The worst of the used trucks

larry barnhart wrote:
we just arrived back to Az driving an 05 duramax in most conditions that are possible and still tell my wife what a great truck. Almost 100K miles. The list has it as not a great truck. What ever I guess!!

chevman

Larry the way you maintain your RV and truck they could be the biggest dogs and still last forever!

I have seen them they look new!!!

That article was just like EVERY "clickbait" auto-related article.
All are written by people who know absolutely nothing about the subject at hand.
Including, clearly, this one.

FishOnOne wrote:
I started reading it and got bored after page 3. Incorrect data collection methods can give false results. Ask Hillary!

I agree on all counts.

That was a funny article. At least the author didn't play favorites.

2004 Ram 1500. purchased New.

a junk truck and the warranty was completely useless.

7 year, 70,000 miles was a LIE...

Rust , Paint, Front wheel bearings, Rear differential, Transmission, electronic fuse box.

sold the truck at 50,000 miles for almost Nothing.

FishOnOne wrote:
I started reading it and got bored after page 3. Incorrect data collection methods can give false results. Ask Hillary!

She would still disagree with you!

Thunderbolt wrote:

There are bad apples in every batch. I have a lot of issues with silverado as well.It doesn't mean they are all bad. All new vehicles have problems.

It's expected to have some problems with new cars, but there are exceptions to the status quo. When it came to the 2002, there were so many bad apples you can just say that it was a bad batch. Lots of the issues I had were not exclusive to a handful of trucks. Some of the issues were across the board. Bad designs and poor quality parts. There's lots of them out there that's still running including my old truck, but they've got their problems.

01 F150 4.6L, junk. Several coil failures, each one expensive. Rusting door bottoms due to bad epoxy that absorbed water.

04 F150 4.6L, seems good, I sold it to a relative and he has 170K on it.

04.5 Duramax, bone stock, torque converter went out at 100K or so. Lots of typical GM truck minor hardware and electrical gremlins. Engine is good.

Employee's late 2000's Dodge 1500, needed complete front end rebuild at 75K miles. Cost something like $2000. He uses it like a car.

When I compare these trucks to our Honda and Toyota cars and SUVs, there is just no comparison quality wise.

If the 2000-2006 Silverado durama x is one of the worst, I can't image what a Best would be like. My 04.5 now has 160K miles on it and has yet to have ANY even minor repairs or issues. Just the maitenance schedule in the book. Even has the original brake pads, which still have close to 50 percent of the pad left.

No squeaks, not rattles, paint looks new, interior looks almost new, in fact the factory leather seats are just starting to show minor wear.

Now compare to my experience with the so called paragon of excellence and top rate mfg honda.


we had two honda accords, DD had a civic. got rid of all of them before 100K miles, and all of them had major non warranty mechanical failures we had to pay for. Two AC compressors, ABS module, radiators, ignition coil packs. egr failures resulting in engine stalling. leather interior cracking looking terrible were just the tip of the iceberg in problems not covered by warranty.

These three hondas cost us more in repairs and down time than a s10 after 250K miles, a GMC full sized van after 180K miles, a pontiac after 180K miles, a mercedes after 160K miles and another mercedes after 90K miles and our Silverado after 160K miles.

The VW we had was in the same class as the honda's.

So, if the silverado is bottom of the heap where does that put the honda's.???

we just arrived back to Az driving an 05 duramax in most conditions that are possible and still tell my wife what a great truck. Almost 100K miles. The list has it as not a great truck. What ever I guess!!

chevman