That is DUMB!!!!!!!!! I guess everyone is making multi functional tailgates so in trying to be different they made it stupid. Nice job.
How would a small door in the middle of your tailgate help you get all the stuff under your cover? You could only reach what’s right at the door. If you wanted to slide your bed slide out you’d still have to drop your “heavy” tailgate.. wait a second is this a troll???? The Alumiduty has the lightest tailgate I’ve ever seen. Mine is removed since I have a truck camper and I kid you not it’s half the weight of my Tacoma’s tailgate…. Picking it up i bet it weighs less than 20lbs
Not sure if it will migrate. Would've thought the fold flat work surface on the console would've migrated over to the Super Duty, but it didn't. One feature that I would like for working on the go. One could argue the fold flat work surface would make more sense in the Super Duty, being a work truck.
Perhaps it wouldn't make a difference to you, but I work with this truck, not camp. If you read my post, you'll see that I mentioned my "frequent" gear, and yes, that can easily fit through the new tailgate opening. To put it in perspective, the majority of my business is shooting high end real estate for sale, of which I do about 400 properties per year, and that is heavily weighted in the spring and summer.
Agree, I cringe just thinking about the potential for the latch to fail and the damn things swings open like a trapdoor while you are standing on it loading something heavy.
Understood we all have different uses, that’s why I asked. I still stand by my question. As far as I can tell that little middle door would give you access to about 6 sqft of space in your truck bed. Maybe a tiny bit more if you took something out and reached back farther in. Your set up with the bed slide looks awesome because you can access stuff all the way up front. If you need quick access, without reaching over a folded down tailgate for a few things that could fit into 6 sqft why not just put them in the back seat? Serious question, not being a jerk I promise! I just can’t see the point of the small tailgate. If anything the Rams full swinging tailgate makes quite a bit more sense since at least you can open the entire back of the truck. To me it just looks like Ford is trying to be different and the other companies already used up the good ideas. Either way, if it doesn’t come to a Superduty those F150’s are pretty slick. Better MPG’s and much quicker!
You are right. There are scenarios where this would definitely help. I just got back from Lowe’s picking up bags of salt for the water softener. It’ll make it a lot easier to load all those bags right on the end of the bed instead of lowering the tailgate and reaching all the way over. likewise getting them out as well not having a drag them all way across the tailgate to get them out.
Ehhh... part of the reason tailgate theft is so high is that the typical value of a tailgate is barely higher than a lot of people's insurance deductibles which creates a huge market for "lightly used" replacements for people fixing their trucks out of pocket rather than going through insurance for the small % that would even cover. At $5k even with a ridiculous deductible like $1000-1500 you're still getting 75% or more of the price covered by insurance so there's less incentive to find something cheap to fix it with and less incentive for junkyards/parts houses to buy used tailgates from people who might have stolen them without asking a bunch of questions.
I thought the tailgates on our trucks were already in the 5k range?
They may very well be. This won't bring that cost down.
True.
