When do you throw in the towel?
We have a 2006 Suburban 2500 with the 8.1. It tows like a dream and only has 115k miles on it. The problem? It's age is starting to take it's toll. In addition to having to replace head gaskets ea...
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I had a year where i dumped new injectors, new clutch, new rear driveshaft, new hydro boost pump and a couple other small things into the old Mega cab.
Some things I spent more $ on for better parts that would last longer or make the truck better, and if I had it all done at the dealer, it would have been, idk, probably $10k or more. As it was, I put probably $4k worth of parts in it.
Shoulda traded it in? I'll say no, since that was 5 years ago and since then I've put about $600 into repair parts, which could have been about $40, but the avg life span of the components surrounding the failed one was about up, so buy once cry once.
Point is, it's subjective. The uninformed would have said this truck is junk, dealer charged me $10k this year alone. I can buy a new truck for $9600 a year in payments.
Btw none of this was/is rust related. That adds another level of uncertainty.
Some things I spent more $ on for better parts that would last longer or make the truck better, and if I had it all done at the dealer, it would have been, idk, probably $10k or more. As it was, I put probably $4k worth of parts in it.
Shoulda traded it in? I'll say no, since that was 5 years ago and since then I've put about $600 into repair parts, which could have been about $40, but the avg life span of the components surrounding the failed one was about up, so buy once cry once.
Point is, it's subjective. The uninformed would have said this truck is junk, dealer charged me $10k this year alone. I can buy a new truck for $9600 a year in payments.
Btw none of this was/is rust related. That adds another level of uncertainty.
