Sorry to hear of yourproblem. I have owned different brands of hard tonneau covers myself. I have also worked as an installe putting these covers on trucks for over twenty years.

I have seen this happen many times with every brand I have worked on. Sometimes, but very rarely, it is a design orproduct flaw (however, this will usually manifest itself very early in the yse of the cover - like inthe first few months).

But, what happens most often is that the truck is operated with tonneau cover in the open position (usually tied down to cargo longer than the truck bed - such as lumber - sticking out of truck bed. This causes stress on the front hinges and works like bending a coat hanger back and forth. This weakens the lid and the hinge and will eventually cause the failure that you have experienced.

Unfortunately, it is not a cumulative condition and only takes one time of doing this to cause the weakening.

While you may be experiencing a product failure, in all fairness to all brands of hard tonneau covers I felt this point was worth mentioning.

I do not have a good solution to yourproblem and feel you did the safest thingyou could by removing thecover.

Good luck!

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