Looking for a simple tail gate open warning switch and dash light

[d7602002]

As long as we are wondering or wishing for things ...I wish my bologna had a middle name... But it doesn't. Guess you can't have everything.

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[Edge Haley]

I had an open tailgate last winter and was unaware it was open. I tried to open the tailgate, but it was frozen, so I tried to push it back closed. Thinking it was latched, I drove to the grocery store. Leaving and returning from the front of the vehicle, I was not aware the gate had opened while I was driving. A woman in the parking lot flagged me down to make me aware that it was open.
Yes, a warning of some kind would have been handy.

Would be useful when forgetting and use a remote control to close a garage door....have done it twice, also applies to a trailer hitch left in and closing my garage door with a remote control.

 

[Surly Old Bill]

cabinet lamp switch. Completes circuit when button goes OUT.
https://www.amazon.com/Hordion-Cabi...cphy=9032086&hvtargid=pla-2281435177858&psc=1

 

[AutobahnSHO]

I'll never understand, how in the world can one be so preoccupied that they forget their own child or pet when getting out of a vehicle and let them die from the heat or freezing cold. Their court sentence should be the same treatment imo.

People forget things all the time- we get pre-occupied.

My oldest son was adopted, so ex didn't have any of the usual preparation- one day no kid, a couple days later he was in the car for a few minutes when she got home from the store. Had that "I know I'm forgetting something" feeling, then remembered the baby.

Now, left long enough in the car to die is pretty extreme....

 

[MakinDoForNow]

I also would like a light confirming my hood is latched, my spare tire is inflated to the correct pressure and my tonneau cover is locked

Hmmmm!!! Another vote for 5-60 red,yellow,&green LEDs in a panel inserted in the dash cubby.

 

[Dave O]

Hmmmm!!! Another vote for 5-60 red,yellow,&green LEDs in a panel inserted in the dash cubby.

Absolutely

 

[Escapologist]

Oh, just thunk, late 80s, 90s, and maybe early oughts Chryslers have an automotive grade tilt switch on the hood to turn the underhood lamp on, so snag that from the wreckers and adapt if you don't feel like engineering the whole thing from a thermostat. (I always wondered if it lit up if you accelerated hard uphill though )

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Automotive door jam interior light switch?
Downside is you have to drill a hole.

 

[shadow76]

I'll never understand, how in the world can one be so preoccupied that they forget their own child or pet when getting out of a vehicle and let them die from the heat or freezing cold. Their court sentence should be the same treatment imo.

Cops frequently do this to their K9s.

 

[John Mike]

I've driven home from the dump with my tailgate open. There's drive-thru parking so I don't use reverse, and if I look in my rear view mirror all I see is my tonneau cover.

To be honest a quick "tailgate open" reminder in the instrument panel would be more useful than "the seatbelt in an unoccupied back seat isn't buckled" reminder.

I've had the exact same wish. Also, with a tonneau cover, I was loading stuff in my truck bed and then started talking to someone and when done, I started to drive off (forward) and didn't realize I had left the tailgate down. Pure luck I decided to stop and double check myself a short distance and found it down.

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