What are the benefits of a tonneau cover?

What are the benefits of a tonneau cover?

A tonneau cover will help to save you money from low gas mileage, lost/damaged cargo and theft. It will also protect the bed of your truck and help to prevent serious damage that will cause repairs to be needed. But upon reselling your truck, the bed will maintain much better shape than if the bed was exposed.

Is there a locking tonneau cover?

Keep your cargo secure with the Roll-N-Lock M-Series retractable tonneau cover. This easy-to-use cover combines heavy-duty vinyl with aluminum slats, making it resistant to leaks, weathering, and the efforts of would-be thieves.

Do tonneau covers help gas mileage?

Without a tonneau cover, your truck bed acts like a bucket catching air that passes over it as you drive. This drag makes your engine work just a little bit harder. Tonneau covers improve your gas mileage by sealing your pickup truck bed from this airflow, which improves the aerodynamics.

What is the meaning of tonneau?

a rear seating compartment
Definition of tonneau 1a : a rear seating compartment of an automobile also : the entire seating compartment. b : tonneau cover. 2 : a shape of watch case or dial resembling a barrel in profile.

What is a tonneau case?

The word tonneau is French for “barrel,” and the overall profile of a tonneau is a rectangle-shaped case with rounded corners and bowed-out edgeswhich looks, in fact, barrel-like. So the tonneau is a close relative to the cushion case, but the overall shape is taller and longer.

What is best tonneau cover?

The Best Truck Tonneau Covers

• Table of contents.
• Editor’s Choice: Tyger Auto Tri-Fold Tonneau Truck Bed Cover.
• Promoted Product: BAK BAKFlip MX4 Hard Folding Tonneau Cover.
• Truxedo TruXport Roll-up Truck Bed Cover.
• MaxMate Tri-Fold Truck Bed Tonneau Cover.
• Lund Genesis Elite Roll-Up Tonneau Cover.

Are tonneau covers watertight?

Like we said before, no tonneau is perfectly watertight. A few drops will still sometimes get in around the hinge alongside the cab or through the openings around the tailgate. But this type of cover may be your best bet if you mainly care about waterproofing and don’t mind dropping big money on a tonneau.