Hey guys welcome back to legit street cars, and i just want to start this video off by saying that no one was hurt in this accident. So, as you're gon na see my 2015 escalade was destroyed in a car accident and myself, my entire family, the other driver, we all walked away at the amazement of the first responders. So i've learned a lot from this whole accident and one of the most important things i learned is to give your loved ones a hug every single day, because this could have been really bad and we got really lucky with that. Out of the way here is our beloved escalade, not even two years ago after i finished all of the repairs, we really wanted to keep this thing forever and it was a great family hauler, but unfortunately this happened.

The truck was hit on the driver's side by a car that was going about 60 miles per hour. My wife, three kids in another family, were in the truck and all the airbags went off now. I'm not gon na show you the other guy's car or really talk about the other driver at all. Just out of respect for him, i don't know him, but i'm sure he's a good person and thankfully he walked away from all of this as well, and his car was very mangled.

So obviously our truck was totaled, his car was totaled and it took me a solid four months to find another escalade, because i was looking for a very particular spec. I really wanted to duplicate the exact granite gray metallic color that we had before, or a diamond white escalade with black interior. All the white ones have tan interior, so it took me a while to find our new truck and from now on, this is a happy video, no more sad video, because in a few minutes we are leaving to go pick up my new truck. Well, it's going to be happy, except all the way at the end of this video i'll show you guys the picture of my gray escalade four years before i even bought it.

So after i came out with those videos a couple years back, the original owner of the truck found the videos and reached out to me to let me know that he was in a major accident with that truck. I knew there was a ding on the carfax, but they don't tell you much and it was clean title and it's kind of weird, but his entire family was in the truck. They were stopped at a light and a car hit him going probably 50 miles an hour. He said - and it was pretty bad i'll - show you pictures of that later, but his entire family walked away so that great escalade has now saved two families, which is why we're buying another one, all right, guys we're done with the sad stuff.

We have to go pick up the new escalade in a few minutes. This thing is so sweet. I can't wait to show it to you, but first do you guys see this escalade right here? Obviously, it's been a little bit of an accident, but when i was searching, i wanted to buy one just like the gray one, so either one that had some minor damage that i could fix up or one that was in an accident before retained a clean title And was repaired properly, which is exactly what the gray one was, so this is autoauctions.io. This is my secret weapon in buying cars from the auction or even private party and dealer cars as well.

But what this does is it combines all the search results from some of the bigger car auctions and it puts it all in one place, but this is the truck i wanted to show you. It doesn't look too bad. Someone that isn't experienced might buy this site on scene thinking. It just needs a bumper headlights and fender, but because we have auto auctions, dot io, we can see the previous auction history.

So let's see what this looked like a year ago. Oh, it doesn't look too bad, except the rear end is completely destroyed. Let's see what it looked like at the auction. Only two months ago, oh a really major front-end hit so totaled twice in about a year now we can see that they bought it.

For fifteen thousand dollars, literally bent the fenders and hood back into shape, sort of and slap the bumper on to hide all the horrible frame damage and on auto auctions, dot io, you can search for comparables. So if you're searching for an auction car to buy, you can see how much they're selling for right now, because we know how much market conditions change and the best part is. These reports are dirt cheap, literal, pennies, so i'm gon na drop. You guys a link down below it's going to get you a discount off the reports.

It's also going to give you 50 free reports. So i think a report is like i don't know - 15 cents we're leaving here in a minute to go, get my new escalade. But i got to show you another one, because this works great on dealership cars, private party cars, cars that you think are normal all right. So here it is.

This car is on ebay, it's at a dealership and it looks absolutely perfect. But here it is just a couple of months ago it sold for fourteen thousand dollars. It was a water flood car with a salvage title, didn't run and drive. Didn't start didn't, have any keys.

Look at this interior. This thing was trashed no mention of this. In the ad and they're asking 33 000, so if you didn't have auto auctions, dot io, if you didn't pay like 15 cents for this report, you wouldn't know this, and with that let's go buy my new escalade all right guys. I have officially bought this car from a dealer.

I normally buy cars with a story from an auction or abandoned, or something like that, but this is kind of just a normal car purchase. This is what i needed. I've been searching for an escalade for like four months, but i'm really particular on cars, especially when it's for my family and i don't really have a lot of time to work on it so uh. This is from florida.

