HELP! I Can't Open my ELECTRIC TAILGATE! (2020 GMC Sierra Denali) 

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A truck bidet! What a concept! 🤣🤣🤣

In 1970, my dad purchased a 1966 Ford F-100 short bed. At the time I was 6 years old and had no problem opening the tailgate. Before he took that truck to the junk yard he cut the bed off and made a trailer out if it. I STILL have no trouble opening the tailgate.

And don't install them backwards because it might unwipe instead 😂

That’s funny thanks for sharing

My first thought was WHY have an electric tailgate . . . I don't even want an automatic transmission. I often remove my tailgate so a forklift can get a pallet in easier and so the young kid driving it does not hit mt tailgate. But this must be a *recreation* vehicle . . .

I agree, I would rather have the cushion let down option on the gate. How many times, I had something in hand, and one hand to open tail gate, and it slams down.

BUT!!! You ain't drivin' a DENALI either, my friend....

All the extras raise the cost of the vehicle and the cost of repairs, plus the frustration factor.

I don't think people buy a 3/4 ton denali because it has a split electronic activated tailgate.I'm sure that's way down on the list of features a buyer is looking for. This tailgate was a huge ad campaign by GM . Why .. who knows. Buy a GM not a Ford or Dodge because it has a two piece tailgate. SMH Actually this stems from a body guy flip flopping two actuators not from electronics failing.

Spoiler Alert!

Take it back and have them re-do the peeling paint job too

You mean $18 an hour.😢

but if the guy can't do the job properly he's not worth $0 an hour

Especially since the modules were indeed labeled L and R ... no excuse

It's all about the lock feature, that bed also has a power sliding tonneau cover. A simple mechanical latch and power lock is too old school to be cool. So GM engineers thought up this archaic mess, which if it included power opening and closing would have made some sense. But as it stands it is a button push followed by manual effort, it saves nothing, at least with an old school tailgate latch it was one simple motion to open, pull and lower. This deal is push a button, pull the gate, catch the gate, lower the gate.

What a mess.

heh. you guys forget that GM's are *notorious* for jamming tailgate releases even with MANUAL ones. that's the chevy/GMC 'always broken" trope I've been hearing all my life

@@anonymuswereHad two Chevy’s for a total of 20 years and never had an issue with mechanical tailgates. You’re full of it.

@@RoadieWingZZ I'm from a rustbelt and acid rain state that sees salt used on a regular basis, and farm country that regularly sees vehicles used and beaten hard and almost literally to death. I'm also over fifty, so I'd ALSO be thinking of mostly squarebody CK's and early ST's. the 70's and early 80's ones were the most notorious for that. GM probably finally figured out the weak point.

I recently traded in a 2010 Toyota RAV4, everything still worked and functioned the same as it did when new. It's list of repairs in 212k was vvti gears, coolant hose, both outer tie rod ends and alternator rebuild. Otherwise routine maintenance. We never replaced a single light bulb. Brakes averaged 40k.

You should see how much wiring it would take to do the same number of connections, in any given vehicle. I'm not sure of the exact number, but it will not fit in the vehicle...

The MAN 😅

@@chrissmith7655 yes in deed

My cat doesn't need converting, she's purfect as she is.

over-engineered uselessness. Absolutely ridiculous when you can have something as simple as two hooks and latches do exactly the same thing.

Accept Jesus, he will save you.

Haha I’ve said that several times times in the last week it used to be a joke still is but getting closer to reality every day

And then the parts catalog calls it something completely different.

And auxiliary

Some people (like me) need a high clearance truck for off-highway camping. But an elect tailgate? No way!

If you saw the hipe commercial for the GM gate, they have people removing their ‘normal gate’ into a pile for the super new one. Kinda betting some people want that old gate back 😂

Can’t blame General Motors, they had the latches labeled for the side to be installed and all that was needed was to install the latches on the correct side.

