Bakflip G2 Hail Damage
04-25-2016, 03:56 PM
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I was quite impressed with how the repairs came out. Paint match is great and everything is lined up correctly. The only way you can tell the door skin was replaced is if you look closely at the seam at the bottom of the door on the inside. It's not quite as neat as the passenger side. I can't see it when the door is closed so I'm not worried about it.
04-25-2016, 04:05 PM
#13
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I have the Bak VP (vinyl covered) and really like it. I have not had any hail on it but it looks pretty hard to dent that way. Had one on my '13 KR also and have had no issues with them. Your mileage may vary
04-25-2016, 04:18 PM
#14
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I have the BakFlip HD. Very sturdy. Aluminum cover.
Couple weeks ago we had light snow & ice. I "thumped" the ice off my truck (hood, roof, tonneau cover) with a broom as i was sweeping off the snow. I've done this hundreds of times on dozens of vehicles over the course of thirty years to get the ice off cars in our New England winters. Ice breaks up and you just sweep it off. Truck is unscathed. I have a bunch of dents all over the tonneau cover. Not impressed. I know what the difference is between BANGING on something, and "thumping" it to break a little ice. What I did shouldn't have resulted in denting.
I called the guys at Bak and confused them when I asked them how people SHOULD get a 1/4" layer of ice off the tonneau? It certainly won't fold with a layer of ice on it, so how do we deal with this? Dead. Silence.
Couple weeks ago we had light snow & ice. I "thumped" the ice off my truck (hood, roof, tonneau cover) with a broom as i was sweeping off the snow. I've done this hundreds of times on dozens of vehicles over the course of thirty years to get the ice off cars in our New England winters. Ice breaks up and you just sweep it off. Truck is unscathed. I have a bunch of dents all over the tonneau cover. Not impressed. I know what the difference is between BANGING on something, and "thumping" it to break a little ice. What I did shouldn't have resulted in denting.
I called the guys at Bak and confused them when I asked them how people SHOULD get a 1/4" layer of ice off the tonneau? It certainly won't fold with a layer of ice on it, so how do we deal with this? Dead. Silence.
04-25-2016, 04:27 PM
#15
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Won't Bak replace the cover under warranty or are they working as designed? I'd be pretty pissed off. Luckily I have the vinyl covered Bak X2 hardcover and luckily we don't normally get marble or baseball sized hail, but if the truck can handle it then the tonneau cover should as well IMO. If anything the cover should be handle more abuse.
04-25-2016, 04:27 PM
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I only had to deal with this ice once and that was Dec 28th last year when I traded my 2013 F-150 for my 2015. I had tons of sleet on my windshield and the bed cover. It was really pretty heavy to move it off. I used a heat gun and heated it from the inside of the bed up towards the bed cover.
04-27-2016, 11:16 PM
#17
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As most of you know we had historical flooding here in Houston last week. Along with the torrential rain there were periods of hail. Marble sized hail fell at my house and I feared the worse for the truck. Truck came through unscathed, but my Bakflip G2 now looks like crap. I really love the cover, but am sorely disappointed it damaged so easily. Something to consider when contemplating a tonneau cover purchase. Anybody else had similar experience?
