Brought a new (to me) Burb home
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replacement heated seat showed up yesterday, went to start putting the driver's seat together last night but got called away on other things and didn't get back to it. I'm hoping to dedicate a little time to it tonight to get the driver's seat back together. Regardless of what i get done during the week, plan is for Saturday to dedicate to finishing this phase of the burb. LED bowtie light, rear esky style Morimoto tail lights, and finish both front seats before the wife is allowed to direct my attention elsewhere. After that's done we plan on swinging by a buddies to put it in the air and inspect the suspension and steering. Tires that are on it show signs of unusual wear, so going to inspect and replace any postponed maintenance items like lower BJs and tie rods that might be needed, get those done, then a fresh alignment, then new tires on the new (to me) rims
Good luck with that!
Sounds like a plan! Looking forward to hearing what you learn.
olyelr
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You sayin’ you did that project WITHOUT drinkin’?!?!
You sayin’ you did that project WITHOUT drinkin’?!?!
In it's entirety. I learned years ago if i want to get something done, the drinking can only start AFTER you are done...i also understand now why so many people say everyone should redo a seat at some point to have the knowledge as to why it's sometimes easier to just let someone else do it next time. lol. I did notice i did this one from the back to front, and the seat shop recommends doing it from the front to the back, so maybe i'll do the passenger seat on Saturday and do it the opposite direct and see if that goes easier or not. Not sure if having the cushion off the brackets would be easier or harder, takes a bit of effort to get the cushion where it wants to be without leather on it, so thinking i might put the cushion on and then go front to back on the snaps. After that, i may let someone else do it if i ever need it done again...
Also Saturday new tail lights go on and a couple other things. Looking forward to being able to say this round of updates are done
So, i finished the driver's seat last night and slapped her into the burb. And i just have to say...wow. What a huge difference. Start to finish it probably takes about an hour, i'll know for sure tomorrow when i do the passenger seat. But if i had to guess, about an hour from starting to pull the seat to reinstalling the seat. My timing got broken up pretty badly waiting on parts for the driver's seat. But there is a massive difference, highly recommend to anyone that you should upgrade your seat cushion
And i suppose i should mention, i threw this in as well yesterday
I'll be honest, i'm kinda disappointed in the brightness of it. For being a genuine GM product, i expected the glowing ring to be brighter and more like a DRL. It's noticeable at night, but i was just thinking it would be brighter...But regardless, that's another project done on the burb, so i have less to do tomorrow morning.
I'll be honest, i'm kinda disappointed in the brightness of it. For being a genuine GM product, i expected the glowing ring to be brighter and more like a DRL. It's noticeable at night, but i was just thinking it would be brighter...But regardless, that's another project done on the burb, so i have less to do tomorrow morning.
And for the sake of others, GM P/N 84751545 is for the LED back lit bow tie on the grill. it is basically plug and plus, you bore out a hole behind the emblem and connect the wires. The kit has you insert the wires through the grill, and then insert the wire ends into a plug. They snap in, black to black, white to grey is what i did. as it made the most sense. From there connect it to the supplied T harness that runs over to the driver's side headlight. It honestly only took a couple of minutes. Pull the plastic cover off the top of the grill, i used a long screw drier to release one of the clips on the stock bowtie from behind. and pop that off. drill the hole, run the wires up and connect them into the plug, then route the wire where you want it and put everything back together. Took longer to hunt down the correct PN then it did to actually do the install
