Megan the Tahoe
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Lots of nice ideas. How many miles did you have on the Tahoe when you bought it? Sorry if you had mentioned before and I missed it.
The reason I am asking is I have a bone stock 2003 Suburban z71 that has 189k miles and it is in amazing shape, I want to know how much tinkering should I do with it. It was my wife's primary vehicle but since she got the new Denali, it is now my toy.
The reason I am asking is I have a bone stock 2003 Suburban z71 that has 189k miles and it is in amazing shape, I want to know how much tinkering should I do with it. It was my wife's primary vehicle but since she got the new Denali, it is now my toy.
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I have an update but things happened so I'm not going to post it all yet.
This had around 170k when I bought it and it's around 184k now. My 2003 2500HD has over 230k miles and is still very clean and my friends' 2007 Classic 2500HD was at 315k miles and looked to be in even better shape in lots of places. Absolutely no reason not to mess with it.
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Yesterday I replaced rotors and pads all the way around. I found EBC USR series rotors for the rear for $71.71 shipped on a price mistake on Amazon. Actually they were supposed to be the GD series and they ended up shipping USRs. Either way I saved about $150-190 and so I bought the fronts to match and then I found hawk LTS pads for the rear for $35 on eBay on a 40% off sale and had a 25% off coupon to stack making them $30 shipped and then bought the front pads on Amazon to match making my whole upgrade $315.21.
All rotors front and rear were factory somehow after 185k miles and not completely worn out. The new EBC rotors just look sexy as **** though.
Unfortunately my front driver side hub decided it was going to feel gritty as shit and have lots of play in it so I went to Autozone and grabbed the one Moog hub they had and I'm very impressed with it.
I finished everything up and put on my new 1/4" spacers in the front which has, along with my upper control arms, completely eliminated the tire rubbing on my sway bar.
I then took it to Hibdons to get a lifetime alignment at which point I assume they ****** up. What I am guessing happened is they didn't see that half of the alignment cams were replaced and now had fixed positions and they cranked and cranked and eventually cracked one of the factory alignment cams on the driver side and on the passenger side it appears they might have actually broken the alignment pin the cams work on. Either way I got it and brought it home and I'll deal with it later. My roommate doesn't love doing alignments on his dealership rack but he will after he sees their handiwork.
All rotors front and rear were factory somehow after 185k miles and not completely worn out. The new EBC rotors just look sexy as **** though.
Unfortunately my front driver side hub decided it was going to feel gritty as shit and have lots of play in it so I went to Autozone and grabbed the one Moog hub they had and I'm very impressed with it.
I finished everything up and put on my new 1/4" spacers in the front which has, along with my upper control arms, completely eliminated the tire rubbing on my sway bar.
I then took it to Hibdons to get a lifetime alignment at which point I assume they ****** up. What I am guessing happened is they didn't see that half of the alignment cams were replaced and now had fixed positions and they cranked and cranked and eventually cracked one of the factory alignment cams on the driver side and on the passenger side it appears they might have actually broken the alignment pin the cams work on. Either way I got it and brought it home and I'll deal with it later. My roommate doesn't love doing alignments on his dealership rack but he will after he sees their handiwork.
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Shame about the alignment, but the rotors look nice!
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Finally found the post with the sub wiring. Woot woot. Now I'm able to finish this interior. Thank you for posting. And this may be an old thread but who knows right now.
It is old but good. And since you revived it, I read the entire thing. He never came back after final tuning of the LQ9 though. I'm left wondering if he ever got it running right.
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That was a good thread.
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I know , super good thread for sure . Come back Megan the Tahoe!!!
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Lol, not as old as I thought it may have been. And the bose system sounds great for what I want because of this.
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I did get it running well, just took a lot of back and forth with HPtuners until they got me access to every table and then after I was no longer fighting issues beyond my control I then had to learn how to tune... that took a little longer and I'm still far from an expert but I feel confident about the tune now.
I'm glad you got it going and enjoy it! It seems like such a simple thing that we all have passed over for years.
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I was a little hesitant to say this because I'm not exactly thrilled about it but I'm going to be selling the Tahoe 
The girlfriend, live-in variety, wants a '15+ Tahoe/Denali/Escalade and with my 2500HD not going anywhere it seems really silly to have 3 full size "trucks" in my driveway that can't even fit them all so I'm going to start looking for a CTS-V and unfortunately find a new home for the Tahoe
The girlfriend, live-in variety, wants a '15+ Tahoe/Denali/Escalade and with my 2500HD not going anywhere it seems really silly to have 3 full size "trucks" in my driveway that can't even fit them all so I'm going to start looking for a CTS-V and unfortunately find a new home for the Tahoe
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Get a wagon... those are awesome sauce.
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Did the dynamat help keep the noise down? I just put it in mine a few months ago but haven’t finished the interior so don’t know how much of a difference it made. I did the whole floor with it and the sides to. On the sides I doubled it up along with the wheel wells. Then I put a layer of the double sided insulation in it for more sound deadening and heat. In the Cargo area I did like you and put a added layer of the dense foam down. Followed it up with a carpet kit from ACC with the mass backing. I still need to do behind the door panels and come to think of it I need to put a layer under the headliner. Which sucks because I had it out for weeks and it didn’t cross my mind until now!
