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Old 03-30-2020, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by f one fiddy
The two bolts per light housing are fastened through the tailgate area, commonly coated during the spray in process. Either the bolts come out, get masked off, or can be difficult to remove. The housings themselves, not so much. Maybe fear of overspray? Probably easier to mask them off instead of removing the housings.
You would never coat the tailgate jamb where those bolts are. The tailgate wouldn't shut properly
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I know when I had my Bedliner applied they removed the bed/taillights and bed lights, tailgate all hardware then put it on a rotisserie sprayed it. Was told they remove the beds as to prevent overspray and to do a better job.
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Originally Posted by cc350
I know when I had my Bedliner applied they removed the bed/taillights and bed lights, tailgate all hardware then put it on a rotisserie sprayed it. Was told they remove the beds as to prevent overspray and to do a better job.
Must've been a pretty expensive bed liner to do all those r+is on something that only pays 4 hours labor. Been in auto body 21 years. Sprayed bed liners for 3. Never did I see the tailgate jamb area bed lined. Or ever have to remove taillights. Never had an over spray issue with them. Did they charge you to remove the box? Hope not.


More to the point. Even if they do remove the taillight. Most people will unplug it. It's 10 times easier. Not remove the bulb from the housing. I Never saw any correlation between bedliners and condensation in taillights back when I used to replace them at Ford.

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My '19 just had the passenger side light replaced, looked just like the pic.
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Well after braving the Corona zombies and the marauding toilet paper gangs, they didn't have a replacement light after they said they did.
Have to go back in a few days.
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Had both of mine on my '18 replaced at different times for the same issue.

Both replaced under warranty.

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My 18 also developed a leak in one of the tail lights. Enough water to completely submerge the turn signal bulb. No spray on bed liner on this truck.
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I had the same issue on my 2017....replaced when about 1.5 years old under warranty.
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Got it replaced on Friday. All under warrantee.
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They all seem to be the non-LED taillights, correct? Zero issues with my LEDs so far.



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