Upgraded from a 2008 Denali to a 2009 Eski

[petethepug]

Navi unit arrived at the tech to add the VIN. There’s an issue with the DVD / CD load mech pushing the disc out at a snail’s speed. It’s going to be a while longer.



Found a cool, old skool device to run an optical cable from the output of the A2DP music streaming device. It allows the pure digital signal of the BT optical cable to connect directly into the rear mini USB port at the back of the unit. This device will clean up the signal even more before it hits the head unit.




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[petethepug]

Sold the 08 Yukon XL AWD yesterday for $11,500. It had just clicked over to 140k miles. Got to hand it to a new online car sales site called TRED. It brought in a buyer from out of state and took care of all the registration Ppwk online.

Yea, that’s important since almost 75% of our DMV are closed in CA. They also allowed the buyer to pay off her debit card. I never had to do anything except deliver the keys after the test drive.

The new buyer was stoked. 100% of the maint was complete and everything worked. This truck had over $10k in service contract fixes and another $3k outta my pocket. 2008, good year for Yukon




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[petethepug]

A semi kicked up what looked like winch bars and a tarp in a fwy construction zone two weeks ago on the way to work. Supposed to get the Esky back tomorrow.

I shat my pants a little and made it to the side of the road to pull the tarp off. In the morning I could see I was shush kabob’d in the bumper, grill and both mirrors were slapped while doing almost 70.

I looked at replacing the mirrors myself and the oem version with blind zone retails for 5 bills each without paint. Forget that, I made a claim on our Ins for this one since we’ll have the truck for another 3-5 years. It’s 150% necessary to have mirrors that dip when backing up, especially in the ESV to see the blind spots.

If I was driving in our Audi or VW, one of those bars would of likely gone through the windshield and the tarp would have covered the glass. Things just slowed down at work and I can catch up on the other stuff I left incomplete since I brought this truck home.


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[petethepug]

Saturday Morning, storm blew out all the smog and made for an amazing day in Dana Point. Laughed my ass off on the way to the harbor. Within 45-60 days they skinned a Jack in the Box on PCH and turned it into a Starbuck's drive thru with no indoor seating. Somebody retired on making that real estate deal with Farbuck's corporate. Insurance replaced almost all of the front facia excluding the lights. I remembered to tell the shop, DO NOT drill the front bumper for the license plate mount. The amount of chrome is laughable.



I ordered a replacement 22" factory replica for the one rim that's constantly leaking due to the chrome clad delam on the rim bead surface. $349 shipped on eBay from eBay seller "direct". After inspecting it I could see some blems under the clading around the exterior edge of the rim. I emailed and suggested a $75 reduction and they offered $50 and paid $300 net. Done.

Now I see that eBay seller "thewheelship" sells the identical rims for $286 . Gotta wake up on interweb shopping from now on. I see that the Platinum center caps are $18.49 shipped on amazon w/ 48 hour shipping. The same rims are $269 shipped from Amazon seller "Partsynergy" in 5-7 days. Oh well, hope this info helps someone else with leaky 22" early Platinum rims.



Next week I'll have the rim mounted. I did notice that the rim rolled all by itself when I had it on the wood floor. It may be a low spot on the floor, hopefully not an off balance rim. I'm going to have the shop spin the rim prior to installing it to CYA if it's a bad rim. Glad I saved the box.

The factory mirrors that insurance paid for ... There's silence when the mirrors fold back. Even the OEM replacement mirror on the 08 Yukon made a little noise when folding.

 

[petethepug]

Yikes! Just got the notice of CA vehicle registration on the Denali we sold. Fortunately I dropped off the signed xfer to AAA. The clerk though it unusual I asked for a time stamped receipt when I turned it in to them. Can’t wait to bring the ppwk back w/ the registration to AAA and see how they justify it’s my fault lol.


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[petethepug]

I seem to have located the source of the leak on the drivers front 22”. Hopefully the recycling center will hook me up with this 50lb hunk of aluminum. I [emoji3590] GM chrome cladding!




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[adventurenali92]

Ouch sorry to hear about your front end! At least nobody got hurt!! And thankfully insurance covered it for you right?!?! Looks like the shop did a nice job fixing it up!! Funny I had no idea you’re in Dana point! Love getting down there! Got a friend with a nice boat that Dana point is home! Haven’t been in a while! Forgot you were also a SoCal member! Cheers to the crazy winter storms we are seeing right now! Lol

 

[petethepug]

Thanks, congrats on the new snow & powder. Hope it keeps up to make the limitations more bearable this year. It’s bizarre to see sold out, no access w/o a entry pass at the resorts.

In regards to my past post .. For those who sell their vehicles and find out the vehicle is still your name, AAA will gladly pass on the accountability of failed xfer of ownership ppwk to the DMV.

The only way to make sure your liability is xfer’d from a sold vehicle is to physically verify it, in person at the DMV or AAA. Verified, stamped xfer Ppwk means nothing if DMV or AAA fails to process it. In this case the owner of my 08 Denali has been driving around in my old truck in Nevada, with my old CA plates registered in my name. NOT COOL!


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[kchamber]

great thread! thanks!

 

[adventurenali92]

Thanks, congrats on the new snow & powder. Hope it keeps up to make the limitations more bearable this year. It’s bizarre to see sold out, no access w/o a entry pass at the resorts.

In regards to my past post .. For those who sell their vehicles and find out the vehicle is still your name, AAA will gladly pass on the accountability of failed xfer of ownership ppwk to the DMV.

The only way to make sure your liability is xfer’d from a sold vehicle is to physically verify it, in person at the DMV or AAA. Verified, stamped xfer Ppwk means nothing if DMV or AAA fails to process it. In this case the owner of my 08 Denali has been driving around in my old truck in Nevada, with my old CA plates registered in my name. NOT COOL!


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Back in the days when Dick Kune owned the resorts we limited ticket sales to keep the busy days more manageable. But when mammoth bought us out that all changed. They wanted us to just sell sell sell no matter what. So it’s nice to get back to somewhat limiting ticket sales and managing busier days. But with all the new snow, next weekend and Presidents’ Day weekend are gonna be absolutely insane.


I had the same thing happen when I sold my 2001 Durango in 2015 right before I bought my NBS. DMV sent the registration renewal to me because the buyer never put the Durango in her name. I did all the transfer of ownership paperwork correctly and had AAA verify it. I had receipts just like you did and copies of everything. Had to drive down the mountain to DMV to show everything to them that I did it correctly and hen they were like “oh...... you sold it, then you’re not responsible for registration.....” I’m like DUH!!!!!! Lol