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Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we have a 2020 Ford Ranger and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Bestop Supertop. This is essentially going to be a soft shell camper shell for the back of your truck. The one benefit about this that compared to a normal camper shell is that you're gonna be able to fold this down kinda like a Bimini top on a boat whenever you need to haul those extended loads in the back of your Ford Ranger. This cover's gonna be made up of an aluminum construction, which is the, actually the ribs underneath. And then you're gonna have a black diamond fabric on top.

It is an extremely, extremely thick and tough fabric. I doubt that this fabric will ever tear unless you run up against maybe a tree or something like that. So just be careful wherever you're driving with it. But it is much stronger than like that of the material of a normal tonneau cover and I think that's because it is going to get a lot of flapping being up here on the top of the truck. So it helps it be a little bit more durable.

The other thing is, is that it's going to be mold and mildew resistant so it's easy to clean and when it gets wet it's gonna dry fast. Our back window here is going to be a very thick plastic material. It's gonna help to resist against scratches and stuff like that over time. I will say this particular window impressed me because it has got a very, very heavy tint on it. I'd say I've got my windows sent on my truck and I would say this is probably a 5% tint on here, so it's very dark.

If it's nighttime, they're not gonna be able to see into the bed at all. And even during the day in our bright shop, I can see in and only through the front windshield of the truck, but I can't see the bed of the truck. So this is gonna help to provide a little bit of security for just people walking by your truck if you've got stuff in the bed of your truck. The cover is gonna help with to be weather resistant. By no means after assembling this, would I say this is waterproof at all.

There's gonna be a lots of areas where water can get in, but that's just part of having a kit that kind of comes apart and goes back together. It is not a very permanently mounted kit, but that's because you want to be able to fold it up to the front of the vehicle. So, but this tint is definitely gonna help to protect the passerby from seeing what you have in the bed of your truck. There is a little slit right here and that is intentional. That is not a tear. That is for if you want to add a third brake light to the back of your truck. When you fold the cover up and in the open position, so if you open it up and fold it up at the cab of your vehicle, if you're hauling those extended loads, they will come with straps so that you can strap the Bimini top. There's gonna be the four braces that will all pile up on top of each other at the cab of your vehicle. You can just use these included hook and loop straps to be able to tie those together so that you don't have to worry about it opening up when you're going on the road. And we did a short comparison earlier of a traditional camper shell compared to this. The other thing that's nice about this is if you don't want the side panels on or the back window, you can take those off. You can think of it a lot like a soft top on a Jeep. It's the same thing. A lot of times they don't want the whole top off the Jeep, they just want the side panels off to be able to get some air in the back of the bed. If you're doing a project around your house or something like that and you're picking up some building materials, it's a lot easier to reach in and out of the bed of your truck without having these panels in the way or the back panel than it is with them on and to be able to access, if you're just at the store or something and you just grab something out of the bed of your truck, you just unzip it, peel this back, you can reach in, grab it. You can do this from either side to front, back sides, whichever. The only thing is, which I think is kind of a pain, but I don't really see any other way they could have done it, is you will have to snap all this stuff back into place after you're done grabbing whatever you need. All in all, I think this is gonna be a great cover for the right application. For me personally, I don't think I would put one of these on my truck. I would either just go full bore into a camper shell or just get a tonneau cover. But if you do not want to fully commit to the life of owning a camper she