USA/Mexico Fenders Interchangeable?

[bkraus94]

As the title states - I'm wondering if anyone can tell me whether or not the fenders are interchangeable between the USA built and Mexico built trucks? I have a 2004 USA built and found a perfect color-matched fender, but it's off of a 2004 built in Mexico. I am getting conflicting answers. 

 

Much appreciated!

 

BK

[CamGTP]

It's still the same fender so it will work.

 

I've never seen two different part numbers for front fenders.

[bkraus94]

Same here, and same with the parts guy I spoke with today. There is one part number for the USA/Canada trucks and a different one for the Mexico ones. 

[Ian Mills]

11 minutes ago, bkraus94 said:

Same here, and same with the parts guy I spoke with today. There is one part number for the USA/Canada trucks and a different one for the Mexico ones. 

What are the two part numbers? I've also never heard of them being different

[bkraus94]

8 minutes ago, Ian Mills said:

What are the two part numbers? I've also never heard of them being different

USA- 88944418

Mexico - 88979959

[CamGTP]

GM parts direct shows those two numbers with the same exact picture and parts description. They also list the exact same vehicles for each as to what other vehicles that fender will fit.

 

No idea why they do that. Mexico just gets their own numbers I guess. The fenders bolt on the same way.

[Ian Mills]

1 minute ago, CamGTP said:

GM parts direct shows those two numbers with the same exact picture and parts description. They also list the exact same vehicles for each as to what other vehicles that fender will fit.

 

No idea why they do that. Mexico just gets their own numbers I guess. The fenders bolt on the same way.

I was looking at that. The list of compatible vehicles is different though and 2004 Silverado 1500 is only on one of them.

I wonder it's a case of years where different production lines only made certain configurations/trims of the different trucks on the GMT-800 platform

[bkraus94]

4 minutes ago, Ian Mills said:

I was looking at that. The list of compatible vehicles is different though and 2004 Silverado 1500 is only on one of them.

I wonder it's a case of years where different production lines only made certain configurations/trims of the different trucks on the GMT-800 platform

I can't imagine why it would be any different either, but I'll find out for sure in a couple days.

[CamGTP]

The only things I know for sure that they changed over the few years of the 2003-2007 body style trucks was the grille designs and the hood. The later like 2006-2007 hoods look way better than the earlier ones.

[bkraus94]

1 minute ago, CamGTP said:

The only things I know for sure that they changed over the few years of the 2003-2007 body style trucks was the grille designs and the hood. The later like 2006-2007 hoods look way better than the earlier ones.

Agreed - everything else on the body appears to be identical. 

[bkraus94]

For anyone that's interested, the fenders are identical. 

[redvett]

Mexico built and registered vehicles are different than U.S. registered vehicles and as far as the fender it probably wouldn't be galvanized where as the U.S. registered vehicle has galvanized body parts. I know that their vehicles are very cheap and lack safety equipment and other federal vehicle components. 

[bkraus94]

9 minutes ago, redvett said:

Mexico built and registered vehicles are different than U.S. registered vehicles and as far as the fender it probably wouldn't be galvanized where as the U.S. registered vehicle has galvanized body parts. I know that their vehicles are very cheap and lack safety equipment and other federal vehicle components. 

It was a Mexico built, U.S. registered vehicle that I got the fender from. It is identical to the one on my U.S. built truck. I compared the two of them side-by-side and the new one is now mounted on my truck without issue. 

[redvett]

Fit won't be the problem for components from a Mexico only vehicle. I know that exhaust systems on Mexican only trucks did not have stainless exhaust just plain raw steel exhaust like our vehicles had in the 1970's.

[davester]

The parts did vary slightly over the years.  When I replaced the door and fender on my '04 Sierra, I found that fenders and doors from earlier trucks didn't have all the same holes/nuts that later parts had.