Dave's 2006 Escalade AWD Build Thread

Onebadsss · Apr 30, 2017

Okay guys, I'm making my first foray into build threads with the 2006 Esky that I recently bought (mainly for my wife's use BUT, since I just sold my truck, this is now my ongoing project toy) and hopefully I can someday aspire to levels of Fosscore, 95escahoe and tgui, the sources of my inspiration!

So I picked up this Escalade on January 11th 2017 with 118,189 on the clock from Jaguar of Annapolis where she was a local trade-in by an Airforce TSgt airframe mechanic who upgraded to a 2014 Range Rover (learned all this from the sales guy I worked with). Truck was and is pretty much immaculate inside an out with all original paint, no accident history and fully loaded!

Here are some pics of her from the dealership's website listing:

This truck met all of mine and my wife's requirements: Diamond White Tricoat (love this color!), Sunroof, 2nd Row Captain's Chairs, Factory Nav and Rear Entertainment System. As a bonus to the last option: the previous owner had installed Audiovox in headrest TV/DVD players w/ wireless headphones (a setup I prefer to the factory roof mounted option).

adventurenali92 · Apr 30, 2017

Love a good build thread! Surprisingly there aren't many nbs esky owners on here! Subscribed as I'd love to see the progress on this truck. Your images aren't showing up though! Wanna see your truck!

Onebadsss · Apr 30, 2017

Thanks man! Yeah I'm trying to fix them now. I'm using Imgur to host and I've tried every link code option they offer and nothing is working :wtf:

Onebadsss · Apr 30, 2017

Okay I figured out what I was doing wrong, that was good learning experience for me. Hopefully future posting will go smoother! Now bare in mind that I am going to try and stitch together a timeline of what I've done so far and work my way up to present day over the next few days...

Onebadsss · Apr 30, 2017

Bigbeardenali1992 said:
Love a good build thread! Surprisingly there aren't many nbs esky owners on here! Subscribed as I'd love to see the progress on this truck. Your images aren't showing up though! Wanna see your truck!

I noticed there aren't many NBS Esky owners here as well, sad because they are beautiful trucks. I've owned more than my fair share of NBS pickups, this is my first NBS SUV and it was an easy sell to the wifey because she likes "high end" stuff and when I told her the Escalade was the "best of the best" GM offered in this bodystyle that was all she wrote!

adventurenali92 · Apr 30, 2017

Boy you weren't kidding that thing is spotless!! Nice truck man! Yeah I love the nbs escalade. It's always been my dream car and still want one despite the fact I love my nbs Denali haha. Led interior swap? Haha.

Onebadsss · May 1, 2017

Bigbeardenali1992 said:
Boy you weren't kidding that thing is spotless!! Nice truck man! Yeah I love the nbs escalade. It's always been my dream car and still want one despite the fact I love my nbs Denali haha. Led interior swap? Haha.

I LOVE the NBS Denalis as well! I actually searched high and low for a clean 2006 Sierra Denali Crew Cab in Silver Birch but couldn't find one that met my high standards that didn't require a cross country trip to acquire (plus the wife wanted an SUV w/ 3rd Row seating so she could be the sterotypical trophy wife soccer mom, lol). I love the NBS body style in general, it's always been my favorite mainly I think because, in addition to sexy exterior lines, the NBS has a MUCH better looking interior than the NNBS. Now the new K2XX platform is gorgeous inside and out too but it'll be years before I can afford one. I like paying cash for vehicles and not having car payments :gr_grin:

adventurenali92 · May 1, 2017

Onebadsss said:
I LOVE the NBS Denalis as well! I actually searched high and low for a clean 2006 Sierra Denali Crew Cab in Silver Birch but couldn't find one that met my high standards that didn't require a cross country trip to acquire (plus the wife wanted an SUV w/ 3rd Row seating so she could be the sterotypical trophy wife soccer mom, lol). I love the NBS body style in general, it's always been my favorite mainly I think because, in addition to sexy exterior lines, the NBS has a MUCH better looking interior than the NNBS. Now the new K2XX platform is gorgeous inside and out too but it'll be years before I can afford one. I like paying cash for vehicles and not having car payments

I like the Sierra Denalis as well. Cool tricks. I couldn't find one for sale in California. But unfortunately here in California it's alot more expensive to have a truck so I went with a yukon xl. Plus the extra covered space is more use able with an suv. Lol. Funny my denali is silver birch metallic. I love my interior as well. Very comfortable. Everyone says my car is a soccer mom car, but I say not as much as my sisters minivan that hauls 3 kids!!

W8TVI · May 1, 2017

Onebadsss said:
Okay guys, I'm making my first foray into build threads with the 2006 Esky that I recently bought (mainly for my wife's use BUT, since I just sold my truck, this is now my ongoing project toy) and hopefully I can someday aspire to levels of Fosscore, 95escahoe and tgui, the sources of my inspiration!

So I picked up this Escalade on January 11th 2017 with 118,189 on the clock from Jaguar of Annapolis where she was a local trade-in by an Airforce TSgt airframe mechanic who upgraded to a 2014 Range Rover (learned all this from the sales guy I worked with). Truck was and is pretty much immaculate inside an out with all original paint, no accident history and fully loaded!

Here are some pics of her from the dealership's website listing:

This truck met all of mine and my wife's requirements: Diamond White Tricoat (love this color!), Sunroof, 2nd Row Captain's Chairs, Factory Nav and Rear Entertainment System. As a bonus to the last option: the previous owner had installed Audiovox in headrest TV/DVD players w/ wireless headphones (a setup I prefer to the factory roof mounted option).

Very clean looking.
About the only thing I could think of to do to it, would be a complete conversion to LEDs inside and out.

Definitely put some LEDs in the reverse lights (I use these, and they are cheap), and some switchback turn signals would look sweet on your truck (this set is what I use, and have a video linked in my built thread if you want to see what they look like).

I understand that you will need canbus compatible LEDs for interior lights; I'm not sure about the turn signals, but I'm sure some one will chime in.

Onebadsss · May 1, 2017

W8TVI said:
Very clean looking.
About the only thing I could think of to do to it, would be a complete conversion to LEDs inside and out.

Definitely put some LEDs in the reverse lights (I use these, and they are cheap), and some switchback turn signals would look sweet on your truck (this set is what I use, and have a video linked in my built thread if you want to see what they look like).

I understand that you will need canbus compatible LEDs for interior lights; I'm not sure about the turn signals, but I'm sure some one will chime in.

Thanks for the feedback! And you read my mind about doing the full LED conversion inside and out. I love the JDM AStar switchbacks and defintely want to go that route and I've even been thinking of downgrading the headlights from the factory HID setup to a set of halogen compatible headlights so I can run LED HID kits for both low's and high's in addition to fogs and switchbacks (want to do the Fleece Performance mod as well)...

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