How to Replace Combination Switch 1999-2007 Chevy Silverado

Okay, friends, one of the first things we need to do is make sure that your vehicle is going to be in neutral for this. Go ahead and put the key in the on position, put it in neutral, turn it back off as far as it can. Now, we're going to take a nice plastic trim tool, something that's not going to chisel up our dash, we're gonna try to come right in between here and see if we can pop this out. Okay. Let's tilt the steering wheel down as far as we can. Lift this up and out of here. Let's remove these two lower bolts using a 7-millimeter socket. Now, let's just grab onto this, give it a little tug. Get this right out of the way. Let's grab right onto this, pull it out of here. Underneath this area right here, you're going to see three holes. Two of them should have screws. Ours doesn't actually have any screws, so you'll have to imagine it. Next, it's going to be time to separate the bottom from the top shell. To do that, you can either use a plastic trim tool and see if you can try to spread them or you can use a nice small pocket screwdriver. Whatever you do, try not to do this.

There we are. Get this forward section and pushed down. Do the same on the other side. Okay. Now, I'm just gonna roll this. If you look right along here, you can see it has two hooks. They're supposed to latch in like that. So, once you go down, push it towards the front of the vehicle, and then draw it away. Grab onto that upper shell. We're going to try to lift it up. See if we can push it a little bit because it kind of comes underneath the steering wheel. If you're having an issue, go ahead and continue on with that trim tool. Now, let's go ahead and start getting the bolts out of here. I'm going to start with this top one using a T25. There it is. Our second bolt is located right under here. That one's going to be a little bit harder to get to. I'm going to try to get this one now without removing the steering wheel. Once we get it loose enough, we should be able to grab it with our fingers. Here it comes. Now, we can wiggle this around and we can start disconnecting it. Now, if we were to follow this black wiring right here, it's going to lead us to this area. Take your small pocket screwdriver, come right underneath this ear, lift it up, and then draw this away.

Now, we're going to continue on. If you were to look right here, you're going to see an ear. You can go ahead and lift up on that and then draw this one out as well. Do the same to the other side. There it is, friends. Let's do a quick comparison of our new compared to the old. Just look at it real quick. Make sure you've got all the same buttons. You have little areas here. You also want to make sure if your vehicle is equipped with cruise control, your new one would have that as well. If for some reason your old one had cruise control and your new one didn't, well, you've got the wrong part. Now, it's time to get ready for the install. I'm going to start with this one right here because I remember it had these little flippy-dos on it, connect it right in. If you were to look at these two pieces right here, the two pigtails, you're going to see that they're very different. So, you can't really mix them up, okay? So don't worry about that. Go ahead and line it up, slide it in. Do the same to the other one. And then, of course, our little black wire, we don't want to forget about that. Line it up, slide it in, give it a tug. Double-check everything. Make sure everything's completely clicked in. That's great.

Let's start mounting it. I'm gonna put this right up on here like this. It should set right in. We've got our bolt. I'm just going to carefully try to start it in there. This is going to be the hardest part overall. You might need to wiggle this around a little bit to try to line it up with the hole. Just a couple threads. Okay. Once we get it started in a couple of good threads, we'll start in the top one. We want them both started before we tighten any of them up completely. As you can tell, I'm at a pretty severe angle here. That's due to the fact that I didn't want to go through the whole hassle of removing the steering wheel. Because, of course, that's a lot more of a process and it's not really necessarily needed. Okay. That feels like it bottomed out. Just give it a teeny bit more. I obviously don't want to crack the plastic, so keep that in mind. Let's go ahead and tighten up that upper one. Going to be time to give this a test. Let's go ahead and go left, perfect. Right, love it. And, of course, the four ways. All right. The rest of the testing we can do when we're on the road.

Now it's going to be time to get our shell back onto that steering column. I just wanted you to pay attention to this area right here and the area on the top. As you'll see, they kind of need to roll in together at the same time from side to side, and then you would just kind of squeeze it down, and then it should latch in. I'm not going to do it right now because obviously, I'm going to have to take it back apart. But that's essentially what you're going to have to do. Lock these in, squeeze it down, clip it in. Start with the top piece because that's the last piece we took off. Get it up in here. Just be careful for that steering wheel. We're going to have to get it underneath there. This looks pretty good. We're also going to pay attention along the other side here because this is where the ignition switch is and, of course, the boot for our shifter. That slides right down on there. Let's grab the lower part of the shell. I'm gonna come in and try to get it in between this area right here and up to there. Okay. Grab that hook, check on the other side, do the same thing.

Now, I'm going to attempt to bring this up. What I'm going to notice is of course this bottom part is going to be hitting up against the steering wheel as well. So I'm just going to try to push it so it goes under there. So, now we've got both parts of the shell up and inside this steering wheel area. That's super important because it's going to be very hard to do once you get this together. Let's get this backside latched in. Do the same on the other side. Double-check that boot. What's bound to happen when you're doing this stuff is one side is going to pop off when you're on the other side. You might have to keep going back and forth. Squeeze this in and I'm going to try to latch these together. There we are. Double-check the other side. Perfect. Let's get this bottom kick panel back on here. You're going to notice you have a little piton and then you have an area that's supposed to go into the clippy-do there. We're going to put the piton in the hole, and then the little clippy-do is going to line up right here. Okay. That looks fair. Just pull this away if you need to. On the other side, you should have approximately the same thing going on.

Loving bonk. Give it a little wiggle. Now let's get our screws in. Now it's time to get the dash faceplate in here. Just carefully put it down, give this a little push, see if we can weasel it under there. Okay. Now, we're going to line it up. Give it a little wiggle, make sure it's not going to come free. And there it is. Let's go ahead and get this back in here. Line it up, press it in, give it a wiggle.