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harrisonhunter

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I'm a 20 Ram owner that decided I need a change and bought a 2017 silver LT 1500.. Great truck so far just wanting to add a small amount of chrome.

 

Looking at Door handles, Window sill, body side molding and mirrors. Also would like to add a grill insert.

 

The questions is: What company would you recommend going with for these aftermarket add on's?

 

CCI, Putco, or bit the bullet and go OEM parts?

 

Thanks

 

Jay

cbrsilv15 Senior Enthusiast

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I would stay with Oem. You can find some handles and mirror caps in the FS section here. Grill and inserts can be had cheap on Craigslist locally.

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Mine (a 2015) came with the chrome bits you mention in your post. It was some kind of chrome dress up package. I know a lot of the members of this forum don't care for it, but I love the look of the chrome on the items you mentioned. I would stick w/ the OEM stuff myself.

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sk Senior Enthusiast

sk

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Another vote for OEM. I did the same thing to an LT a little over a year ago. Just watch the For Sale section on here and you can usually find somebody selling them (or somebody who may want to trade for your black trim).

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I'm doing this on my '14 Topaz Blue LT now. I went GM original on the door handles, the mirror caps and the soon to be added side moldings. Aftermarket EGR makes a hood shield that looks great (little fun to install, but that's not the end of the world). Also the chrome bowtie exhaust outlet.

 

I've never been a huge fan of chrome, BUT on a darker colored truck like mine it stands out. What I really can't find are the window moldings used in chrome. New they are like $400 all together.

 

P.S. - I don't like the "stick-on" chrome, never looks right and gets lost in the car wash.

tmo Enthusiast

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I want to sell my chrome mirror caps and handles and boldly side trim molding. PM me if your interested! 0f9abf110c7fab3127875c70867dbd4d.jpg

 

 

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Donstar Senior Enthusiast

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Mine (a 2015) came with the chrome bits you mention in your post. It was some kind of chrome dress up package. I know a lot of the members of this forum don't care for it, but I love the look of the chrome on the items you mentioned. I would stick w/ the OEM stuff myself.

The dealer also added a "chrome" package to my truck. (including chrome tow-hooks!) I would have preferred saving the money and have the body colored parts but I do like the chrome! There seems to be a lot of people with the chrome wanting buy color and those with body color wanting chrome. (I wouldn't be surprised to see trucks with different than the body color door handles, mirror caps etc. ) My suggestion to the OP is to place an offer to trade ad. There is someone looking for your body collored trim pieces!

sk Senior Enthusiast

sk

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Thank you guy's already found some OEM handles and a Window sill swap...

 

Just be extra careful removing the window trim and check the ones you are swapping for. Each piece has large clips that are easy to see if they break but most people don't know to look for the small "tab" that should also be in the center of the clip. These are really small and usually break off it you force the trim pieces out. They are so small you may not even know you broke them but without these the moldings will not snap down tightly when you reinstall them.

 

If you search these forums you can find a picture of what I am talking about. Also I think somebody may have found the part numbers for the entire clips and you could buy those and replace them on each piece of trim (but may add a lot of cost since you need 4 or 5 clips per window).

 

 

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Here is the picture (around Post #6):

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/193531-window-trim-replacement/

 

Here are the replacement clip part numbers:

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/175582-window-trim-clips/

tmo Enthusiast

tmo

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Just be extra careful removing the window trim and check the ones you are swapping for. Each piece has large clips that are easy to see if they break but most people don't know to look for the small "tab" that should also be in the center of the clip. These are really small and usually break off it you force the trim pieces out. They are so small you may not even know you broke them but without these the moldings will not snap down tightly when you reinstall them.

 

If you search these forums you can find a picture of what I am talking about. Also I think somebody may have found the part numbers for the entire clips and you could buy those and replace them on each piece of trim (but may add a lot of cost since you need 4 or 5 clips per window).

 

 

ADDED IN EDIT:

Here is the picture (around Post #6):

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/193531-window-trim-replacement/

 

Here are the replacement clip part numbers:

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/175582-window-trim-clips/

I bought a set of 15 on eBay for 15 dollars. Not bad and easy to replace.

 

 

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