Your trusty station wagon is pretty beat up when you first buy it on Pacific Drive – it doesn’t even have a tailgate! Later in the game, you’ll need to maintain your car as you drive through the Olympic Exclusion Zone, replacing and repairing any panels that will inevitably crack or fall off completely.
However, although your car does not initially come with a working tailgate, you can create one at the beginning of the game. This means you’ll have to manually open and close them if you want to access your storage boxes and crafting table, but you’ll be a little safer from the deadly horrors the exclusion zone wants to throw at you.
Making a tailgate is easier than you think
To create a trunk door, all you need to do is make one create a raw door panel on the crafting table. Although these door panels look like they only fit the side of the car, can change to fit in the trunk of a cartoo.
To create a raw door panel, you will need the following materials:
- Scrap x3
- Plastic x4
- Adhesive tape x3
- Glass Shards x2
You can collect most of these materials by collecting basic items from around the world, such as car panels from wrecks or electronic items such as TVs and radios.
Once you’ve crafted your rough door panel, either at the crafting table in the trunk or in Oppy’s car repair shop, simply go to the trunk of your car and attach it using the interact button. You will now have a working tailgate that can be opened and closed as you wish.
Is it worth installing a tailgate?
Although it is possible to install the door in the trunk of a car, it is not necessary. If you want, you can drive around the Exclusion Zone without the tailgate installed and you will not be penalized for it. As far as I can tell from what I’ve played so far, adding a tailgate doesn’t provide any additional immunity to electric shock, radiation, or other hazards.
In fact, you may choose to leave your car without a tailgate for sheer convenience. Since you need to access your storage boxes and crafting table on a regular basis, adding a door is another thing you’ll have to open and close to access the trunk.
However, you may find that the tailgate comes in handy as you progress through multiple zones of the game. If this happens, I will be sure to update this guide.
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That’s everything you need to know about installing a tailgate on your car on Pacific Drive. For more useful Pacific Drive guides, keep reading guidegry.com. We also covered how to get all the trophies and achievements in the game, how to use the Transmuter, how to save your game, what the transfer link is for, and how to get the ThermoSap.