Just like my last escalade, i crawled underneath there in the snow when i looked at this a few days ago and it's spotless but we're gon na check it out at the shop. So i can show you guys what's going on underneath and you know i'm undercoating it before any of the chicago salt starts eating away, but anyway this is a 2015 81 000 miles. My last one was a 15 premium with 80 000 miles um. But this is the platinum and it's diamond white on black, a very rare speck and uh.

I think it's beautiful. So most of the platinum upgrades are in the interior. It's got a different grille and different wheels, and this one has new tires as well, but the interior is so nice on these. You get the darker wood grain and you get suede everywhere, including the entire headliner.

So the other one had a lighter cloth material headliner and this one also gets the massaging seats. So heated and cooled massaging seats, heated steering wheel, all the leather in the platinum is real leather, so the luxury and the premium models use vinyl for the seats, and this is real leather. Now the platinum also gets cooled cup holders and a refrigerator. This is pretty wild, but you can fit six 20-ounce drinks in here and it'll get all the way down to 40 degrees.

If you go on a road trip with the family, this is actually quite usable and you can just turn it off and then it's just an empty bucket. You can put whatever you want in there and this truck is absolutely spotless, so these things normally bubble up right here. You get cracks in the wood grain over time, but this is absolutely perfect. Super clean - you even have suede over here as well, and i test drove this thing a couple of days ago and it checked out fire it up.

81. 000 miles. You also get the running boards that go right up into the body of the truck, and this thing has four tvs. I don't know in what world you need for tvs, but in the world of platinum escalades, you do so.

You have two in the headrest. These are factory honestly, they look kind of after market. I always thought this was kind of weird that they did this, but these are factory and then just like my other escalade, you have a tv that flips out here and another one that flips out there. These are heated seats as well, and they are in excellent condition, 81 000 miles.

You would never be able to tell by sitting or by looking at this truck, it looks practically brand new believe it or not the p, platinum badge. That is an option on the platinum. You have to pay more. If you want that p, so some of the platinums don't have that, and then this person had bought the original escalade floor mats, which were probably really expensive, but look at how much room you get even with the third row in use.

This is why i've always loved the esv or the suburban or the denali xl you're, already gon na get horrible mileage, it's already a big truck, so you might as well just get the long one. I look this thing over with a fine-tooth comb and the one, and only blemish on this car is right here. Other than that the paint is perfect. I don't even think they're any dense.

It was dealer maintained since day one and i'm super excited to get it back to the shop and see what it looks like underneath. Oh and i was able to see on the carfax that they just added this pinstripe. It was done in florida at 80, 000 miles and uh. I think we're gon na.

Take it off all right. It's a couple of days later, and this escalade probably hates me already, because we are in snowy chicago we're not in florida anymore. So this car is full of snow. It's melting here at legit street quarters and it's nasty out this stuff gets everywhere and, of course, we use rock salt on the streets.

It's hard to tell because this truck is white. Another reason i wanted white, it hides everything, but there is salt all over this truck we've been driving it in this muck for probably about a hundred miles, and it's nasty just gets everywhere. The only good thing about this is how satisfying it is to blast off. Oh, no, you know how you don't notice every imperfection with a car until you wash it.

I just found this. How did i miss it? I'm gon na have to get the diamond white tri-coat touch-up paint and see if this kind of blends away, because i really don't feel like having to paint part of this quarter panel. I got ta say this is a lot of fun. You floridians don't get to do this, so don't be jealous.

Oh got ta clean! This got ta clean this before it sucks back up all right the trucks all rinsed off. I still have to dry it, but you guys have seen car wash videos before right now. We have something way more important than the exterior, and that is the undercarriage and the frame. So this truck has been in florida, its entire life.

When i inspected it a few days ago, it was spotless under here. Just you could eat off the frame and the floorboards and everything, and now we've driven it in the salt. So i have to blast all of this away with the pressure washer, because we're undercoating everything look at that floorboard. I already blasted that spot.

Look at the nut right there that holds in this heat shield, guys if you're from the south. You won't be able to appreciate this, but my midwest people anywhere, where it snows basically and they use salt that nut wouldn't exist. Okay, let's blast this frame. Look at look at the bolts, they're, so nice.

What is that a motorcraft oil filter blasphemy get out of here? We are definitely swapping that out and the oil can't have a ford part. On my chevy, i mean my cadillac look at this diff. I don't know what 577 means, but it wouldn't be there if the salt ate it away, it's black. It's not.

