Removing Grill Bezel only?

I tried to find a YouTube video or a post on here on how to remove the grill bezel only. I want to paint it black, but keep the original grill. Do I remove the screws? Or screws and some of the tabs?

Thanks!

 

It is screws and tabs. The grill and chrome bezel come out all as one piece. Pull the painted section holding the grill, then remove the grill and bezel out of it, then separate the grill from bezel. You’ll have to pinch the clips and remove all of the screws, go slow, and you won’t break any of them

 

please learn to use google search

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-to-remove-front-grill.404031/

 

Thank you for your help. I already had the grill assembly out. I do indeed know how to Google search. I'm a Millenial, it's what we do.

 

Thanks, Jason. I broke a tab just experimenting, so now I'm a little afraid to try.

 

You gotta commit, but proceed slowly. The way I did it was remove all of the screws around the grill. Then prop the grill up using some scrap wood or something on the painted section so the grill is slightly in the air and free to drop. Then slowly move around pinching the clips, and gravity will slowly pull it down as you go around. It is a slow process but it will work well

Lay a blanket or towel down so you don’t scratch up your front end on the ground too!!

 

then you would have found that link in like 15 seconds.

 

Yup. More like 1.34 or however long it took Google to return the results. If you could read my OP again, you would know that I wanted to remove the grill bezel without removing the grill itself.

 

Use Needle nose pliers. Pinch the tab with the pliers and barely move it through. By the time you get to the next one, it'll work itself out. Go slow, be patient. I did mine without breaking any.

 

Too easy to ignore.............

@toyotatacomaTRD offers a good technique.

 

C'mon man. I flipped through the threads you started. At least 5 in the first page of your 50+ started threads have been answered many times. That's how this forum operates. Don't let it bother you. If it does, don't reply and let it fall to the bottom.

 

Pretty sure you can't remove just the bezel.

However, you can pop the grille/bezel out, remove the bezel and put the grille back in. It's what I did when I installed my custom car grilles insert.

 

You can on the 18s pretty easily. The main part of the Grille is black, the bezel is chrome, you just look in behind and only remove the chrome tabs and the screws holding that portion on.

 

It's easier to just answer the question than to use the crappy search function and dig through tons of threads from the different sub forums.

 

This. There are so MANY posts with just the word "grill" in it.

 

Thanks. I thought that was kind of the idea, but I couldn't really see if that was the case.

 

So you have to remove the whole thing to get the bezel out. I switch my bezel out, broke one clip getting the chrome one out. Slow and easy wins the race on that. There are multiple screws and tabs.

 

I cant imagine a thread on Tacomaworld.com making me upset. This is literally what this forum is here for.

Ask away OP. Dont worry about the folks who hate on it.

 

So, is it necessary to pull the whole grille to swap just the bezel trim??? I will like to get the black one.

 

Holly Crap?! There's a search thingy that does this?

Man? What will they think of next???

All this time I've been wasting my time randomly looking for sites that people post up questions on asking other people for help?