The Red Jewel **New pics after detail**

[crash93ssei]

Just picked it up today, 2010 Acadia SLT-2 loaded down with just about every option except HIDs and HUD (which I am looking into correcting that) 1 owner, local trade in, only 85,000 miles on it, this thing is *dang* clean! Can't wait to do some polishing on it to really make that red jewel paint pop!

Heather and her new mommy mobile

















We flat out love this thing, rides so good and is very quiet even at 75 MPH. Mods will come

[98SSE]

Nice, I really like those. Our neighbors have one and the wife comments every so often how she likes it lol. Don't think it'll fit it the garage though.

[Archon]

Looks great.

[1oldman]

VERY NICE! like the colors. Now to replace the incandescent interior lamps with LEDs. and don't say what the youngest son said:"you think you've been abducted by aliens with all the LED lighting". - BC

[nos4blood70]

Absolutely love that color combo. Such a good match. Looks classy!

[crash93ssei]

The wheels are growing on me, still don't care for the fact that they are just a PVD chrome plastic hub cap glued to the wheel though... but, nobody has the 20" wheels around here so at least it's not like all the others 22" should happen in the spring, going to snag some Blizzaks for the stock 20" before snow flies.

[LeSabreUltra]

Lookin' good! Should be a great family hauler.
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[ddalder]

It does look great!

[ga93sle]

Very nice!!! The girlfriend wants an Enclave, but I honestly think I like the styling of the Acadia better...

[crash93ssei]

We liked the Enclave as well but two things led us to an Acadia, 1 we couldn't find any and 2 we didn't care for the interior woodgrain trim.

Spent a few hours today making this thing look the way it should

Before on top, after on bottom
Exhaust tips were nasty! #0000 steel wool with Turtle Wax chrome polish then the chrome polish and my Mother's Powerball mini took care of that.


The wheels are overall in amazing shape, no curb rash at all but needed some love. Meguiar's Wheel Brightener and protected with CarPro HydrO2









Tails were pretty swirled, HD Speed took care of about 90% of the defects and left them nice and clear.



Dealership badge quickly removed! Heat gun on low the peeled off, Stoner's Tarminator to remove residue.



The rest of it looked like the top initially, not bad for a 5 year old car with 85,000 miles on it. Griot's Garage 6" polisher with an orange Lake Country 5.5" CCS pad and HD Speed made quick work of the defects, about 80% - 90% correction on most of it.



Showing off haha!












Completely done.... for now.

[Archon]

Fantastic job.

[1oldman]

Hope the boss lady's friends "appreciate" the great detail work you did on her Acadia. - BC

[DCJREDLINE]

Speed has turned into my favorite AIO. I was a BIG fan of XMT360 before trying Speed. Not sure I will ever go anywhere else. I also like Menzerna's Compound and polish for 2 steps.

Truck turned out GREAT !!!!!

[Saturn Simon]

Looks great. Smart interior and I like the roof-mounted screen.

[crash93ssei]

Speed has turned into my favorite AIO. I was a BIG fan of XMT360 before trying Speed. Not sure I will ever go anywhere else. I also like Menzerna's Compound and polish for 2 steps.

Truck turned out GREAT !!!!!

Speed and Menzerna are my go to for everything. I have HD Cut, HD Polish, and Americana Amerirocks but still turn to Menzerna every time.

[00Beast]

Looks awesome Ryan. My new Yukon needs paint correction so bad. I think you, me and Randy could all spend a full day on it...

[Whitecrystal1]

The wheels are growing on me, still don't care for the fact that they are just a PVD chrome plastic hub cap glued to the wheel though... but, nobody has the 20" wheels around here so at least it's not like all the others 22" should happen in the spring, going to snag some Blizzaks for the stock 20" before snow flies.

Congrats Ryan.

I hated the plastic chrome on mine too. I just switched them out for a set of 20's from a GM dealer on ebay. She need tires so I figured now was the best time. Sorry no pic of them on ours but they do look great.

We now have 60K on our Enclave.

Link to auction of the wheels I bought.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231484164820?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

[crash93ssei]

Those are some really nice wheels!

[Whitecrystal1]

Those are some really nice wheels!

IIRC I paid 1800 delivered for them. I started offering them 1500 and they countered at 2000. They accepted my offer at 1800 delivered. I received everything needed, TPMS, caps lugs and including locking lugs too. They came mounted and balanced. All I had to do was change them over at home I really don't like the hubcapped wheels on cars today. These do look great on it.

[crash93ssei]

I've been looking into some 22s for it but haven't found many I actually like yet.