I was going to go with Peragon but then realized that you can’t fold the cover down when you have stuff in the bed. Like if you pack the bed with gear. I’m going with either a Roll N’ Lock or a Bakflip rolling cover
I did end up going with the Peragon. You're right but that is only at the very front of the bed and you lose like 8ish inches of height for about 1-2 feet. I can get exact measurements but that's the only space you "lose" - but the rest of the bed you have full height up to the top of the unit. You technically can use the space in question but you can't open it - as you said.
Yeah, definitely a downside with the Peragon. I ended up with it anyway, because it was the only hard cover I could find that didn't have either a bunch of unusable space from the 'roll' in the front, or would cover up a bunch of the rear window when folded up.
I suspect that nothing is going to save me from 100-mile or less tow range with this 9,100-lb puppy - and adding payload weight to the truck would destroy my limited available tongue weight.
You could always go with a smaller boat! You would get much better range towing a rowboat with a 25hp outboard!I suspect that nothing is going to save me from 100-mile or less tow range with this 9,100-lb puppy - and adding payload weight to the truck would destroy my limited available tongue weight.
We have inflatable dinghies, three Carolina Skiff workboats (used in our Virginia oyster aquaculture farm), a couple jet skis, and if you look closely at that picture, there are four Hobie kayaks on the rig, including an 18' tandem Island sailing kayak stuck in the World Cat's tunnel on the trailer - that kayak screams under sail with a spinnaker and is my favorite of all the things we put in the water. But to run 60 miles offshore to the canyons for tuna, there's no substitute for a twin-engine boat carrying 200 gallons of fuel. And that fuel alone weight 1,400 pounds.You could always go with a smaller boat! You would get much better range towing a rowboat with a 25hp outboard!
I saw, just teasing.
Your in the same Boat as me. Pun intended. I'm not sure I won't really miss my Powerboost Platinum Hybrid with the 6.5' bed when the lightning arrives. Hows your decision matrix look like? Are you concerned at all?I suspect that nothing is going to save me from 100-mile or less tow range with this 9,100-lb puppy - and adding payload weight to the truck would destroy my limited available tongue weight.
I have an F350 and and F250 at the Virginia farm. My problem is an HOA restriction at the Florida house restricting trucks to half ton. So I have a 1,000 mile run twice per year towing the big boat between homes up/down mostly I-95. There’s plenty of DCFC on that route and I’ll probably do it off hours so won’t have to worry about blocking Walmart parking or driving lanes with the trailer. It could be ten charges and an extra ten hours.
For $260/month plus a PITA to get my truck every time I need it! Trying to get simpler, reduce the number of vehicles, insurance, licensing, etc, so am combining one PowerBoost and one Tesla MX combined in the Lightning. For 95%, that works. Only two tows/ year are a problem.
With that glowing review and only a couple tows a year, yeah, I’d keep the Lightning and look for ways to occupy myself while charging.
Some of the major rental companies out there rent out super duties. May be way more efficient to rent and pay a few hundred bucks for the couple tows per year than cost of ownership.
These fastback shapes probably do work (unlike a flat cover which does nothing). The hyper-milers add these kinds of shapes to their trucks all the time (usually improvised from wood or something). There is a reason why the CT also has the same shape when the rear cover is closed.
