What did you do to your NBS GMT800 Tahoe/Yukon Today?

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HiHoeSilver

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So it's this what I'm looking at to replace it with? Pic one or two? 3b58d1ec4af2a96e6c4584920b7e4d89.jpg
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2004 Z71 Suburban Green I have a few upgrades done.

No, those are the fronts. Look for rear axle bumper.
 

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Finally had a chance to do a quick wash on the Yuk, after the salty nasty snow and slush. I'm pretty happy with this 15-year-old paint. She's purty! But I need to fix quite a few paint chips.. So I'm getting ready to order this dupli-color scratch fix touch up paint.. Never had good luck with these kind of repairs.. I know I'll need to fill the color, and somehow apply clear coat on top, and I will need to sand and buff, polish, wax, etc.. but I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'd rather improve it, than make it worse, so any pointers, or step by step would be very much appreciated!View attachment 215618 View attachment 215620

https://www.drcolorchip.com/

Saw this one day but it looks like work, many utube vids out there, ive watched a few but the one thing ive come across time and time again is to clean the chip well then get a small paint brush (think kids artist brush) or this thingCDCC974F-0E67-41FA-ACC6-A9ED20D41EE3.jpeg
 

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Let us know how the painted projector bowl turns out if its different in terms of light reflection or output compared to your current lights. I thought about painting the projector bowl but didnt. I used 600 grit as well and bulldog adhesion promoter.

Just painting the housings. Reflectors and reflector bowl will remain untouched.
 

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Stripped the chrome off my spare headlight.
Used Yellow Easy Off. What a mess. Ended up wet sanding with 600 grit using the easy off as a lubricant. Worked well but messy.

Good thing it's a spare cus I ****** the taping up for the high beam reflector lol

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Engine cover looks much better. If you decide to redo it just bring it inside. Just the one bolt and it comes off. Any mess ups I just went over with a sharpie.

As far as the lights I learned the hard way you can’t tape off the areas while using the oven cleaner. Tape will soak up the cleaner and bleed through. My next thought would be to plastidip the area you want to keep chrome then spray the oven cleaner then peel the dip. But after all that work you might as well just sand by hand and use adhesion promoter like mark said lol.

My .02 cents
 

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