You know rust color, like i'm, used to look at those backing plates they're they're there they still exist. Let's keep it that way, all right guys! I'm done with the floors. They are looking amazing brand new, just like right out of the factory, but when we do the undercoating, these are actually going to turn amber because it's actually a waxy film that we're going to be spraying under here that you guys can all do at home too. It's really neat: it's only going to cost us about 40 bucks and it's literally going to preserve my escalade for the rest of time.

All right, i'm getting wet down here guys, but i got to get you the shot. It's very uncomfortable, it's very cold um, but i want to show you this and it's so satisfying. Let me tell you this might be a little uncomfortable, but i'm having a blast now i did buy the other escalade in the summertime, so i was able to undercoat that one uh without having to do this but uh. You know, timing is everything i guess, and this is when i found this i've been looking for four months for this truck all right.

I don't know why. I'm talking to you guys down here, i could say this uh, you know when i'm not getting water dripped on me from a brand new sweet transfer case. Oh man, this thing is nice, die all right, that'll wake you up in the morning! That's for sure, but i can tell you by taste: there's no more salt left underneath this escalade uh, so i think we're now ready to put it up on a rack and dry it, and i should probably change yep. I got water in my ear.

I hate that, oh there we go it's coming out now. That's all warm awesome. Alex is a happy camper. This looks so good.

I crawled underneath there to take a look at it right when it first arrived, because i had seen this truck about two hours after it rolled off of the truck from florida, and it looked perfect on my back. It looks so good right now. It's just like the other escalade, which was from florida, also look at this, and this isn't just for me pressure washing everything. This is how it looked just a few days ago before we got snow, but amazing, look at the hardware here, no rust on the threads.

No rust on the threads i got ta move. I got ta move people. This is just too nice too. Nice wow all right.

Well, anyway, if you're as impressed with the underbody of this escalade, as i am you're gon na, be even more impressed with this bad boy right here. The guys at chicago, auto pros gave it to me and it's a blow dryer for your car. But it's like a 2000 horsepower compound boosted, hair dryer. It's amazing check this out can't even hold on to it.

I wasn't planning on this video to have so much satisfying stuff, but uh yeah. Look at how clean and beautiful this frame is the only spots on the frame that you can see. A little surface rust like that, which is nothing, is right where people were jacking the truck up by so i did it a little bit further back. So did some other guy, but we're gon na take care of that in this video, with the wax spray that i'm gon na use, you guys are gon na love it i made a cool little wand for it and uh.

What was that? Oh, there was more snow. Where are you and anyway, let me dry up the rest of the underbody and then we're gon na attack, those pinstripes and a few other things just to make sure everything is dry. What is this? What is this? You were hiding here? The whole time ridiculous, oh and what is this, this doesn't look factory gm like what in the world is going on, so i knew we're gon na find stuff, okay, so how to remove painted on pinstriping uh. Well, i looked up youtube videos, not gon na lie, and it looks like there are many different ways you can do this and i'm gon na start off with the least aggressive.

So a little bit of this orange clean. This is a tar and grease remover similar to goo gone so we'll see what that does all right, so we'll just put a little bit of this on a microfiber smells delicious. Let's hope it works kind of pre-soak, a little area, man, some of the videos on youtube, some of them try, paint, thinner, acetone, lacquer, thinner, some of them just buffing compound and the stuff just wipes off and uh. Not having that luck just yet.

I will say this: i just put a little fingernail into it and i was able to get some of it to come off kind of like just chips off and we're not doing any damage with a fingernail or anything like that. So i know at least it will come off - it's not realistic to do that the entire time, but let's move on to something else, all right. So next up, i'm just using a little bit of coarse rubbing compound so i'll, get that all over the place and yeah definitely not like the videos that i've seen they just go like this and it wipes off. Now some of them are sun, faded pinstripes that have been on for like 10 years, and these are fresh.

These are as fresh as they can be. Really, that's, not working. Let's try something else, all right! Next up we're trying some paint thinner, don't worry! This isn't going to eat through the clear coat on the car. The idea here is that this pin stripe was not clear coated when they do these pinstripes these dealer specials that they come out and do for, like 150 bucks they're, not clear coating these.

So this is not going to have an issue, and honestly, this is like the eco-friendly stuff. It's just it's really, not that good. It's not like normal paint, thinner and it's kind of kind of thick. So anyway, i put this on other cars that i don't care about and tried it out.

