Tonny's 2001 Tahoe build

[Rocket Man]

Looks like that driveway wasn’t built for a big ol American SUV! Looks good Tonny!

 

[Tonny]

Looks like that driveway wasn’t built for a big ol American SUV! Looks good Tonny!

Hahaha nope, and this is a house from the early 60s, and it's rental and I've waited 4,5 years to finally get a house. But what I really wanted was space next to my house for a car, so I'm so happy with my new home. (This is a 4 under one hood house we would say, and I've the corner). Secondly, the parking space will be made larger after this summer, taking 1/3 of the frontyard and let them put in pavers?! if that is the right word, so smaller stones which handle weight better. Thanks mate

 

[Tonny]

https://tflcar.com/2014/07/black-bear-performance-tune-review-2004-chevrolet-tahoe-z71-review/ really nice review about the BBP tune btw. This is the way I want to go also, tuning wise!

 

[Rocket Man]

Hahaha nope, and this is a house from the early 60s, and it's rental and I've waited 4,5 years to finally get a house. But what I really wanted was space next to my house for a car, so I'm so happy with my new home. (This is a 4 under one hood house we would say, and I've the corner). Secondly, the parking space will be made larger after this summer, taking 1/3 of the frontyard and let them put in pavers?! if that is the right word, so smaller stones which handle weight better. Thanks mate

We call that type of a building a fourplex here. Congratulations on finding a good home for yourself and the Hoe. I see most people there drive real small cars and park on the street huh?

 

[Tonny]

How is that fake chrome working? I've ordered a mini sandblaster for my compressor. Can I blast the chrome bumper and mirrors and then respray them?

 

[Rocket Man]

How is that fake chrome working? I've ordered a mini sandblaster for my compressor. Can I blast the chrome bumper and mirrors and then respray them?

Not the plastic pieces. The steel you could sandblast. I have had my plastic chromed grill sanded heavy, sprayed with adhesion promoter and painted. It takes a lot of time to sand something intricate like that. For your mirror caps, you can buy paintable ones- it’s not worth trying to paint the chromed plastic ones.

 

[Tonny]

We call that type of a building a fourplex here. Congratulations on finding a good home for yourself and the Hoe. I see most people there drive real small cars and park on the street huh?

Thanks man! Haha yes on the picture you see cars that a lot of people drive, or Aygo's, Citroen C1, VW Up. But it's not that I'm living in a rich neighborhood but so I kinda got the largest car in the Street apart from someone with a ugly Ford Transit 2H2L. But also got some fellow Americans riding in Lemmer (my city/village), Dodge Rams, few Silverados, some older Vans. But I'm the only one with a Hoe But the average size car is a lot smaller then America yes, I think a BMW 3 series for example is kinda average. Rich people drive Merc G500's, ML's, BMW X5 or 5 series GT etc....

Anyhow, our car sizes are a lot smaller, lots of *** German, French, and Japannees. Because we work with a tax system that let's you pay for the weight of the car. If I would drive my Chevy private as a SUV with all the chairs in it, I would pay €150,- for taxes only each month. Because mine is build my work car, I pay €50,- taxes per month. Compared to you guys still a lot. My cousin in America says he pays around 100 dollars a ''year'' for his 2008 Suburban.....

 

[Tonny]

Not the plastic pieces. The steel you could sandblast. I have had my plastic chromed grill sanded heavy, sprayed with adhesion promoter and painted. It takes a lot of time to sand something intricate like that. For your mirror caps, you can buy paintable ones- it’s not worth trying to paint the chromed plastic ones.

Cool thanks for the advice. Well sometimes my OCD has to go somewhere, so I will put such energie in things like that. I've a saying: If I do it, I do it good or I don't do it a all!

 

[Tonny]

Not the plastic pieces. The steel you could sandblast. I have had my plastic chromed grill sanded heavy, sprayed with adhesion promoter and painted. It takes a lot of time to sand something intricate like that. For your mirror caps, you can buy paintable ones- it’s not worth trying to paint the chromed plastic ones.

Just another thought on this. For me it is not possible to buy mirror caps in EU and from the US is to expensive, so then the same treatment as the front fake chrome grill on the mirror caps? And for the back, that looks more like real chrome ha? So I can sandblast the back piece?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Rocket Man]

Just another thought on this. For me it is not possible to buy mirror caps in EU and from the US is to expensive, so then the same treatment as the front fake chrome grill on the mirror caps? And for the back, that looks more like real chrome ha? So I can sandblast the back piece?

Thanks in advance.

Yes and yes. Have fun!