2003 Tahoe LT - Sister's 1st Vehicle [Update 12/8/19 - Pillars + Brush Guard]

[Galandorian]

took a couple extra days, but we finally got the tint done

70% entire windshield, 15% front windows, stock GM tint on the rest

my vehicle is 50% entire windshield, 1% windows for reference

looks a lot darker at night, but it is a very nice trade off for tint and visibility otherwise

I'll get some pics tomorrow during the day that will show it better

hoping to get the sound system installed this weekend

1x SoundQubed 2200 @ 0.5 ohm
1x SoundQubed 90.4 @ 2 ohms per channel on stock speakers

Brand X 270a alternator, stock lead acid up front, 105aH Sam's Club Duracell in the rear

single SoundQubed HDC418 with PSI recone

 

[Galandorian]

took a little longer than anticipated, but we got the sound system worked out (mostly)

gained a little more trunk room!

doesn't sound too bad with just stock speakers either. we're working on a write up for how to bypass the Bose Amp, since we couldn't find any easy info on it

 

[Galandorian]

and some daytime shots for all the people who only wanna see the Denali

 

[SirReal63]

Excellent progress. I have enjoyed your sound system builds.

Five Star Car Stereo on YouTube has a couple vids of the procedure to bypass the Bose system. They helped me greatly when I did mine.

 

[Galandorian]

Excellent progress. I have enjoyed your sound system builds.

Five Star Car Stereo on YouTube has a couple vids of the procedure to bypass the Bose system. They helped me greatly when I did mine.

I found a video that wasn't very easily titled that eventually got to it lol

here is my dad's quick fix write up:

super easy

 

[Galandorian]

got some more work done this weekend

put a new brush guard on:

and then all the speaker grilles were rusted out, so my mom went to paint them

but the color ended up blue instead of grey

I said it looked horrible and needed redone, my parents seem to think my sister won't notice. so we have a bet on it.

I'm going to get my sister black door handles for Christmas, so I'll have to take the panels off again anyways to install those, and I'll repaint the grilles either straight black, or find a paint code that matches

 

[Galandorian]

I also replaced all of the OEM Bose speakers with aftermarket

SoundQubed QP-MR6.5 in the front doors
SoundQubed QS-SD25 Silk dome tweets in the pillars
DS18 Elite Z-354 3.5" mid ranges in the pillars

used MyCustomSpeakerPods ABS mold to get the job done:

and I am extremely impressed with the sound quality, even a little bit jealous

although my car is much louder, her car now sounds a lot more musical. having the sound stage in the pillars makes a huge difference

Crossovers are as follows:

Subwoofer = 0 - 100hz
6.5" doors = 100hz - 3.15k
pillars = 3.15k+

 

[Sam Harris]

got some more work done this weekend

put a new brush guard on:

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and then all the speaker grilles were rusted out, so my mom went to paint them

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but the color ended up blue instead of grey

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I said it looked horrible and needed redone, my parents seem to think my sister won't notice. so we have a bet on it.

I'm going to get my sister black door handles for Christmas, so I'll have to take the panels off again anyways to install those, and I'll repaint the grilles either straight black, or find a paint code that matches

Sorry, but why would you change the CM door handles to black..?

 

[Galandorian]

Sorry, but why would you change the CM door handles to black..?

I don't know what CM stands for, but the outside door handles in silver are super ugly.

always looks best to have a silver vehicle with black accents

 

[NoReverseYukon]

Cm I believe means color matched. I'm not a fan of unicolored vehicles either.
Don't you have a screen to protect those speaker cones? I see damage in your sister's future.