Fosscore's 2013 Suburban LTZ Build Thread

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Just a baby!

 

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Got a chance to do some detailing after the morning yard work.

Engine bay, seats wiped and treated, carpet vacuumed, floor mats cleaned, wiped the paint down with some Collintes Mr. Collin’s 820 Auto Detailer.

Thankfully I left AZ.
6” of snow at my mum’s house. Much nicer here. Rain coming this week but hey 1 day with a clean ride always get comments from our neighbors. I’ll take it.

Just a few pics. And a story about the Buick and my daughter….will have to circle back for that one next post lol.

 

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So I got up early to wash the Buick in the dark before the school/work run and I see these scratches that were not there before I was away for work. With the wife and both kids driving the Buick, it is hard to keep track of who is/has/will do what/when to the zippy ride. Well the next day, in the afternoon with the setting sun shining on the paint, I see a few more scuffs starting on that passenger side on the lower front fender and the lower gloss black passenger rocker and lower rear rocker too to go along with the scratch and dent on/just behind the gas cap. Hmm...looks like a bit more of a hit than what she let on once she decided to tell me.

So I enquire and the story finally develops from my daughter and a picture is produced with a mailbox from her friend's house that she backed out of their driveway and not only knocked it over, but dragged it out of the ground. She keeps telling me the story and me not getting mad but I said, "What the f?"?



She proceeded to tell me that she was mortified about knocking over their mailbox and wanted to make sure it was ok. Her friend's dad had already put it back in place and said no worries. Notice the direction of care? The fkn mailbox, but not the fact that she raked some scratches and a dent down the side of my other vehicle! lol I did not rip her a new one, but kind of laughed and said a few choice words and advised that I should have been #1, not the mailbox.

Anyways, up early today, even with the time change and I was just going to polish out the marks, which turned into a full cut, polish and window treatment, vacuum and leather wipe down. (They just cannot help themselves in leaving the Buick a mess when I am not around and they have zero interest in making the effort either....ugghhh...thankfully I enjoy it, but sheesh at least take your trash and shake the sand outta the floor mats puuullease!!).

 

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Well my work turned out pretty good all things considered. The gas cap scratch has cut into the paint, so that is not coming out for now or the dent . There is a dent match on the driver's rear door too from the point of someone else's door that they just flat out hammered it into the Buick. Could have been at school...who knows? Bummer, 2 dings that went into the paint and the lower rocker scuffs would need a wetsand to make them completely clean, buuuut to the average eye, it looks pretty sweet being so low and dark, even in the gloss paint. So now I've got it polished and looking pretty darn good. Time for an oil change and I see the tires on this one are getting down to the wear indicator.

 

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Wife saw me videoing her as she headed off for some errands....so she sort of romped on it a bit.