Is this gon na work? Absolutely not. Is it man these pin strips just want to stay on? Nothing is working so far. Okay, next up we're going to use some alcohol wipes, 75 alcohol wipes and see, if that does anything for us, come on something remove this other than my nail look, it's like i could i could do it with my nail people it's going to take a while. Not too bad, i don't know if the alcohol is getting in there, it could be kind of seeping in there and separating this paint from the clear coat.

That's why it's a little bit easier now either way i'm gon na have to buff this all out. Good thing: it's white, you won't be able to see anything. This was a black car. We would definitely see scratches even from my fingernail, why? Why did they put this on all right? Next up we're going for the lacquer thinner, so i've looked it up.

This shouldn't ruin your car's clear coat if you simply just don't leave it on there for very long. So obviously i just tried this on another part of not gon na lie. It wasn't this vehicle. It was another one that i didn't really care too much about and it didn't ruin the paint and i left it on there for a while.

So let's see what it does here well, i can already tell yeah the black is going away. That's kind of nice is the gold gon na go away. Yes, it will cool all right. This is working like a magic, eraser excellent.

So what i'm going to do here to be super safe is, after i do a little section. This just has water and car soap on it, i'm just going to clean it off and then dry. It yeah. I think i'm gon na work in small sections.

You can kind of see a little of the black right there. Just comes right off. This seems like kind of tedious work, so i think i'm gon na try and kind of like pre-soak a longer strip and then start from the back side. Here.

The gold is definitely stronger than the black, but it's coming so anyway, you guys get the idea. Let me go wipe off all these pin, stripes and i'll. Show you what it looks like all right. So here's what the escalade looked like before and about 45 minutes later here is what the escalade looks like now, so no damage whatsoever to the paint.

It looks absolutely perfect. The clear coat was not affected at all and i'm not gon na lie. I didn't hate the pinstriping that was on here. If it was just black, maybe i would have left it, but the gold - i don't know if i can have gold on my cadillac.

I think it'd look a lot better on a cadillac from you know the 50s or something like that so anyway. I think this is much much cleaner and we're moving on all right. I ran a fan underneath the truck for about two hours and it's pretty much dry now and i want to take these wheels off before the coating and because we got to check out the brakes and give this truck a complete inspection, ah factory wheel, lock. Let's hope that's in the truck yeah that doesn't like the lift right there, we're gon na have to coat the inside of the rockers with the truck off the lift.

But let's see here we went to superdog chicago people. You know what's up uh first place to check here is the glove box and there it is awesome all right. That was easy. What else we got here? We have a remote, so there are a total of five screens that you can watch movies on in this truck, it's kind of crazy um.

But this is what we need right here. Wow the suede does look kind of bad on camera. Doesn't it it's not like that in real life you can kind of you, can comb your suede and make it look much better see that that's part of the platinum package and it comes with real leather on the dash and the seats are real leather as well, And you get these different headrests with holes in them. For some reason, i don't think these are cooled.

I think they they just poke holes in them. Is this guy going to fit there? We go excellent. Oh these are heavy with the wheel off. We can coat everything, including the frame and this linkage that can get rusted up.

This is for the suspension, we're even going to coat just really everything. It's a waxy film, it's not greasy or anything. It looks kind of nice, but anyway we can also see what kind of brake pad life we're working with here. Plenty of meat left in the back and the rotors don't have a ridge on them.

So we're good back here. The front rotors look to be in excellent condition: no ridge whatsoever. These could have just been done. Let's take a look at the pad and yeah.

You can see right in there. These pads have plenty of life left. They were probably done within the last. You know year or so so we're good to go with brakes for the next couple of years.

Definitely the tires are in great shape too. The date coach shows them to be about 18 months old, so probably not too many miles and they are bridgestone tires. The wheels have absolutely no curb rash or defects whatsoever. This thing was dealer maintained it's just overall in excellent condition.

I think it's actually in better shape than our last escalade, okay. So before the undercoating, and because i'm kind of a psychopath about fluids on cars that i want to keep for a very long time, i'm going to swap out the oil that was just changed. This has maybe like 200 miles on it, but i don't know what they used. They put a ford filter on it.

I can't have that so we're going to drain out the oil. Let's see they told me, they just changed it and they reset the little thing and put a sticker in. Let's see, is it new oil yeah that looks pretty new to me kind of a shame actually, but it's okay smells good smells like oil. Basically, whenever i get a new daily driver, that's going to be put through its paces and used like a real car.

