RENAMED!! The adventures of Chase and his 2006 Yukon XL Denali!! Follow along on my travels!

[TheAutumnWind]

@TheAutumnWind , fortunately there's enough room for me cuz I'm thin so I can crawl around under my truck to get to things when I need to.

Thats handy. Kind of drives me nuts that I cannot crawl under this thing. Partly because I'm not as thin as I used to be... Makes me miss lifted trucks, but then my wife and kids REALLY appreciate being able to easily get in this thing (its tough for them to get into the Jeep ) so I guess its worth it.

 

[TheAutumnWind]

I buy a product called jetseal from,chemical,guys. Its designed as a 6 months to a year depending,in weather paint sealant. I get about y months out of it with my winters up here. So twice a year I clay and seal my car top,to bottom. Paint, glass and rims, so the new 20s will get sealed with jetseal when they are ready to go on.

You like Jetseal for that huh? I'm a huge fan of collinite 845 for a long lasting wax. I put it on everything now. I like some of the CG products that I've tried, I have a gallon of citrus wash and wax I'm slowly using. Their marketing schtick is starting to bug me though hah.

 

[adventurenali92]

@TheAutumnWind , yeah not as much clearance as a truck but still enough for me lol. I like a lot of CG guys products. Currently though I have to say I'm very impressed with the Trinova gold standard sealant that went around here a couple months ago. Got my hands on a bottle of it, clayed and sealed with it and so far I'm loving it.

 

[adventurenali92]

Merry Christmas everyone! After driving back and forth to work today on the ski resort and then Christmas dinner at a close family friends house tonight, I parked my car in my driveway and this number shows on my odometer. Exactly 19,000 miles I've put on since I bought my denali on Feb 28th of 2015. No mods tonight as the current outside temp is 13 degrees. Lol. And also because the weekend brought 18 inches of white christmas!

 

[adventurenali92]

So my key fob decided to die a couple days ago.the lock and panic buttons work, but unlock doesnt work. I had ordered a new one a while back and never had time to program it. So I found a thread about programming it and led me to a website with direct instructions. Was quite helpful. Took all of like 1 whole minute to program my new fob. So that's done. Still waiting for my LEDs for my lowbeams to get delivered. The guy that i bought from on eBay sent them through postal instead of ups, so it got sent back to him. Ugh..... Still waiting on those and I'm anxious for them to get here.

 

[adventurenali92]

So did a cool mod today. Found a sweet thread about a week ago about getting my DRLs on at the same time as my headlights. Which spiked my interest because my LED/halos that are a part of aftermarket headlights are wired into my DRL. So got a couple diodes and run them from my my DRL relay to both high and low beam relays. Took a few try's to get them in the right pin slots. But I got them on. Here's a couple pics.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Looks good!

 

[Fosscore]

Winning. Nice work.

 

[adventurenali92]

Thanks guys!

 

[adventurenali92]

So i took the afternoon off to make the drive down from big bear to huntington beach to go to a close family friends superbowl party. Driving down the mountain my transmission decided to go on the fritz.... ugh.... gotta take it to the Trans shop at the base of the mountain that did my rebuild in April last year. Fortunately I have 250 miles and a couple months time frame left on my Transmission warranty. So hopefully whatever is wrong won't cost me an arm and a leg. In drive it shifts perfectly fine all the way through the gears. But when I was driving down the mountain it wouldn't shift manually into 3rd and 2nd. So not sure what's wrong with it. Sucks because I haven't even had the rebuild a full year yet and its already acting up. Ooi. and I'm religious about checking my fluid and keeping at the correct level. Looks like I'm taking a few sick hours pay tomorrow to deal with it lol

 

[Tonyrodz]

Damn! Hope you get it sorted out.

 

[adventurenali92]

@Tonyrodz , thanks man! At least I still made it to huntington beach to the party and getting to relax and enjoy myself this afternoon/evening.

 

[Tonyrodz]

@Tonyrodz , thanks man! At least I still made it to huntington beach to the party and getting to relax and enjoy myself this afternoon/evening.

At least you got to enjoy yourself. Let us know how you make out.

 

[adventurenali92]

Luckily my sister lives halfway in between the mountain and the beach. So I can crash at her house tonight and then shoot over to the Trans shop pretty quick in the morning. And I get to see my nephew and two nieces in the morning too haha. Will know more when I get there.

 

[adventurenali92]

Well... waiting for the Trans shop to check out my transmission. Waiting to see what's wrong with it. Let's see which body part this fix will cost me this time. Lol

 

[Fosscore]

Good luck. Hopefully nothing too major, but at least under warranty still. And bonus got to hang with the family as well. Keep us posted man.

 

[adventurenali92]

So turns out my transmission is fine but the engine braking isn't engaging for some reason which is why it wouldn't downshift into third gear manually when I moved my shifter. So it's completely drive able and not doing any damage. So i will have to bring it down later in the week and leave it for a day with him so he can figure it out. But til then I'm fine to drive it normally.

 

[adventurenali92]

So finally got my LEDs in for my low beams. Gonna take some work apparently because of my Aftermarket lens. Ugh... Anyways someone was telling me I will need to wire load resistors in behind the led bulbs for my lowbeams. Is this correct? @Fosscore , @Tonyrodz ,@05Single , you guys that have leds in your lights that can offer any advice?

 

[Fosscore]

No LEDs in headlights. Just the bulb that came with the Depos.

I tried some LEDs up front about a year or more ago when I first saw them but never could get them to work so I returned them. Interested to see how you go as it would be nice to get a whiter light up there without a full $$ retro.

Sorry I cannot help on this subject at the moment.

 

[Tonyrodz]

On my leds, was strictly plug and play. No issues at all. I did get the bulbs with the flexible cooling braids instead of the fan style. No resistors or anything else needed.