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Hi everyone, Aiden here with etrailer. And today we’re gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install this LEER soft roll up tonneau cover on our 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. Now, a tonneau cover is a great way to keep your stuff protected on the inside of your bed, both from prying eyes, and the elements, if it happens to rain. Now no tonneau cover is weatherproof, but this will certainly help keep your stuff dry. So if you’ve got luggage or anything sensitive back here that you wanna keep protected, this is a good way to do it. Plus having the bed covered up will reduce drag and improve your fuel economy just a little bit.

I’ve noticed it on my own truck quite a bit. So especially for a bigger truck like this, any little bit helps. Now the reason I say this will keep your stuff somewhat secure, is because a soft cover really isn’t the best choice for security. Someone could cut through this vinyl pretty easily with a knife, especially a sharp one, and if someone really wanted to get there, they could. Whereas with the hardcover, especially some that are consisted of thick aluminum panels all throughout, that’s gonna be a lot harder to break through, and it’s gonna deter would-be thieves a lot more.

So the way I break this down is, if you’re keeping that valuables in the back of your bed, like tools full-time, go with a hardcover. It’s not a risk that I would personally want to run. But if you’re only hauling things in the back every now and again, but also want the convenience of the clean look, the covered bed, then a soft cover can certainly get the job done. My dad swears by his soft cover because really he doesn’t have stuff in the back of the bed full-time, but every now and again he wants that bit of protection and especially here in Missouri, where the winters can get kinda snowy, and having his truck parked outside, that snow will pile up on the tonneau cover. You can just brush it off, keeping everything inside nice and protected.

Now to operate the cover, you’ll need to open up the tailgate and squeeze a release latch on the underside. There’s one on the driver and the passenger side. So either one will do. And from there, all you have to do is roll the cover up. Now as we roll it up, we’ll see these aluminum bars.

That’s gonna help just provide a little more structure to this. So if it does rain, it does snow, and stuff starts to pile up on top of the cover, it doesn’t sag in the middle as much, and just helps hold its shape. When the cover’s fully open, you can unbuckle this safety strap from the keeper, buckle it into the back and tighten it up to basically just keep this held in the open position. And this is gonna highlight, I think, one of the biggest benefits of a soft roll up cover, is just how small this is. It’s really not gonna block the back window at all. It sticks out very minimally from the bulkhead. And even if we did have something larger in here that we’re transporting, if it we inchesre shoved up against the front, it really wouldn’t matter because this is soft, it can conform around it, it can move around a little bit. It’s not totally fixed and rigid like a hard roll up cover would be, or especially like a retracting canister-style cover, which would take up a lot of space in the bed too. So for functional use, leaving your bed open, that’s really why I like these soft roll up covers, and they don’t take up much space. One of the downsides though, is that it can be a little slower to operate and a bit more finicky when rolling and unrolling. ‘Cause as of right now, it’s not unrolling very clean. And you gotta make sure you do both sides evenly. Now once you get it to the end and you latch it down, it’s going to apply a fair amount of tension, and give a much cleaner look. But you will have to go back through and fully secure the hook and loop on the sides and just make sure that all of that is making good contact in order for it to be fully closed properly. It’s just a few extra steps you have to take with a cover like this that you wouldn’t with something like a tri-fold or a canister-style. Now this may not apply to all Silverados, but if yours is equipped with the MultiPro tailgate, or the handle to step up into the bed, this cover isn’t gonna interfere with either of those. Now obviously for this, you’d need the cover to be open, but that’s likely the reason why you’re using it is ’cause the cover’s open and you need something out of the bed. And it’s just good to know that you don’t have to sacrifice those features on y