24 hours later I’m still annoyed…… but also reminding myself that small maintenance items inevitably will happen with an 18 year old 205k SUV. Just life. Counting my blessings that the only major vehicle expense to ever really occur with any of the vehicles I’ve had so far was the Denali...
My garage door snapped of its track last night on my way out to Wyatt’s for dance night and when I was closing it up to head out, I noticed some light smoky fumes coming out around the grille and headlight on my passenger side. Popped the hood and saw that my passenger side valve cover is pretty...
hit my oil change interval this week. Had a $20 rewards credit at autozone so I grabbed oil and a filter and only spent 20 bucks. Not a bad deal. Oil change done and air filter cleaned. Stupid me though, as I was tightening up the new filter, which thankfully didn’t cause me any issues this time...
I am on my second set of defender LTX tires and love them. First set performed well. I wanted the LTX A/T2s again when I needed to replace last November but no one had them ins rock in the size I run so I went with another set of defenders, but went with the XL load rating since I tow often...
I retrofitted a set of anzo U bar housings since they run identical to OEM projectors and I was surprised at how easy the retrofit was. But all in I spent a lot on that mod haha.
My regret is not doing a true HID RETROFIT with the first set of headlights I swapped in. I went with similar halo ring housings for my Denali. Most of these aftermarket housings have cheap plastic projector lenses that aren’t any better quality than the OEM projectors, a lot of them have H1...
Yes I think that’s correct. I’ve even lately seen a handful of Denali SUVs on latest generation half ton ram wheels as I believe the bolt pattern is the same but something about the center bore line of the wheel being slightly smaller?! Not sure though I could see one particular set looking...
I am the same way…. Get rolling and then WOT to get close to freeway speed by the time I’m merging in….
Mainly because California flatlanders are bat shit crazy drivers when it comes to freeways, and if you’re not using the long onramps like you’re coming out of a pit stop in a nascar race...
Always good to check that first! I have fired the parts cannon before checking for power continuity first many times lol.
I really the Escalade mirror upgrade on this gen truck! Looks great!!
Weird that the turn signal LED isn’t working. That’s not an issue I’ve ever seen before. In all the trucks I’ve detailed for clients, or driven or been in, other functions stop working but not the turn arrow. Not to say it can’t happen obviously as yours did. Just weird.
As much as it sucks to...
Should be a direct swap. All the SUVs from 2007- forward that have the buttons for the manual shift mode in the transmisison all have the same wire pigtail connector from what I’ve seen so far. I had a GMT900 Escalade shifter in my 2006 Denali XL for a couple years and then bought a shift handle...
It’s funny that your first comment about the power running boards is that it’s a love/hate feature….. I’d agree in that theres no middle ground.
As a detailer I absolutely hate them and I will never have them on a vehicle I personally own. I absolutely hate that on the GMT900s that have them...
Really cool build! Great info on the 4WD swap! Can’t imagine many other Denalis out there without all wheel drive and 4WD instead. I sometimes wish I had a selectable 2 speed transfer case on my 2006 Denali for some of the weirdly deep snowstorms we get in my neck of the woods occasionally. It...
I honestly don’t understand why they decided to put a giant volume knob at the base of the screen. Ford has done the same in some of their setups and it looks terrible. I like having physical buttons but that’s not the way to go. One physical button in the middle of a touch screen, from a...
That’s hard to work with. I lived off a short dirt road for the first nearly 8 years of being out of my mom’s house. It was awesome but no garage or covered parking spot. Just a concrete pad to park on in front of the house so maintenance in winter was always a challenge. Not fun. lol. Had...
A few years back I had a leak at the master cylinder that was pretty bad. But we couldn’t tell if it was leaking from the master cylinder side or the hydro boost side. Close mechanic friend suggested I replace both since there was no point in replacing one only to find the leak was coming from...
Having a lift would be nice for sure. I daydream about my perfect garage with a lift and all haha.
I did my drivers side CV axle a couple months ago as I had a torn outer CV boot. I have an intermittent popping sound happening during slow moving turns at more than half lock and I had read that...
Nice build so far! Hopefully she treats you well but looks like she is already! Nice find on the LTZ racks…. That’s a rare truck and hard to find those racks. Can’t wait to see what they look like mounted up on the 2500! Not a lot of 2500 builds around these parts so definitely can’t wait to...
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