I just like to start over with all the fluids, especially if i don't know the history now this was dealer maintained, i'm gon na assume they. They changed out a lot of the fluids and i could probably look it up, but i really don't care because i'm gon na do the oil change and both differentials and the transfer case, for you know under 150 bucks. Something like that, and these are really expensive parts that i want to protect and it'll, give me a lot of peace of mind, knowing that i got some good oil in there. This is a shame, though, isn't it it's like brand new.

I should have saved it for for a beater or kind of a nice car. It's good oil, all right. Let's get this ford, motorcraft filter off of my gm. My lt engine can't have this come on now and thank you gm engineers.

I guess it could have been worse could have had this part of the frame right here, which i've seen and we're going back together with a good old quix oil filter. I'm not sure what kind of accent i'm going for today and why it's kicked in on an escalade, probably because being under here, reminds me of a gm pickup truck since it's exactly the same all right, i'm just gon na go ahead and air this out. Right now, let me know if you agree or disagree with me in the comments section, but i call this escalade a truck. I've been doing this for years back when i was a kid, we had a suburban and we would say everybody get in the truck we're taking a ride in the truck a suburban escalade same thing and in my past escalade videos.

Some of you have given me crap in the comments section saying: don't call it a truck because it's not a pickup truck, it doesn't have a pickup truck bed. Now i get that gm calls this a full-size suv. I think they do that not to confuse people and to hop on the suv craze, because everybody wants to drive an suv. We know manufacturers, don't always call things what they are.

If you look at the numbers on some european cars, they mean nothing, they don't coincide with the size of engine or anything at all. So marketing is one thing, but in the real world i call this a truck because it's literally built on a truck frame. The same truck frame that the sierras and the silverados are built on and when you see a fire truck going down the road, you still call it a truck, even though it doesn't have a pickup truck bed box. Trucks literally have a box on the back.

You still call that a truck some of those box trucks use this exact frame as well and then there's even a semi truck just to name a few. These are all trucks that don't have a pickup truck bed, yet we call them a truck. So i do the same with the escalade, the yukon, the suburban. All of these are on full-size truck frames in the real world enthusiasts to enthusiast.

This is a truck and, dare i say that i can fit just as much in the back of this with the seats down than a pickup truck version, and we all know i can tow just as much it's got the same engine, the same trans. If anything, this is the heavy duty version of all. Of that i call my escalada truck. What do you call it? Let me know down below all right.

Next up, we are going to swap out the differential fluid and on this truck you're technically supposed to remove this diff cover almost destroyed my finger there to get all the fluid out, but it's not leaking at all. I think that's a total waste of time when you can just open up the fill plug and extract it with a cheap transfer pump. So we're just going to take this hose and we're going to push it down to the bottom of the diff housing and differential fluid smells nasty. So you've been warned, and now we are pumping out our differential fluid without needing to take the cover off without needing to reseal it with our tv and we'll be done in a couple minutes.

It's really easy and when you're done taking all the fluid out, you can fill it right back up very easily with the easy pack from amsoil. So i use amsoil fluids on all of my vehicles, at least the ones i care about, and some of the cheap experiment vehicles. Like my camry that i blew up the engine on, i didn't put any amsoil in that one, but these are nice. You just kind of squeeze the fluid in and now we are on number two and you know you're done with the differential when it just starts to come out all right, here's another one! There we go all right.

We got some coming out now, we're just going to cap her off and the rear diff fluid change is complete, don't pay anyone anything to do this. You guys can definitely do this job at home. I've seen bills for 150 dollars to swap out diff fluid, takes you about 10 minutes with a transfer pump and those squeeze bags and about like 40 bucks in material. Something like that all right now we're good, for i don't know 50, 000, 60 000 miles, at least with this fluid, probably a lot more all right in the front it's much of the same except we have a fill plug and a drain, and you want to Crack open this fill plug first, just in the off chance that it's stuck because if your fill plug won't open up and you've just drained all your diff fluid out you're gon na be in trouble.

So we're all good here as expected, then, as you can imagine, oh, that was a lot easier than i thought. We're gon na drain it from the bottom see what this looks like all right. Nice we're just filling this back up with the squeeze pouches and just shooting the fluid right in good to the last drop with these pouches. Pretty nice should be the last one all right, we're good! Look at that nice clean fluid, we'll cap this off and we've done the front differential as well all right so with the differential fluids changed out.

Normally, i would replace the fluid in the transfer case and in the transmission, but in this case the transfer case itself was replaced with a brand new one at a cadillac dealership in florida. So it wasn't rebuilt or anything. They just got a brand new one from gm and plopped it in there. I'm not exactly sure why, but nonetheless, a very very expensive repair was completed and right around the same time, it was actually, i think, a little before that they did some work to the transmission.

