Brother's early Christmas
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opie2
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I love me a cat eye silverado...ive had to replace my headlight assemblys twice over the years. Those look new or did you sand and buff?
Im a person who has been trained from working construction to always back in when parking. But at home i have since had started to switch back and forth from backing in to pulling in so the sun is not always hammering them at the same sun ray strength
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Im a person who has been trained from working construction to always back in when parking. But at home i have since had started to switch back and forth from backing in to pulling in so the sun is not always hammering them at the same sun ray strength
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bill walsh
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Don great gift for your brother what a difference wow
Flash Gordon
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Very nice. Even makes the paint look better
Don M
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They are brand new. While I do know the steps and process of restoring lights, I've never actually restored any myself, so I didn't want to experiment on my brother's truck. If it had been MY car, it might have been different. When I got the itemized list of parts & labor, I saw the shop had spent the extra money and had ordered the actual GM Original Equipment lights, not generic ones. So I know the quality is there.
I wouldn't go quite that far :laughing: But it DOES make a huge difference in the appearance of the truck. Now all I have to do is convince him to get his hood & roof STRIPPED and repainted. He bought it used from the south and it had a really POOR repaint on those areas - MASSIVE clear coat failure and peeling. If (not likely) I could get him to do that, then the truck would look awesome and I would be able to give the whole truck a good cut, buff and wax. But with the condition of the hood/roof, If I were to compound and finish the sides of the truck, it would just make the other areas look worse.
Don M
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The whole operation was a success. I was able to get his truck for the day by telling him the truth - I needed it to go Christmas shopping and what I was buying wouldn't fit in my wife's Escape (the ABSOLUTE truth, without telling him ANYTHING :laughing: )
I dropped the truck off at 9 am and it was done before noon - even with the owner taking before, 1/2 finished and finished pictures and sending them to me.
Figuring there was no way he could fail to notice, I wrote a short (for me, one and a half page) "apology" note explaining everything, the how's and WHY'S and left it under his keys when I dropped the truck off (fortunately he was still at work, and I escaped cleanly).
I didn't figure on how dark it would be when he got home, so he actually DIDN'T notice the new lights, but he DID notice my note. Around 5:30 last night I get a phone call from my brother, thanking me for the lights ... and he actually sounded HAPPY about it. He said he had read my note, then went outside to check them out. He said he was amazed at how BRIGHT the new lights were compared to the old ones. *I* knew how bad they were, but not being a car person, HE didn't realize that he had been, in effect, driving blind in the dark. We talked briefly, and I told him Merry Christmas and we hung up.
I have to say I'm pretty pleased with myself, being able to give my brother a gift he needed AND appreciated, after so many years of getting him socks, or a Star Wars / Star Trek 'gag' gift for Christmas.
I dropped the truck off at 9 am and it was done before noon - even with the owner taking before, 1/2 finished and finished pictures and sending them to me.
Figuring there was no way he could fail to notice, I wrote a short (for me, one and a half page) "apology" note explaining everything, the how's and WHY'S and left it under his keys when I dropped the truck off (fortunately he was still at work, and I escaped cleanly).
I didn't figure on how dark it would be when he got home, so he actually DIDN'T notice the new lights, but he DID notice my note. Around 5:30 last night I get a phone call from my brother, thanking me for the lights ... and he actually sounded HAPPY about it. He said he had read my note, then went outside to check them out. He said he was amazed at how BRIGHT the new lights were compared to the old ones. *I* knew how bad they were, but not being a car person, HE didn't realize that he had been, in effect, driving blind in the dark. We talked briefly, and I told him Merry Christmas and we hung up.
I have to say I'm pretty pleased with myself, being able to give my brother a gift he needed AND appreciated, after so many years of getting him socks, or a Star Wars / Star Trek 'gag' gift for Christmas.
