2006-S2K

I love the look of the "double-humper" Veilside tonneau cover, but I hate the fact that the cover will not fit in the trunk. It doesn't make sense since you never know when it can start to rain. I don't like the idea of having to choose between letting the rain poor into the cockpit, or leaving the tonneau cover by the road side.

So I decided to cut my Veilside tonneau cover in half. Now the two parts fit neatly into the trunk. I used hex screws and some brackets on the underside of the cover to put the two sides back together. That means I can sport the cool tonneau cover (it gets lots of looks) and not have to worry about what to do if it should start raining!




I'm new to S2K Intl so forgive me if pictures didn't post correctly.

BTW, how do you post pictures in a reply to a post?

2006-S2K

clawhammer

You post pictures like this when replying:

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that's cool

jlstyle82

damn you got some gut!
and your garage is so clean!!!

ruexp67

Interesting. Are you worried about airflow causing the cover to bow in the middle and stress the brackets you created?

Have you "Wind tunnel" tested it to some theoretical speed yet?

dfneva

can you take some more pictures please?

side and front angles would be great!

i</3speedbumps.

great idea. id prolly consider doin the same thing if i ever got a good deal on the cover.

2006-S2K

I haven't tested the cover in a wind tunnel, but I did do a "poor man's wind tunnel test" that involved going out and driving the car at up to 65 miles per hour and hand no signs of any stress what so ever.

I reinforced the underside of the tonneau cover with two strips of plywood (painted black). The plywood overlaps from one half of the tonneau cover to the other (to add strength). I then bolted the pieces together with a steel brackets. The cover doesn't have the same strength that it would have if I hadn't cut the thing in half, and it surely wouldn't sustain a person standing on top of it; however, it is strong enough that I can hold it from one side and the other side does not bow. I can easily install and un-install the cover by myself without the need for another person to hold the other half of the cover.