SureTrack Users General Discussion

[Crossland Auto]

Do you think a guy in a suit and tie that calls himself a Home Builder that has a few blue prints of new home layouts in his brief case gets his hands dirty very often? No he just has guys he hires do the work for him and he takes the credit for others hard work. Same with that Monkey Lube Garage character, a like-able poser with tattoos that drives around, wheels and deals picking up old cars he pays other guys to restore in his shop and farms out the rest, then basically he gets most of the credit for the builds, LMFAO
As long as I get paid for doing what I do on the car I could car less about anyone giving me credit due or not for the work I did, because with my luck if I went on You tube and make it public I did all the wiring on it , when the novelty of the old car he paid a whopping $120 K for wears off real quick and he can't sell it for $35 k and the first paint bubbles starts to appear, the finger is going to point to my wiring job after a suspicious fire insurance total.

I get it, I normally don't care much about credit on most jobs. This one is special. So Cal should have sanded it down and applied an epoxy primer to this car and told the owner to get rid of it. Get another car. They did not, there is approximately 4 square feet of original sheet metal. Half of the rear package tray, and a small section under the rear seat. The 120K was just body and paint. After that, began frame work, suspension, etc. Then I was unleashed with a plan with the wiring.

Let me back up a little bit.

The owner had the car shipped from Florida (where it was sanded to bare metal, then left for 3 years near the beach.) The tires were flat when the truck driver showed up to deliver it. The driver thought it was a great idea to tilt the ramp to get it to roll. Guess what, it rolled.... Fell off the ramp 8 feet high. It's nick name is A$$ drop.

I have worked on at least 7 vehicles that this place has worked on in one form or another. I have fixed their screw ups. I also know of other shops that had to deal with their shotty work. There is a red Chevelle Convertible in the video that they "built" 100K. Trailing arm bolts missing nuts and the bolts 3/4 out.

I personally do not like the place. They charge too much for the work they do. (Look at the quarter panel wink...)

The Chevelle total build cost was over 260K once said and done.

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[Crossland Auto]

By the way, there is absolutely no way my wiring will fail. I keep it simple and have back up systems wired in. I like Painless Systems, do not like the way they have the wires routed. I usually have a plan, lay the fuse block on the ground, Tape it down, cut zip ties, rout them my way. Guess I should add more pictures. The Chevelle had a 22 circuit system. Used them all up, had to add more circuits. (Hence the added extra fuse blocks in the center console.)

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[Witsend]

Love old cars and car shows but Speculators have turned things into such overpriced museum relics.
Now I don't feel like I'm wasting too much time and about $200 all said and done for the sheet metal and patch panels to do my rusted out rocker panels on my old Explorer I'll probably just leave them in flat black to call attention to the restoration work on it I accomplished , LOL

[greasybob]

It's best not to dwell too much in the past, a lot better to go out with the goal of creating new memories every day.

The things you learn from trial and error...
2010 Tahoe... I programmed a 2nd FOB to the vehicle only this one did not have the rear lift gate and glass release buttons. After programming it I tried the remote start function, first on the original FOB, all good, then on the newly programmed FOB, no go, it went through all the motions but no start, the lock and unlock functions worked. To add to the confusion now the remote start function on the original FOB didn't work either. No codes in TDM, PCM, BCM or remote receiver Module. Check the data and when the remote start is tried the ignition relay closes but not the starter relay. I reset by starting with the key and locking and unlocking doors, still nothing. So I deactivated both FOBs and only programmed the original one back to the vehicle. All works as normal again. Lesson learned... If it don't look the same it probably is not the same.....

[greasybob]

About Shop Key Pro

Say you want to print off a wire diagram of the back up sensors on a 2012 Chevy 2500. You go to Navigation and there it is on the bottom of a list of 34 navigation system wiring diagrams. I really don't want to print off 34 pages. So you click "view full screen" and print the page you want. Sounds good except that it only prints in black and white in this mode. Can we change this so when you print from the "view full screen page" it will still print in colour?

[Nick_Taylor]

About Shop Key Pro

Say you want to print off a wire diagram of the back up sensors on a 2012 Chevy 2500. You go to Navigation and there it is on the bottom of a list of 34 navigation system wiring diagrams. I really don't want to print off 34 pages. So you click "view full screen" and print the page you want. Sounds good except that it only prints in black and white in this mode. Can we change this so when you print from the "view full screen page" it will still print in colour?

I will submit this to that team. I don't know why it would do that.

[Nick_Taylor]

I just tried this. When the print preview comes up there is a checkbox for "Print Black & White". Uncheck that and it should print in color.

[greasybob]

OK, I see it now, works, thanks.

[dodge90]

so just got done installing a $1000 rack in a 11 fusion. all electric and after wiping the sweat off my fore head started the car and got steering back, Now I didn't program it to the car but it drove and steered fine. Am I going to be ok without reflashing ??? No codes were set drove it about 10 miles.
IF i DROPPED 260K into a build it wouldn't be a chevy!

[greasybob]

Why did you replace the rack ? I would definitely get it flashed. I assume you aligned it and reset the steering angle if required. Had a newer (12 ?) Ford Escape a few years ago that something wasn't reset correctly after an alignment, It went about a hundred miles, set a power steering angle code and the power assist shut down until the reset was done correctly. I don't remember the exact details but I wouldn't chance it.

[Witsend]

IF i DROPPED 260K into a build it wouldn't be a chevy!

If it looked like I would have to drop even 26K into any old car to make it show worthy , I would just drive , and thrash the old beater as it was meant to be.

[dodge90]

changed the rack due to no power steering and code U3000 set. sent a few of these to dealer for warranty but this one had 96k on it. As a used car dealer we mostly deal w/ late model cars. Yes align done.
26k if I had it would make a great driver and would like when I was in my early days, Have a blast with it. First Hot Rod, 71 pontiac Lemans Sport. Buddy's famous words when crusin? Wanna Race?

[Thomas Greene]

Wondering if by chance, someone has a '06-'08 Colorado hanging around their shop? Have an '07 here that passenger seat belt wiring has been sliced where plug should be. Module wiring matches diagram (Lt blue, tan, & purple) Seatbelt latch however has a red, a dark blue, and a black coming from it. Would like to know how colors pair up at plug, if possible. Thanks,
Thom

[Thomas Greene]

Thanks to dmckemie on suretrack!
Red-light blue
black-tan
Dark blue-purple
Thom

[greasybob]

Nick, I sent you a feed back on this 2013 Lacrosse. Just a suggestion to make Shop Key Pro better and easier to use. When there are multiple options for a system such as the power steering shown here, it would be nice to have the option code (RPO code) included in the wiring schematic heading to avoid confusion. Any ways, figure 3 here shows the PSCM listed as being under the left dash. I'm pretty sure that with the electric assist steering that it is part of the motor assembly on the rack.