Leer Bed Cover

[Glide]

Great review. Found a good deal and ordered one. Not my first choice but another cover I was after seems to be OOS for at least a month or more.

 

[GCATX]

i like the latches, don't like the profile higher than the bed. Looks like you can close the tailgate with the cover down, that's nice.

 

[Troutrad]

Highly recommend a tailgate seal for anyone with a Tonneau cover. Keeps the crap out and cheap and easy to install. I got the ESI product which seems good but there are others:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IPQWXZQ/?tag=fordraptorforum-20

 

[GunMonkeyINTL]

Great review. Found a good deal and ordered one. Not my first choice but another cover I was after seems to be OOS for at least a month or more.

One tip on install:

The manual includes instructions on how to square it up after install. You loosen four sets of set screws, two on the mount (cab end), and two for the middle latch bolsters. Square it, and retighten them.

Mine was only about 1/16” off, out of the box, but I squared it anyway.

Do the squaring with it closed. You can loosen the screws with it open, close it, and then rack it into square, but don’t open it to get back to the screws to tighten them. Just slide up inside the bed, and tighten them with it closed. I had to do it twice before I realized it would move a little if opening it with the screws loose. I’m not the sharpest knife in the Happy Meal.

 

[GunMonkeyINTL]

i like the latches, don't like the profile higher than the bed. Looks like you can close the tailgate with the cover down, that's nice.

You can close the cover or the tailgate in either order, which is nice. Minor point, but still convenient. After the first rain, I closed the cover after the tailgate, and it seems to have set that long flap on the seal curled upward, and now it pretty much stays like that. The second rain it went through didn’t let anything inside the bed.

I still ordered a tailgate gasket recommended above by Trout. Can’t hurt.


I think the height really comes down to whether you want it sticking about an inch above the bed rails, or you want to lose about an inch of internal space. I did find that my 5g diesel cans for my tractor just barely clear the closed cover- so that does come in handy. I tend to think that the over-the-rails options are probably easier to keep leak-proof.

 

[Glide]

One tip on install:

The manual includes instructions on how to square it up after install. You loosen four sets of set screws, two on the mount (cab end), and two for the middle latch bolsters. Square it, and retighten them.

Mine was only about 1/16” off, out of the box, but I squared it anyway.

Do the squaring with it closed. You can loosen the screws with it open, close it, and then rack it into square, but don’t open it to get back to the screws to tighten them. Just slide up inside the bed, and tighten them with it closed. I had to do it twice before I realized it would move a little if opening it with the screws loose. I’m not the sharpest knife in the Happy Meal.

question - where did you order from? I found a place $100 cheaper than the Leer site but just cancelled as they had no idea when it would be in stock...

 

[REMIX]

Prices on all these hard covers is bonkers. I need one for a cross country trip and it makes me nuts to know it's going to cost around $1,000.

 

[smurfslayer]

Prices on all these hard covers is bonkers. I need one for a cross country trip and it makes me nuts to know it's going to cost around $1,000.

it’s a shame we don’t have access to an FRF supporting vendor, like... Realtruck and possibly others, that would be willing to assist in procuring a hard cover for significantly less than $1k.

Just sayin’

 

[GunMonkeyINTL]

question - where did you order from? I found a place $100 cheaper than the Leer site but just cancelled as they had no idea when it would be in stock...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P5JD8P3/?tag=fordraptorforum-20

In stock, $20 less than Leer site.

 

[Mister Pinky]

Good thread, thanks for the write up.