Frontier Made Sad, Then Happy… Again
The Frontier’s had a rough year.
FIRST it was the street brawl with our surprisingly steadfast mailbox.
THEN, just a few weeks ago, she suffered from a random gearlock issue that had me artistically conjugating cuss words like an aural Van Gogh.
THEN2, on Friday: Child-Aged Mischief.
Acting contrary to the Frontier Owner’s Guide “Do not allow uncontrolled tailgate movement” warning (IE- DON’T pull the tailgate latch and watch gravity bang the crap out of it), a young hooligan decided to do just that. And all without adult supervision. Frontier’s tailgate lock cylinder was subsequently, prematurely and violently dislodged, plunging it into the dark depths of said tailgate.
Frontier was sad*.
However, Frontier sadness soon gave way to Frontier happiness. After completely surprising myself by taking the tailgate apart and investing time to fix it with my bare hands, I silently vowed, “Never again“. Never again will sweet Frontier receive the truck equivalent of a forcible de-pantsing at the idle hands of mischievous children.
Frontier will be happier still when this little do-dad arrives on my front porch and hap-hap-haptastic when I install it “in no time”.
…but you know what would really send both me and Frontier over the edge of Gleefull Falls? If the rejected first draft of MacGyver‘s theme in the installation video below comes with it. That way me and the mystery pal who’s just hanging around to hand me EZDown parts as I install them can can rock it on down 80′s family adventure style.
* So was I. Who would have guessed Nissan’s tailgate lock mechanism was so cheap.
