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adventurenali92
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RENAMED!! The adventures of Chase and his 2006 Yukon XL Denali!! Follow along on my travels!
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The world has gone insane. Well, you'll figure a way to make lemonade out of these lemons Chase.
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adventurenali92
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On the upside staying home this week means staying at my best friends parents house for the week and keeping an eye on the dogs and getting paid for that. Which is good... lol and this is a pretty awesome place to stay....
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Using my down time wisely! Resurfacing my cupholder setup. This is the actual OEM Denali tray that I pulled out when I swapped in the other tray that I pulled out of a wrecking yard esky. That one is tan one the edges and the lids are painted grey. They are showing my lack of paint skills from when I got it. Lol. I’m getting annoyed with it.
Time to get rid of wood grain. Also got rid of the typical flaking off Denali grey paint from the kids. Stay tuned for what it will look like when I’m done! Gonna do away with wood grain and have a plan for the lid portion for a custom surface. Also gonna install my dash cam I got for Christmas this week since I’ll have more down time.
Time to get rid of wood grain. Also got rid of the typical flaking off Denali grey paint from the kids. Stay tuned for what it will look like when I’m done! Gonna do away with wood grain and have a plan for the lid portion for a custom surface. Also gonna install my dash cam I got for Christmas this week since I’ll have more down time.
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adventurenali92
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Got my cupholder tray/bezel project done today. Repainted the wood grain tan and then wrapped the center bezel and lids in a really dark carbon fiber wrap I have sitting at home. Came out really well. A few little wrinkles in the wrap around the edges but I’m really happy with it over all.
The lids were the harder part. Ended up disassembling them and doing them separate but the lids came out really good. Next step will be to do the cd changer bezel and then the upper dash bezel. I really like this color combo!
The lids were the harder part. Ended up disassembling them and doing them separate but the lids came out really good. Next step will be to do the cd changer bezel and then the upper dash bezel. I really like this color combo!
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adventurenali92
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Have a big roll of this wrap so I wrapped the new front door window switch bezels I have. Gonna put those in tomorrow and take pics of them in the truck. These came out really good as well!
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If you use a heat gun on low setting you can get rid of those wrinkles, and it helps the wrap to stick better too. You can peel it and reapply it a few times until you get it down without wrinkles. Good work Chase.
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adventurenali92
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That’s Exaclty what I did. Still a couple wrinkles. But I’m ok with it.
Peel it up, heat it a bit, and stretch it a little as you lay it down and smooth it. There’s a bunch of YouTube videos on it.
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I spent all afternoon doing just that... lol
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Well... Window bezel switches will have to wait til tomorrow. Dropped the Nali off today because I’m sick of seeing oil spots in the driveway. Turns out oil was leaking from the oil pan gasket, the oil cooler plate, and the passenger side valve cover. Sucks on the valve cover because I just did those myself in April of last year. Not even a full year ago... Oh well. I just want it done. Dropped the truck off a little after 2pm and he said it will be done some time tomorrow. He’s handling the valve cover and oil cooler plate without charging me because it’s so minimal and he’s already gonna be in there. Which is cool.
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Got the truck back from the oil leak shenanigans. It still had a few drips underside when I got in the driveway. Hoping it’s just extra oil running off from the cracks and crevices and that it’s not still leaking. Kinda painful putting this much on my credit card. But a necessary expense.
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Gave the Nali a bath and swapped out my front window switch bezels. I gotta say, the way the switch bezels are mounted to the door panels are a major pain in the ass....
before the swap:
Also my seat heater switch had a button that had worn off. Been that way I think since I bought the truck. I picked up a replacement some time last year and never got around to swapping it out.
Figured since the door panel was off it was a good time swap it out and the switch is good. It all works. here’s the bezels:
And the replacement switch with all the proper button faces:
before the swap:
Also my seat heater switch had a button that had worn off. Been that way I think since I bought the truck. I picked up a replacement some time last year and never got around to swapping it out.
Figured since the door panel was off it was a good time swap it out and the switch is good. It all works. here’s the bezels:
And the replacement switch with all the proper button faces:
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adventurenali92
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I forgot to mention that on my master window switch bezel a couple of the clips that hold the switch to the bezel were broken at the bottom near the lock button. So I had picked up NOS bezel off eBay that looked like Chevy colors with no Denali dark wood. And then as I was wrapping the cupholder bezel it dawned on me to wrap the master switch bezel. And then I had found randomly a bezel for passenger side window switch in full Denali wood grain thinking I was gonna use it. And then I wrapped the other, and thought hmm better match both of these pieces. So that’s how I had two bezels to replace the two that came out. I took pics of the broken tabs on the original Denali bezel:
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Took some research to find the correct part, but I had ordered a new mirror glass replacement for my drivers side DL3 mirror. It was starting to get the typical brown fade, and it had a few little scratches in the glass that annoyed me enough to want to grab a new one. New piece got delivered late Saturday evening to my post office box. So I grabbed it this morning. Just finished getting the swap done. It’s a pretty easy swap. Took me about a half hour but that’s just because I was being careful not to break any of the factory glass, and I was being really careful releasing the mounting tabs. Took the new piece that has the turn signal, heat and auto dim functions retained, and cleaned it and ceramic coated it with CG hydroslick product, before install. Let the ceramic coat cure onto the new piece while I was removing the factory glass out of my mirror. Cleaned out the inside of my mirror, reconnected the heat function plugs, and the harness that powers the auto dim and turn signal LED, and popped it into place. Love the clean reflection! Old mirror where you can see the fading and scratches:
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And the new glass installed:
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It's the little things......
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adventurenali92
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Yes it is haha.
Agreed, the little things matter. The rear view mirror is important to me considering how many times I use it. I bought a super cheap one once because the OEM ones are big bucks and it took me 3 replacements ( under warranty) to get one that wasn’t all distorted. That distortion drove me crazy, it was like one of those funhouse mirrors.
915_Tahoe
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If i was you i wouldn't throw that mirror away. it can be used again, i noticed there is a glass on top of the mirror glass, if you careful enough you can break the top glass and remove it piece by piece and have a spare mirror. did the same to mine, there a liquid in between the mirror glass on top glass that reacts to the currant to dim the mirror.
