The G2 from BAK Industries will be the company's middle-of-the-road offering in regards to
their hard tri-fold offerings and will be a fantastic choice for the 2015 and newer
F-150 owners who are looking to add a ton of security to your bed cargo.
Now, the G2 here will be available in sizes to fit your 5 1/2 foot, 6 1/2 foot, and even
8-foot beds and will start right around 875 bucks for the 5 1/2 foot option we're talking
about here today.
Install will be a breeze as well as we'll show you in a little bit, but expect a soft
one out of three wrenches on the difficulty meter here and about an hour or less to complete
from start to finish.
But let's dive a little bit deeper into the G2, guys, and, again, the middle-of-the-road
tri-fold from BAK Industries existing just beneath the more premium MX4 also available
on the site and just above the more budget-friendly G1.
Now, the big difference between the three options I just mentioned will come down to
the materials of the actual panels here, guys.
For instance, that more expensive MX4 will use durable aluminum exclusively for the panels
whereas the G2 here, on the other hand, is gonna use what they call a solid panel but
with an aluminum skin, basically, a composite material in the middle wrapped in aluminum.
Now, that's still gonna make for a very, very tough cover and it's still gonna deliver a
ton of security but the G2 here is gonna deliver a weight rating of 300 pounds versus the more
expensive MX4 which will give you a 400-pound rating.
So, if that's important to you, that's the main difference.
Now, that aluminum has been given the gloss black powder coat as you can see.
It is also UV resistant and that's gonna help prevent any fading on this thing over the
years.
Now, as far as the actual design is concerned, well, as the name implies, BAKFlip is going
to be a flipping or folding cover.
Tri-fold to be exact, as we've already said, and in my opinion, that is the most popular
design that you are going to encounter in the category at least here on our site.
Now, there will be rolling options such as a Revolver X2, also from BAK industries.
And there will also be a retractable hardcover option as well but, ultimately, I feel like
the folding covers here will be the best way to go or at least the most popular way to
go when you're browsing for hardcovers on the site.
Now, if you didn't know, the folding options I think are great because it's gonna give
you the option of flipping one or two sections up at a time or, if you need to, you can flip
the entire cover up and out of the way and gain full access to the entire bed.
Now, the only drawback with this versus a rolling cover per se is that you do lose some
visibility out of the rear window with this puppy folded all the way up.
But, as someone who has this same cover installed on my own F-150, between the side mirrors
in addition to the backup camera, it has really just been a non-issue.
But one thing I do really enjoy about the BAKFlip cover here in general besides its
quality build, quality materials, things like that, is just how flash it sits with the bed
rails once everything has been installed.
And, in my opinion, just makes for a much cleaner look.
Now, at the time of this video, guys, the BAKFlip in addition to the UnderCover Flex
will be your only two options on this site that's gonna deliver a very, very flush design.
Retractable covers as well will do that but if we're talking tri-fold, guys, this and
the UnderCover are gonna be your two big options here.
Options like Extang and WeatherTech do make a nice cover but they are gonna stick up a
little bit above the bed rails.
Not a big deal to some truck owners out there but for owners who prefer maybe that more
flush, clean appearance, whatever you wanna call it, this is certainly gonna be a great
choice.
Now, for you truck owners out there who might be a little unsure of how these things actually
mount or install into your truck's bed, well, they're going to install using the included
rails.
They are aluminum and those rails get clamped to your truck's bed rails using the included
clamps, very painless install and one that is totally reversible if you ever wanted to
uninstall or maybe even transfer this over to your next truck.
The cover does include a nice, thick rubber seal on all four sides here and even in between
those aluminum panels, guys.
That's gonna help keep any water, rain, moisture out of the equation, keep your bed cargo nice
and dry in the process.
Now, as for your operation, well, these things really couldn't be much easier to use, guys.
There's a little cable within the rails themselves that you're simply just gonna pull.
That releases the latches and, at that point, they're just folding up and out of the way.
Does include some straps if you wanted to secure the actual cover, maybe fold it up
once or twice but not totally up and out of the way.
But if you wanted to fold it up and out of the way, it does include some straps to hold
this thing in place while you're cruising on the highway.
But let's touch a little bit more on that install which, again, will be very straightforward
using some basic hand tools.
And, to give you a better idea of how it's all gonna go down, here is that detailed walkthrough
we promised you along with a quick tool breakdown.
Man: Tools required for this installation: Philips-head screwdriver, flat-head screwdriver,
3/8-inch drive, 14 millimeter socket.
All right, so your first step is you're gonna wanna install your bed rails on the inside
of the bed.
And if you don't have a drop-in bed liner or bed rails like this has, they do supply
you with some double-sided grommet to put on there to raise it up just a little bit.
So we're gonna set it on the bed rail just like this.
And you need its three clamps per side.
We're kinda going loose on these for right now because if there's any adjustments we
wanna make, we'll be able to do so with it loosely put on there.
And then once we're done tightening up these, we're gonna do the same thing on the other
side.
All right, so your next step is you're gonna want to take your tonneau cover with these
straps facing towards the front and set it into place.
Now, it should pretty much just slip right in between the rails on both sides and then
we'll worry about positioning it when we get to our next step.
Okay, so your next step is you're gonna wanna take the buckle end and with the supplied
hardware, put the collars on the back side like that and then on the front, line it up,
and start your Philips-head screws through it.
And this is gonna be the same on the other side.
All right, so one of the big problems with the tonneau cover is when it's in the upward
position, in its third position, this is gonna hit your back glass.
Now, BAK Industries is gonna hook you up with three rubber bumpers that you put on this
metal strip right here.
And you wanna evenly space them out and make sure you have a clean surface to mount these
to.
Take off the tape.
Put them right here in the middle.
Now, when you get to pull your top up, it just hits against that rubber.
All right, so your next step is you're gonna take your bolt here that BAK Industries supplied
you with and you're gonna take it almost completely apart.
And this is gonna be on the back side underneath it.
So you're gonna take your lock washer off, your flat washer.
You're gonna leave one rubber washer in that collar and
under here you'll see that rail that we're gonna mount to.
It's gonna go through like that and I'm gonna go underneath and tighten it down.
All right, so now that we're underneath the tonneau cover.
Again, it's gonna be rubber washer, flat washer, lock washer.
And you're just gonna snug that up.
You're gonna repeat that on the other side as well.
All right, so your next step is to make sure that your tonneau cover is even on both sides
and folds down very nicely.
Now, at the end, close your tailgate and close your top.
All right, so now that you like the way that your tonneau cover is fitting, we're gonna
be putting the tonneau cover back up in the resting position and we're gonna be tightening
the six clamps we put on earlier.
All right, this is the drain tube for the tonneau cover.
Now, we're on the front side of the tonneau cover and this is the drain hole.
We are gonna put our hose right up into there.
Now, some boxes have a grommet on the side here, on the front here, or down here.
Our truck only has one so we are gonna be running our tube down into that.
Now, you can drill a hole and make it look clean.
We're not gonna be doing that.
We are just going to be popping up this grommet here and we're gonna get through just like
that.
All right, same thing on the other side.
All right, that's gonna wrap up my install of the BAK Industries BAKFlip G2 Tonneau Cover.
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