First toilet seats; now tailgates.

[Perd Hapley]

Last month, your intrepid correspondent reported to you on the new, high-tech marvel of the no-slam toilet seat. In a follow-up to that story, we now bring you a way-cooler development, the no-slam tail gate. It does not fall down and go crash. This unsung bit of goodness came to our attention recently, when a co-worker purchased a 2010 Toyota Tundra. It is just the coolest.

That's all for now. Keep an eye open for our next installment, which will occur when this reporter notices some other minor technological advance that everyone else probably noticed a long time ago.

[French G.]

But if I can't slam my tailgate how will people know I'm mad?

Way funner way to abuse a tailgate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHSteEhnoE

[wmenorr67]

He didn't say you couldn't slam it closed.  Just won't slam coming down.

[Tallpine]

I still miss the old chain and hook tailgates 

[Ben]

I still miss the old chain and hook tailgates 

Ha! I remember those. My dad had one on his first truck. I do remember some cussing once in a while when they chain would get caught, or the end of a chain would slip out of the slot in the sidewall.

[sanglant]

or the pick it up, and latch it on, model.

[Tallpine]

Ha! I remember those. My dad had one on his first truck. I do remember some cussing once in a while when they chain would get caught, or the end of a chain would slip out of the slot in the sidewall.

I had at least one pickup with hook&chain tailgate 

Thing is, they were usually still working when the one handed gizmo inside the newer tailgates had crapped out.

[Perd Hapley]

I still miss the old chain and hook tailgates 

Real men have a wooden tailgate that you have to lift out of the brackets on the side stakes, and insert into the pockets on the back of the bed. You whipper-snappers don't know how good you got it.

[Jamie B]

Real men have a wooden tailgate that you have to lift out of the brackets on the side stakes, and insert into the pockets on the back of the bed.

Yup, those old Toyota's never looked so good.

Real men, like me, drop tailgates with our hands, as it has worked for years.

I like the sound of the bang when the tailgate hits home.

I also have some circular saw cuts in the inside plastic on the tailgate, also.

I ain't fixin' them, neither!

[CNYCacher]

Real men have a wooden tailgate that you have to lift out of the brackets on the side stakes, and insert into the pockets on the back of the bed. You whipper-snappers don't know how good you got it.

This from a guy younger than Tallpine's beard.

[Perd Hapley]

This from a guy younger than Tallpine's beard.

You see what I did there.    I was talking about my Dad's flatbed. He's in the process of moving it from a rusty old '55 Chevy to one o' them ultra-modern '88s.

[Perd Hapley]

I like the sound of the bang when the tailgate hits home.

If "home" means closed, you can still do that. It just doesn't fall down very fast.

[Tallpine]

plastic on the tailgate

Horrors! 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

you can soften the sound of one of those chain tailgates dropping if you put your new cell phone on top of back bumper to soften the impact

[MillCreek]

you can soften the sound of one of those chain tailgates dropping if you put your new cell phone on top of back bumper to soften the impact

But does it make a pleasant yet expensive crunching sound as the electronics are killed?

[Tuco]

you can soften the sound of one of those chain tailgates dropping if you put your new cell phone on top of back bumper to soften the impact

I get confident with passing on all extended waranty offers, then I hear something like this.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

But does it make a pleasant yet expensive crunching sound as the electronics are killed?

not the first time  but when you get annoyed that the bed didn't drop all the way raise it up then slam it down with your full weight the sound is most satisfying as are the lil bits flying about.  you are then subject to hearing words not used in church

[Tallpine]

Well I must say that back when I still had a pickup with a chain&hook tailgate that I never had to worry about smashing my cellphone 

[Jamie B]

you are then subject to hearing words not used in church

Only when

working

on the truck.

It is a known fact that the right four-letter word is necessary for loosening stubborn bolts.

Also works when letting nobody in particular that the design engineers had never tried to remove a specific part themselves.