New Owner in Atlanta- 2000 Z71 (82 pic link)

[khigh]

I'm in Lilburn

 

[Pockets]

Welcome to the madness neighbor...

 

[Ben]

Oh man such a nice truck and youre going to throw linex on it?

 

[Sho'Tyme]

Welcome ...

 

[Y2KpewterZ]

You bought that Tahoe I posted a thread about lol.

 

[NathanJax]

You bought that Tahoe I posted a thread about lol.

 

[Y2KpewterZ]

It's already had consultations at the exhaust shop and stereo shop. But my mechanic is going to go through it stem to stern first, and there are probably some 75K scheduled maintenance things I can knock out.

Almost all of the ones I looked at I was going to do extensive customization on, but I'm not going to do too much to this one. The aforementioned stuff and then when I'm ready for new tires probably lift it super minor for something in the 33 range - maybe even just a leveling kit. It's also screaming at me to pull off the rocker panel trim and Line-X the rocker panels and flares, but it refuses to tell me if I should do the bumpers as well. On the thread linked above, it sounded like bumper paint can be problematic on these, so that could be preventative.

I'm surprised at what I can't find and I've been searching all over is a grill guard. I don't care for the wrap around original style with the brush guards over the lights. Just a vertical guard like you might see on a police vehicle. Bonus points if it has a winch mount. Anyone know where to turn up something like that?

Please dont line-x. Best way to preserve is a clear bra, on what im using; 3m Paint Defender.

 

[NathanJax]

Listen to these people... Please don't line-x

 

[khigh]

Wow - not a lot of Line-X love.

Are y'all more of a Rhino crowd?

I wasn't going to try to color match it if that's what you're thinking looks bad - just full on matte black.

 

[07Burb]

Just throwing bed liner on exterior body panels is a bad move and looks horrible in a relatively short period of time. Bed liner is for the inside of the bed of a pickup truck. Now as exterior body panel coverings IMO Looks god awful with a quickness.