what's going on everybody
uh we're it's uh pretty early in the morning and it's actually like 43 degrees out so it's a little
chilly i'm glad i brought my sweatshirt uh we are out here because we are doing a review of the
diamond back hd uh tonneau cover and i have this on my jeep gladiator and i've had it for
six months now so i want to do a bit of review on it uh tell you some things i like about it
tell you some things i don't like about it and uh we'll go from there so we'll roll the intro
all right so we'll get into this right now so this is i i have the diamondback uh
hd version so there's there's two versions of this of this cover and i'll switch around here
so essentially it's just a uh it is a tonneau cover uh for the bed of your
truck but what's really neat about these if you get the hd version that's a loud truck
uh if you get the if you get the hd version um you can hold sixteen hundred pounds
on top of this tonneau cover which is really what i wanted because of traveling especially um
like to the beach and things i have a i have a hitch
carrier that i put some stuff in then i obviously put a lot of luggage in underneath and i wanted
to still be able to take my bicycles we have e-bikes and i wanted to still be able to take them
and to take them i needed somewhere to put them because obviously i couldn't put them on a hitch
i had to put them on top of the cover so i know the sd version would have suffice especially for
e-bike weight but i wanted to be able to have the capabilities of you know down the road
really get into something if i needed to that was quite a bit heavier with 1600 pounds i mean
they have bars that attach to the side of these they kind of wrap around here and then people
set the four wheelers right on top of them um it is a kind of like a gritty uh i would say
a rhino line type feel to it but it's not as rough you can see from a six month standpoint a little
bit of wear and tear not too much uh on the hinges they look pretty good um this did go you know i've
had this down to the beach and the salt water or in the salt air and things like that but hinges
wise look they're looking pretty good nothing crazy there they are lockable which is nice
so big thing for me out of the gate was i wanted something i could store things on
top of the other piece of this is you know if i ever go to the the route of doing the
bed cover sorry i'm slipping today uh bed cover tent so like a you could put
a tent on top of this um for like the truck tents and things like that to elevate you
but it's not to the point where it's on top of your truck um i wanted to be able to be
kind of at this level so you still are up off the ground you're still pretty safe but you are not
going all the way on top of your truck um because once you get into lift kits and things like that
it's quite a hike to get up there the other portion i like about this is you can walk on this
um i do have a rack rhino rack system on the top of my jeep so
if i put gear up there i put a basket up there it's easy to uh you know use your tailgate jump
up on here and then get up to your your racking system which is up top let me score you up here
so that's another thing i really like they have uh 12 tie-down points believe four four eight
yep and then four there's 12 tie-down points that come with it this comes in kind of three
different finishes now when i got mine it only had two finishes that had this and like a like kind of
aluminum they have this they have like a flat black and then also still like the aluminum uh
the aluminum cover so let me pull you around here grab my phone make sure i'm not missing
anything uh 12 cleat tie offs the rugged rugged black smooth black and rugged aluminum
which is nice uh it also obviously it has the locking capabilities with the uh
with the latches it has a versatile v design which i'll pull that up and from from a construction
standpoint quality standpoint i really like it so far i haven't had any issues in the sense of like
breakage or you know rubbing or thinking anything's gonna fall apart i've had any of that
uh up until this point so let me let me pull up the v and then i'll show you guys kind of what
that looks like i'm sure if you've been looking into these um you've seen some of this so really
from a latch perspective you just grab these you turn and they kind of float up this is a
little bit of the under you can see some of the welding the welding looks pretty good
nice beads there but this is a simple you know when you put this in this just latches underneath
your bed and it kind of latches on to the the trail rail system
you can see here kind of it slides you know in these notches here
same thing over here from the install perspective you can see the bracketry
uh you have the brackets there which it comes in three parts so when you look at it this part
this part and this middle part the middle part is the first one you put in for installation
and then you set these in off of that so this one you want to try to get as center as possible
and then you're laying in the other pieces on top of it and you may have to you know
you shimmy left and right because uh you want to try to keep the same gap width on both sides
and probably got it cranked up so you can see i'm getting a little bowing there so one thing
you want to make sure that you don't have this crank down so hard because you can see
i have a bit of bowing there because this is so tight so i'll loosen that up a little bit
and you kind of have to play with that from a tension standpoint i have the
same thing over here you can see i was just worried about this shifting around
so both the latches are kind of on the same side
pop that up and then this one doesn't auto pop so you have to kind of come under here and
hit the latch i don't know if i can do it one-handed there we go
and that that pops up so it does have a v design there are a couple designs where
they'll have this as a v and then this one will be split into two separate um for my truck
i'm not sure if they when i bought this they didn't have the split design
uh for my truck at that point in time but that's what the v design looks like
you can see they have the the cable here which uh keeps for safety purposes but big thing for
me was really the ability to load the top of this i wanted to have that and uh the tie-down points
are great i'll put a picture in the video of the e-bike sitting on top because i bought this as
well to run across i could put the uh the e-bikes with the fork lock right into um the cross brace
there and that's the back of my truck right now so when i have that cross bracing on obviously i
can't pull this v up in that scenario but i didn't need to i just need to be able to get to this one
let me check my phone real quick make sure i got everything i wanted to talk about
but i'm really happy really happy with it still okay really happy with it overall
i haven't had a lot of issues i do have a little bit of shifting i still got to do because you can
see i have some wet spots here i just washed everything last night um so a little bit of
seepage but i think some of that could be because i'm straining on the middle the middle so so bad
but not i haven't you know i've been through heavy rains i don't get a lot of wetness in the
bed and then they give you this rubber piece this seal piece um to come down to kind of
close the gap on the foam on the back side but yeah construction-wise no issues at all
super durable these these have worked out really well having any problems with the latching system
yeah i think that's it that's all i wanted to cover for this if you are looking into any type
of off-roading over landing and you want to be able to store things on top of your bed not only
in especially if you have the out shelving systems these are really really great and to use them to
get up high to set a 10 on to get on to you know maybe some the back your truck even just washing
the top of your truck you know if you have a lift kit can be a bit of a pain in the butt so uh these
are really versatile i really like mine and it took me a while to figure out what i wanted for
that for the tonneau cover setup um but you can utilize almost all spaces on your truck
with having something that can carry a pretty decent load on top of the bed
not not only as well as inside so all right we'll leave it there and uh hope you enjoyed the video