George’s Car Blog

Yesterday I took the Suburban to the service and we re-tightened the windscreen moonvisor with new bolts. I spent a whole day taking out the old half-bad LEDs which the first local owner of this car built into the visor and then fitting in the Lund lights kit. I’m very happy with the final result and it looks like new. The lamps are burning very nicely and they are normal wedge bulbs that can be easily replaced.

Here are some photos:

After fixing the moonvisor, I went to the car electrician to weather-seal the wire connections of the visor lights and there we ended up fixing most of the things wrong with the car :) Firstly, he re-wired the CB radio to take power directly from the battery instead of the cigarette lighter socket. Ofcourse he added a circuit breaker, too. Now I have a constantly ready radio transceiver that I can turn on from the switch just like the car stereo. Then there was a problem with the temperature sensor plug under the hood which connects to the thermostat housing. We cleaned and “refurbished” it and it’s now rather perfect. It used to have bad connection and sometimes gave me rough idle when engine was cold and also the Check Engine light came on. One of my Hella high-beams wasn’t working and I couldn’t find the problem myself. There was a bad negative connection and we got it solved. Now it all works nicely and it’s AMAZING what kind of light all the four lamps together are able to produce.

Finally we went to the issue I had with the windscreen wipers – they made very annoying squeeking noise whenever turned on and before I thought that perhaps the new wipers are somehow screeching against the windscreen. However, it still turned out to be the moving mechanism located under the plastic grille in front of the window. It needed some grease and it’s now totally quiet. As we already had the wiper hands taken off, we also re-painted those in black since one of them had paint partly worn out.

Currently most of the things on the Suburban are fixed and I’m enjoying the truck more and more every day. For a car-guy like me it’s the perfect daily driver.