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Old Sep 29, 2016 | 06:28 AM
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^so, it looks like you're going to looking for a used? bumper?? check ebay...
new bumpers are about $250 from the dealership but it needs to be painted...add another ~$250 for paint.

so, if you are looking for a used bumper, go to junk yards fool. you dont need a laptop to visit junk yards
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Old Sep 29, 2016 | 10:23 AM
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^so, it looks like you're going to looking for a used? bumper?? check ebay...
new bumpers are about $250 from the dealership but it needs to be painted...add another ~$250 for paint.

so, if you are looking for a used bumper, go to junk yards fool. you dont need a laptop to visit junk yards
Well I was looking for new since I won't have to pay anything from my pocket but I might just try looking for a used one. Thanks
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Old Oct 18, 2016 | 10:21 AM
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The hunt for a front bumper still continues.. I really want the one with the Acura lettering
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Old Oct 18, 2016 | 12:00 PM
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have you checked the dealer?
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Old Nov 1, 2016 | 10:57 PM
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have you checked the dealer?
i could've sworn I had replied to you that same day sorry but the dealer had quoted me $380 for just the primed bumper :/





BUT big shoutout to UA6andfriends for hooking me up with a bumper. $200 for new primed bumper now just have to find a good shop to paint it .

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Old Nov 2, 2016 | 06:58 AM
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Old Nov 2, 2016 | 11:59 AM
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whats that out in the garage? Denali on double deuces??
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Old Nov 2, 2016 | 01:40 PM
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Looks like an 01-06 Escalade on donk's!

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Old Nov 6, 2016 | 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Oh Sickest TL
whats that out in the garage? Denali on double deuces??
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Looks like an 01-06 Escalade on donk's!
Breezy got it right it's my dad's 2002 Escalade on 24's






Today the TL scared me. So as I was getting out of the freeway I came to a stop at a light. It started idling all weird and dropping down it's Rpm's.. it started shaking at the same time as well. It keeps doing this while idling but besides that it drives fine? No codes either

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Old Nov 18, 2016 | 06:29 PM
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Update: I guess she just wanted some rest cause I didn't touch her all of Sunday and Monday morning she drove perfectly fine. So thats that. And tomorrow my new bumper should be ready and installed oh, and one more thing....

FINALLY GOT THEM
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Old Nov 18, 2016 | 06:33 PM
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nice man. Escalade on donks
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Old Nov 28, 2016 | 02:18 AM
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i really need a proper camera but here's the newly painted bumper and aspec lips installed. They look so goooooood
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Old Nov 28, 2016 | 06:48 PM
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Soooo.....what's with the horns?????
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Old Nov 30, 2016 | 01:11 AM
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Soooo.....what's with the horns?????
lol well I put them on for the laughs at first but I ended up liking it and just leaving them on
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Old Dec 1, 2016 | 09:56 PM
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......so that means you still like them?????
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Old Dec 4, 2016 | 06:07 PM
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Well... yeah
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Old Dec 5, 2016 | 08:51 PM
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Tomato smash indeed......
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Old Jan 13, 2017 | 03:43 PM
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No new updates as of now but recently took some pictures and I just really like them I have more but these 3 will do lol
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Old Jan 14, 2017 | 03:21 AM
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Looks good, just lower it and you should change your grille back to stock or paint match it to your car so at least you can see the grille, with the black its kind of hard too.
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Old Jan 16, 2017 | 08:13 PM
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Nice!
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Old Jan 20, 2017 | 06:01 PM
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Take some polish to the bottom of your exhaust tips. Bar keepers friend or something similar.

I feel you on the accidents. My car gets hit by morons all the time here in LA traffic lol

I have my dashcam running all the time.

