What did you do to your NBS GMT800 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

[02_Tahoe]

I like what Cattivo posted here. Train horns...thought about those too...lol trouble YES, fun YES...

For sure color match everything you can. I have an LS and nothing was color matched from the factory. I ended up getting everything color matched including my mirrors (the entire assembly, not just the cap). Very happy with the outcome. Tow mirrors are not my thing, but they look good on the lifted trucks. That one is a personal preference toss up. Just get the chrome ones to set off 05Single....lol

Hope that helps a bit.

I like the full mirror painted and that's what I planned on doing. And I do like the idea of getting chrome just for 05single

 

[02_Tahoe]

I still need to install my horns after I resolve a few electrical issues, I only intend on using the horns for people who sit at green lights texting or the inconsiderate people crossing the street texting

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IMHO... keeping the tow mirrors black will result in an more OEM look rather than wasting money on color matching them, at the end of the day it's what you prefer brother

I'll be doing the color matching myself so I'm only paying for the paint and sandpaper

 

[jarydM]

Totally forgot that I have one of these laying in the garage... never installed on the nali, but its going on the escalade.

which one did you buy?

 

[jarydM]

just ordered some paint from Automotive Touchup to get my vent caps painted, and maybe colormatch the side mirrors.

Then just need to decide if Black housing head lights and bumper lights will look bad on the white truck, and if I should get the clear/chrome housings instead.

any opinions?

 

[02_Tahoe]

just ordered some paint from Automotive Touchup to get my vent caps painted, and maybe colormatch the side mirrors.

Then just need to decide if Black housing head lights and bumper lights will look bad on the white truck, and if I should get the clear/chrome housings instead.

any opinions?

I like smoked lights, if you're going to get clear ones you might as well just clean up the stock ones

 

[Fosscore]

I like my chrome ones with amberless bumper lights.

I guess try to match both whichever way you decide.

Good luck in the color match. Prep work is the key as you probably already know. Will look good.

 

[jarydM]

I like smoked lights, if you're going to get clear ones you might as well just clean up the stock ones

I'm gonna put in Depo's in the front, and buy the bumper lights that are a series of LEDs, then re-place and rewire them with switchbacks, have them always on, and "switchback" with signal. The Depos are for better light.

I don't really want smoked, because I don't want to lose output. Too dark where I live.

 

[Fosscore]

Yes on Depos.

 

[jarydM]

I like my chrome ones with amberless bumper lights.

I guess try to match both whichever way you decide.

Good luck in the color match. Prep work is the key as you probably already know. Will look good.

Yeah, I love the way your lights look up front. I had been dead set on black housings for a while, but then I realized I liked that look on trucks here that were all dark, or at least, not white.

I'm worried the black housings on the front of the white will make it look darker than I want. But it might also make it fade into the grill inserts at distance, creating an infinite grill type look.

 

[Cattivo]

I'll be doing the color matching myself so I'm only paying for the paint and sandpaper

If you're not 100% sure wether to color match the tow mirrors or not, you can do what I usually do... get some blue painters tape and cover whatever you want to color match with the tape, paint the part to get an idea what it's going to look like and if you don't like the look you simply peel it off

Take a few pics with and without the mirrors painted for your own reference, make a decision on what you like best and take it from there

 

[Cattivo]

I'm gonna put in Depo's in the front, and buy the bumper lights that are a series of LEDs, then re-place and rewire them with switchbacks, have them always on, and "switchback" with signal. The Depos are for better light.

I don't really want smoked, because I don't want to lose output. Too dark where I live.

I had a white Envoy Denali('02 with 45k miles) back in the day and painted the headlight housing black, it looked terrible!
I don't have many pics of that truck left, I go through cars/trucks like underwear lol. All I have left pics wise are 2 sideview shots, I must of deleted the rest

As far as running the parking lamps as drl, that's easy...simply do the drl mod and swap the wiring from both innermost bulbs to the outer parking lamps

 

[OhioHoe]

@02_Tahoe
I'd say color match the stock mirrors but if you get the tow mirrors I'd leave them black. That would be a lot of blue IMO

 

[jarydM]

I had a white Envoy Denali('02 with 45k miles) back in the day and painted the headlight housing black, it looked terrible!
I don't have many pics of that truck left, I go through cars/trucks like underwear lol. All I have left pics wise are 2 sideview shots, I must of deleted the rest

Yeah, I'm afraid it will look terrible. I want the front end to look new, not "riced"

As far as running the parking lamps as drl, that's easy...simply do the drl mod and swap the wiring from both innermost bulbs to the outer parking lamps

I need to find a better write-up on it all, because I'm not too comfortable hacking up wires.

Essentially though, I want the whole LED strips refitted with switchback lights, so when its lit up at daytime, the whole thing is white (like the OEM leds on the new trucks) and then when I signal they all flip to yellow blinkers. I know there are LEDs that do that, I just don't know how to wire it all together.

 

[jarydM]

@02_Tahoe I'm also for colormatching mirrors.

**edited because I get all the blue trucks confused**

 

[02_Tahoe]

@02_Tahoe I'm also for colormatching mirrors. Unless you want to chrome them to match your new handles.

I didn't get chrome handles I got color matched handles

 

[TheAutumnWind]

which one did you buy?

Im pretty sure that it is:
KYB SS15326 - Steering Stabilizer

 

[MadDogDelpho]

There's a new guy on here who CM'd his tows maroon and I think it looks good on his truck. He's in the march TOTM contest, I forget his name. like I said before, I kinda prefer the K2xx style mirrors like @Cattivo has, and those look good CM'd too, but to each his own.

 

[jarydM]

I didn't get chrome handles I got color matched handles
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haha, sorry, Wrong blue truck.

 

[TheAutumnWind]

What size fuse did you use?

250a

 

[TheAutumnWind]

Someone please school me on the jounce stops on the front. I looked at mine today and they don't look as bad as these but are pretty bad. How will changing these improve my ride? They have about 1-1.5 gap between the jounce and the frame part that they would hit.

thats a huge gap. They should be just touching. Replace them!