Toyota Tacoma Bent Tailgate (Inferior product placing blame on customers) Sold Factory Bed Extender anfter placing items in the tailgate it bowed and company will not repair St. Catharines Ontario Canada

I have owned 3 tacomas and my last one was a 2006 new off the lot and within 6 months i notice the fake tail gate was bending in addition my v6 tacoma was a pig on gas. The tailgat is just a sign of toyotas direction in quality and customer service is headed. I perchased A 2007 silverado and it has a real tailgate 5.3 v8 but cuts out 4 cylinders and gets 23 mpg with an intake and programmer. I accidently dropped off of a fork lift a 500lb machine and the tailgate just laughed. Toyota i am done with you and your unsafe , poorly made cars that loose control and brakes fail etc. Ask a dealer tech in any service department before you buy a product and most will tell you the truthof the quality and the flaws tacomas have. 

If there is no weight limit on the tailgate I am confused as to why would Toyota sell a Part that is designed for it to support a load. Namely the bed extender.  In its description it states " It offers additional space for carrying things in the back of any Toyota pickup. It not only protects your cargo but it also keeps it in the vehicle bed where it belongs."

So selling me something that states it is designed to use to carry a load.

It is easy to point a blame at consumers, but I ask the question why toyota has a doucment labled "BENT READ TAIL GATE" Service bulletin TSB2752 that states

05 - 08 tacomas - To improve tail gate loading and unloading performance, a new reinfoced tail gate is now available. When replacing a bent tail gate, use the following repair information ....

It even states specific VIN and models. I made the assumption that i could have done something wrong until I found many other report of this exact same problem.

 http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/interior-and-exterior/41197-tacoma-weak-tailgate/

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/116004-tacoma-tailgate-bending.html

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/34763-photos-my-bent-tailgate.html

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/61-2nd-generation-2005/301226-2005-bent-tailgate-problem-tsbo018-07-a.html

The hope is to not let manufactres get away with this by sticking the bill to the consumers. Toyota fixed the problem to many vehicles when it happened under the warranty time. They should have done a recall and some preventative measures and simplly reinforced all tailgates of the trucks listed in the Technical Service Bulletin (TSB).

 Structure of a truck should not fail within this time frame for a vehicle. When i purchased the part the dealer should have know about this issue and informed me to improve the performance as it related to the part they sold me. It would have been covered because at that time my vehicle was still under warranty.

 See here is the problem. If there was no weight limit sticker on the tailgate, then the tailgate HAS NO support. It was designed to have no support.  As you the consumer have used the truck as you have seen fit, blaming Toyota for your tailgate bowing seems a tad rediculuos. As Toyota was not the one useing it you were. You can CLAIM anything you like. Its your opinion. We ONLY have your word that you didnt do ANYTHING to the tailgate to cause it to bow. Reality and physics would both tell us that you are not being truthful. For it to bow there had to have something of weight put on the tailgate in the center of the gate.

It may not seem fair but it is what it is. Go to a junk yard and buy a new one. Or order one online. Either way, all your post is, is a post to b***h. It may make you feel better but its not going to affect Toyota in any decernable way. As we are quickly rolling into 2014, a post about a 5 year old truck and what a company should have done is the higth of hindsight.

This should be more of a warning to anyone purchasing a 2008 Toyota truck USED. If what the poster says is true then they would need to watch out for tailgate issues.