Fosscore's 2013 Suburban LTZ Build Thread

[Fosscore]

Meanwhile, up in Missouri we are freezing our extremities off and it's snowing LOL @08HoeCD mileage is just a number when it comes to making your ride look good. Mine's creeping closer and closer to 210k but you'd never know just by looking at it. Just gotta stay on top of it With that said, don't look in my engine bay. I never detail it because I have other things that need tending to before engine bays get cleaned

Lol.

Lookin classy as always! The long bodies are so nice for trips! Those numbers are awesome!

Stay classy is right. And yes 6 bodies and 2 dogs with RES in the back and country rolling up front, it was very nice.

I was pretty stoked with the numbers too.

 

[HiHoeSilver]

30106 miles

We were given a last minute offer on Friday by friends to use their condo in Key Largo for the weekend at no charge.

I loaded the wife, her mother and sister, the 2 kids, 2 small dogs and not too much luggage and after a BurgerFi and 89 octane stop we headed south for the 2 hour drive.

I finally got full operational control of the Suburban for the whole weekend. Not without a peanut gallery for everything, but I was the sole driver. Yes!!

We headed down and back to Key West on Saturday and back to FLL Sunday night.

The long body had great numbers too. I managed to snap people back in their seats a couple of times ummm due to the need for rapid acceleration. Lol

And she turned over 30000 miles leaving Key Largo this afternoon.

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Your "necessary evasive maneuvers" raise any eyebrows? or just snap some necks?

 

[Fosscore]

Your "necessary evasive maneuvers" raise any eyebrows? or just snap some necks?

Necks snapped and the roar of the motor always get quips from my mother in law.

With nobody else in the truck, I did cross the wet 2 lane road to get ahead of traffic and managed to spin the tires and the long body attempted to power slide before I let off the pedal.

Does that count?

 

[HiHoeSilver]

Necks snapped and the roar of the motor always get quips from my mother in law.

With nobody else in the truck, I did cross the wet 2 lane road to get ahead of traffic and managed to spin the tires and the long body attempted to power slide before I let off the pedal.

Does that count?

I was digging at whether you've had to fess up to tuning it yet. Lol

 

[Fosscore]

I was digging at whether you've had to fess up to tuning it yet. Lol

Lol NOPE! She has no idea and still has not said anything about that 1-2 shift. Winning!!

 

[Tonyrodz]

Lol NOPE! She has no idea and still has not said anything about that 1-2 shift.
Winning!!

I bet she has an idea something is up lol.

 

[adventurenali92]

Lol.



Stay classy is right. And yes 6 bodies and 2 dogs with RES in the back and country rolling up front, it was very nice.

I was pretty stoked with the numbers too.

Ah yes country on the radio is the requirement for road trips! Lol

 

[Fosscore]

Friday morning I aired up the tires, checked the oil and gave the truck a quick wipe down for a road trip to Orlando.

No Disney parks this time, but we did visit Disney Springs (aka Downtown Disney previously) and the ******* Palms ICE display.

This year is the “A Christmas Story” scenes from the iconic movie.

They keep the exhibit a constant 9F inside with ice sculptures and ice slides from November to early January. I highly recommend it.

As well as the Cirque du Soleil type show in their convention center.

The kids had a blast!!

The Suburban performed well even with standstill traffic on the turnpike at one point.

442 miles round trip, mostly between 70-80mph and some city driving in Orlando.
17.1 mpg
25.8 gallons of fuel used
Trans temp 160F

Gave her a wash tonight to get the love bugs off.

Wife asked why we did not drive the work Suburban to keep the miles off the truck??

Ummm, because I want to drive it!!

Ventilated seats, tinted windows and RES!!

She agreed that tinted windows were reason enough. Lol. Silly woman!!

 

[adventurenali92]

Yay for long trips in the long body! Haha

 

[BADRIDES]

Friday morning I aired up the tires, checked the oil and gave the truck a quick wipe down for a road trip to Orlando.

