[Bone]

The chrome bezels do absolutely nothing other that to cover there own hole slots and to fill the gap around the lights... They do not stop water from running behind the lights. If fact. If you open your trunk lid. On each side where the black plastic covering is. Water in channeled behind it and down behnd the light sockets. So, if you decide remove the bezel. For what ever reason. You can paint them, or remove them and leave them off. Although you'll see the gap around the lights and also the hole slots for the bezels. Most of the users are painting them either black or there car color and reinstalling them. A few of us have left them off. I left mine off and used a marine/auto black gasket to fill the void around the tail lights. To each his own! Mod away...