See Jeff’s ride here.  You’ll know why he’s our Member of the Moment.  Congrats Jeff!

For those of you who do not know, Jeff got his forum name from his second hobby and first love, salt water tanks, hence the name ‘ReefnAv’.

It was a pleasure meeting Tom and his family at the Wild West GTG in Oregon this past year. His Avalanche is a must see. He has got some unique mods.

Check out his thread here.  You’ll see why Tom is our Member of the Moment.

Keep up the great work and keep on modding!

Tom's Ride

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!

Avalanche Style

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

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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!

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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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Avalanche Style

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

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

The AVS Rear Window decal can be found here.

Thanks for your support!
Avalanche Style

Thanks to Strobe for posting a link to nitegrafixstore we now have our own etched sign for AvalancheStyle.com :woot:

There are two designs:

- AvalancheStyle.com

This product measures 3.5″ x 20″. It comes with a 15′ cord that plugs into the 12-volt outlet in your vehicle. It comes in your choice of 7 colors.

and

- AvalancheStyle.com
Central California Chapter

This product measures 3.5″ x 20″. It comes with a 15′ cord that plugs into the 12-volt outlet in your vehicle. It comes in your choice of 7 colors.

The 7 color choices are:

red
blue
green
orange
purple
white
multicolor (extra charge)

The price for all the solid colors are $49.95

Here is the link to their catalog (Transportation section) – See bottom of page for AVS items.

Thanks to Willy at nitegrafixstore.com for working with us to make the custom sign!

* note – there are no commissions or anything paid to/from AVS or nitegrafixstore.com. All products and sales are those of nitegrafixstore.com.