When I changed the oil a few days ago I noticed the sway bar links were broken. Borrowed the neighbors compressor and tools to install new ones. He was bored and wanted something to do so he decided to do change them himself. LOL He's a very cool neighbor. Took him about 20 minutes and then he was bored again. HAHAHA
Yesterday morning I noticed my oil change was coming up in less than 400 miles so I went ahead and changed it. Also dropped in a K&N air filter in this truck for the first time. Hear nothing but good things about K&N so I said what the hell.
Mines factory other than tinted windows and the tune. I have never been into heavily modding my vehicles, maybe one or two things at most. I once seriously thought about going crazy and having a good time but the wife likes it the way it is. The old saying... happy wife, happy life. LOL The only plan I have for my Silverado is buying a new CAI tube and a drop in filter, that's about it.
Got an excellent deal on a Diablo inTune i2 through Auto Anything this past Saturday for a total of $319.95, it was delivered today. Updated the tuner and installed the 87 octane tune, disabled AFM and added stiffer shifts. Truck performs so much better with the canned tune. Going to get a custom tune from Lew after I hit the 150+ mark.
After 1,990 miles since installing my Range AFM disabler I have not used any oil. Checked the oil yesterday morning before starting the truck and was pleasantly surprised that it showed full. I am using Mobil 1 Full Synthetic 5w-30. Before the Range I had to add about a 1/2 quart every 1000 to 1500 miles.
There's a GM dealer a couple miles south of the one I bought my truck from that's more than happy to take disgruntled customers away from that meathead dealership. Words from the mouth of a service advisor. LOL She said she worked with a couple of the advisors at a different place and didn't exactly praise their customer service ability. LMAO
You are one of the lucky few. I took mine in for it's first free oil change, and last. There were 3 people in the waiting room, an elderly couple and myself. Took them 2 hours to change my oil. Every fifteen minutes someone would say, ALMOST DONE! Noticing I was irritated they offered me 2 more free changes for the wait but told them to stick'em where the sun don't shine.
Having a disability that prevents my hands from working like they used to is why I did it this way, I don't know about other people. It was so much easier to have everything out in the open so I could see what I was doing and know what I was touching. I have lost feeling in my hands so doing stuff like shoving my hands in behind the lights and feeling what I'm doing doesn't work for me. Did I have to pay a stealership to change them for me, no. Did it take me 5 minutes , no. Took me about 20. Not too bad for someone that was told I'd lose the use of my hands a few years ago.
What happened to the good ol' days? LOL
Yesterday morning I woke up to the passenger low beam out. I replaced both low beams rather than waiting for the driver side to go out. Found a video from 1A Auto on how to replace the bulbs.
I went from this:
To this just to replace the bulbs.
Once I was able to get the clips to pop out it was a piece of cake to do. Took me a little longer than it should have though. I read that there are 4 clips holding the grill on the 2011 Silverado. I discovered this truck has 6. I could not figure out why the grill just didn't pop off like in the video. I literally smacked my head when I figured it out. LOL Once the new bulbs were in it took less than 10 minutes to put back together. Wasn't too bad.
Received and installed a Range AFM disabler this afternoon. Took the truck for a ride and with the DIC set to show V4/V8 mode it never went into V4 mode at all.
I know how they feel about tint up north. We're from a town about an hour south of Chicago. I've seen plenty of people on the side of the road cutting off their tint as a city, county or trooper watched. Down here in Florida they're pretty lenient. In the past couple days I've had 4 city cops and one trooper look my way at red lights and didn't even give me a second look. Definitely keeps the heat from the Florida sun at bay.