on 10/2/2007 1:19 PM Doug Miller said the following:
In article om, DerbyDad03 wrote:

On 2 Oct, 11:37, (Doug Miller) wrote:

In article m, DerbyDad03

wrote:

I assume that if the bed is secured to the truck and the tailgate can
be locked in some manner, then the drawers would be both hidden and
inaccessible.

Truck tailgates are typically not lockable

Typically not lockable, or typically don't come standard with locks?


Sorry, don't come standard with locks.


Some Nissan Frontier pickups after 1998 came with locking tailgates. I
remember looking at one in the showroom and I asked the salesguy why it
had a locking tailgate if you can reach in and take anything out of the
bed. He said it wasn't to safeguard anything in the bed, it was to
prevent the theft of the tailgate.

Lot's of tailgate locks, both keyed and powered, available via Google.


You kinda answered your own question there, you know -- if they did come
standard with locks, there wouldn't be an aftermarket.

kinda pointless when the bed is completely open anyway, ya know...

But in this case, the bed would cover the storage system and would
have to be removed in order to reach the contents, assuming a tailgate
lock was installed.


Right, I was explaining why pickups don't come standard with locks on the
tailgate.




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Bill
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