I think I'll call her "Just Red" 1994 C1500 Silverado

[Caman96]

Way too common behavior for dealerships. I worked as a technician for GM dealers for 30 years, was always hearing stories of vehicles being sold without them having the titles from the PO yet. Leads to some very ugly situations.

Reminds of that scam the guy was pulling in the movie Fargo with car titles.

 

[Jimmy D]

There is no end to the horror stories regarding dealers.
Your trade in can dissapear while they have you in the sales office.
My Trans Am left the lot completely while I was test driving a new truck. I asked to get in my car for my personal belongings. They gave me a box with what was to be my things.

 

[someotherguy]

Some light duty stuff got handled today..

New taillights w/circuit boards to replace the crusty old ones. Discovered there's some issues back there even with new circuit boards; the pigtails are a little fidgety. May end up needing to replace them. Working for now -

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New park lights -

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And replaced the under dash courtesy bulbs -

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I'll do the headlights next but these really aren't that bad. They are indeed original lights but just have a slight haziness to them so they might polish up just fine. For now though I'm going to swap in some others and put these on the shelf for future restoration work; just too many irons in the fire at the moment to be sanding/polishing lamp housings.

Richard

 

[someotherguy]

Another day, some more truck work - all 3 got some love (the SS was left out!) so we'll start with Just Red:

New-ish headlights installed. These are actually the Eagle Eyes that were on Sierra Red that I had to hog the mounting bracket holes out just to get them to fit a little better. I thought, why not move the housings over to the GM brackets, and put the GM housings on the shelf for later restoration? As you can see they're really not that bad, but definite difference between the two.

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Installed and mostly adjusted...the adjusters on these Eagle Eyes aren't great.

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New Delphi IAC to replace the old one that was throwing a code and intermittently giving a high idle. I think from the appearance and part # AC1 it's a Standard brand. Did the reset and it seems to be behaving well.

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Took it on a 1hr round trip errand to go get the scale ticket so I can proceed with transferring the title. Just Red came in at 4640 lbs on the same scale that says Sierra Red is 4600.. maybe it was that full tank of gas.

Noticed the turn signals are still intermittently hyperflashing, which tells me the connection problems at the taillights are persistent. It's the connectors. Someone already tried replacing the driver side circuit board, and I just installed brand new taillights w/new circuit boards, and both sides are intermittent. DeOxit didn't fix them. I found if I pull on the wires, they start working. First time I've ever seen it be the connectors, and even more strange, both sides. So those get ordered next..

Richard

 

[someotherguy]

Got the new taillight socket pigtails in today, and started by replacing the driver side first as it's the one that was giving me trouble on the trip home from Mississippi. Staggered out the cuts so the crimp connectors would fit back in the flex loom, and used the nice ratcheting crimpers to really squish 'em tight.

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Hooked the taillight back up and it doesn't work. At all! WTF.. pop it back out and flex the connector around and it still intermittently starts working again! So I start trying with the other circuit boards, because clearly the brand new connector isn't the issue. So here's a 1 minute video with 3 circuit boards. Brand new TYC, old Motormite (Dorman) that was on the truck when I bough it, and a 31-year-old GM (from Sierra Red)

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So I said F it went ahead and put both old GM boards from the other truck into this one. How did TYC circuit boards become garbage? The previous set I bought are still working fine in Sierra Red..

Anyway so the left turn signal is still intermittent. I start poking around and remembered, oh yeah, it has a trailer harness T connector. Popped that out and one side of it has corrosion all over the pins (the side mating to the taillight harness.) Signal good at the harness end from the truck at the frame rail end. Shot some DeOxit in the taillight harness socket, and trashed the trailer harness T.

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Now the lights are working...or are they?

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Yep, except the left turn signal is still flaky! However, the 4-way flashers ARE working fine. So on that evidence, I went in and started cranking the steering wheel a little bit, and wouldn't you know it, the left turn signal would intermittently begin working correctly, then start hyperflashing again as the rear lamp would quit. F'ing turn signal switch is bad. For another day..

Richard

 

[Caman96]

Got the new taillight socket pigtails in today, and started by replacing the driver side first as it's the one that was giving me trouble on the trip home from Mississippi. Staggered out the cuts so the crimp connectors would fit back in the flex loom, and used the nice ratcheting crimpers to really squish 'em tight.

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Hooked the taillight back up and it doesn't work. At all! WTF.. pop it back out and flex the connector around and it still intermittently starts working again! So I start trying with the other circuit boards, because clearly the brand new connector isn't the issue. So here's a 1 minute video with 3 circuit boards. Brand new TYC, old Motormite (Dorman) that was on the truck when I bough it, and a 31-year-old GM (from Sierra Red)

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So I said F it went ahead and put both old GM boards from the other truck into this one. How did TYC circuit boards become garbage? The previous set I bought are still working fine in Sierra Red..

Anyway so the left turn signal is still intermittent. I start poking around and remembered, oh yeah, it has a trailer harness T connector. Popped that out and one side of it has corrosion all over the pins (the side mating to the taillight harness.) Signal good at the harness end from the truck at the frame rail end. Shot some DeOxit in the taillight harness socket, and trashed the trailer harness T.

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Now the lights are working...or are they?

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Yep, except the left turn signal is still flaky! However, the 4-way flashers ARE working fine. So on that evidence, I went in and started cranking the steering wheel a little bit, and wouldn't you know it, the left turn signal would intermittently begin working correctly, then start hyperflashing again as the rear lamp would quit. F'ing turn signal switch is bad. For another day..

Richard

No matter how hard you try sometimes, “thisguys”(Mayhem) always lurking.

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[someotherguy]

Here's some Mayhem.. decided to look into why the driver's seat back was floppy. Figured at minimum, a loose bolt. Yeah, kinda.. broken off in the seat base:

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Below flush with the edge (also I'm seeing what looks like a linkage loose from its catch, which might explain why the "easy entry" function doesn't work on the driver side - to be investigated further, later)

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Removed the seat back to make room to work, then removed the seat base from the floor so I could prop it up for better access.

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Turned some of the broken bolt into chips (then quickly cleaned 'em up)

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and used the nearly-magical 4-sided extractor to get the rest of it out.

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Now I just need to score an appropriate M8-1.25x60mm bolt to get it back together. As you might imagine, the rest of the bolts in these seats are way shorter, so I can't even steal one from the seat I just bought the other day for Critter.

Richard

 

[Jimmy D]

I think this is appropriate here.