I'm on my 3rd Dakota. The last one someone left turned in front of me in a 50MPH zone and after hitting them the lawn tractor in the bed came through the back window.

Anyway I bought a 2005 Dakota SLT 6.5 bed. It came with a removable Mopar canvas cover. I've never used a cover on my beds before because I need it for hauling. I took it off and cannot figure out how to make it retract? It has the clips & straps in the front but I cannot get it to do anything. I suspect the original owner never retracted it and it is frozen in place. I don't want to brake it by forcing it and I'm still to sore to do it anyway. Is this a stationary cover or is there a simple explanation?
It has 3 removable clips on each side that hold it down & 3 metal bows in it and a metal front/rear edge. There is a small screw at the tailgate end and if I remove them nothing happens? Tag on it says Mopar.

 

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Welcome to the site. The guys in the Dakota section would be able to help you if you repost this in their section,
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Thanks for the Welcome in. The problem I have seems pretty simple if I was able to do the bending lifting etc I can normally do. It seems like it has to be retractable but there is a trick I'm missing. I've always had over the rail bed liners so never had a need for a cover.