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As much as I love Bruce (our 1998 K2500 Suburban with the 454), it's at 200k miles and it is a salvage title vehicle I got with a long backlog of neglected maintenance. Now while I've been putting good parts and effort into the truck, there's a limit to how much I want to trust it driving from the Bay Area, CA to Central TX with a family of 4 and two cats in the beginning of summer. I won't say I'm not going to but it's time to start thinking what the alternative is as with higher gas prices, the market for these things is starting to become a bit more tame. This is our "do everything we don't need very often" vehicle so it hauls people, car parts, tows, go light off roading, camping, etc. I can ride the bus or my bike (or potentially an e-bike) for most of my commuting so the gas cost of having something like this is irrelevant but the comparative costs inside of having such a vehicle is worth considering.
I'm not going to get something with a 4L60/65E, period. Also the 5.3L Flex-Fuels seem to have some issues more than their bigger brothers even after the 6L80E becomes the base transmission. This leaves the GMT800 2500s and the GMT900s either 2500 or with the 6.2L (Denali and Escalade). I want 4WD as well. I'm partial to another 2500 but that's a hit on gas mileage but a simpler and more durable vehicle. Voice your opinion in the poll and comments.
As much as I love Bruce (our 1998 K2500 Suburban with the 454), it's at 200k miles and it is a salvage title vehicle I got with a long backlog of neglected maintenance. Now while I've been putting good parts and effort into the truck, there's a limit to how much I want to trust it driving from the Bay Area, CA to Central TX with a family of 4 and two cats in the beginning of summer. I won't say I'm not going to but it's time to start thinking what the alternative is as with higher gas prices, the market for these things is starting to become a bit more tame. This is our "do everything we don't need very often" vehicle so it hauls people, car parts, tows, go light off roading, camping, etc. I can ride the bus or my bike (or potentially an e-bike) for most of my commuting so the gas cost of having something like this is irrelevant but the comparative costs inside of having such a vehicle is worth considering.
I'm not going to get something with a 4L60/65E, period. Also the 5.3L Flex-Fuels seem to have some issues more than their bigger brothers even after the 6L80E becomes the base transmission. This leaves the GMT800 2500s and the GMT900s either 2500 or with the 6.2L (Denali and Escalade). I want 4WD as well. I'm partial to another 2500 but that's a hit on gas mileage but a simpler and more durable vehicle. Voice your opinion in the poll and comments.
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