We got a new ride
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:24 am
Well, my wife and I went shopping for a new vehicle earlier in the week. We have two kids and a great dane, and my pick up or her Jetta was just not big enough for the whole family. If we went anywhere with all of us, we had to take both vehicles. Anyhow, my wife picked up a pretty much full time child care job for weekdays, and that was that, we needed something bigger.
We shopped around all day, and ended up picking up a 2005 Yukon Denali. About 80K miles on it, in very good shape. Pretty much loaded to the nuts, heated seats, factory entertainment, in dash factory nav/touch screen. It drives very nice, and has nearly the same DT as my pickup, so it should handle pulling my trailer and buggy on vacations with no trouble.
I am probably not going to be doing any audio install in it-- there is just no extra room with the 3rd row of seats in it. I am looking for any info available on hacking the factory NAV system though. Evidently it can play DVD's on the front screen, as well as other video sources, but GMC locked it out. There is not a lot of info out there on how to unlock. If you know, fill me in!
The biggest downfall is that I have to get rid of my P/u. I just finished the dual stroker box for it and haven't even got it installed because my back is jacked up... I am driving the 1.8l turbo jetta now though, so I will start planning an install for that.
Later,
Jason
We shopped around all day, and ended up picking up a 2005 Yukon Denali. About 80K miles on it, in very good shape. Pretty much loaded to the nuts, heated seats, factory entertainment, in dash factory nav/touch screen. It drives very nice, and has nearly the same DT as my pickup, so it should handle pulling my trailer and buggy on vacations with no trouble.
I am probably not going to be doing any audio install in it-- there is just no extra room with the 3rd row of seats in it. I am looking for any info available on hacking the factory NAV system though. Evidently it can play DVD's on the front screen, as well as other video sources, but GMC locked it out. There is not a lot of info out there on how to unlock. If you know, fill me in!
The biggest downfall is that I have to get rid of my P/u. I just finished the dual stroker box for it and haven't even got it installed because my back is jacked up... I am driving the 1.8l turbo jetta now though, so I will start planning an install for that.
Later,
Jason