Seatbelt, Front Inner Seat 73230-0C050-B[1|3] Charcoal

I followed the great set of instructions at the link below to look up the correct seat belt buckle for my brother's 2002 Tundra Limited Access cab.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/howto-use-the-toyota-parts-system-to-find-order-parts.113808/

For some reason, the Charcoal model that matches his interior seems completely unavailable. The ONLY color available appears to be "MD.OAK". That color really stands out against the Charcoal interior. Is this a known shortage? Can the exterior shell be swapped out?

 

It’s just what Toyota is doing. They pretty much are defaulting to beige at this point.

I had the same issue when I ordered new rear window latches. I clearly ordered the part number for charcoal and got beige. In some cases all but beige show discontinued. OR what I’ve seen is, the other-colored parts show as a supercession number, with the new part number as the beige colored part.

I swapped over my grey plastics to solve my issue. I’m not sure if you can swap over the shell on that part though. I would try, I guess, on the broken part.