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Why are there so few Silverado overland rigs?
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Disclaimer: often times funny, obnoxious opinions posing as humorous pictorial jokes of basic life experiences will follow::: count on it!!!
And then it hit me, why did I have to explain comic relief???
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I know it was a joke. still inaccurate. Don't get me started on my woes with Dodge and jeep products. I would rather get hit with a bucket of my own crap than to drive anything from them anymore. ha ha.
It's all fun. As I mentioned in a couple of camera and tech forums. How BORING would the world be if there was only one of something. Like only Fords. Mechanics would be out of jobs then.....
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I know it was a joke. still inaccurate. Don't get me started on my woes with Dodge and jeep products. I would rather get hit with a bucket of my own crap than to drive anything from them anymore. ha ha.
It's all fun. As I mentioned in a couple of camera and tech forums. How BORING would the world be if there was only one of something. Like only Fords. Mechanics would be out of jobs then.....
All good! But I guess you never experienced a CP4 high pressure fuel pump detonation….I decided to use preventative replacement and swapped out with an S&S diesel pump….
I am a Ford truck guy thru and thru, but my favorite cars are 1960’s chevy’s. Yet they are all built by man so they are bound to fail. Not “if” but “when.” Some of us are lucky to not experience the failures and some are not. I fall into the later part.
High pressure oil pump detonation cost me a 19k motor! Now a turbo failure is costing me 6k because Motorcraft decided to not manufacture the 2014 turbo so I had to upgrade to a 2019 turbo setup which meant a different mounting plate, exhaust manifolds and intake piping…. Oh and I get stuck with the core charge because Ford won’t take the 2014 turbo back…
So… say your blessings… and I will wait for you to join me on the other side!!!
yeah, I get that. a few years ago, Toyota had trouble getting chips that were made in China because at the time, Japan refused to say that Taiwan belonged to China and that caused a political backlash where Japan (Toyota) couldn't get certain parts. so I get that ALL parts are contingent on several different factors. luckily Toyotas never break down...
as to the OP...I don't know much about the Chevy brand, but it is true that I haven't seen all that many of them wheeling in the really remote areas. I went out to black gap with @Sparksalot a while back and we were out in some remote and fairly rough terrain and he was killing it with a 2wd Tahoe...which I would guess share the same or similar drivetrain, etc as the silverado...so maybe a lot of it has to do with marketing?
I do see a lot of these on the back glass of trucks...especially in the dirty south
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Long live @Sparksalot
Yeah, the Tahoe, Yukon, Yukon XL, Suburban, Silverado, Sierra, Avalanche and Caddy Escalade are all the same, based on the K1500 (half ton) design. And of course the 2500 series trucks (and previously the 2500 series Suburban and Avalanche) are very similar but heavier axles and stronger engines.
So a lot of times people are appalled by how many vehicles GM has to recall for, say, a bad sensor, when really these are all the same vehicle in a different wrapper, with little difference
Because they would all have to work in the scrap metal business?I know it was a joke. still inaccurate. Don't get me started on my woes with Dodge and jeep products. I would rather get hit with a bucket of my own crap than to drive anything from them anymore. ha ha.
It's all fun. As I mentioned in a couple of camera and tech forums. How BORING would the world be if there was only one of something. Like only Fords. Mechanics would be out of jobs then.....
I loved my 99 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Had it past 2019, even...Everything was easy to work on...and it's a good thing, too, because I HAD to work on it.
The only other Dodge I had was an 88(?) Dodge Laser. Not a bad little car. Actually if I knew then what I know now, I probably could have kept either vehicle running much longer. Wouldn't mind another WJ
