Can the tailgate lock be disabled?
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Can the tailgate lock be disabled?
After walking through a local dealer's lot, I realized that the tailgates appear to lock with the doors. Is there anyway to disable that? There are quite a few times when I don't want to bother unlocking the truck just to load brush and other non-valuable stuff in the back of the truck.
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The reason that I am asking has to do with our camping trips. We typically park the truck at a campsite for up to 4 days without it moving. During that time we may have the tailgate up and down 5 to 10 times a day. We use the truck bed for dry storage of firewood and supplies. I really don't need the truck to be unlocking and locking every time that I go near it. I guess that I could just leave the tailgate down and leave the key fob in the truck and just use the keypad for access.
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The reason that I am asking has to do with our camping trips. We typically park the truck at a campsite for up to 4 days without it moving. During that time we may have the tailgate up and down 5 to 10 times a day. We use the truck bed for dry storage of firewood and supplies. I really don't need the truck to be unlocking and locking every time that I go near it. I guess that I could just leave the tailgate down and leave the key fob in the truck and just use the keypad for access.
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I would have thought that the tailgate might lock with the doors but it would have it's own button on the key fob to unlock it separately. No different than the rear liftgate on my Expedition.
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On my 2011 F250 Lariat the tailgate locks with the key. Simple, keep it unlocked, or lock it when needed, so when I borrowed my son's 2015 XLT with the 3.5 EB I too found this auto locking tailgate feature to be some what stupidly annoying.
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Originally Posted by jamesroadking View Post
On my 2011 F250 Lariat the tailgate locks with the key. Simple, keep it unlocked, or lock it when needed, so when I borrowed my son's 2015 XLT with the 3.5 EB I too found this auto locking tailgate feature to be some what stupidly annoying.
Once your tailgate gets stolen once or twice you won't think it is stupid @ 2k a pop.
bowler 304, I repeat myself for you, I can, and do lock the tailgate with the key when I think the tailgate needs to be locked.
Forethought, and thinking are kind of hard for some people to do now a days in our dumb downed society, so I guess Ford in all their wisdom had to come up with some way of auto locking the tailgates for people like you.
Myself, I think the dumb downing of society is stupidly annoying. End of subject.
On my 2011 F250 Lariat the tailgate locks with the key. Simple, keep it unlocked, or lock it when needed, so when I borrowed my son's 2015 XLT with the 3.5 EB I too found this auto locking tailgate feature to be some what stupidly annoying.
Once your tailgate gets stolen once or twice you won't think it is stupid @ 2k a pop.
bowler 304, I repeat myself for you, I can, and do lock the tailgate with the key when I think the tailgate needs to be locked.
Forethought, and thinking are kind of hard for some people to do now a days in our dumb downed society, so I guess Ford in all their wisdom had to come up with some way of auto locking the tailgates for people like you.
Myself, I think the dumb downing of society is stupidly annoying. End of subject.