Finally someone that has this cover!!!! 1. love the look. 2. love the price even more.
Question.... because of how this retracts (folding down each panel), have you had any issues to where if something is stowed (or rolls) in the middle/front of the bed you can't retract it all the way because the item is blocking the fold? And then you would have to army crawl underneath the cover to get the item un-wedged...
The way the video shows the retractable feature, it seems like you would lose a lot of bed space - due to needing to push the panel down.
The cover panels only fold (accordion style) at the rear of the bed when they hit a ramp near the end of the bed. The retraction is powered by gas pressurized struts so once you push down (fold) two hinged panels at the rear of the bed all the panels will retract on their own momentum unless you stop them by hand. It’s ingeniously simple and really works smoothly both to open and close the bed cover (panels).
The panels won’t collide with anything in the bed underneath them except at the very rear of the bed where the rails initiate the folding. I think this system takes up less room than a permanent canister used for other retractable covers. Plus, 100-percent of the bed is available under the peragon cover until it comes time to fold it up so I suppose one could clear out anything that might interfere with the folding of the panels just before actually retracting the cover. Also, the entire cover is reasonably easy to remove so you can always get the complete open bed when needed.
This probably sounds a lot more convoluted and complicated than how it actually works. The peragon folks can explain it better and point you to some videos so probably best just to call them.
Good luck with whatever you decide. I have no regrets going with peragon both for its functionality and appearance.
