. I watched with the tailgate down and a bucket of water poured on the cover and water shoots out of those canyons like Niagara falls. Okay not really but you get what I mean. So if anyone has gotten their Maverick even 95% water tight let me know. The tailgate gap is another point but I understand why it is there.

I have a 2025 Maverick Lariat. Installed a TRUXEDO PRO X15 TS SOFT ROLL-UP TONNEAU COVER W/ T-SLOT RAILS. No leaks - none.

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