How to Replace Tailgate Handle Bezel 1999-2006 Chevy Silverado

First thing you're going to want to do is make sure that your tailgate is down. Once you have it open and down, you're going to see these three bolts right there, remove those using a 13-millimeter socket. Nice and tight. Let's get these out of here. Wiggle this handle around so it's nice and free. With this black bezel, the next thing you're going to want to have is one of these nice plastic trim tools. The reason why we're going to use plastic is because we're going to come in between the bed and the plastic shroud right here. Just go ahead and come right here, push it, do the same thing right there. Once you have the top broken free, just go ahead and lift this straight up and draw it away.

We can continue on to installing this. If you were to pay attention on the backside, you're going to see that you have a couple little pitons, and then right here you have some hooky-dos. When you go to install this, you're going to put the bottom in first so that the pitons go down into here, they'll latch in and then just roll it in and it'll latch. So with this, in. So now from inside the bed, you can see the backside of the tailgate, we're just gonna kind of wiggle the handle around until we can see our bolt holes. Grab your bolts, go ahead and start all three of them in before you tighten any of them down. Let's go ahead and snug them up.