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

[05Yukon23]

Took all the plastic pieces that go on the front and rear bumpers and am currently giving them a fresh coat of black paint to match the painted lower valence I did awhile ago.

I'm doing the same but it started raining. Also I'm doing the plastic that goes in the wheel wells. I did one before the rain and it makes a HUGE difference from the faded black that was behind the wheels. You should consider it.

 

[MrBalll]

I'm doing the same but it started raining. Also I'm doing the plastic that goes in the wheel wells. I did one before the rain and it makes a HUGE difference from the faded black that was behind the wheels. You should consider it.

Hm. Good idea. Never even thought of that. I'm kind of in the same boat. Only thing is it is 50°F where I'm at so the paint will probably take forever to dry. Currently using a hair dryer off and on to try and heat the garage up a little. Sucks that you can't even paint though.

 

[05Yukon23]

Hm. Good idea. Never even thought of that. I'm kind of in the same boat. Only thing is it is 50°F where I'm at so the paint will probably take forever to dry. Currently using a hair dryer off and on to try and heat the garage up a little. Sucks that you can't even paint though.

Yeah, that cooler weather cause havoc when painting. The whole open garage doesn't keep very much moisture out so I'm not even going to attempt to paint til it blows over. Might be waiting a couple days for it to completely blow over according to the forecast.

 

[Rivieraracing]

Just modded the mirror turn signal mod that I did a month ago....... and now I love it!! Added another strip of LED's on top of the first one in the mirror housing, now it is way brighter and now I have the LED look on the bottom and the side of the housing that I was after in the first place!!

If anyone is wanting to do this mod to their mirrors and install their LED's the way I did, I would highly recommend using 2 LED strips per mirror housing, this way when the blinkers are on, you will see LED's on both sides due to the angle of how the mirrors sit on the truck in comparison to looking at them from the rear of the truck!! Hard to explain on here but take my word for it, it is a way more uniform look!!

Video will be taken here in a hour or so when it is fully dark here and I will post up both the before and after so you guys can get an idea of what exactly what I'm talking about!

 

[DenaliAK]

Just modded the mirror turn signal mod that I did a month ago....... and now I love it!! Added another strip of LED's on top of the first one in the mirror housing, now it is way brighter and now I have the LED look on the bottom and the side of the housing that I was after in the first place!!

If anyone is wanting to do this mod to their mirrors and install their LED's the way I did, I would highly recommend using 2 LED strips per mirror housing, this way when the blinkers are on, you will see LED's on both sides due to the angle of how the mirrors sit on the truck in comparison to looking at them from the rear of the truck!! Hard to explain on here but take my word for it, it is a way more uniform look!!

Video will be taken here in a hour or so when it is fully dark here and I will post up both the before and after so you guys can get an idea of what exactly what I'm talking about!

Waiting for video.

I can't visualize what you're talking about or why you'd add lights when they are already there....obviously missing something, here....lol.

 

[screamin86]

picked up a set of factory running boards and hitch for my yukon.

 

[Rivieraracing]

Waiting for video.

I can't visualize what you're talking about or why you'd add lights when they are already there....obviously missing something, here....lol.

Yeah, it's hard to explain over the computer!! Basically, if you stand behind your truck and look at your side mirrors, you will notice that the mirror housing isn't exactly angled at a 90 angle compared to the truck, so since I mounted the LED strips directly on the interior of the housing but in from the edge of the housing at about an inch in, the side portion of the LED's in the housing actually aims at the rear door! By putting that extra strip of LED on top of the other, you can actually see individual LED's now on the side and bottom! Basically, you now see the second layer of LED's on the side of the mirror, while seeing the first layer of LED's on the bottom, because of the angle of the mirror housing from the rear of the truck!
So hard to explain what I mean but hope that kinda helps out! But trust me, after taking my videos tonight of how everything looks, I do highly recommend 2 strips per housing! No overkill at all and very uniform, bright but not obnoxious!!

---------- Post added at 06:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:31 PM ----------

Gotta apoligize once again for the crappy video, my camera just doesn't like taking night pics of flashing lights!! lol

Video of the lights with only a single strip of LED's in each mirror:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHt5HKQH-rQ

Video of the lights with 2 LED's in each mirror:
http://youtu.be/xs4bMv3cKtU

Video of the mirror lights from inside of the truck:
http://youtu.be/MnoH2a_B3yw

Notice how the side of the mirrors is a bit more faint than the bottom on the first video but looks even with the bottom LED's in the second video? In the second video, you are seeing the bottom layer of led's on the bottom of the mirror while the sides of the mirror you are seeing the second layer of LED's because they sit out from first layer, giving you that uniform LED look on both sides from the rear of the truck!!

 

[Tahoewhat]

uh... wow, you completly lost me in your description. But after looking at vids, looks to be more red on the door itself and more uniformed of the red. Looks pretty good and bright. How is it during the day? Pretty bright as well?

and i laugh when i read your description about the videos. ha ha ha. I can see you try to tell someone that. lmao.... b/c it lost the mess out of me.

Either way... looks good fool.

 

[DenaliAK]

I gotcha now. Looks awesome.

Do you not have the built-in lights in the mirror? Maybe that's why I was confused. In my mirrors, there is an arrow-shapped led turn signal built into the mirror itself. I thought that's what you were trying to modify. You're actually lighting up the entire housing, which is pretty slick...

 

[chauncey0337]

Waiting for video.

I can't visualize what you're talking about or why you'd add lights when they are already there....obviously missing something, here....lol.

I was thinking the same thing but after watching the video and reading the explanation, I now see the light. Very cool, I gotta do this mod soon.