I sprang for the Undercover Ultra Flex. I am somewhat disappointed and curerntly cannot recommend it, at least not for anyone with the options I have on my Hybrid Lariat + Lux package (bed light, tie-down slide rails). This is my first ever tonneau cover, so I do not know if other options have similar (or worse?) issues; it is possible that my expectations were too high.
I paid for installation thinking I wanted it professionally done. They did it wrong (new employee, first time he had ever installed a tonneau!!), and (IMO) it also seemed done carelessly without attention to detail. I took it back in today and they 'corrected' the issues and apologized for the inconvenience, but I am still a bit ~meh~ on the overall result. In hindsight, I wish I had just installed it myself, even having never done one before.
Pros:
Overall, it simply has the feeling that this is an amazing cover for other trucks, but that they never tweaked the design *for the Maverick*, so it just doesn't work as well here. It's hard to spend a chunk of money and be dissatisfied, but hopefully these comments can help some others make their own decisions. Right now I am discouraged and don't want to deal with it; after I get over that, I may see if I can shorten/grind or somehow replace the clamps, adjust the prop rod holders somehow, and/or move the LED light to the opposite side or toward the front of the bed, or maybe just remove it. Or, perhaps I will reach out to the manufacturer, maybe there is a pathway to improvement there.
I paid for installation thinking I wanted it professionally done. They did it wrong (new employee, first time he had ever installed a tonneau!!), and (IMO) it also seemed done carelessly without attention to detail. I took it back in today and they 'corrected' the issues and apologized for the inconvenience, but I am still a bit ~meh~ on the overall result. In hindsight, I wish I had just installed it myself, even having never done one before.
Pros:
- Looks beautiful closed; low profile, exactly what I wanted style-wise.
- Hard tri-fold cover that secures the bed
- Prop rods 'snap' on to hold the folded cover upright if desired, and use a button release. Hard to describe, but better than any other prop rods solutions I have seen with slides and screws
- Has a premium look and feel to it
- The clamps to secure the tonneau cover are 'low' enough that the tie-down slide rails cannot slide past them, so I only have limited use of positioning the slide rails OR I have to remove the tonneau clamps to move my slide rails where I want them, and re-fasten the clamps. It /seems/ like the manufacturer could have designed slightly lower profile rails that would permit the full bed length use of the tie-down slide rails.
- The 'holders' to store the prop rods when they are not in use, face downward - so you place the prop rods underneath (toward the bed floor) and snap them upward into the clips - so the open part of the clip faces down toward the bed. This /seems/ like a poor and insecure design to me (as opposed to having them snap in from the top or even from the side); only time will tell if they fall out and bang and scratch around the bed.
- The battery-operated LED light installs at the rear driver-side bed rail, so directly above my built-in wired bed light. Redundant and will require batteries, so it seems unhelpful.
- Ultimate Decimation Attack to my wallet, as far as tonneau cover options go
Overall, it simply has the feeling that this is an amazing cover for other trucks, but that they never tweaked the design *for the Maverick*, so it just doesn't work as well here. It's hard to spend a chunk of money and be dissatisfied, but hopefully these comments can help some others make their own decisions. Right now I am discouraged and don't want to deal with it; after I get over that, I may see if I can shorten/grind or somehow replace the clamps, adjust the prop rod holders somehow, and/or move the LED light to the opposite side or toward the front of the bed, or maybe just remove it. Or, perhaps I will reach out to the manufacturer, maybe there is a pathway to improvement there.
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