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I was a used car dealer focusing on older Chevy pickup trucks and Tahoes. I closed my dealership during COVID but kept a 2012 Tahoe. I knew the dash would eventually crack in the Arizona heat. As a dealer, I replaced many GM cracked dashboards with new ones. My wholesale cost was $350 from the dealer and about $300 for the labor. Today's prices would be north of $1,100 for the job. It took a full day of labor. The dash probably had 4 years or 36,000 miles before the cheap GM plastic would crack again. I want to follow your video instructions for my Tahoe because it should last longer than a new one. Now I'm retired, this Tahoe might be my last car. But I'm not mechanically as skilled as you are. So I don't know what I'll do. What was the name of the welder tool you used?
Liqui Moly Diesel Purge makes wonders. I use 2 bottles of it every 20k KM. I record the engine sound before and after and huge difference every time. Also the performance on low revs improves a ton.
This idea is workable, but probably will not cool the whole van. It should cool you down if you point it directly at yourself or if you make a "blanket-fort" on your bed and aim it into that small space as you sleep. (Small space is easier to cool) First, get a tube-shaped transmission radiator from Amazon, along with a small submersible pump, tubing, and a small USB fan. Radiator costs $30.00. Fan runs under $20.00. Drill a hole into the cooler large enough for the tubing to carry water out of and back into the cooler, as well as the power cord from the pump. Connect tubing to the radiator. Make a tunnel from Reflectix or cardboard large enough to surround the radiator. Cold water from cooler should pump from the cooler, to the radiator, and back into the cooler. Place the USB fan at one end of the tunnel you made so the wind flows over the radiator before coming out the other end and onto you or into your blanket fort. Instead of using ice to cool the water, I'd try those blue plastic blocks that freeze solid in a freezer. If using 5 of them at a time inside the cooler, I'd recommend getting 10 or even 15 of them so the next set of 5 is frozen in the freezer, ready to replace the ones in the cooler when they no longer cool the water. (Switch warmed ones for freshly frozen ones to keep the water in the cooler cold.) Use power stations to power a 12V freezer, the pump, and the fan. Add solar to charge the power stations if no plug and extension cord are available. So, that's how I think it should be done. Good luck.
The reason the leather is in such good condition is because it's not actual leather, but rather MBtex. It's a type of vinyl developed by Mercedes and extremely resistant to wear. Very popular in German W124 Taxis.
I have a 2003 DODGE CARAVAN SE V6 3.3L The minivan is giving me a P0300 code. I turned on the engine and left it idling. Connected a test light to a ground and connected a vacuum gauge to a vacuum port on the upper intake manifold. I did a cylinder drop test using the test light while removing one wire at a time from the coil pack and observing the vacuum gauge needle for movement. As i was removing one wire at a time from the coil pack using the test light the vacuum gauge needle was not moving so i can know which exact cylinder is misfiring. Do you happen to know why the vacuum gauge needle was not moving? I uploaded videos on my channel so you can see the tests i did can you check them out, please?
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When I am watching your video, it remind my Camry sxv20. Currently on maintenance. I bought my Camry last month, she is driven over 360000km, still beautiful car and clean. But I know many things to be fixed. Currently I am fixing her almost all, except Engine, Transmission, power steering and radiator. But , she deserve it.
Great video. Thanks for showing as much of the journey as you could. I want to say I saw this car on marketplace in Austin. Why didn’t you want to use the car for years after doing all of that work?
600psi is waay to much. I bet the new engine compression is around 450psi max. You have put too much oil in the cylinder, and the fluid is not compressible, falsifying the reading
U.S. vehicles use the cheapest plastic possible. I still love my Suburban, Blazer and Firebird, however, their plastics are SH*T.😮💨 Yet my 20+ year old Japanese cars all have their plastics intact.
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Hello there, first of all thanks for the tip using Acetone and transmission oil 🛢. This week a did a compression test. The best cylinder 22 bar, and the worst 14 bar 😮. Ad the moment a can't do a second compression test. Injectors are out for a rebuild. 1 thing a noticed, cilinder 1 (the lowest in compression) I poured a lot of fluid in. And after al long time of pouring fluid in. It looks like cylinder 1 is holding longer fluid they from the beginning. There is maybe hope for mij om617 turbo
Does anyone know if this works on GMT400 dashes 95-99? I don’t see why it wouldn’t work, but I can’t find any videos of this being done to those trucks.
I have been looking at a 2000 Chevy Astro van cargo van with the barn doors on the back and all that relatively rust-free, temporarily the AC needs to be bypassed cuz the clutch is bad so that creates issues the band does have over 200,000 MI needs a few basic things and a tune-up but the guy wants $3,000 for it, a dashboard in all gauges are actually in pretty good shape for being a cargo van, but I've been reserved about this van because I have never owned a Chevy Astro van
Those drains that have. Lip are not good a flat one is best. If you are doing this and still cant get it to drain completely, get a turkey baster... It can pull the small amounts of liquid and u can put it in the drain...
Good job and a nice car, i guess very unusual in the US? Another thing, are you sure the seats are leather, mercedes had something called mb-tex, looks more like that to be honest?
The wheels are NOT bare aluminum! They are painted in a specific silver paint that is used for wheels by most brands. You can get a can of it from Wurth "Silver Wheel Paint". And the reason for the "brake dust" gathering around the center cap, is because its NOT actually brake dust at all! Its actually wheel bearing grease leaking out from the wheel bearing. Which happens to be right behind the center cap.
