Terra Rear Bumper Step

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MrZed411

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Looking through the suggestions I could not find one in the suggestions box for this request, but this https://scoutmotors.community.forum/threads/terra-rear-bumper.1055/ was in the Terra discussion. Adding here for the voting aspect.

In the current design of the Terra, the rear bumper has no way to step on it to get into the bed. This should be changed to have a flat top and/or a step in the corners of the rear bumper itself so that you can step on it and then into the bed of the truck. With this being a full sized bed truck, the ability to get in and out of the bed is greatly reduced if there is no flat portion on the bumper to stand on to get into the bed.

Personally, I believe that the foot wells that have been integrated into the body at the front of the bed should exist in the bumper as well, along with a flat top bumper for standing on. This would allow you to have a good foothold while getting in the bed with the tailgate up or down and have a very secure way of doing so. This would be similar to the corner step that exist on 'newer' GM vehicles https://gmauthority.com/blog/wp-con...t-2018-Wyoming-012-CornerStep-rear-bumper.jpg

This could all be done with the Scout design framework by utilizing the same foot well design as in the middle of the Terra in the bumper, and having the top of the bumper follow the contour line that goes from the front bumper, through the entire body, to the back bumper, and rather than the back bumper angling the same as the front bumper on the top, keeping parallel with the bed of the truck. This could be changed by the design team of course, but that contour line exists through the entire vehicle and keeping it going with the bumper to use as a step looks like it would make a lot of sense from the design prospective as well.
 
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A lot of truck manufacturers have put ladders in their tail gates. I really don't like these. My truck does not have a step in the bumper corner, but I did add an AMP Research drop down corner step - probably the best modification I have ever done to a vehicle. Now in all fairness, perhaps it is not as necessary on the Terra - I don't think the bed height of the Terra will be so extreme that you would need a step to get up to the bumper. I think a bumper corner step might be enough - but for my current truck, having a step that drops down half way between the ground and the top of the bumper is very handy. Plus being on the corner allows it to be used with both the tailgate up or down.
 
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I recently was rear ended in my current truck and because of that was given a rental truck, and the rental that I got was a new 2025 GMC Sierra with the MultiPro Flex tailgate, something that I thought would be silly and not really useful, but then it had one specific feature that instantly made me wish I had it on my truck, the ability to turn the tailgate into a very well placed step for easily getting in and out of the bed. This was so useful for getting things in and out without needing to pull myself up the side of tailgate or 'jumping' up to the tailgate or whatever, it was just like a simple step to get up. It made it so much easier to haul some heavy stuff in and out of the bed without straining anything, just like walking down 2 steps.

I'm not sure that Scout will want to go through the engineering/patent problems for doing something similar on this series of the vehicles, but having some way to easily use the tailgate for the Terra like this would be such a good selling point for those that get in/out of their tailgate a lot for things like vehicle camping/bed storage/repeated hauling of items.