So, I Broke My 2022 Chevrolet Silverado Door Handle, What Should Be An Easy $20 Fix, the Dealer Says Will Cost Me $525, I’m Ready To Trade This Thing In

Not to be "that guy" or whatever but technically it's 26.25 times more expensive to fix then he anticipated...

525$ for a new door panel? Go to a parts yard and source one there. Save you at least 300$ and I'm sure you can find a YouTube video on how to remove it. Someone who knows what they are doing should have it off and a new one on in 20 minutes. 45 minutes if you watch the video a few times. Meh even be able to buy just the inner door handle from carparts.com. still have to take the door panel off. 🧐

I would fix it myself!!No way would I pay that much to fix the handle through the dealership.They rob you every time you get something done.I don’t understand why they don’t try to help the customer. I always get the extended warranty. I have not used it once on my 2018 Camaro ZL1. But once the warranty expires that’s when you need it.Good luck on fixing the door handle you are better off doing it yourself.

I just saw inside and outside door handles for 2022 Silverados on Amazon. I think your dealer is trying to take you for a ride.
If you must have OEM parts, then perhaps they aren't lying.
I remember when a Toyota customer needed a new catalytic converter and it was over $600 25 years ago, but that was all the exhaust from the manifold to bumper in one piece.

Try Parts Geek on line and do it yourself.

I'd start calling my local boneyards and try to find it that way

get rid of that junk. I had a brand new Silverado and it was the biggest junk I ever owned. Their transmissions are no good. I had a junkie Ford too. Now I have a v8 tundra best truck so far. I also had a junkie dodge ram it blew up warming up in my driveway one morning. the oil pump quit working and my buddy's Dodge the oil pump quit working well he was driving it, it was 2 years old. warranty covered it but what a headache for him

I would tell the stealership and Chevy to take a flying Fandango! Among other things... Designing cheap plastic pieces that break in the first place, then requiring you to buy half the friggin door, is simply thievery by design. Used to be a time in the old west, when they would hang thieves for that kind of fleecing. Now a days, they promote them to engineer of the year, or next CEO.
I would duck tape/drill/wire the old piece together to make it functional and wait a few years. Can't take more than a few when this kind of quality shows through on the others, and people outright junk them because of all the stuff breaking down. I would also take ever opportunity to tell people what a POS a Chevy truck evidently is, and sure as heck would never buy another Chevy or GMC product. This is a prime example of Ray without a unit... Raydickless!

This is false and misleading. Door handles - interior, exterior are both available in all trims up to the high country for his Silverado. They do not require anything additional, and certainly don't require a new door panel. Either this person got seriously taken advantage of, or someone made up a BS story. A 30 second search on eBay has them priced from 30 to 50 bucks depending on the options needed. Oh... And I've installed speakers in these trucks on several occasions, so am intimately familiar with how the doors come apart and go together.

Sell it and buy a Toyota.

I've been known to fix just about anything due to my understanding of mechanical and electrical/electronic devices and designs. I love a challenge by the way and even though I could have easily paid garage for repairs why I already gave dealer 50 to 70 thousand for vehicle and if not covered by warranty i will fix it.

2017 silverado. Biggest pile of dung I ever owned. Trans went out at 90,000, starter went out at 38,000 battery quit at 37,000,radio and all electronics in the information center just junp around randomly. I bought my first chevy truck new in 78.this is my fifth. Never again. Absolute junk!

I'd look to Dorman for a replacement solution. Broke my door handle on my Chevy HHR. Dealer wanted $330 for complete new door panel. Dorman mad replacement part for $60 and only took 1 hour to replace thanks to YouTube video.

Why's the thing breaking in the first place? Bad quality from a traditionaly shoddy auto manufacturer. Buy part online, watch online video, replace yourself.

I have driven every pickup model the US big three companies have produced, gas and diesel. 42yrs in heavy civil construction as a General Foreman.
My personal pickup?
On my second Honda Ridgeline.
I wont EVER buy GMC or Dodge!

I would sell it and buy an older truck that is more consumer friendly. Until they make trucks for the consumer instead of the producer we need to stop buying new trucks.

I had a 2019 Chevy Colorado had a little over 40,000 miles on it and the thermostat went bad something you can buy from a parts store for 20 to 40 bucks it would have cost over $600 if it wasn't under warranty to have it fixed because they had to remove the manifold to get to the thermostat which is ridiculous it took the technician over 4 hours to replace that thermostat and now I got a Chevy Silverado that I'm really wishing I had not purchased because everything on it is hard to do so people in the backyard can't fix their own vehicles and that is just downright stupid and the government allows it which makes them know better they want you to take your vehicle to a dealership anytime it messes up because they don't want nobody else to get the money but them dealerships have been allowed for too long of doing things they want to do to the vehicles to make it harder for the average person to work on them if you don't have any money you're screwed I would rethink buying Chevys I love them for a long time but I'm thinking about Trading mine in for a Nissan or Toyota unreal thanks a lot Chevy

Look at it this way, they should warranty the new parts they install, any future problems with the window switch or the door handle should at least be covered under their warranty. Just a thought

Salvage yard

Check the scrap yards .. often they use the same handle for 20 years. Or an accident scrap vehicle of the same year.

Dealership quoted me over $800 to replace the horn in my Silverado. After research, I did it for $42.

As a retired mechanic of over 57 years, I'd find a way to repair it without using the dealership at all.
There are several considerations here --- does Dorman make a new part replacement yet?
They are usually cutting edge for re-engineering a part that would be an arm and a leg at the dealership and lowering the cost to some toenail clippings.
If Thomas decided to wait it out for Dorman - and that could be months down the road - I for sure would have that door panel on my bench and I'd repair that handle somehow.
Where's the robust, macho-individual nature of humans to fix things themselves anymore?
A few tools and some JB Weld might be a temporary fix.

You probably should not own a vehicle of any kind, if you default to a dealer for a repair like that, unless it is still under warranty. Go to the wrecker, buy the part, put it in.

For the door handle issue, I would fix it. Go to a junk yard to get a used one. The high cost of repairs forces insurance companies to total out wrecks with not much damage. The big junk yards are connected with many others via internet, so they can find one for you.

For the door handle issue, I would fix it. Go to a junk yard to get a used one. The high cost of repairs forces insurance companies to total out wrecks with not much damage. The big junk yards are connected with many others via internet, so they can find one for you.