Thread: Tonneau cover?
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Old Oct 13th, 2005, 06:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by 03HarrisXE
I am thinking about buying a Tonneau cover for my Frontier. I am on a budget and am looking at the Extang black max. Any suggestions? Where to buy? Will it really give me 2 miles per gallon? Thanks for the help!
I got my ExTang from a local truck shop where I paid way too much ($240: for that price I could have gotten the hinged soft cover -- I've seen the model I bought on the Web for $160 shipping included!). I was thinking that if I had any fit problems it would be easier to take it back. But, the cover fit great and was a piece of cake to install (not really an installation, just a minor assembly and then a bolt on).

Anyway, I'm really happy with the ExTang. It's a very nice quality product. It's the one with the snaps. I've seen the snapless ones and they're pretty nice too.

There are a bunch of threads on tonneau covers; just do a Search and you'll probably get a lot of good info.

FWIW, I didn't notice any MPG difference with the tonneau cover. I've since installed cruise control and a FlowMaster muffler and with one or some combination of those three things, I'm seeing about a 2-3 MPG increase (recently got 30 MPG on a highway trip).
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