bedmat fly-away on the highway!
bedmat fly-away on the highway!
did not happen, yet, but... used to have a NyraCord bedmat in my 2000, and at highway speeds the front corners would start lifting up. Put bungee cords between tie-downs because I was paranoid about the mat going airborne somewhere up on the bypass. I want to get another mat for my '03, are you supposed to secure these somehow? Anybody ever had a fly-away???
Not a mat flyaway...
but the whole freaking fiberglass lid!
This spring I was on my way home from work...incredibly windy, and could hardly hold the truck on the road. At the crest of a hill, the wind got under my latched and locked Astro lid and blew it 50 yards away into a plowed field. The guy behind me in the little escort probably **** bricks! Thank God it blew off toward the ditch!
Insurance bought me a new Leer, an model that comes down over the siderails and has a better latching sytem.
Scary!
This spring I was on my way home from work...incredibly windy, and could hardly hold the truck on the road. At the crest of a hill, the wind got under my latched and locked Astro lid and blew it 50 yards away into a plowed field. The guy behind me in the little escort probably **** bricks! Thank God it blew off toward the ditch!
Insurance bought me a new Leer, an model that comes down over the siderails and has a better latching sytem.
Scary!
I drive quite a bit for work and have on more than one occasion seen a whole drop in plastic bed liner on the side of the road. I sure would hate to be behind one when it comes out.
I know when I take long trips on windy roads I like to check on the snaps of my soft tonnau.
I know when I take long trips on windy roads I like to check on the snaps of my soft tonnau.


