The Moonshiner's Mischief, Madness & Mayhem

[The Moonshiner]

My truck is 2WD which didn't always worked out so well this last winter. I needed to find something four-wheel drive.
I finally found something I loved that was in my price range. My new to me 07 Trailblazer.....

 

[The Moonshiner]

Black on black and blacked out.
Leather and loaded. I'm still finding new stuff it has and trying to figure out how everything works.
5.3L so it runs. Turn off traction control and stabletrak and it's really fun.

 

[ShrekDawg]

My truck is 2WD which didn't always worked out so well this last winter. I needed to find something four-wheel drive.
I finally found something I loved that was in my price range. My new to me 07 Trailblazer.....
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Black on black and blacked out.
Leather and loaded. I'm still finding new stuff it has and trying to figure out how everything works.
5.3L so it runs. Turn off traction control and stabletrak and it's really fun.

Oh wow!!!!! That’s awesome!!!!!! It looks like it’s in great shape too!!!!!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ya it's pretty straight and clean for a 18 year old vehicle. Has a few issues I'm getting to.
But ya now that you showed the slightest interest I'm not gonna shut up about it.
Welcome to Moony's Trailblazer thread.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Ya it's pretty straight and clean for a 18 year old vehicle. Has a few issues I'm getting to.
But ya now that you showed the slightest interest I'm not gonna shut up about it.
Welcome to Moony's Trailblazer thread.

That’s awesome!!!!!! I’m curious the issues now. And the miles. Like was it used a lot? Doesn’t look like it lol and hahahaha that’s fine!!!!!!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Oh wow!!!!! That’s awesome!!!!!! It looks like it’s in great shape too!!!!!

It's got a dent in the hatch gate that I hate but gotta live with.....

It's all blacked out lights and no emblems except the front and rear bowtie. In pic you can see the rear one is chrome with a silver insert. I'm gonna black it out like the front one below.....

And put smoked lens on the foglights above. They stand out too much as is.

 

[The Moonshiner]

That’s awesome!!!!!! I’m curious the issues now. And the miles. Like was it used a lot? Doesn’t look like it lol and hahahaha that’s fine!!!!!!

First thing was that the fuel gauge doesn't work. That's not good but the issue is a connection that's inside the fuel tank. They say it's a common issue with these vehicles that the fuel level sensor fails at the connection. And that sensor is connected to the fuel pump so they say it's best just to replace the whole thing as a unit. That's a 150 bucks or more and involves dropping the gas tank to even get started on replacing it. I think that's something I'm going to have to live with for a while. Sounds too much like work. The bad thing about it is it's sets off the engine light so every now and again I have to use my scanner to make sure there's not another issue that's setting the light off.
It's got the tire sensor crap that tells you when you got a low tire. The light for that is also on and it gives me no readouts for pressure in any of the four tires. New sensors all the way around are about 60 bucks and then 25 per tire to put them in. I might mess with that at a later date when I have to get new tires and the ones it's on it our damn near new now.
When I got it inspected I had a backup light burnout and it has the side blinkers on the bottoms of the mirrors. Those are smoked lenses so you can barely see them when they were on. Neither of those issues affected passing inspection but I replaced both back up lights with some good LED lights. When I leave for work in the mornings and it's dark I back out of my driveway across the road into the neighbors driveway to pull out on the road. I like to see to make sure I'm hitting his driveway and not the ditch or something. Don't need another dent in the back of it. I swapped the blinker lights for LEDs so you can see them really good now. I think I'm going to swap the brake lights out to LED and eventually all the lights.
It has 205,000 miles so I don't know if that's good or bad. I heard it's a lot but then again I've heard it's not for a vehicle that old. My truck is only 2 years older and has 327,000 miles. It's still going strong so...

 

[The Moonshiner]

Someone I know just got a new vehicle and was all excited that the spare was a full size tire and not one of them donut tires. This thing has the spare up underneath in the back like a pickup truck so I decided to look under there fully expected a donut spare. Nope no donut, no spare at all. Just a rusted broken dangling piece of cable. So no spare tire and no winch assembly to hold it up there. That sucked. I eBay'd a used rim that matches the wheels it has. That's what I was waiting on yesterday to be delivered. I also ordered a new matching Tire but it probably won't be here for 3 days. I haven't decided if I want to buy a new winch assembly for $60 or not. I might just throw it in the back because I'm not a fan of the spare tires being underneath the vehicle like that. Our gravel roads and gravel dust builds up terribly on them.

 

[ShrekDawg]

It's got a dent in the hatch gate that I hate but gotta live with.....
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It's all blacked out lights and no emblems except the front and rear bowtie. In pic you can see the rear one is chrome with a silver insert. I'm gonna black it out like the front one below.....
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And put smoked lens on the foglights above. They stand out too much as is.

Oh wow

 

[ShrekDawg]

First thing was that the fuel gauge doesn't work. That's not good but the issue is a connection that's inside the fuel tank. They say it's a common issue with these vehicles that the fuel level sensor fails at the connection. And that sensor is connected to the fuel pump so they say it's best just to replace the whole thing as a unit. That's a 150 bucks or more and involves dropping the gas tank to even get started on replacing it. I think that's something I'm going to have to live with for a while. Sounds too much like work. The bad thing about it is it's sets off the engine light so every now and again I have to use my scanner to make sure there's not another issue that's setting the light off.
It's got the tire sensor crap that tells you when you got a low tire. The light for that is also on and it gives me no readouts for pressure in any of the four tires. New sensors all the way around are about 60 bucks and then 25 per tire to put them in. I might mess with that at a later date when I have to get new tires and the ones it's on it our damn near new now.
When I got it inspected I had a backup light burnout and it has the side blinkers on the bottoms of the mirrors. Those are smoked lenses so you can barely see them when they were on. Neither of those issues affected passing inspection but I replaced both back up lights with some good LED lights. When I leave for work in the mornings and it's dark I back out of my driveway across the road into the neighbors driveway to pull out on the road. I like to see to make sure I'm hitting his driveway and not the ditch or something. Don't need another dent in the back of it. I swapped the blinker lights for LEDs so you can see them really good now. I think I'm going to swap the brake lights out to LED and eventually all the lights.
It has 205,000 miles so I don't know if that's good or bad. I heard it's a lot but then again I've heard it's not for a vehicle that old. My truck is only 2 years older and has 327,000 miles. It's still going strong so...

Oh dang!!!!!! You weren’t kidding lol and that seems like kind of a lot but not too bad.