No Disney parks this time, but we did visit Disney Springs (aka Downtown Disney previously) and the ******* Palms ICE display.

This year is the “A Christmas Story” scenes from the iconic movie.

They keep the exhibit a constant 9F inside with ice sculptures and ice slides from November to early January. I highly recommend it.

As well as the Cirque du Soleil type show in their convention center.

The kids had a blast!!

The Suburban performed well even with standstill traffic on the turnpike at one point.

442 miles round trip, mostly between 70-80mph and some city driving in Orlando.
17.1 mpg
25.8 gallons of fuel used
Trans temp 160F

Gave her a wash tonight to get the love bugs off.

Wife asked why we did not drive the work Suburban to keep the miles off the truck??

Ummm, because I want to drive it!!

Ventilated seats, tinted windows and RES!!

She agreed that tinted windows were reason enough. Lol. Silly woman!!

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My wife and daughter just got home from Orlando Friday. They went to Disney Springs and did some shopping. My daughter got to cheer at the Thanksgiving day parade at DisneyWorld.

 

[Fosscore]

Yay for long trips in the long body! Haha

Yessir. Always a win. Reminds me of my parents taking us on road trips as we always had Suburbans growing up.

My wife and daughter just got home from Orlando Friday. They went to Disney Springs and did some shopping. My daughter got to cheer at the Thanksgiving day parade at DisneyWorld.

Nice one man. I saw lots of teams up there for the holiday weekend. Disney Springs is crazy big. The last time I was there it was still Downtown Disney.

 

[Fosscore]

I took advantage of Cyber Monday at the same time as a new battery for the Tahoe and replaced the wipers. The paint was looking tired and the rubber was starting to dry rot. Doesn't take long in this heat and UV for anything to deteriorate rapidly. I couldn't justify $40 for the top of the line wipers, so I replaced them with the Champion same-as-OEM style blades for about $7 each on sale.

 

[HiHoeSilver]

I took advantage of Cyber Monday at the same time as a new battery for the Tahoe and replaced the wipers. The paint was looking tired and the rubber was starting to dry rot. Doesn't take long in this heat and UV for anything to deteriorate rapidly. I couldn't justify $40 for the top of the line wipers, so I replaced them with the Champion same-as-OEM style blades for about $7 each on sale.

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Back to conventional, eh?

 

[Fosscore]

Back to conventional, eh?

These have always been conventional. I wanted to change it up and even with the sale I almost did, but the Tahoe battery purchase won that battle this time.

At least they are new. Maybe next time.

 

[swathdiver]

With Rain-X you hardly need the wipers. In your case, I bet you use it more to wipe the salt off than because of rain. ;-)

Those are great wipers but only last a year or two at best in our climate.

 

[Fosscore]

Yes the windows are coated so the water flies off, but there is always the constant salt film or dew when I get the car port for the Tahoe (which is rare lol).

The last 3 road trips, we had rain and they just streaked.

So for $7 each for new wipers that will get crushed by the UV and now into the less rainy season, it seemed like a simple and easy maintenance item to cross off.

 

[Fosscore]

The wife call yesterday on the way home from work.

Wife: Where are you?
Me: UPS dropping off a package.
Wife: I just wanted to tell you before you got home so you could have time to think about it.
Me: (crickets waiting for the damage report)
Wife: blah blah blah...backing out of my space....blah blah blah
Me: (crickets waiting for the damage report)
Wife: This other car backed up and we touched. I don't know why my camera and sensors didn't go off.....blah blah blah
Me: (crickets STILL waiting for the damage report)
Wife: It doesn't look too bad, the paint is a little scratched, blah blah blah still not giving me the details if anything is actually broken. Nobody was hurt. It might not be as bad as when the mechanic backed into the pole last year and left a scratch.
Me: (crickets wanting to get off the phone so I can go home and see what she has done)

Worse than she tried to explain, but not as bad as it could have been. Nothing I can do with the plastics and really only looks bad to me. Average Joe will never really notice.

