Pace Edwards JackRabbit Retractable Hard Tonneau Cover Review - 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500

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Hi, everyone. Aiden here at Etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install this Pace Edwards Jackrabbit Retractable Hard Tunnel Cover on our 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. When it comes to tunnel covers, you've got a lot of different options, and it can be really overwhelming trying to decipher which one is gonna be the best fit for your truck. Now for me, I always like to start by separating it into two categories, hard covers and soft covers. Soft covers are gonna be a bit more inexpensive, but they lack security, because anyone can come up and just cut through that material with a knife to get inside, whereas a hardcover like this, (knuckle thudding) is going to be constructed of metal or some sort of hard material that can't be cut through.

Obviously nothing's thief-proof, but this is going to be a huge improvement to security, especially this option from Pace Edwards, which is constructed of a series of metal slats that all interlock together, giving you probably some of the best security you can get. An additional layer of security that the Jackrabbit has is a lock. The mechanism to open the cover is located up top, so that's why they've got the lock. Some covers will rely on your locking tailgate, and have the locking mechanism inside the bed, but I like this, because it's easy to see an access, and then we don't have to open the tailgate to operate this. We just have to twist that, and we can push this into the canister up front.

(canister thudding) And here we can see the benefit of a canister-style tile cover. Everything retracts into the canister up front, so nothing extends up above our bed rails, leaving our back window completely clear, compared to something like a tri-fold cover, where when that's fully open it's gonna be straight up and down blocking your back window, or even a roll-up tunnel cover, where that roll will sit on top of your bed rails and at least partially obstruct the back glass. So this is gonna be the best option for visibility. The trade off for that is that it is going to extend down into your bed, because that cover has to go somewhere. So there will be some sacrificed space in here.

The good thing is, underneath it, there is gonna be some space. So if you needed to slide in some lumber, some two by fours, there's space underneath the canister for it to go. But that small space up top will be obstructed by the canister. Underneath the canister, you're gonna have drain tubes, so any water that collects in here due to rain is gonna be draining out through those drain tubes. We will have to drill some holes in our bed or enlarge some existing ones to route those drain tubes out.

So you can choose to do that however you'd like. In this installation, we did choose to enlarge some preexisting holes that we're already enlarged for something else, and that worked to treat to run these out, and make sure that there's no low spot in the drain tubes. And the benefit to this pull cord here, is that we can operate this from outside the bed. Now I'm just gonna operate it from right here right now, so I can talk about one of the other benefits, which is the multiple locking points. So as we pull this out, here are some clicks, locking it at certain intervals, allowing us to have the cover partially closed or open if we need to. Where that can come in really handy, is let's say we've got a load of lumber that sticks out past our tailgate. But we still want the fuel economy benefits of having this cover closed. While we can close it most of the way, and just have things extending out the back here. That's gonna help with your fuel economy and reduce drag. Now comparing this to some other options out there, let's say other options from Pace Edwards, like the UltraGroove. Those ones don't stop. They just have a fully open or a fully closed state, so there's no intervals. For that reason, I like the Jackrabbit a lot better. Comparing this to an option from Retrax, their retractable covers can be stopped at any point, no intervals. All you have to do is throw their handle to lock it, and it stays in place where it is, which is nice for the ability to stop it anywhere. But I don't like Retrax's handle as much. Their covers, I don't feel, like, slide as smoothly as Pace Edwards' does. So we're gonna get smoother action here. And the trade off is that we just have set intervals at which the cover can be opened or closed rather than anywhere we want. So for me, it's a fair trade off. As far as weather resistance goes, no tunnel cover is weatherproof, but I thin