Yes to the tailgate, and no to the sterring wheel.
Beauty truck! Congrats!

 

I'm not aware of one inside the truck, but I may have missed one. Where is it located?

On the steering wheel sadly no. You can make it easier though with Forscan. You can program it to have your heated/cooled seats plus heated steering wheel on the home screen instead of having to go to the Climate tab to get to the heated steering wheel. Seems silly to me that they don't have a physical button, how hard would it have been to include one behind the steering wheel on the column???

 

I don't know of a tailgate button in the cab either. Use the forscan tool to do as described above. Purchasing the module is the cheapest/best mod you can get.

 

theres no tailgate button in the cab. only the fob and the one on the gate itself.

 

Is this a Canadian truck feature?

 

Funny you bring this up. I was looking at it today. There is no tailgate button in the F150 however I think there is one on some 2017 F250s and I found the part number which is:

H3CZ-54432A38-AA

Im pretty sure the switch is located where the electronic parking brake switch is located on some F150s. If you have a manual parking brake in your F150 ( a lot of us do) and you pull the panel down the harness is actually already there plugged into a blank socket on the back of the trim panel beside the electronic foot pedal adjust switch.

What is interesting about that harness is that it has all 8 pins pre populated and I assume the lead to the BCM. I havent dug up wiring diagrams yet.

We know F150s and F250 share most of the same cab components and have similar BCMs. We know all Ford crossovers and SUVs have lift gate open switches on the dash and the F250 I presume has this as well for the tailgate. We know that in ForScan and IDS we can manually assign a tailgate, deck lid, lift glass to the BCM in certain lines.

So I suspect there is a strong possibility we can add tailgate release switches to manual parking brake enabled F150s. I recently found and posted how to enable the tailgate ajar warning on 2017 F150s but have yet to wire in a magnet switch.

I need time, warmer weather, and 2017 F250 wiring diagrams before I test anything out. But I will share what I can along the way on the ForScan thread so others can take calculated guesses at it too of they care.

For the record, I already have a tailgate switch on order. It is $10 on Tasca.

 

 

My apologies. I was thinking of the button for the bed lights, beside the light switch.

 

I just looked in the wiring manual, that 8 pin plug goes to the Electronic Park Brake Module, all 8 pins. Like the idea though. Have to look at that.