Yep, that’s basically it. There should also be a few press studs that it clips on to. The position of these vary a bit from car to car so you should have the auto trimmer match the position up to your car rather than the borrowed cover unless you know for sure it fits your car correctly.

Might be worth noting. I have two different Tonneau covers.

One has the Velcro strip around the boot edge, but nothing on the inside of the car edge (no Velcro and no poppers). When fitted this tends to allow wind to get up under the Tonneau cover on the inside of the car edge, so I intend to fit female poppers on that edge myself (if I can find suitable that mate with the male studs).

The other has no Velcro strip, but has poppers on the boot edge and the inside of the car edge.

If you follow Alex’s note above, you’d end up with best of both worlds – Velcro around the boot edge and poppers on the inside of the car.

Laurence

Laurence, in my experience the new material can slightly shrink after a few months due to general weather conditions, washing/drying out etc etc so I would maybe allow for that when it’s been made. My tonneau cover is quite tight and aligning the poppers can be a tricky affair, then again my cover has seen decades of use

Hi Mark Thorley that’s a good point about fabric shrinking. Martin Ball trimmers are probably aware of that fact but it might be worth him mentioning it to them.

Cheers,

Laurence

Hi Martin,

I will do that tonight for you

Laurence

Hi Martin Ball ( @ball )

Here are a couple of photos of the my Tonneau Cover fitted that doesn’t have any poppers – it just has Velcro on the boot side and nothing to clip the cabin side down

Hi Martin Ball ( @ball )

The bottom of the hood itself is fixed to the car by 8 – 10 flat head bolts spread around its perimeter. All around this perimeter is Velcro, which has the visible part of the hood itself stuck to it when you’re not using the cover – hides the bolts 🙂

When you want to make things nice and neat by using the cover, you simply go around the bottom perimeter of the hood pealing back the Velcro and folding the visible part of the hood (that had be stuck to it) back on itself – by back on itself I mean in such a way that you’d see the male part of the Velcro strip and the female part of the strip one above the other all the way around – or another way to describe it would be that the bottom 2″ of the visible part of the hood is turned back on itself so it shows the Velcro strip.

Then you pop on the poppers on the cabin side, and pull the soft Tonneau cover down over the outside edge and push down on the Velcro – and you end up with a nice neat car.

I’ll take a picture tomorrow.

Laurence

That looks really neat and tidy Martin Ball

Result 🙂

Interesting thread until today as far as I was aware all hood covers were the same, Yet although Martin says his was made from one borrowed & used as a pattern something looks wrong, Compare the following photos & see if you can see what I mean. It looks as though the hood has not been folded correctly only last weekend Bryan had to show a lady who has owned her Cabriolet for 20 years how to fold it & her cover fitted perfectly for the first time in 20 years.

Reading this thread with interest. What cost was involved making this cover?
Cheers
Steve