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Help with tailgate.
I need some help. My wife pulled off from my gooseneck horse trailer without lowering the tailgate. She did a suprisingly good job of destroying it. Can anyone recommend the best place to get a new tailgate for an 05 F250. I would like to get one that is already painted. Would I do best just going to a dealer or is there a better option. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I would recomend a couple options:
One, is to search salvage yards. Might find one in your color and would most likely be straighter!
Two, would be one of the "air-through" tail gates that already have a cut out for goose necks. I'm sure you've seen them on trucks around town. Look like their made of louvers.
One, is to search salvage yards. Might find one in your color and would most likely be straighter!
Two, would be one of the "air-through" tail gates that already have a cut out for goose necks. I'm sure you've seen them on trucks around town. Look like their made of louvers.
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I found mine (in the right color) on ebay. Did pretty much the same thing. Pulled out from under fifth wheel without lowering tailgate. Now I have 2 tailgates...a fifrth wheel gate I use all summer and a regular Ford tailgate that I put back on after camping season is over.
Antoher place to look is places that install lift-gates for pick-ups. They resell the original tailgate from the installs.....
Antoher place to look is places that install lift-gates for pick-ups. They resell the original tailgate from the installs.....
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or...
$328.85
http://catalog.powerstrokeshop.com/p...=1&catalogid=2
+painting at your local body shop.
$328.85
http://catalog.powerstrokeshop.com/p...=1&catalogid=2
+painting at your local body shop.
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Originally Posted by abnchris
I need some help. My wife pulled off from my gooseneck horse trailer without lowering the tailgate. She did a suprisingly good job of destroying it. Can anyone recommend the best place to get a new tailgate for an 05 F250. I would like to get one that is already painted. Would I do best just going to a dealer or is there a better option. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Wait around, maybe someone will drop one of at your house 
I was sitting here reading this thread last night and thinking of my own smashed tailgate, and my failed attempts at finding one that I could afford for the past ten months...when I heard something. Something tapping on the window. It startled me. I got up to make sure the front door was locked and walked toward the bedroom to see if I could get a look out of that window. I could only hear a diesel idling. I heard the tapping again and walked back toward the front door when I heard a quiet voice say my name. I knew then it was someone I must know.
I opened the door and it was a good friend of mine. He said come out to the truck, I have something for you. It was a near perfect tailgate and he said "I ran across this and knew you needed one." We've been good friends for 20 years and he gets lucky sometimes. Another friend of his had purchased a salvage truck for the running gear, and had no use for the gate. He had made the guy a good deal on something else, so he just gave him the gate, and in turn he gave it to me.
Mile off topic, but I found it weird that I was reading this very thread when a tailgate showed up at the door
I was sitting here reading this thread last night and thinking of my own smashed tailgate, and my failed attempts at finding one that I could afford for the past ten months...when I heard something. Something tapping on the window. It startled me. I got up to make sure the front door was locked and walked toward the bedroom to see if I could get a look out of that window. I could only hear a diesel idling. I heard the tapping again and walked back toward the front door when I heard a quiet voice say my name. I knew then it was someone I must know.
I opened the door and it was a good friend of mine. He said come out to the truck, I have something for you. It was a near perfect tailgate and he said "I ran across this and knew you needed one." We've been good friends for 20 years and he gets lucky sometimes. Another friend of his had purchased a salvage truck for the running gear, and had no use for the gate. He had made the guy a good deal on something else, so he just gave him the gate, and in turn he gave it to me.
Mile off topic, but I found it weird that I was reading this very thread when a tailgate showed up at the door
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sell the wife and the money you get buy a new tailgate...or another truck...no im just kidding...its only a truck dont get to pissed of at the ol ball and chain oerr it...ebay is one of your best bets ... alot of people are selling theres on there and ive seen a lot on there that are oxford white so maye your is??? and you next best bet is to go to a scrap yard and try and get lucky...if im correct the 99-07 are all the same...am i?
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its a shame you live in n.c. .... I have tailgates amost weekly at my job... I actually have a white 350 gate right now...
I work for a body upfitter, we do utility, dump, crane, flatbeds, lift gates, you name it we do it..
And we allways have a revolving stock of nos (take off ) beds and parts...
but alas... im in rhode island... if you could go to baltimore, i could send one to my van body division... lol..
I work for a body upfitter, we do utility, dump, crane, flatbeds, lift gates, you name it we do it..
And we allways have a revolving stock of nos (take off ) beds and parts...
but alas... im in rhode island... if you could go to baltimore, i could send one to my van body division... lol..
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[QUOTE=keith w]Wait around, maybe someone will drop one of at your house ........../QUOTE]
Yeah, but how often will something like that happen? That was a real nice surprise I'm sure. I hope you bought your buddy dinner at least!?
........../QUOTE]Yeah, but how often will something like that happen? That was a real nice surprise I'm sure. I hope you bought your buddy dinner at least!?
