My Wife's Escalade Was Destroyed In A Bad Accident So I Bought Her The Safest Truck On The Road!

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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 [Music] i gotta say this is a lot of fun you floridians don't get to do this so don't be jealous oh gotta clean this gotta 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 gotta move i gotta 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 gonna 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 [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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 gonna take care of that in this video with the wax spray that i'm gonna use you guys are gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna find stuff okay so how to remove painted on pinstriping uh well i looked up youtube videos not gonna lie and it looks like there are many different ways you can do this and i'm gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna turn into a wax after about two hours and this is gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna take this end the female end and we're gonna 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 gotta 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 gonna 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 gonna get everything this mechanism here that drops down the spare let's protect that as well see this shock one day it's gonna fail me and i'm gonna need to remove it so i'm gonna 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 [Music] [Music] 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 gotta 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 gonna 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 it's free it's easy it helps me out and most importantly have an awesome day i'll catch all of you in the next video [Music] you

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Length: 46min 9sec (2769 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 29 2022