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Originally Posted by Grumpy old man
If their going to steal the tailgate it's highly likely they'll just take the whole truck ! It's faster and easier to hot wire the truck than remove the tailgate .I'm pretty sure I could have the whole truck and be "Gone in sixty seconds " Where exactly are you parking it that has you so worried about the tailgate ?  |
I was thinking the same thing... I haven't heard of a "tailgate theft" on a new or old truck in many many years, and I have a lot of friends with trucks. The 73-87 gates are way easier to steal, they pop off in seconds.
I know the feeling though, I paid $450 for a New Mexico original paint no bow tailgate like 8 years ago, I'd hate to have that come up missing, it's not so much the money, but the factory steel tailgate. The repro stepside gates are actually pretty well built, but the fleet gates are still very lacking.
The trim did get bent up on it, but the gate is not.
