Chev. 2015-20 Grille install

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Just received a base LS (2020) grille ..................for my........base LS 2020 Tahoe. Will be swapping out fancy dancy chrome horizontal grille (yuch yucho ...patooey) for the Base grille with black trapezoidal insets. Any advice or insight on doing this? I guess first off I don't even know how to remove the Rad shroud to uppr leading edge of grille baffle. those fasteners are 'new fangled'.

I don't wanna end up doing a Red Green job on this.

GOD only knows what's changed in coachbuilding. My last car was a 96 Tahoe which was constructed more traditionally, this thing has me intimidated.
 

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I would take it to your dealer or a reputable body shop if you are not comfortable doing the work yourself.
 

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Just received a base LS (2020) grille ..................for my........base LS 2020 Tahoe. Will be swapping out fancy dancy chrome horizontal grille (yuch yucho ...patooey) for the Base grille with black trapezoidal insets. Any advice or insight on doing this? I guess first off I don't even know how to remove the Rad shroud to uppr leading edge of grille baffle. those fasteners are 'new fangled'.

I don't wanna end up doing a Red Green job on this.

GOD only knows what's changed in coachbuilding. My last car was a 96 Tahoe which was constructed more traditionally, this thing has me intimidated.
I did this on my 16 Tahoe, you do have to remove the bumper, takes about an hour and half total.

I used this video to learn how to remove the grille


here's my before and after:
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Er mah GERD! Are you flippen serious?? I have to remove the GD bumper? Huhhhhboy.....
Oh well, Thanks. I will watch the video. Then ...... I will BURN down the body engineering studo of GM. ......just kidding.

Don't you just love all the overlapping body parts on the inside and outside with no visible screws?
W to the T to the F.

( son-o-vah..... Bang ZOOM..straight to the moon)

'66 Suburban........here I come!
 
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I did this on my 16 Tahoe, you do have to remove the bumper, takes about an hour and half total.

I used this video to learn how to remove the grille


here's my before and after:
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I will say this....
That grille...the one they "UPgraded" when you got the 3rd seat delete.... I friggan HATEd it.
Or HATE it. It's still on there, AND......you gotta admit it does make it look like a Chrysler mini van.
Am I right? Or. Am I right?
It's TOO MUCH chrome!
Customer: 'Hey Al, this upgraded Tahoe grille....it's too much CHROME!.'
Al: "I'll be over at five."

(Okay, you have to older than 40 to 'get' that reference.)
 
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I would take it to your dealer or a reputable body shop if you are not comfortable doing the work yourself.

Appreciate the input. Funny thing is .... I have the skill, I have the patience, I have the tools but yes, I'm not comfortable doing this, but I'll probably do it myself anyway and be really uncomfortable doing it.

I'm not comfortable doing ANYTHING. Anything with or to people or things.

I'm channeling Larry David. I'm the Larry David of the 4th gen Tahoe world.

I'm like Ben Stiller's father; "Festivus for the rest of us".
'I gotta lotta problems with this grille, people. . . . and it's gonna hear about 'em!'
 
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I did this on my 16 Tahoe, you do have to remove the bumper, takes about an hour and half total.

I used this video to learn how to remove the grille


here's my before and after:
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I have to ask, Bradac;
When you took your bumper cover off did any of the tabs or connection points rip, tear, or or get damaged in any way, and in regards to all the plastic connectors, clips or fasteners, in particular the ones for the upper rad baffle that spans between the top of the grille and the radiator top, were they all re-usable?

In other words did anything degrade upon removal or were you confident when done that everything that involved tabs and slots and plastic push connectors was just as tight as before?
 

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Not sure if you've done this yet or not, but its actually quite easy. My wife wanted a black RST grill on our '19 Tahoe. We used that exact video to take the truck apart. It all comes apart very easily and goes back together very easily. I even made her do all the work...her truck...her work!
 

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that video linked above fails to mention the loosening of these three additional bolts on both sides:

https://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/threads/how-to-denali-grille-install.89762/

^^ after learning about these, I was worried that anyone I paid to swap the grill wouldn't loosen them... so I did it myself.

Once I had the bumper assembly off, my old grill wouldn't budge from the upper bumper fascia and I didn't have an extra set of hands to help me gain leverage and I was worried about damaging the bumper cover slots, so I snip + twisted off the plastic grill tabs that snap into the upper bumper cover slots..

i fought with it for a while and wasn't ever going to be reusing the old grill so who cares snip & twist my back hurts it's hot just throw it in the trash.
 
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