One for One Door Swap

[Ravenkeeper]

A friend of mine and I both have 2015 Silverado Z71s. He has all black doors, mirrors included, with chrome nose and chrome bumpers, and mine has chrome capped mirrors, window seals, and door bumpers. He and I were talking a "1-for-1 swap" of all four doors between our two trucks. The only "nightmare" of it all seems to be the lock on the driver's door or switching out the ignitions.

 

How hard will it be to switch the key locks? The ignitions look 1000x worse.

[SouthernSilveradoGuy85]

Seems like it would be much easier to just swap out the different parts instead of the entire door. You have to worry about lining the doors up the way you're talking about. It's not just an easy unbolt and bolt up.

[gilleydog]

party talk

[Ravenkeeper]

Seems like it would be much easier to just swap out the different parts instead of the entire door. You have to worry about lining the doors up the way you're talking about. It's not just an easy unbolt and bolt up.

 

We know, I've replaced car doors before. As long as you're not doing it alone, it should go "pretty easily."

[Lgetz]

First confirm both trucks are the same trim level LT-LT or LTZ-LTZ

From your description seems your friend has an LT and your truck is an LTZ.

May have issues with the mirrors and other controls not working properly.

Might be wiser to swap mirror caps, door handles, window trim, and door moulding.

[ChevyRoofer]

A friend of mine and I both have 2015 Silverado Z71s. He has all black doors, mirrors included, with chrome nose and chrome bumpers, and mine has chrome capped mirrors, window seals, and door bumpers. He and I were talking a "1-for-1 swap" of all four doors between our two trucks. The only "nightmare" of it all seems to be the lock on the driver's door or switching out the ignitions.

 

How hard will it be to switch the key locks? The ignitions look 1000x worse.

 

This seems like the longer, more difficult route. That's like swapping the rear axles if you're just looking to trade wheels...

 

Why wouldn't you just take off the mirror caps, window trim, and door trim and swap over to the other truck and vice versa? Could do door handles while you're at it.

[DeepBlue17]

 

This seems like the longer, more difficult route. That's like swapping the rear axles if you're just looking to trade wheels...

 

Why wouldn't you just take off the mirror caps, window trim, and door trim and swap over to the other truck and vice versa? Could do door handles while you're at it.

I have to concur with this. Swapping the individual parts would be a much safer route. The other issue with swapping complete doors is your paint could vary slightly between the trucks and be very noticeable afterwards.

[Lgetz]

Good observation regarding paint Deep Blue.

[Jerry's Denali]

Driver door has label with VIN.

 

Swap the parts save yourself a headache.

[2016 Sierra Owner]

Driver door has label with VIN.

 

Swap the parts save yourself a headache.

Actually unless they changed it on the 17s and up the vin label is on the pillar between the 2 doors. Near the bottom. It was that way on my 14 and my 16.

[Jerry's Denali]

Actually unless they changed it on the 17s and up the vin label is on the pillar between the 2 doors. Near the bottom. It was that way on my 14 and my 16.

I stand corrected, mine is on the pillar. Thanks

[2018GMC]

After how many beers?

[Ravenkeeper]

First confirm both trucks are the same trim level LT-LT or LTZ-LTZ

From your description seems your friend has an LT and your truck is an LTZ.

May have issues with the mirrors and other controls not working properly.

Might be wiser to swap mirror caps, door handles, window trim, and door moulding.

 

I think he just might have the LT.

 

 

This seems like the longer, more difficult route. That's like swapping the rear axles if you're just looking to trade wheels...

 

Why wouldn't you just take off the mirror caps, window trim, and door trim and swap over to the other truck and vice versa? Could do door handles while you're at it.

 

We were thinking more along the line of swapping tailgates for the backup camera, but your exaggeration is well made. Funny, the door handles were part of that swap too. I must have been thinking faster than I was typing.

 

I have to concur with this. Swapping the individual parts would be a much safer route. The other issue with swapping complete doors is your paint could vary slightly between the trucks and be very noticeable afterwards.

 

To all of the above, we were looking at swapping doors to avoid bending/breaking the mirror caps and trims. Since our trucks were parked side by side, they do look very similar in color, but DeepBlue may be right, that's definitely one thing we did not think about.

 

Driver door has label with VIN.

 

Swap the parts save yourself a headache.

 

Jeb, mine is on the doorjam, yes, I saw your correction. This comment made me think about something, my wife's CR-V has her VIN etched on all of the doors, panels, windows, and the only thing I didn't see it on was the mirrors. Couldn't remember if I had the dealership do that to my truck, just looked, not done. I'm not sure if his is etched or not.

 

Either way, thanks for the comments and bringing up some points that we didn't think about. Guess we'll be swapping the small parts, very carefully.

[Bobber]

Don't forget about the key lock in the tailgate! I know its any easy swap... but I didn't see any mention of that lock being included in your plan.

 

But, I'd also go the component swap route rather than the entire door swap.

[Ravenkeeper]

A friend of mine and I both have 2015 Silverado Z71s. He has all black doors, mirrors included, with chrome nose and chrome bumpers, and mine has chrome capped mirrors, window seals, and door bumpers. He and I were talking a "1-for-1 swap" of all four doors between our two trucks. The only "nightmare" of it all seems to be the lock on the driver's door or switching out the ignitions.

 

How hard will it be to switch the key locks? The ignitions look 1000x worse.

 

 

Don't forget about the key lock in the tailgate! I know its any easy swap... but I didn't see any mention of that lock being included in your plan.

 

But, I'd also go the component swap route rather than the entire door swap.

 

The original plan for switching out the whole door(s) was that we were going to switch out the locks on the front door(s), so why would we need to switch the tailgate? That is why, in the original post, I asked, "How hard will it be to switch the key locks?"