Pop & Lock Tailgate Lock 2006 DC

Anyone know for sure which wires I would need to access to get the Pop & Lock tailgate to function? I assume I should find it under the kick panel on the driver's side. Any help or advice appreciated. Thanks.

 

http://www.popandlock.net/download/PL8500.pdf.abad99d6a32ae652913d7a0028e21906

 

Thanks for that link. I have looked at it already. I read some stories where the wires aren't the ones listed on the instructions so I was hoping to see if anyone had any real life experience with it. Appreciate the reply.

 

What year is your truck? Have you tried to install to the corresponding colors and it didn't work? I had the pop and lock on my 2011 Tundra and didn't know they made them for the 1st gen until I looked at this thread. I am tempted to get one for my 05. If I do I will report back with my wiring findings. I couldn't find any info on 1st gen installs with a quick google search.

 

Mine's a 2006 Double Cab. I haven't tried to install it yet. I plan to hopefully get to it this weekend. I'll let you know if I do and how things go. Thanks.

 

Guess I could have looked a little closer at the thread title to figure out the year of your truck!! Good luck!

 

I have a 06 double cab.. I am curious to see how it goes

 

So I had a little time to begin the installation of the Pop & Lock. I wanted to figure out the electrical connections first. I think I was able to locate the necessary wires and tested the Pop & Lock successfully. So you need to remove the kick panel on the driver's side to gain access to the necessary door wires. The PDF on the Pop & Lock says to use the following wires on 2004-6 Tundras: Black/Red and Red/Black striped.

The two wires I had to use were the following: Red with Black stripe and Blue with Red stripe.

In turn I connected the Brown wire from the Pop & Lock to the Red with Black stripe and the Green wire to the Blue with Red stripe.

I installed the Pop & Lock to the tailgate and that was pretty easy. Just had to remove an E-ring and remove the original lock link. The Pop & Lock unit is then placed over that area and tightened down. I will do the wiring tomorrow as I ran out of daylight. Just need to route the cables under the truck and into the cabin to the kick panel.

Hope this helps.



Sorry the pics are so big. :/

 

Sweet. Thanks for posting up.

 

My pleasure. This is such an awesome forum with a great group of guys who seem to genuinely want to help each other out including yourself. Just giving back what little knowledge I have. Haha.

 

Searched the forum and this thread is what I found for 1st gen tundra pop & locks. I am getting a camper installed and want a way to lock/unlock tailgate with my key fob. Is this the only product on the market for this?

 

That is the only one I could find. I saw a lot of positive posts about this, so I tried it. However, I had a lot of trouble first with wiring

Tech-support was very helpful with this. Turns out the paperwork they sent was very incomplete and not correct for my truck. he then told me a better place with any easier access to connect to existing wiring. That part of their support was good

however then I had trouble with it locking and unlocking inconsistently. I had a lot of trouble getting a hold of Technical Support again but he finally did send me a warranty replacement.

unfortunately I have the same issue and now I can't get a hold of him.

what I finally discovered is that the locking mechanism rubs the internals of the tailgate which is the likely reason mine inconsistently locks and unlocks, making it useless to me. it would be hard to get to, but you could trim that part of the tailgate or grind it down Just not sure I feel like messing with it at this point in time

 

Interesting. Thanks for that info. I was reading on another forum that if you remove the spring, this problem was solved. The spring was there just to help quiet it down. Wonder if that would help for you.

 

Thanks I missed that and will give it a try. Once I'm done with the other myriad of projects I have going on with it

Even so it still needs a little bit of trimming or perhaps grinding down with a Dremel.