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jim larson · 2K+ Club

Good site for OME accessories for newer gm products like the 2014 Silverado, bought a new truck Tuesday.

Enganeer · Mega Poster

I have been buying a bunch of accessories to complete mine. It just too dang cold to install them.

Check out this forum
http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/forum/169-2014-chevrolet-silverado-gmc-sierra-1500/

I love mine so far.

dashboard · 2K+ Club

Very nice Jim. Did you grow a new shop?

jim larson · 2K+ Club

Enganeer wrote:
I have been buying a bunch of accessories to complete mine. It just too dang cold to install them.

Check out this forum
http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/forum/169-2014-chevrolet-silverado-gmc-sierra-1500/

I love mine so far.

Thanks for the tip on the site John. I just registered. I am trying to decide on a bed liner and there is a discussion about 10 pages long. My last three trucks had a sprayed in liner that I have been happy with; but thinking about a bed rug. Also had toppers on my last three truck and am thinking about a Roll - Lock or a Roll Bak. Concerned about water leakage and dust. Any ideas?

-- Edited by jim larson on Friday 28th of February 2014 08:42:48 AM

Enganeer · Mega Poster

I was going to go with the metal retractable tonneau cover but they do have some draw backs

1) Take up room in the bed space.
2) With melting and freezing cycle, it is possible to get the tonneau frozen in place if water stays in the channels.
3) Water does not flow off the outside of the cover and down the outside of the bed but channeled along the sides and into the holding box and then out the through some hoses that you have to route out of the bed.

I decided to go with a Fold-A-Cover G4 as I only heard good reviews and looked at how easy it was to remove from the vehicle. I bough it direct from the supplier and they trough in a tailgate seal as a promotional item. Once it warms up enough, I will install it.

For the bed, I bought a gm Bedrug off Amazon.

For keeping water and dust out, I would recommend sealing the bed with weatherstripping. Install the tonneau cover and the look for light coming through the edges...seal as needed.

I would highly recommend getting mud flaps. So far my lower quarters and rocker are coated with this icy junk from the thaws. I bought some 'no drill' WeatherTech flaps from Autoanything.

-- Edited by Enganeer on Friday 28th of February 2014 09:43:12 AM

jim larson · 2K+ Club

Enganeer wrote:

I decided to go with a Fold-A-Cover G4 as I only heard good reviews and looked at how easy it was to remove from the vehicle. I bough it direct from the supplier and they trough in a tailgate seal as a promotional item. Once it warms up enough, I will install it.

I would highly recommend getting mud flaps. So far my lower quarters and rocker are coated with this icy junk from the thaws. I bought some 'no drill' WeatherTech flaps from Autoanything.

-- Edited by Enganeer on Friday 28th of February 2014 09:43:12 AM

The fold a cover looks interesting. Are you able to fold it back and secure the cover when you need to haul something taller? I would imagine so; but haven't seen anything in the video's I have looked at.

On the mud flaps, does you car have those little plastic protectors just behind the wheels? Not sure if WeatherTech has mud flaps for my truck.

-- Edited by jim larson on Friday 28th of February 2014 12:56:25 PM

Enganeer · Mega Poster

The fold a cover opens more and stacks upon itself but does not flip against the window. I figure if I need that extra foot of space, it only take 4 bolts to remove the cover and I will deal with if I need to.

The BAKFlip G2 cover flips up against the window and uses prop rods. The thing that turned me off from the BAK cover is that if I want to access something in the front of the bed, I have to flip over all the sections. Fold a cover has access to the front and rear sections of the bed that are lockable and they also can accommodate a large caddy (I plan on trying to make my own).

jim larson · 2K+ Club

Thats a good point about the rear and front access. I see the factory story for fold a cover has a special if you buy both around $1200 plus shipping for the caddy.

SShink · 3K+ Club

I bought my GMC Weathertech mud flaps through JC Whitney when they had free shipping.

My truck has the roll up bed cover with aluminum reinforcement bars, and it works great. The only drawback is it is either fully open or closed, no in between.