[txarsoncop]

It seals pretty well with some caveats:

• Rain, we've hardly had any & none of it has been heavy.
• Dust, I haul "stuff" in my bed (hay, sheep, feed, etc.) so I don't have a tailgate seal.

In the few (light to moderate) rains we've had I had no water in the bed (truck was parked for duration of storm). We'll be going to Port Aransas this weekend and rain is possible so I may get to see how it holds up to rain while driving. I'm very interested in seeing how it performs in this condition also.

Keyless has been worth 2x or 3x the cost already for me. Most of my use involves dropping the tailgate anyway. You pull the cover's handle and the cover goes away. I've tried it once with the key for grins and it takes a considerable amount of force to turn the key because the key is releasing the latches, not actually unlocking the cover.

I added the electric tailgate lock because I didn't want to have to remember to physically lock the tailgate and then unlock it when I needed access.

I don't live or work in the city. My truck doesn't get locked until I go into town. A lot of the reason I got the cover was for security for when we're travelling, didn't like all the gear being in the unsecured bed. With the cover and the tailgate lock mod I don't have to think about the gear being secure. Now when I lock the doors the tailgate locks too.

BTW, the website says the cover is rated at 500lbs., the sticker on the cover's container says 300lbs. and it advises you not to stand on cover. Just kind of odd since TCUSA clearly shows someone standing on it on their website...