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

[Bear77]

Do we get a before and after pic? [emoji16]


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[adventurenali92]

Do we get a before and after pic? [emoji16]


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DUH! Lol

 

[adventurenali92]

Chase’s towing service at it again....

Right after I stopped filming I yelled “move ***** get out the way!”

 

[adventurenali92]

Once I got past the cement truck I managed to get a good video of the base of highway 38, which pretty much has the worst part for towing. Long steady grade. Nice day for towing though. Got up the mountain with no issues.

 

[Tonyrodz]

Once I got past the cement truck I managed to get a good video of the base of highway 38, which pretty much has the worst part for towing. Long steady grade. Nice day for towing though. Got up the mountain with no issues.

Beautiful scenery!

 

[adventurenali92]

Beautiful scenery!

Yeah I really like highway 38. It’s a very pretty drive. The air is always fresh. Last summer a pretty nasty wild land fire ripped through it, from what started a few miles below in the town of Yucaipa, but it’s all starting to come back green, slowly but surely.
Plus it’s what we consider “the backside of the mountain” so there’s always less traffic that way and for the most part the idiots that don’t know how to drive mountain roads don’t go that way so it’s usually an easy drive. Only one little stretch with tight narrow corners, and everything else is nice long properly banked corners. I usually average about 55-60 up that highway when I’m not towing anything. The AWD system makes that highway a ton of fun to drive.

 

[Sam Harris]

Cuz they were not presentable when I loaded them up yesterday. Now they’re fully presentable after a polish and a ceramic coating.

So... where are these supposed “wheels” you bought...? [emoji57]

 

[adventurenali92]

So... where are these supposed “wheels” you bought...? [emoji57]

Hiding.... until I can get them mounted... lol

 

[adventurenali92]

Well here are the new wheels. scored them on Facebook marketplace. Lady listed them down in Carlsbad. I had messaged asking if they were available, and when she responded the next day I totally missed it and didn’t respond. When I opened up messenger a couple days later I saw her response, and saw that she had dropped the price on them as well. I was like “oh I definitely need to go get these now!” So I messaged her back and she agreed to meet up with me and the lower price. Drove to Carlsbad on Saturday afternoon after work and met up with her husband at a big outdoor shopping center, and he was like “yeah they just came off our 2021 Yukon because she wanted 22s... they have like 100 miles on them....”
Had a couple small blemishes in them, that polished out easily. Probably from either mounting or dismounting. Mostly just brake dust on them.

 

[adventurenali92]

All polished up and ceramic coated ready to go! Got the back sides cleaned and coated and took the additional step to coat inside the lug nut holes before they got mounted so that the finish will stay better protected.

 

[adventurenali92]

Got time to have my shop Mount them up today and I’m stoked. They look pretty damn good on my truck!

 

[adventurenali92]

Because pics or it didn’t happen right?!

 

[Rocket Man]

Because pics or it didn’t happen right?!

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Looks good Chase!

 

[adventurenali92]

Looks good Chase!

Thanks mate! Decided to a go a little flashy and blingy this time around haha.

 

[05Single]

So I had to drive my mom back and forth to AirPod twice last week. I was NOT a happy camper. She flew home from the east coast seeing our family last Thursday and landed at LAX at 9:15pm.... which meant that’s e didn’t leave the airport til after 10 and then had to drive back up the Mountain. Then did at she flew out to Hawaii to meet up with a good friend of ours, and she waited til the very last minute and asked me to drive her so I had to change my Sunday plans. Irritating. But at any rate she flew out of Ontario airport and there’s an LKQ yard like three blocks form there. So I went in and dicked around for a couple hours and then headed to my sisters house a half hour away in riverside. My passenger side turn signal is doing some very strange things and I have a feeling it might be the clockspring going bad.... I was originally thinking to pull one and I almost did, but in these loaded trucks you gotta fish all the wires out that go to the steering wheel controls and such. I decided when I can verify with my tech2 that it is indeed the clockspring causing my issue, then I only wanna do that work once and it will be with a brand new part. I didn’t want to chance the clockspring in the Denali I found being bad and having to pull it all apart twice so I didn’t grab the clockspring. However, my steering column covers had some broken tabs and it was all janky and ghetto looking. Luckily the Denali I was in and the same interior color as mine so I pulled the steering column covers, the lower plastic trim off the drivers seat, and the drivers door sill, as both of those pieces from my truck had broken mounting tabs. I also ended up pulling the rear bumper cover. Mine is pretty sad... lol
The original steering column cover on my truck... as you can see it’s pretty bad...

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Did you pull the steering wheel to removed the column covers ? Also I put 2 screws at the bottom of mine in the Tahoe . Keeps the covers tight and less chance of moving around. Also crackhead thieves can’t tear it apart if they want to.

 

[adventurenali92]

Did you pull the steering wheel to removed the column covers ? Also I put 2 screws at the bottom of mine in the Tahoe . Keeps the covers tight and less chance of moving around. Also crackhead thieves can’t tear it apart if they want to.

I need to do the two screws in the bottom. And yeah I pulled the steering wheel. I’ve pulled it a few times now and it’s super easy to pull off.

 

[05Single]

I need to do the two screws in the bottom. And yeah I pulled the steering wheel. I’ve pulled it a few times now and it’s super easy to pull off.

Oh , well you can remove them with steering wheel intact. Just more of a pita lol

 

[Bear77]

All polished up and ceramic coated ready to go! Got the back sides cleaned and coated and took the additional step to coat inside the lug nut holes before they got mounted so that the finish will stay better protected.

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Surprised that you didn’t use the seatbelts on the wheels to keep them from sliding into each other! Nice find and great pics! Wheels look great on your truck too!!


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[adventurenali92]

Oh , well you can remove them with steering wheel intact. Just more of a pita lol

I’d have broken them if I tried it that way so I didn’t even bother. Lol. It’s easy enough to pull the airbag and the wheel so I didn’t even think twice.

 

[adventurenali92]

Surprised that you didn’t use the seatbelts on the wheels to keep them from sliding into each other! Nice find and great pics! Wheels look great on your truck too!!


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That first pic in the tailgate was when I got them home and had taken stuff out but I wedged a couple small things in between each wheel and each of the outer edges so they actually stayed in place perfectly driving up the mountain lol.
and thanks! I’m stoked cuz I love them!