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Old May 30, 2021 | 11:58 AM
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Weatherproof Cover Thoughts & Recommendations

Living in Colorado and looking through Amazon listings I see a lot of truck covers for under$100. Looking at reviews I see a lot of positivity, but have run across photos depicting covers that don't hold up. One showed a cover after a hail storm that was quite damaged.



Anybody here using a cover, especially one that might help in a hail storm?
 
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Old May 30, 2021 | 10:42 PM
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In '18 my '11 F-250 was destroyed by hail, with me in it. Before that I thought that I was too stupid to be afraid!

I've made a cursory attempt to find a protective cover and found nothing.

A friend ~4 miles away had many holes thru his home's roof in the same storm. When I moved to the front range 30 years ago the big-boy hail was just in the plains. Now where I live on the border between the plains and the front range I find that I am in jeopardy too.
 
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Old May 31, 2021 | 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Baja Fog
Living in Colorado and looking through Amazon listings I see a lot of truck covers for under$100. Looking at reviews I see a lot of positivity, but have run across photos depicting covers that don't hold up. One showed a cover after a hail storm that was quite damaged.



Anybody here using a cover, especially one that might help in a hail storm?
That cover that got destroyed in the hail storm paid for its self right then and there!
Its a good idea to keep one around, I wouldn't use it all the time, just those nights when we are expecting a good storm! or park it under a big tree! lol i did see a bit inflatable one but where theirs hail theirs always lots of wind
 
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Here you go.

looks like some exercise setting it up.




 
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Old May 31, 2021 | 12:33 PM
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I figured out, or think I have that Amazon covers are all the same made in China with limited or no warranty. I watched the posted videos and several others and did the boring conventional trip to https://carcovers.com to buy the $200 and some odd Ford Super Duty cover. Lifetime warranty they say. Finger's crossed we don't get another big hail storm and if we do I'm somewhere it doesn't hail.

https://www.carcovers.com/covers/truck/ford/f-250-super-duty/2018/crew-cab-short-bed-6-75-ft.html

 
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Old May 31, 2021 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Baja Fog
Living in Colorado and looking through Amazon listings I see a lot of truck covers for under$100. Looking at reviews I see a lot of positivity, but have run across photos depicting covers that don't hold up. One showed a cover after a hail storm that was quite damaged.



Anybody here using a cover, especially one that might help in a hail storm?
Take a look at the BAK F1.

 
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