BillyVW
TYF Newbie
Hello all. I joined about a month and a half ago when I inherited my parents old 04 Yukon XL Denali when my GTI had the trans go out. A little about me, born and raised in Michigan and proud of it. I love cars and car culture. Grew up working on dads hot rods all the time with him. Im in my 4th year of mechanical engineering at Purdue in West Lafayette.
My previous cars include several VWs. The most recent being an '01 GTI VR6 with a story book of mods. Shes been through a lot with me so shes in storage until I graduate and have a garage to rebuild her. Shes been autocrossed, rallied, and rear ended since i bought her in 07. I do miss driving a car that goes around corners, isnt an automatic, and where the brake pedal isnt 4 inches in front of the loud pedal.
As for the Denali, like i said, its an '04 with 110k on the clock. Shes on her 3rd trans since my family has owned her. (Replaced the original at 80k with a Jasper rebuild, something went wrong and Jasper paid for another one) The first owner before my parents had some hackjob wire in a DVD player in the glovebox and 4 headrest screens. Since I took ownership I have pulled out most of the ****** up wiring, taken the DVD player out (need to replace the inside of the glovebox where it was cut to fit the DVD player) and replaced it with a Pioneer AVH-3300BT. I had a Kicker L5 until I blew it so now im planning a new setup. Ive done the typical mods so far, black taillight covers, debadge, vent-shades, and some window stickers.
Ive spent a lot of time tracking down info for fixing a few issues she has (TPMS, MAF, and Autoride...) But there is a lot more in the works. I got some extra HID ballasts from my GTI left over all I need is some new 4500K bulbs and they'll go on. Im planning to have the tint redone soon t0o. Later this month ill be installing a Viper 5901 so expect a thread pertaining to that with pictures and such.
I look forward to lurking more in the future. Cheers
My previous cars include several VWs. The most recent being an '01 GTI VR6 with a story book of mods. Shes been through a lot with me so shes in storage until I graduate and have a garage to rebuild her. Shes been autocrossed, rallied, and rear ended since i bought her in 07. I do miss driving a car that goes around corners, isnt an automatic, and where the brake pedal isnt 4 inches in front of the loud pedal.
As for the Denali, like i said, its an '04 with 110k on the clock. Shes on her 3rd trans since my family has owned her. (Replaced the original at 80k with a Jasper rebuild, something went wrong and Jasper paid for another one) The first owner before my parents had some hackjob wire in a DVD player in the glovebox and 4 headrest screens. Since I took ownership I have pulled out most of the ****** up wiring, taken the DVD player out (need to replace the inside of the glovebox where it was cut to fit the DVD player) and replaced it with a Pioneer AVH-3300BT. I had a Kicker L5 until I blew it so now im planning a new setup. Ive done the typical mods so far, black taillight covers, debadge, vent-shades, and some window stickers.
Ive spent a lot of time tracking down info for fixing a few issues she has (TPMS, MAF, and Autoride...) But there is a lot more in the works. I got some extra HID ballasts from my GTI left over all I need is some new 4500K bulbs and they'll go on. Im planning to have the tint redone soon t0o. Later this month ill be installing a Viper 5901 so expect a thread pertaining to that with pictures and such.
I look forward to lurking more in the future. Cheers
