Dear Friends and Family,

We recently accepted the challenge to raise contributions to support the Komen Sacramento Race for the Cure® on May 10, 2008 in the fight against breast cancer. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.

Please join us in the promise to end breast cancer by supporting my participation in the Race. Please do your part by contributing generously to the Komen Sacramento Race for the Cure. Your tax-deductible contribution will fund innovative outreach and awareness programs for medically underserved communities in Sacramento Valley and national breast cancer research. It is faster and easier than ever to support this great cause - you can make a contribution online by simply clicking on the link at the bottom of this message. If you would prefer, you can also send your tax-deductible contribution to the address listed below. Whatever you can give will help! I truly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress.

Thank you so much for your time and support in the fight against breast cancer! Every step counts!

Sincerely,
Ebru and Rolando Nispiros

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support Komen Sacramento Race for the Cure

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Since Peggy’s first day with us in August of 2007 she has contributed to the forum with her humor, support, and knowledge of the Chevy Avalanche. She is also a Charter Member of AVS and very active with 234 posts and counting.

Peggy sports around her 2004 Sport Red Avalanche around town to help family and friends and she loves to share her mods with us. Peggy has dedicated her time and energy to the different Avalanche clubs and we will be happy to meet her when she comes to California later on this month!

We are sure that she will miss her baby back home, her AV baby. Wouldn’t you?

Congrats again Peggy for being our Member of the Moment!

Past Member of the Moment Winners

Our old web host recently experienced a hardware failure.  As a result, we had to resort to our last full backup, which was on January 8, 2008.  If you registered on our forum on or after this date, you will have to register again.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

The forum is up and running again and we are with a new web host.  During the down time we upgraded our forum, Arcade, and blog to the latest versions available.

Welcome back all!

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It’s been a long time coming Rob. Sometime before your vacation you just woke up the forum with your enthusiasm and helpfulness in and out of the forum. Keep up the high energy posts! You rock!

Rob has been a member of AVS since October 20, 2005. He’s a veteran around the boards and one of the friendly guys around.

Congrats!

This is Karen, Rob’s better half. Of course Rob picked one of the best colored AVs out there. Too bad it is not cladded.

Past Member of the Moment Winners

The Children’s Home Society houses 52 children 4 to 13 years old. The Emergency Foster Home a part of CHS houses 6 children newborn to 17 years old. That is a total of 58 children that could use a little love. One of the days during the week we will be visiting the Children’s Home Society for an Ice Cream Social meeting the children and staff while displaying our Avalanches. I was thinking since there are only 58 children, we could have “Christmas in July” for them.

If you would like to sponsor a child, speak up and let me know, I’ll add you to the “Santa List” below.

Here is a current Wish List posted on their website.

If you’d like to be added to the list, just post here or in the National Thread you can make a difference, every little bit helps

See our Christmas in July thread here posted by Wildfire.

current CenCal participants..
Mamamia
WILDFIRE
RoarinRow
IB Mike
AVZ66
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We have used a lot of the advice found there and used many of the recommended plugins.

If you have any other great WordPress sites to share, please leave a comment.

http://avalanchestyle.OurToolbar.com

Installation:

• Once the program launches, click on ‘Run’
• Leave ‘Enable Automatic Update’ box checked

• On next screen leave first box checked

• Click ‘Next’ until the installation is complete

Features:

• This AVS toolbar uses the Google search engine
• The ‘AVS Link’ icon brings you to our outside pages and also to the forum
• The ‘AV Sites’ has built in favorites for all the known Avalanche web sites (CAFCNA, Socal AVs, Midwest AV Club, etc.)
• Receive important information from AVS
• Email Notifier can be configured to notifiy of new mail on your POP accounts, including Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
• The weather icon shows you the temperature for your location
• The Popup Blocker is automatically enabled
• The radio button gives you music from Classical, Alternative, Rock, Sports, and Guitar

Screenshots:

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Author is chadf2w.

1. To play it safe, disconnect the Black Ground cable from the battery.

2. Standing on the driver’s side of the truck, Remove the black curved bracket that connects the fender to the body.

3. Remove the Electrical Center Plastic housing. First the top, then look at the sides of the housing and find the tabs which hold it down. Angle the housing and unhook it from the tabs, and lift it off. This should reveal the naked fuse box which is the contents of the Electrical Center.

4. On the fender side of the fuse box is a locking latch. Push this tab towards the fender and this should unlock the fuse box. Then unhook the tabs at either ends of the side facing the engine. The fuse box is now loose and ready to be turned over.

5. There are different colored sections on the underside of the fuse box; we’ll be operating in the green area. It is bolted into the box and it must be unscrewed. Loosen and remove the green connection block. Remove the two blue locking clips on both sides of the green block.

6. On the far right row, there are several wires, locate the double royal blue wire. Remove this wire from its current position and drop it down one (1) hole. Now the right side should have a double green wire at the top, followed by a single red, a single blue, a double purple, then the space just vacated and the newly relocated double blue wires.

7. Relock the green block using the blue locks. Screw in the green block back into the fuse box.

8. Test to see if the mod works. Reattach the Black Ground cable to the battery, and turn the key to the on position. (You don’t have to start the truck. The DRLs should come on when the truck is in Park.

9. When everything works as you like it, lock in the fuse box, replace the cover and the top. Reattach the black curved bracket.

10. Sit back and enjoy the sense of accomplishment. Use these pictures to aid in the modification. The first pic is of steps 1-4. The second pic shows the location of the double blue wires in the green connection block. This picture shows a red wire in the slot where we have placed the blue wires. The red wire is XRover’s switch mod.

Look for more modding tips in our forum

Thanks it! Happy modding!

It’s only $10 for your very own AVS decal!

Application instructions:

1. Clean glass
2. Decide at what area of the glass you are going to put decal, e.g. upper part of window, middle, lower, etc.
3. Measure the ends of the decal paper to the frame of the window. Mine was about 9 1/2 inches from edge of decal to frame of window on both sides.
4. The decal measures 30″ in length
5. Mark the edge of the decal with a piece of tape so you know where you are going to start. Might want to put some sort of carpenter’s tape as a guide lengthwise before proceeding. You could also use the defroster lines as a guide.
6. I recommend not taking the paper backing off yet. Start with the side of the decal that has the extra paper as a helper
7. Unpeel one side of the paper adhesive and place the edge down unto the glass
8. Make sure that the angle that it is going to go down is relatively straight.
9. Unpeel the decal and the paper backing across the window with some sort of squeege
10. Firmly rub the adhesive paper making sure the spaces in-between the letters and corners and without bubbles.

Go to our Gift Shop Check-Out page to purchase your decal.

The AVS Oval Decal can be found here.

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