New Nissan Navara NP300 Top Up Cover Tonneau Lid with Styling Bar

Hi my name’s Alec from Pegasus 4x4.

I want to talk to you today about the top up cover we’ve made for the new 2016 Nissan Navara NP300.

Now the top up cover we’ve made for this vehicle comes with or without these highly polished stainless steel protection bars, or styling bars as we prefer to call them.

When they’re fitted they don’t interfere with the brake light because they’re raised slightly higher, so you can still see the brake light behind.

I think overall given the effect with the vehicle I quite like the styling bars, but some people prefer a more plain effect without.

All our top up covers come factory painted in the same colour as the vehicle, and we only use ICI or du Pont paint, which is the best quality paint you can find, and it matches the vehicle perfectly.

All the top up covers come standard with these black sports rails as we call them, and indeed they are load bearing, so that if you wanted to carry mountain bikes or ladders in the upright position they are able to support that quite easily.

Going round to the back of the vehicle the top up cover is designed to fit over the rear spoiler, which was fitted originally at the factory by Nissan.

If I open the top up cover into a 45-degree position, that allows you access in the normal way. The problem comes with these lids at 45 degrees is when you want to get something from the front. And that makes it extremely difficult. You have to lower the tailgate and then climb in the back all over whatever’s in front of you to get at it.

With the top up cover its very easy pull back on the bar and it pops up like that, and then you can reach in over the side and access what you want.

The other great advantage with the top up cover in the upright position is that you can drive with it like that up to speeds of 50/60 miles an hour quite safely. All you do is put the locking pins in position and … there’s a pin in the arm here and another in the arm here, and the same applies on the other side of the vehicle.

Once they’re inserted you can drive quite safely in that position.

That’s useful when you’ve got bulky loads which are higher than the sides of the vehicle – you can’t close the lid – you’re stuck. Whereas with this situation it allows you to carry goods higher than the sides of the vehicle on all occasions.

The other benefit with the top up cover in the upright position is if you wanted to carry lengths of timber or pipe, ladders or whatever it may be, you put a cross bar on these rails here and utilise the roof rails on the vehicle itself. You then create a platform along the top which allows you to carry ladders, lengths of pipe quite safely.

The tailgate is fitted with this spoiler as you’re all aware, the other advantage with the pop up cover, should you forget to lock the tailgate, is that once this is closed it does in fact sit over that rear spoiler so that even if you forgot to lock the tailgate you still can’t open it so it makes it a very safe, secure situation.

There is a key for the top up cover of course that has to be inserted but if you did forget to lock the tailgate you can rest assured that no-one’s going to get in there.

So, there it is - top up cover in twilight grey matching the vehicle – I think it looks very nice on there. It’s very practical. The disadvantage of canopies as you may be aware, you can’t see out the back window very easily whereas with the top up cover you can. And then on occasions when you do need to carry something bulky you can with the top up cover in the upright position.

So, great value for money, this top up cover comes with our fully comprehensive three year warranty, which is very important. I’ve been selling this top up cover now for 14 years and I’ve got people on their third and fourth cover and third and fourth pickup. So, we know it works well and its very reliable.

Thank you for listening.