So these eight-speed automatics had some issues not necessarily with strength, but with drivability issues. They were kind of clunky, not the best automatics in the world um. So this one has the updated torque converter and the updated valve body fairly recently. So because work was done to the transmission and the transfer case, i just want to get a good baseline.

I've only driven this thing like 100 miles. I just want to make sure that there are no issues with either one of these parts. Before i swap out fluid or do anything to them, and if i can put like a thousand miles in the truck with no problems whatsoever, then i'll go ahead and throw the amsoil in both of these. Oh and of course, they swapped out the rear main seal.

When they had the transmission out, so a big bonus there, but i just completed the overall inspection of this truck and, dare i say it's in perfect condition, i mean there's just nothing wrong with it. If you lifted this truck up in the air and had to guess the mileage you'd think it had more like 30 or 40 000 miles and not 81., the boots are perfect. The shocks aren't leaking. Look at how clean the engine is, the belts, everything they really maintain.

This truck. It was one of those vehicles that went to the dealer and they just dropped it off and said do everything, so i don't recommend doing that, but it's kind of nice buying one of those vehicles for yourself. So the one and only thing i found if i just really wanted to be just really crazy - was some minor seepage right here from one of the oil cooler lines. So you know nothing.

You'd ever really worry about just keep an eye on it for a little bit, and this is the underbelly panel. It is totally dry, no drops from anything so really nothing to worry about with this guy all right last up before we do the undercoating we got to fill this engine up with oil. Of course we're using the amsoil synthetic, and this is 0 20.. That's what it calls for it from the factory and that's what we're going to give it.

I'm sure this engine was just detailed, but they did a really good job. Look at the heads of the bolts. Everything is perfectly clean. Someone spent some time on this.

It almost seems like maybe the owner of the truck cleaned their own engine. I don't know if this was it necessarily a job from a detail shop but clean engine. Nonetheless, and now it's going to have clean motor oil all right guys. Here we go with the undercoating.

This is what we're using the amsoil heavy duty metal protector. So this goes on as a liquid, so it is going to creep around and get in everywhere under the escalade, but then it's gon na turn into a wax. After about two hours - and this is gon na last years - so you don't have to reapply this every year or anything like that. It could last three four five years depending on where you live and how you drive.

So anyway, i'm gon na use four cans on the truck. So i think these are like nine or ten bucks each so 40 bucks undercoat your truck, prevent super expensive rust issues later on and i'll leave a link to everything, including this little nozzle right here. So this is gon na spray out a fine mist. It's only like seven dollars and you'll see we'll get the inside of the frame and the rockers with this all right.

So some of this will drip down. So i've just put down some cardboard, i'm going to have a fan running. You want good air circulation when you're doing something like this, i will be wearing a respirator mask and of course i got my safety glasses and my gloves, let's get to it all right. So i want to remove the spare tire, so we can undercoat this truck properly, so you undo those fasteners and then you just lift right up.

Get that out of the way and remove this and you'll see here that you need to stick in your manual key and that's easy to do. There's a little button here on your remote press it in and then you just kind of pull the key out like this. So then on the driver side, rear you're, going to remove this panel. This nut here and you'll see your jack in there and you'll see this little leather pouch with your tire iron and this contraption here and you're gon na.

Take this end, the female end and we're gon na go right through the little tube here and you'll feel that it locks in then you can take your tire iron slip it over and we're just going to go counter. Clockwise and you'll see that our spare tire is coming down, wouldn't have been the worst thing to do before i pressure washed, but i think i got in there really nicely, nonetheless, all right, so then from the bottom. I just fed this guy through the hole you got ta just do one of these get it out real, easy and here's our spare great time to set the tire pressure on your spare, something i like to do every couple of years, because a spare tire doesn't Do you much good if it's flat, all right from there you've done the hard stuff all the preparation? The frame is totally dry and ready for this stuff, so i've shaken the can for about a minute and we're gon na use the regular nozzle to start off with, and here we go not a very difficult application process, we're literally just spraying it on and we're Gon na get everything this mechanism here that drops down the spare. Let's protect that as well see this shock one day.

It's gon na fail me and i'm gon na need to remove it. So i'm gon na go ahead and coat the nuts and bolts, so they come out nice and easy here as well. We want to get all the hardware. This is a good one to coat the brake lines right above the differential.

