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How does one go about pulling the trim off on the headlights for the 16/17 trucks?

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How does one go about pulling the trim off on the headlights for the 16/17 trucks?

Best to remove the entire headlight. Using the fishing line trick (I used dental floss), between the trim and the light is adhesive. Similar to debadging,... there are release tabs as well but remove the adhesive first, then work the tabs all the way around.

 

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Best to remove the entire headlight. Using the fishing line trick (I used dental floss), between the trim and the light is adhesive. Similar to debadging,... there are release tabs as well but remove the adhesive first, then work the tabs all the way around.

 

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Did you paint yours yourself or did you buy them new? I would like to get a part number for these in black if they arent crazy expensive

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Did you paint yours yourself or did you buy them new? I would like to get a part number for these in black if they arent crazy expensive

Had them painted. $80 for the set to be painted. Would have been more had I not taken them off the headlight.

 

 

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Reviving an old thread as I’m doing this upgrade.

 

So my headlight trim bezels for my LTZ headlights  are at the painter getting painted.

 

But on my stock LT headlights I wanted to pull off the painted blue lower trim piece that has the rubber and install it on my new LTZ headlights.

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get these off the old headlights and installed onto the new ones? 

 

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Reviving an old thread as I’m doing this upgrade.
 
So my headlight trim bezels for my LTZ headlights  are at the painter getting painted.
 
But on my stock LT headlights I wanted to pull off the painted blue lower trim piece that has the rubber and install it on my new LTZ headlights.
 
Can anyone point me in the right direction to get these off the old headlights and installed onto the new ones? 
 

If I remember correctly it’s just held in by tabs on the bottom of the headlight trim. Don’t remember if you can pop it off without taking the trim off though.


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If I remember correctly it’s just held in by tabs on the bottom of the headlight trim. Don’t remember if you can pop it off without taking the trim off though.


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Yes - I’ve heard it’s tabs just curious on how to remove the piece from the tabs.

Does it tuck under the bezel piece? Thought they were separate.


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Yes - I’ve heard it’s tabs just curious on how to remove the piece from the tabs.

Does it tuck under the bezel piece? Thought they were separate.


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Yes it has clips on top which you will release and then some on bottom that just latch on to the headlight trim piece. I can see if I have pictures from when I did it.


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Yes it has clips on top which you will release and then some on bottom that just latch on to the headlight trim piece. I can see if I have pictures from when I did it.


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Please do, much appreciated


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Please do, much appreciated

 

 

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I don’t have any of the headlight put together but I circled where the tabs in blue and the latches in red. If you have yours taken apart can you PM me pictures? Might make it easier to explain. IMG_1283.JPG

 

 

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17 hours ago, Texas_Native said:

I don’t have any of the headlight put together but I circled where the tabs in blue and the latches in red. If you have yours taken apart can you PM me pictures? Might make it easier to explain. IMG_1283.JPG

 

 

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I don't have them back yet, but I will soon and can.

 

Side question - if I break the tabs/latches, will 3M tape work fine?

 

I don't plan on removing them ever again haha.

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ChevyRoofer Senior Enthusiast

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Just want to comment here to let people know I found out the answer.

 

For the 2016-2018 headlights, you DO have to remove the entire headlight trim in order to remove the lower filler piece. It has a couple clips on the backside of the headlight bezel that you can’t get to unless you remove the headlight bezel from the headlight. Then it just snaps off basically.

 

Very easy to remove once you have the bezel off. If anyone has any questions about this removal, feel free to ask as I just finished doing this. I was able to remove my bezel, remove the painted blue lower filler piece, then reinstall the headlight trim without using any new 3M tape. Stuck right back on. I’m sure it depends on how old your headlight assembly is. 

 

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Did u remove the whole headlight to get the bezel off? I'm trying to apply vvivid headlight tint and it's a pain with that bezel on it. I already screwed the passenger tint up and have to redo it. It'd be 100× easier with that piece off. 

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