Product Reviews : A.R.E. Truck Caps and Tonneau Covers

Well first I’d like to start with the poor quality install I received from my dealer. The rear window only latched on one side and after going back a second time it was still the same, somehow it seems ok now. But you can see that the rear window needs to move to the left a little. It’s not properly cantered. One would think that when you get a $5000 truck canopy installed they could at least clean the inside and outside windows, but I had to do the inside, all covered in factory dust, they did hose off the outside. My front drop down window is very hard to get back up and re entered into its opening, the drivers side window leaks as do both sides where the glass door meets my tailgate. The tailgate leak I expected as it’s probably hard to get a perfect seal there. I also have a leak at the passenger side corner directly behind my cab, I expected that too as I can see daylight from the inside of the canopy because the foam tape ends too soon. Although the canopy has a skirt mine sits high on one side because the plastic bed rail cover needs to be moved a bit before the canopy was put on. The paint job looks great as does the canopy in general although it barely sits on the bed rail behind my cab due to my rear cab camera/ light protruding outward. It seems like there should have been an indent in the canopy for this but there isn’t, another reason I have water leakage. Doesn’t one buy a truck canopy partially to keep things dry? I also had roof rack issues with my Thule tracker foot rack due to the angle the Yakima tracks are on at the edge of the roofline. I had to file down some of the plastic on my rack to get the feet to latch properly. Sorry to say but this canopy is a bit of a headache to say the least. Kevin K.