These lines always rot out stuff collects on them not anymore around. Here the backing plates start to fall apart and they start making noises and everything. This is rock solid and what's nice is if we come up here and spray, this stuff will creep down. So, even if you can't exactly see where you're spraying know that this stuff is liquid going on, so it's going to get everywhere and it is going to drip down on the ground.

So you want to protect it, but it's not a big deal. This washes up. If you use some brake cleaner or even some heavy degreaser, you can get it off your floor. It's not a big deal all right.

Let me show you guys how to use this little do hickey. So what you want to do is coat the inside of the frame, because water and salt can get in here as well and check this out. This has three nozzles on it, so it's going to kind of mist and spray and atomize the wax fluid inside of the frame, and you kind of see it coming out of those holes on the bottom too, so anywhere, there's a hole in the frame you're. Just going to go ahead and spray this on the inside, it's kind of coming out there, so this stuff gets everywhere all right.

I'd say this frame is nice and coated on the inside. Let's go ahead and coat it on the outside now and it's okay. If you're putting this right over your factory coating on some trucks, this stuff will wear off and then you're kind of starting from scratch. So that's where it really helps out trying to spray this directly on the exhaust, it's okay! If something gets on there, it's just going to burn off, but i'm going to do the floors as well and these shields, even though those aren't necessarily going to rust out but they're, going to get sprayed in the process.

So after the prep, this process really doesn't take that long i'll have this entire truck coated in about an hour and on the last escalade i didn't have to pressure wash the bottom because it was summertime and it was already clean. It was from florida as well. So i just lifted it up in the air and started spraying. You only need to do what i did if your truck has been in the salt, even just for a few days.

Your next alignment tech is going to thank you that they can actually break free. Your tie rods to adjust them all right, guys, that's pretty much the process for the frame and the floors, and i want to show you how i coat the inside of the rockers after we roll the truck off the lift. So for now, let's turn on some copyright free youtube, music that you've probably never heard before sit back, relax and enjoy this time lapse. All right, so i just got done undercoating everything under here, so i'll show you the final results in a minute after it's dried.

So you can kind of see what it's like long term as a wax, but before that, let's pull some body plugs okay, so we're just popping out these body plugs right here for the rocker panels and just use a plastic wedge. So you don't scratch anything all right. So now i have all of the plugs out, so you can see all of the holes in the rocker panel all right. So at this point, we're going to be using this misting nozzle and you're just going to stick it in each hole and we're just going to run it up and down the rocker.

So then, just keep on moving down to the next one make sure you get it all in there all right. Each rocker should take you probably about five minutes. That's all! You can see it kind of misting out of the other hole. So you can see we're really filling the cavity in there, so it's going to be completely coated from the inside, but since this is a painted and clear coated surface we're not going to worry about spraying any on the outside, because that is well protected.

All right. It's the next morning and i've let the coating dry overnight with that fan on it, and here is our final result. So, as you can tell, this is a very durable coating that doesn't just run off a lot of the coatings on the market are basically an oil that you have to put on roughly every year, not saying they don't work, but you have to redo it every Year and when i had the old escalade, i had this on there for about 15 months. It went through one chicago winter and it looked identical and i wanted to show you guys the results after two winners, but you know car accident happened so anyway.

I'll show you guys this after this winner i'll update you i'll, probably post up some pictures on instagram and facebook at legit, streetcars and then i'll make a video at some point as well uh to show you what's going on, but anyway everything is coded. I went into all the cracks and crevices, and that's what's nice about this. It goes on as a liquid and it kind of mists in there and gets everywhere uh. So i even coated the hose clamps right here.

These can rust out and just kind of break. Apart and we don't want that to happen and all of the hardware is coated as well, so this isn't going to turn into a glob of rust. The backing plates are coated, the differentials coated the springs, everything i just kind of misted that stuff pretty much everywhere. You see here, i'm sure one of you will say you missed a spot and you probably will you'll probably go back the next day with a flashlight and touch up a few areas, but that's okay.

I think i've gotten pretty much everything here, that's important. We have all of the floors. We have even these little guys that will rust off and then you'll get a rattle from these shields banging on your exhaust. That is not going to happen any longer to this midwest truck it's hard to see on the black coated surfaces, but these are coated as well, obviously not as important as everything else as they do have a factory undercoating.

But some of the factory stuff does wear off, as you can see in areas like this. So now this has a nice waxy film, it's going to prevent any more rust from forming there and i've done all the steering and suspension. Obviously this is aluminum. It's not going to rust uh.

