Painting grill insert pieces

[REDOO2000]

Had any taken apart and painted the 3 horizontal pieces on the 17 Silverado. Mine are black but I wanted to match them to the summit white paint of my truck. Are they easy to come off?

 

 

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[jaxcam02]

From what I've read, because I want to paint mine black, once you have the entire grille assembly off, there's just some clips that hold the horizontal bars in place. I haven't gotten around to doing it yet though.

[Jakenbake18]

My grill had a crack in it so I bought the inner portion of the grill to replace it. Taking the 3 bars off was a nightmare. Since the old inner part of the grill was broken i was able to cut the tabs behind the clips. That still took me about 2 hours. I read on here somewhere that someone cut up an old gift card to use as wedges behind the tabs. The grill comes off easy so you can look at it. Im not sure how people can get it off without breaking a good amount of the clips.