Grille trim question.

[gemarsh]

I knew there was a skit for this, just couldn't come up the correct search terms until now.

I been searching for the more than a year and found it and that I didn't dream it. Things we see and remember.

I know this is a serious problem, but damn, looking in from the outside, this grill problem is funny as hell.

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

 

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[Johnv76]

I knew there was a skit for this, just couldn't come up the correct search terms until now.

I been searching for the more than a year and found it and that I didn't dream it. Things we see and remember.

I know this is a serious problem, but damn, looking in from the outside, this grill problem is funny as hell.

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

Lmfao!!

 

[BlueBrute]

The first comedian doesn't stand a chance around here...

 

[Gerb4653]

My 22.5 is at the dealer for this recall. They send it to a body shop for the repair. I’ll ask when I pick it up but does anyone know what the repair consists of? Also on star module went out so they are fixing that. Got a base 2025 sierra as a loaner with the 4 banger. Decent torque but it sounds awful.

Stopped in to the local dealer and he said the recall reads that they need to break/cut the clips off then epoxy them back on. Well one you're not breaking anything off on my new grille (which he agreed that sounded silly) and two the structure portion of the grille where the clips attach to are what broke out on mine. Even if you've had the grille replaced, gm wants the recall applied to the new part.

So if others break this same way even if we could purchase the upper portion the only thing to hold it together is the two crappy mounting screws which may do little over time to keep things together.

 

[gemarsh]

Stopped in to the local dealer and he said the recall reads that they need to break/cut the clips off then epoxy them back on. Well one you're not breaking anything off on my new grille (which he agreed that sounded silly) and two the structure portion of the grille where the clips attach to are what broke out on mine. Even if you've had the grille replaced, gm wants the recall applied to the new part.

So if others break this same way even if we could purchase the upper portion the only thing to hold it together is the two crappy mounting screws which may do little over time to keep things together.

Type that again. I read it as gm wants the service dept to take a new grill and break shit off of it and then glue the same broken parts back together and install it as a remedy to the pieces breaking off on their own! Why not just slather glue all over the piece intact.

 

[Gerb4653]

Type that again. I read it as gm wants the service dept to take a new grill and break shit off of it and then glue the same broken parts back together and install it as a remedy to the pieces breaking off on their own! Why not just slather glue all over the piece intact.

You read that right sir and we were both somewhat dumbfounded. The dealer read through the document as i sat there listening to him. Perhaps the proper surface preparation wasn’t performed when attaching the clips at the factory and by removing the clips, then by re-preparing the surface after the clips are taken off GM feels a better bond can be achieved? He didn’t elaborate on the clip removal process but he lost my interest early on when he started to reveal the procedure. And as i told him my issue wasn't that the clips broke off but that the grille support broke out like this.

 

[BlueBrute]

Type that again. I read it as gm wants the service dept to take a new grill and break shit off of it and then glue the same broken parts back together and install it as a remedy to the pieces breaking off on their own! Why not just slather glue all over the piece intact.

That's what I was reading too! This is what happens when office staff and lawyers are put in charge of engineering.

 

[Niko Wolfenstein]

Just had this happen on my 2024, luckily it did not come completely off and I was able to pull over and pop it off.

Still under my bumper to bumper, would hope GM would cover it, but have my doubts. Also filled a complaint with the NHTSA referencing the 2022 recall.

Any tried this place as a replacement?

Upper Grille Trim

 

[GMC Chris]

Just had this happen on my 2024, luckily it did not come completely off and I was able to pull over and pop it off.

Still under my bumper to bumper, would hope GM would cover it, but have my doubts. Also filled a complaint with the NHTSA referencing the 2022 recall.

Any tried this place as a replacement?

Upper Grille Trim

This is a recalled item by GM, I had mine replaced no cost to me