This was more or less overspray from hitting up all the hardware here, but one day when these inevitably fail, which they will they did, on my other one at 73, 000 miles and they're a thousand dollars each i'll be able to remove them. So at least it'll be an easy install to make me feel better about how expensive parts are for newer cars, but yeah everything is done here, kind of a fun process. The body bolts are coated all the lines. Everything in here.

Obviously again, this isn't going to rust, but it's more or less the hardware that we're hitting here of the floor, these little pinch welds. If the paint chips on them, they will start to rust, so we've coated all inside of here also so yeah. Basically, this was a big undercoating fest. It's a lot of fun doing this, it's very satisfying and it's very relieving knowing that i'm protected from the nasty chicago salt.

So at this point i got to zip in the spare tire right there put some stuff back together. There we'll torque the wheels down - and i just wanted to show you guys something in the instrument cluster. We can see transtemp um, but it's right here engine hours, so this is something no one really pays any attention to, but this is how long the engine has been running. So if this is up really high and it doesn't coincide with the miles, then the car truck has been idling a lot, so at 81 000 miles.

This is about the correct number of engine hours i'll leave you a little formula down below, but basically this car was started up and just driven and wasn't idled around my old escalade, for example, at 73 000 miles had over 5500 engine hours. So if you're buying a car that counts the engine hours, definitely take a look. I wouldn't say it's a deal breaker, but if you see something really abnormally high, then just understand that there's just more wear on the engine you guys know. I had to give you a little exhaust clip and i got ta say i'm pretty disappointed in how this sounds.

I mean it makes sense. It's a luxurious vehicle, but the older generation escalades had a burble to them. They had a really nice exhaust note. You knew they were ls powered, this is lt powered or, however, they designate this engine and they've definitely quieted down the exhaust system on this.

It is a luxury car and i probably won't do anything about it, but i do miss the sound of the older generation. I had a 2005 in white and it sounded mean. So what do you guys think of the new truck? I absolutely love it. It took four months to find, but i like the color i like the spec, i was either gon na buy another granite, gray metallic one like i had before, or this diamond white tri-coat and i'm really happy.

I went with this with the black interior. It's kind of rare to find it with a black interior. A lot of the white ones are tan, but anyway, let's talk financials, so you know i paid 25 000 or was it 26 000.? I had to look back at the video. I think i paid 25 or 26 thousand dollars for the original granite gray metallic escalade that got destroyed in the accident.

Now that was a phenomenal deal, but what's crazy is about 18 months later? That's all we had it. The insurance company paid me out. 45. 000.

So that is the difference between early 2020, when covid was kind of new and everything was tanking. The stock market used car prices. There was a little sliver of time where the cars were really cheap. So this was, you, know, 25 grand and then i not even two years later they paid me out 20 000.

More than that, so i got 45k for that one. This cost me 46, 700, so a 1700 difference, but we went from a premium which is the middle of the line. Escalade, it goes, luxury is base premium and then platinum. So we went from a premium to a platinum with about the same mileage, and this one has new tires.

Newer, tires they're, like 80 percent, and i had to get tires for the last one, which i would have spent a couple grand on anyway. So i'd say this is a total wash and i have a platinum so overall, a really good deal. It's a florida truck just like the last one. I think i've mentioned that a few times in this video and i think cosmetically it's in better shape.

If you remember that one had a clean title, but it wasn't a previous accident which i got these pictures after i bought it and came out with the videos the previous owner actually found me and emailed me these pictures. This is how bad the accident was on. That truck before i bought it. This was like four years ago so that granite gray metallic escalade.

It's been through a lot. It's been wrecked a lot of times, but just like my accident that guy reached out to me after he saw all the videos - and he let me know that his entire family was in that truck and a ford f-150 just wasn't paying attention. They were stopped at a light and it rear-ended them and just kind of took out the whole back quarter and everything and they all walked away. Everybody was fine, they fixed the truck back then, and then, eventually, i bought it another accident with the entire family.

In the truck - and we all walked away again so, needless to say, we're going to be rocking these full-size gm suvs. If you want to call it that for a very long time to come so anyway, i hope you guys love this truck. I do have future videos that i think you guys may enjoy coming out very soon, so with that, if you haven't already hit the like button share the video subscribe, if you haven't already, i looked at analytics and 67 of people that consistently watch. My videos are not subscribed so hit that button.

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