Thanks Roxanne! Are they hiding? :D

Absolutely 100% hit the nail on the head. Maybe after a hundred things go wrong on this thing the owner will open his eyes and realize what a huge mistake it was to pay an outlandish $100k for no good reason

they make it difficult to buy the "stripped-down" version

@@NCJerry So don't buy one at all. Most people who pay an outlandish $100k for these things nowadays work in an office and have no legit reason to buy something this ridiculous, they're just doing it to say "look at me." If people with more money than common sense would simply refrain themselves, maybe car manufacturers would start being taught a lesson and prices would start getting back more toward this side of normal again. But unfortunately too many attention starved socialite greedies these days, and car manufacturers and dealers know they can prey on them. Same reason dealerships right after Covid got away with upcharging a Ford Bronco by $10-$15k and Ford didn't do a damn thing about it.

Unfortunately, you as the consumer often don't have that choice. The manufacturers bundle the feature into a specific trim level that may have things that are useful or desired. You get the feature whether you want it or not. I bought a truck and had a difficult time getting all of the features I wanted without a moonroof included as part of the different packages Luckily, I had a salesperson who knew how to get around the manufacturer's bundling of the moonroof into various packages.

@@sblagg527he never will open his eyes. These things are ego boosters on wheels. Nobody respectable drives something like this.

Nice!

It's great! Would be my go-to since the ThinkTool Pros is discontinued :(

Nice to see the GM design team thought this out... 😀

The original Murphy's Law wasn't, if something can go wrong it will. It was, if something can be installed backwards it will be. I think it was specifically a bolt being inserted backwards.

@@major__kong yep, Murphy was a real person working with the US space program. It was noticed when he was at a test something went wrong.

Sooo.... you're part of the problem. Got it.

JAMOKE...haven't heard that term in eons. Robert Blake and Barreta rides again.

Don't judge. I use both of my right hands daily. Lysdexics Untie!

@@timkaldahl I'm not judging. Just observing. I used to coach kids soccer. It's amazing how many 12 year olds still look at you for confimration when you say "left defence". No kid... the other left. I guess that life lesson needs to be taken up by the quality assurance people at GM.

Our 21yr old daughter who graduated college still can't figure out Left from Right with out holding her hands up w thumb out to make an "L"......,it's truly amazing.......it's truly amazing, I think the "standards" for graduation over time are slowly getting lower..... sorry for the rant...lolol....

I worked as a massage therapist and coached a few sports....1 in 4 adults don't know left from right!?! It seems like a simple concept but a surprising number just don't know for certain.

It was probably more obvious than that. They probably installed the latches and noticed they couldn't get the plugs on. So they took the latches back out, plugged them in, and then reinstalled them without questioning why they would have to do that.

No. The tailgate booster powered by the high speed CAN is the more likely culprit. Very occasionally it's the turbo encabulator. The heating element can never cause enough bifringence to demodulate the signal.

@@major__kong Somehow that doesn't coincide with the perpendicular?? Lol

That's a necessity when you sit on the tailgate in Winter.

@@johnt.848 That would be beneficial, though not the intent of the feature.

I bet the instructions are in the owners manual. 🤪

Too many wires LOL!

Uh...huh...because software never has glitches....sure....dream on...

Funny thing is though that Tesla's have electronic door handles with a backup mechanical latch handles. Elon had them solve a problem that didn't exist with extra electronic components.

the last part of the sentence is.."unless its our part, which you can't have, because we won't allow you to fix our vehicles"

@@adotintheshark4848 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣☠️☠️☠️

@@buckhorncortez Fortunately things are easy and cheap to fix in software. Unless your software provider is a psychopath.

NPR = FAKE NEWS haha

GM had to make this silly electric tailgate to "outdo" ford with the manual step.

@@volvo09and it’s not the top of the line… they even put a sound bar in it😂 Can’t image what winter eastern salt will do to it.

@@Dirtyharry70585 oh yeah i forgot about the speaker option 🤣

Tech 2 works until most 2013 models :)

I've seen front brake calipers installed on the wrong side AND upside down ! (I quit trying), but never did figure out how they got it to bleed out and have consistent brakes. The only thing the owner said was "his buddy did it"

I didn't even know that was possible!! LOL@@brianmason8400