My HUMMER progress thread- spare tire removal, light bar/lights, cameras, ETC!

[pdxrealtor]

Alright... My HUMMER has gone through some changes since I bought it a couple months ago, and will get a few more before I'm done with the initial set of "updates".

I bought the HUMMER for $29,900 with 24,768 miles on it from a Mercedes dealership in Portland. Had it shipped here for 1150.00

I'll just keep adding to this thread as things change!

1st- Thanks to everyone for the help and advice. Whether directly or indirectly everything I've done has been based off of info gathered from these forums!

On with it-
Both bumpers hit with GRIOTS- holding up well.. great stuff!

The spare tire removal is done (with the exception of still needing the tow hook attachments--PM me if you have any)

I used GMparts direct to get a replacement license plate pocket that has the plate lights in it. Did you know you can get an all black one? This was a nice find for me, the all black, because I really didn't want that chrome strip across the top of the pocket.

The installer used the original spare tire wire harness and the same connection point. He then ran the wire up the wheel well into the back passenger side of the HUMMER, the side behind cowling and into the lift gate.

While doing the pocket, I had a back up cam installed along with a coastal tech universal lock pick. The truck now pops the cam on when the car is in reverse, or at any time I push the button on the remote control.

The lock pick also lets me watch video from my ipod touch, listen to music, police scanner, etc... very cool stuff.

Also installed is the VIPER smart start remote start setup. Works great! The black berry app is coming soon. I just start it using the key fob for now, or with my ipod touch if I have WIFI available.

The smart start system has a nice feature(among many) that will start the car if the battery dips below 10.5 volts. This is great if you want to light up the camp site with a light bar or??? and not start the car.

All the chrome has been powder coated black, see pics!

New XD revolver wheels/tires

I still need to get the nerf bar traction pads and the right parts to put them back together..

I just got two more roof cross bars, for a total of four.

In the works:

Headlight upgrade- not sure if I'm going HID or silverstars

DRL mod- will be setup to work only when the headlights are on

Light bar- this will consist of 8 four inch PIAA SMR driving lights and the use of one of the roof cross bars.

Two PIAA 520 SMR fogs for the brush guard- since I live in Portland I called PIAA. They happened to have a couple SMR fog lenses laying around and were nice enough to piece together a complete kit for me (you can't get these anymore).... PIAA has been great and I would recommend them to anyone.


Powder coat the 4 roof crossbars black.


Powder coat the skid plate black with the raised "H2" powder coated to match my truck.

That's it for now.. any questions let me know.. I'll update as things happen.

Pics below

[pdxrealtor]

[pdxrealtor]

Back up cam with night vision...

[timgco]

Are the wheels 17" or 18"?

What did you clean the bumpers with before using the Griotts?

[pdxrealtor]

17" wheels...

I used 100% denatured alcohol to prep both bumpers.

[H3slate]

Truck looks great!! Good color choice too!

I will keep my eye out for you around town.

[wingn69]

so mounting the plate there was not that hard to do. I am really thinking about doing that on mine. I like the look with the wheel on but its in the way at cars show and I run different type of wheels and tires in the summer than in the winter.

[pdxrealtor]

Thanks H3... see you around!

Wingn-- if you are talking about the license plate it wasn't that hard. The most difficult part for me was getting together the right parts.


I had a local stereo shop swap out the plate pocket while they were installing the rear cam and remote start setup.

[pdxrealtor]

Got my "light box" today and already got busy.

Did the DRL mod w/resistor and put silverstars in both the headlights and the DRL... huge improvement over OEM!!!

I snapped pics of the jumper wire... you can see I used a blue wire and a black wire. The blue wire simply represents the striped side of the resistor.

Also pictured are all my PIAAs! I got eight 4" 510 SMR driving lamps for the roof cross bar that will soon be called my light bar!

Also I got 2 PIAA 520 SMR fogs for the brush guard.. PIAA had some old FOG SMR lenses laying around (very hard to come by) which are also pictured.

My new cross bars are on the way, for a total of four. I have 2 ideas for mounting the eight 4" SMRs but need to actually get a cross bar on the ground to see which way I'm going to go.

More pics and info as things come together!

[wingn69]

hey thanks, I think i am going to do it in the spring time take off the back wheel and put the plate there I also have a camera to install there, I will see if the Hifi shop i work will do it for me. thanks for the info.

[pdxrealtor]

[pdxrealtor]

Finally got the light bar started... I have to drill the hole and fit rubber grommets for the wires off each light and then it'll all be off to the powder coater.

I know the light bar wires need to come out on the driver side, but a side from that I haven't a clue how to route them on the inside of the cross bar.

Anyone have any suggestions ????

Here's some pictures--

[H3slate]

Nice light bar!

I saw your truck at Costco last week. It looks great blacked out. It doesn't hurt that your truck is my favorite color.

[wingn69]

dude I think you should add the ski dooo to the light bar that would be cool nice work .

[pdxrealtor]

I'll work on that

[pdxrealtor]

Been doing work here and there.

The sliverstar headlights just don't cut it!!

I've got the PIAA fogs installed and wired up, and I added HID headlights and LED DRL. The LEDs I got from retro solutions (same place as the HIDs) and are the best match I could find. I tried several bulbs from PIAA to generic in an attempt to better match the HIDs. No go!

The skid plate is off and is headed to the powder coater with the 4 cross bars ( one will be the PIAA light bar) and my aftermarket nerfbar steps.

The raised H2 portion of the skid plate will be powder coated to match the slate blue.

Here's some pics... nothing major.

One thing I will say is that no matter how hard I tried I could not get the HID headlights to show in picture form the way they really look.

They look much better and cleaner (not a bunch of hot spots) in person.

[pdxrealtor]

I've made lots of progress and getting really close to being done.

The cross bars and other items are back from the powder coater, I got new wheels, and the light bar is all wired but the lights aren't bolted up yet.

Here's a couple pics.... I'll be picking up the paint to do the skid plate on Monday. The raised H2 will be the same color as the truck.

The pic with the new wheels really doesn't do the truck justice... it was a crappy day out.

Also, the black roof crossbars really make a huge difference (no pics at the moment). I can't believe how much it really balances the entire package.

[Intercooled]

Truck looks real nice. I like the balance of chrome and black. I'm not a "black out" guy. But I dont like much chrome either. I like your new wheels better than the old ones. Very nice.

[twr]

hi thats 2 for new wheels.

[pdxrealtor]

Thanks!