Trucks have gotten too big. I bought a 2003 Silverado 1500 Z71 4x4 used a couple of years ago (100k miles) because I had to have a 4wd on my property. I have one road going up from one of my streams to one of my plateaus that needs it. But the truck is huge and I’d really prefer something more like a 60’s size with the same sized bed and a “king cab”.
I looked at that picture in the article and wondered why the he** it needs to be so frickin’ big. I feel sorry for the person that actually uses it as a daily driver and has to park it.
My silverado is a pig. And the heater fan controllwer went out. Then the instrument cluster went out too, and apparently it happens to pretty much ALL of them. I have not had this many problems with a car since the early 80’s. But I also swore I’d never own another GM product around 1992. It’s my own fault.
Fortunately I found a place in GA that will fix my cluster for fifty bucks...
The electronics in GMC trucks absolutely sucks. From door locks, windows, oil pressure sensor, to tire sensors mine have gone out one right after the other as son as warranty went out.
I have a 2002 Silverado 3500 dually AWD, has the now hard to get 8.1 Vortec, its a 496 cubic inch gasoholic, but I love having the power when I need it, and its been far cheaper keeping it running than the 2001 Silverado 2500HD I have with the Duramax 6.6 turbo diesel, every single part I swear has to be gold plated. It has a lot of miles but has also had a ton of problems.
Same problem with Dodge Ram pickups. The fault is usually a big ceramic resistor that gets too hot and melts the connection solder or burns it in two. After two replacements, I took some wire and high temp solder and fixed it myself. Also the fan motor had some leaves in it that blocked the cooling................