The Dual Axle Escalade in Florida

A rare vehicle, a sleepless night, BCM issues, a GM dealership tow, and one more trip that turned into a full recovery mission.

This is one we forgot, and it definitely deserves its own chapter.

It was a dual axle Escalade, very rare, and I found it in Newport Richey, Florida.

From the way it was presented to me, it seemed to be in decent shape. The gentleman had let me know it was in good condition before I got there.

But of course, once I got there and started really looking it over, it definitely needed some things.

The windows were delaminated. It had taken in quite a bit of water from being down in Florida with all the rain. It wasn’t completely destroyed inside, but it definitely had water damage and definitely needed a lot of attention.

The BCM module was giving problems, and that was the first real issue I chased after when I got there.

I had brought my tools with me, which I always do on long trips, so I stayed up all night trying to repair the BCM module.

I ended up repairing the BCM module, but the vehicle still would not start because once the BCM loses communication, it will not communicate with the key again unless you use a GM Tech 2 scanner to handshake the BCM and the key back together.

I ended up having to get the vehicle towed on the back of a huge flatbed, one of the biggest I had ever seen, and sent it to the GM dealership.

I stayed a couple days, and during that time I flew Maya out again. She was pregnant with our little girl at the time.

While we were down there, we got to spend some time on the beach in Newport. So even in the middle of all that stress, we still had some beautiful moments in the trip.

It definitely needed quite a bit of work.

The gentleman let me use some of his tools along with the ones I had brought, and I repaired the front and rear brakes while I was there.

It also needed a crankshaft position sensor. That code was randomly popping up, and the vehicle would start and then no-start. Since you have to drop the starter to get to that sensor, and the starter had 90,000 miles on it anyway, I went ahead and replaced the starter too with a Delco unit.

I changed the oil, replaced the air filter, and did a few other things while I was there just to make sure I was setting myself up for the drive home.

I even bought a fuel pump to bring with me on the drive home, just in case I needed it. Thank God I didn’t.

It was a fantastic trip. It took a lot of work to get the vehicle home, and it took a lot of work to restore it properly.

But it was definitely a wonderful vehicle and definitely a wonderful trip.