Stolen and Recovered 2012 Escalade Premium (re)build thread

[Pachanga02]

Great work on it, good to see it didn't make it to the scrapyard

 

[Jmccormick]

Hard to believe it had a clear title being a theft recovery. Looks good now.

It's very odd how that works, I have asked State police, Insurance companies, auction houses, no one ever gives me a straight answer. I have seen cars destroyed with clear titles, and cars with a cracked bumper cover and a headlight missing with salvage.

 

[Jmccormick]

Thanks for all the replies,

Last night I finished up the hatch, cleaned the rubber gasket on the applique and installed it onto the hatch. It damn near looks new and I am very pleased with the results.







After the hatch I went after the hood. After contemplating which route to go I talked to my pal at the body shop. The hood was pretty messed up from sitting outside daily.

He gave me a foam backed 3000 grit sanding disc for my DA and I went to town on it wet. After knocking it all down and making it uniform I went back to buffing.

Before:





After:

Turned out pretty mint, the only imperfections you see are minor stone chips that are amplified by the shop light.








The headlight harness didn't show up, but it should be here today along with the tails. Hoping to swap that out after work and attempted correcting the front and rear bumpers.


Thanks!





Also, if anyone is interested.

I will be putting the red esky tails for sale shortly, along with the HID front headlights and Harness. Eventually the front bumper too!

Could be a nice swap for the Yukon Tahoe guys, find some fenders and a hood and youre set!

 

[#1taho]

If that truck could talk. Nice plans for it. Subbed

 

[Tonyrodz]

WOW! Looks amazing .

 

[Jmccormick]

I am also looking for OEM Black door handles if anyone wants to trade for the chrome!

 

[yates ™]

Nice transformation but leave the escalade wheels vs. black tbss wheels, these look so much better.

 

[Jmccormick]

Nice transformation but leave the escalade wheels vs. black tbss wheels, these look so much better.

I wish I could agree,

These wheels are curbed and pitted.

I am going with the some what blacked out theme, not entirely but mostly.

 

[Jmccormick]

The correct tail lamps came today. Hit them with some polish really quick and installed them.


Much better, really updates the rear end of this truck and now matches the third brake light.





The front end harness also showed up. So I removed the bumper cover, swapped the harness out and installed my correct LED headlamps. Very excited about this. The light output is INSANE. Also the annoying message on the information display is no longer a problem!











I spent a lot of time on the stupid harness and polishing the front bumper cover.

I have a work conference the next few days, probably won't have time to finish the polishing on the passenger side of the truck which is all that is left cosmetically.

I'll post updates of the truck complete hopefully sunday.

Then it's onto the new magnetic front struts so it doesn't ride like a dump truck anymore!

 

[08grey]

Your truck was likely stolen to make somebodys 07 into a platnium. They likely swapped suspension also so make sure you order the struts by vin. If they recovered the vehicle mostly in tact the previos owner was likely paid out on a comprehensive vandalism claim hence the clean title. Do you mind discussing your buffing process? Truck looks amazing.