Line-X and tailgate step

[Shortbusdriver]

I am going to have the bed Line-X'd next week and I went in and talked to the guy the other day and said I had the tailgate step so I was wondering what he would do with it and he said he doesn't touch the tailgate.

Guys with Line-X and a tailgate step what did you guys do?

Did you leave it alone and just have the plastic tailgate liner? I don't have a problem with that since obviously I want to keep it since it would be awkward with out it.

or did you guys have the plastic Line-X'd or any part of the tailgate?

Thanks for the ideas

 

[Kmandoske]

my guy took off the plastic on the back and sprayed the tailgate. If he won't take it off do it yourself and have him spray it. it looks alot better when its done. my truck is white and it needed to be covered in bed liner black.

 

[boychiks]

Just get them to spray about 2 inches under the parasitic and then the rest of the tailgate. That's what my guys did and you'd never know unless you took it off.

 

[Juncle]

I am getting mine done tomorrow

I was told they could do the exposed part around the plastic
or
take off the plastic and spray the whole tail gate and put the plastic back on
or
Take off the stripper pole off - plate the hole - spray the whole thing and just leave the step
or
Leave the tail gate as is

I am keeping the pole and plastic part - not sure what I am going to do

Leaning toward spraying the exposed area or taking off the plastic spraying the whole thing and putting it back on????

 

[bcjohnson22]

Never touched my tail gait and it is just fine.

 

[amphibian]

My guy charged me $50 extra to take off the plastic and stripper pole and spray the exposed area around the edge. It makes the tail gate a bit tighter when you close it, but maybe I just need to get in there with a razor blade and trim it down.

My thinking was if I ever dump a load of something in there (which is admittedly unlikely) I don't want to have to worry about ANYTHING, that includes the little 1" gap around the plastic where it's painted. Also if you ever want to take the stripper pole off entirely and go with a normal tailgate, it's already done.

Only other thing I would add, and I don't know if you can help it, but the jackasses that did mine used a little electric impact driver to take all the torx bolts off/on, and they stripped at least 2 of them, so tell them to not be lazy ***** and use a screwdriver.

 

[JD_27]

my guy took off the plastic on the back and sprayed the tailgate. If he won't take it off do it yourself and have him spray it. it looks alot better when its done. my truck is white and it needed to be covered in bed liner black.

Same here. My guy removed the plastic and sprayed the tailgate which looks way better since the plastic does not cover the entire tailgate.

 

[Shortbusdriver]

Thanks guys, Yea I was thinking about just having the area around the plastic done but just wanted to know if it was a crazy request.

Like you said then no one knows if the rest is done or not!

 

[Blind1]

I didn't worry about the tailgate/step since it's plastic. I saw no need for it. IMO.

 

[BigBlock]

Either leave it alone or remove the plastic, apply LINE-X, reinstall the plastic.