Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Here is the scoop on this cover. It should be rated a four star out of the box but I am going to tell you how to easily make it a five star. I will also address many of the "problems" other people have reviewed for this product and similar covers as well. I bought this for my 2015 Tacoma and after considering every possible bed cover. In a nutshell, I love it. Installed it and drove 350 miles this weekend in both nasty sideways dust/wind storms and straight up pounding rain and it contained both as well as any similar product conceivably could. Meaning, several few drops of water at the impossible to waterproof Toyota tailgate seams. 1. Fit and Finish- For the tapered Tacoma bed, it is spot-on. Out of the box it looks awesome, feels stout and blends with the truck. It is packaged carefully. 2. Instructions- Throw them away. 3. Installation Time- About an hour from box to done as you get used to it. Re-installing after removal is less than 10 minutes (I know because I had to remove and re-install three days after installation)...more on that later. 4. Quality/Durability- For the featured negative review to talk about what they think weather will do to this cover down the road in a few years, please send me the lotto numbers. The material feels very stout, the seams are beefy, the edges are rolled, this thing is at the top of "soft tops" when you consider the garbage that used to get snapped to an El Camino bed back in the day. No comparison. 5. Seeing Daylight at the Front of the Bed- The manufacturer has included weatherstripping in the box. Use it. Be creative with it in the odd nooks and crannies Toyota created at the front of this bed. The Toyota plastic bed tub and the metal bed walls coupled with the protective bed wall top caps make for a complicated and completely uneven front edge. You will have to work at sealing all the little sources of light (and wind and water as a result) to make it as water and dust-tight as possible. Again, this is NOT a TYGER thing, this is a TOYOTA thing. But no big deal. 6. Wind at the Leading Edge- This is where the product should lose a star. Like other products like this one (soft tri-fold framed tonneau) there have been review complaints about wind getting under the front edge and lifting the cover and creating a possible safety issue for following vehicles. Also allowing wind-driven dust or water to enter your covered bed. At speeds above 70, this cover begins to lift its leading edge (along the back window of the cab). You can see it in your mirror and it is unnerving. It can be blamed on only having four clamps (all located along the inside bed rails) included in the TYGER system. The easy visual here is four guys in a car moving a mattress on the roof of their car. They all reach one arm out the windows and hold four points of side of the mattress, but as they drive down the highway the front flips around and lifts up. BUT there is an easy solution... The Solution- For Tacoma trucks anyway...We need a fifth clamp on this cover at the leading edge (TYGER are you listening?). My solution stems from my disregarding the lousy installation instructions (in a good way). During my initial installation, I looked at the garbage printed on the instruction papers and just started trying to clamp this thing down to my track rails inside the bed, naturally starting with the first two clamps closest to the cab. I placed the cover-mounted front hooks directly into the bed rails (not the way you should do it but it worked) and screwed down the round handles until the front was tight. I then tried to do the same thing with the back rear plastic clamps but they couldn't reach the track rails inside the bed.... That led me to look at the other stuff included in the box, and lo and behold there are some extruded aluminum adapters to slip into the track rails inside my bed creating an extended lip for ALL the cover clamps to tighten onto. Well, I looked at the metal front hooks (different longer design than the longer plastic rear hooks) firmly in place without the adapters and said "another day." I slid in the rear adapters (be sure to back out the hex-key screw or else you will use a hammer and scratch up your track rails like I did) into place and tightened down the rear clamps and hit the road. On the road, watching the front of my cover flop up and down (it only moves a half inch or so, but it is enough to make you nervous) I thought about the two left-over adapters. I have a track rail on the leading edge of my bed, paralell to the cab...I can slip one adapter into that track...but how do I get a clamp onto the leading edge of the cover... When I got home I unclamped the whole thing and discovered that the leading-edge frame of the cover has a channel tube in it as well. Play with the other left-over aluminum adapter in that channel and you can create (along with the other left-over adapter fixed in the Toyota track rail) two nice horizontal lips to zip-tie together and increase your front-edge wind resistance by easily 80%. 7. Enjoy this nice cover with a little creativity!