Thanks!
I've been kept busy this past summer & fall, with making my daughter and SIL's 'new' vehicle road worthy.
I got spoiled working on new GM vehicles before I retired from the GM Proving ground about 5 years ago.
No rust, no mangled connectors /wires, and really no 'broken' cars/trucks, except the ones I 'broke' on purpose.
Best job I ever had.
Fast forward to this past spring - my daughter and her husband turned in their lease vehicle and went shopping fort the 'best' $5,000 full size SUV.
Well, you can guess what they could buy & I got to make 'safe and reliable'.
2004 Yukon XL Denali.
After I used up my favors borrowing a GM TECH II, I asked for and received an AUTEL MS908, for my 70th birthday last September.
It has paid for it's self already. Of course that is only part of the required 'tools' needed to work on today's vehicles. I subscribe to ALLData for service information.
Most of what I've seen on the 240K mile Yukon, is poor workmanship on the aftermarket LED lights, Alarm, Nav/Info-tainment Systems.
Of course it needed the leaking exhaust manifolds replaced and the broken studs removed, but I'll be danmed if the A/C is not ice cold and leak free. No rust (knock on wood) on the brake and fuel lines; but plenty of rusty crusty pieces under neath.
We are in SE Michigan, and the roads are white with snow or salt December through March.
I have been amazed at how good a job the weather-pack connectors do, at keeping the terminals clean and corrosion free.
One last word of praise for the AUTEL MS908. It covers all the OBD II GM systems and has bi-directional capabilities. Apart from pass-through programming (which I didn't want, for the extra $700) the AUTEL will handle all the repairs on our 2004 Yukon, 2012 Equinox, 2013 Sierra, and 2016 Encore.
It covers all other domestic, European, and Far Eastern vehicles.