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Old Apr 27, 2017 | 08:29 PM
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Been a while but looks wise it's the same. I've had the glossy black roof vynil wrap sitting in the garage for about a month already but haven't had time to attempt to put it on. What I did do was straight pipe from the cat all the way back to the rear mufflers 2.5" and swapped out the oem mufflers to magnaflows And I must say it sounds pretty darn good
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Old May 8, 2017 | 02:49 PM
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Finally put it on! Let me know what you guys think
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Old May 8, 2017 | 07:47 PM
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Old Jun 22, 2017 | 02:40 AM
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Bad news, the other day as I was getting out of the freeway my pedal felt a little weird like if it was shaking and as soon as I hit the street when I tried to gain speed again I heard a loud noise coming from the engine and my engine light started flashing. So I looked it up And said it was an engine misfire. So I was speculating and hoping it was just 1 cylinder that had gave out but I read the codes today with an obd reader and it turns out it's cylinder 1 and 6 that are misfiring fucking sucks but oh well. Could it be just that spark plugs were bad or does driving it too hard have something to do with it too?
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Old Jun 22, 2017 | 02:07 PM
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You should be able to drive the car as hard as you want and it should work fine under those conditions. I would check/replace all spark plugs and torque them to spec.
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Old Jun 22, 2017 | 02:11 PM
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the car is telling you something is wrong and points you to multiple misfires. while, it got you close to the problem, you need to troubleshoot to determine what the actual problem is.

to troubleshoot a misfire, check spark plugs. make sure they all still look good. next, make sure you torque them down properly.
after you do this, run the OBDII scanner to check to see if this fixed it.
if not, you move on to the coils. with the car on, you disconnect the coil harness one by one. if the engine note changes, when one coil is unplugged, that is your bad coil

if you didnt find any bad plugs or bad coils, and car is still misfiring, you move on to a leak down and compression test
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Old Jun 22, 2017 | 02:18 PM
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Old Jun 27, 2017 | 10:25 PM
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Old Aug 15, 2017 | 08:29 PM
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So turns out 2 of my heads are toast. I have 2 options, should I fix the engine I have(don't know how much yet) or buy a used engine and swap it out(1.3k for the engine) I think he said it has 80-100k on it. Opinions are greatly appreciated since I have l mixed feelings about it.
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 11:17 AM
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I myself would probably replace the engine with the 80-100k mile one... Given it has less miles than yours, I'm assuming... Not that that means much on these... But keeping the engine original has its perks too... It all comes down to time and money...

I dont know really, whatever Justn says...
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 12:28 PM
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So turns out 2 of my heads are toast. I have 2 options, should I fix the engine I have(don't know how much yet) or buy a used engine and swap it out(1.3k for the engine) I think he said it has 80-100k on it. Opinions are greatly appreciated since I have l mixed feelings about it.
How many heads does your engine have?
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 12:47 PM
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How many heads does your engine have?
I don't know what he means by that either...
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 01:25 PM
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Probably meant both heads are shot. I have the heads off my 05 that had 195k on them and looking to sell them. Let me know if you would be interested.
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 07:28 PM
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Yeah sorry, I don't know the exact terms he told me or whatever but two cylinders or pistons idk. But yeah I wanted to keep my original engine too since it's only at like 134k. But he'd only charge me 500 for swapping out since I've went with him for my axles and timing belt/ water pump job.
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Old Aug 16, 2017 | 07:42 PM
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Sounds like it is time for a compression test; if you can, please post the numbers when you get them from your mechanic. You never know, you might get lucky and only need a single head.
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Old Aug 17, 2017 | 08:24 PM
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Horseshoez, if I can remember correctly one of them was running 80-90 and the other one was like stupid low. I think im going to pull the trigger on the other motor and see how it goes. He said it comes with a 6 month warranty so hopefully if it does show problems it'll show it in those 6 months.
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Old Mar 12, 2018 | 04:03 AM
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Looooooook what I goooooooot
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Old Mar 12, 2018 | 10:01 AM
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Im kind of curious why two pistons just go bad shortly after a timing belt job was performed. Might want a second opinion or a different shop.
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