Bumper cover still aligns perfectly. No damage to the chrome strip or bumper pad. No damage to the tail light. Just some superficial scratches which I might be able to buff out below the chrome strip. A small paint scratch where the bumper cover pushed under the tail light. A small crease on the corner where it looks like they touched and pushed the bumper cover in which also made a small crease/bend close to the where the bumper cover meets the bumper pad. The liftgate opens fine.

It sucks, but better than it could have been. And she usually backs into every space she parks in for that very reason. grrrr....

 

[Tonyrodz]

The wife call yesterday on the way home from work.

Wife: Where are you?
Me: UPS dropping off a package.
Wife: I just wanted to tell you before you got home so you could have time to think about it.
Me: (crickets waiting for the damage report)
Wife: blah blah blah...backing out of my space....blah blah blah
Me: (crickets waiting for the damage report)
Wife: This other car backed up and we touched. I don't know why my camera and sensors didn't go off.....blah blah blah
Me: (crickets STILL waiting for the damage report)
Wife: It doesn't look too bad, the paint is a little scratched, blah blah blah still not giving me the details if anything is actually broken. Nobody was hurt. It might not be as bad as when the mechanic backed into the pole last year and left a scratch.
Me: (crickets wanting to get off the phone so I can go home and see what she has done)

Worse than she tried to explain, but not as bad as it could have been. Nothing I can do with the plastics and really only looks bad to me. Average Joe will never really notice.

Bumper cover still aligns perfectly. No damage to the chrome strip or bumper pad. No damage to the tail light. Just some superficial scratches which I might be able to buff out below the chrome strip. A small paint scratch where the bumper cover pushed under the tail light. A small crease on the corner where it looks like they touched and pushed the bumper cover in which also made a small crease/bend close to the where the bumper cover meets the bumper pad. The liftgate opens fine.

It sucks, but better than it could have been. And she usually backs into every space she parks in for that very reason. grrrr....

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You can warm that spot up with a heat gun and push on it with something flat, like a small flat piece of wood, and it'll take some of that bulge out. But be easy with the heat gun, you could burn the paint.

 

[07Burb]

Until recently my bumper cover looked very similar and it only got fixed because it was in the shop getting rust fixed anyway so we get a new bumper cover, painted it and threw it on. I left it like that for so long only because I KNOW that being the wife's DD it's going to go through some battles so I just gotta do the best I can and let the rest go to an extent. Overall, my wife does very well (we've had our rims for almost 3 years now and not a single curb rash **knock on wood**) but she does have her moments so I've given up a LONG time ago on keep the burb 100% perfect. In fact, she's almost due to run into something again here real soon. I just hope it's something repairable LOL

 

[Fosscore]

You can warm that spot up with a heat gun and push on it with something flat, like a small flat piece of wood, and it'll take some of that bulge out. But be easy with the heat gun, you could burn the paint.

You can warm that spot up with a heat gun and push on it with something flat, like a small flat piece of wood, and it'll take some of that bulge out. But be easy with the heat gun, you could burn the paint.

Good points and well taken. Might just leave it alone. It sucks but better than taking a quarter panel hit or lucky it wasn't a larger truck into the back of the lift gate or tail lights. Just cosmetic at this point.

Until recently my bumper cover looked very similar and it only got fixed because it was in the shop getting rust fixed anyway so we get a new bumper cover, painted it and threw it on. I left it like that for so long only because I KNOW that being the wife's DD it's going to go through some battles so I just gotta do the best I can and let the rest go to an extent. Overall, my wife does very well (we've had our rims for almost 3 years now and not a single curb rash **knock on wood**) but she does have her moments so I've given up a LONG time ago on keep the burb 100% perfect. In fact, she's almost due to run into something again here real soon. I just hope it's something repairable LOL

I can echo your comments. The wife has rocked it pretty well for 2 years. Just got caught with some other numb nut. I still remember her wanting a mid-size and now she wouldn't trade that long body. She loves it and other than not paying enough attention lolol she drives it very well and is conscious of where she is and mostly backs in to every spot. Now for the constant state of the interior...