Tailgate was stolen on Labor Day

Nuff said...

 

What I use. You can vary the difficulty with orientation but it’s still just an inhibitor rather than preventor.

 

My 2010 doesn't, then again mine is very bare bones

Cats for me but yup

 

Yes, best you can hope for is it slows them down enough they don't think it's worth it... Make the "opportunity" less appealing and less of an opportunity...

 

Said it many times, regardless of what one is concerned about being stolen..most thefts are crimes of opportunity. If someone wants your stuff badly enough they'll get it, but you mostly want to make it difficult for them to do so in hopes that they'll get on their way to find someone else to steal from.

I'm the type that if I'm working on the truck in my driveway and go inside to use the bathroom I lock up and roll up windows. Sounds a little excessive but I've only had things stolen from my vehicle once in my life and that was because the locks didn't work; thus, I kept little of any value in there.

 

Good point. I always hear stories of how people start their car to warm it up, then step into the house to grab something and before you know it, someone drove off in their car.

 

what happened? Hurricane?

 

Yea, that state is long as hell.

 

Interestingly there are those who feel the converse... One man's pleasure, another man's pain...

 

I never said WA or PNW is the best. WA is shite along the I-5 corridor... Just like areas of Cali, there are shit holes, and good areas... But over all, it's the "leadership" (actually, lack thereof) that is driving the left coast down the shitter... There are no perfect places anywhere, just some better than others... And then there is the subjective perspective, some will defend the shite "leadership" in WA too, but we all know crime is on the rise, DAs refuse to prosecute, and that's just scratching the surface...

 

There's lots of cool shit for the Tacoma p/u herein... As for EVs, eff them and any state that is moving to make them mandatory... Like WA... Cheese steaks are good... Subpar rolls suck... At least we all like the Tacoma pickup (also a very subjective taste)

 

I will stick to my usual Kum & Go. Kum in for your old faves & Go out with some new ones.

 

Had the tailgate on my second gen stolen twice, once with tailgate lock on it and on the third tailgate, i put jb weld on the threadheads and stripped out the inside threads, just sold it to my nephew and told him " the tailgate doesn't come off" without a dremel tool or a dental pic and lots of patience. Just bought a 3rd gen and the first thing i did was lock the tailgate with the factory lock. Sounds like that may not be enough?

 

Only car I ever did this with was my 1988 Chevy Celebrity I had in college..because the key was worn and could be removed with the engine running, on the rare occasion I warmed it up in the driveway and had to run back inside I'd still pull the key and lock the door.

This happened to a building manager I worked for in the 1990s, brand new Ford Taurus swiped right from the donut shoppe lot. The manager was a complete bellend so we all cracked a few jokes at his expense behind his back.

 

Last Thursday I had my tailgate stolen in Signal Hill, CA near Home Depot. Security told me it was the 3rd Tacoma tailgate stolen from their parking lot that week...

I couldn't believe it but I found my tailgate on market place, had the guy deliver it back to Signal Hill (what an idiot) and when I stuck my key in the lock and it turned, his face went white. Dude was so scared, kept saying " I didn't steal it, it's yours take it. I didn't steal it"
Boy did I learn my lesson about keeping my shit locked. Also will be putting an Apple Airtag inside the tailgate plus one of those locks on the hinge.

Another friend has his moped stolen Saturday, and we were able to retrieve Sunday morning because he had an Apple Airtag in it.

With all that said, I bought a new tailgate before recovering mine, it's a 2018 4 pin plug. It was a new take off from a plumbing company, if anyone gets theirs stolen and wants a clean one in SoCal https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/pts/7541467358.html

 

Oh wow, I hope you at least got his name or license plate#