Just totaled my tahoe and I am looking for a crew cab pick up. Lots of trucks in the 11-14 range of similar price. (with the new body styles being a click more expensive)
I don't know what an lml is, but I assume you got another diesel?
I'm not towing as often as a lot of you guys so the half ton has plenty of power for me. I've put a few pretty heavy loads of firewood behind it already, but only towed from the neighbors house home, but I was very satisfied with the way my 09 with 6 speed towed, so should be just fine with this one.
I do like the bluetooth set up, my only previous blue tooth experience was in our Focus's and both of those were kinda shitty. This set up works well. Our new Impreza has bluetooth as well and the chevy is a little easier system to navigate.
You're pickier than I am about everything in life, so no surprise you didn't like something about it.
the 09 I had with the 6 speed was a bit goofy. I'll admit, this one is goofier, it's like the first 25% of pedal travel does almost nothing in traffic. Like if you are coasting along and then traffic picks back up you have to give it more gas then it seems like you should. The shifting is a little weird from time to time in similar situations, but in all other situations it seems to function as it should.
I have about 1,000 miles on the new truck. I've seen as high as 22 mpg for a few highway stretches, and as low as 15 around town and using it to move some firewood around the yard.
I just drove to Chattanooga area and back. 75 in michigan, 5 over in Ohio down i-75 (so anywhere from 55-75 mph depending on speed limit or construction zones), cruise set at 78 in Kentucky and TN, then 2 days of back woods mountain roads, then home tonight, (around the i-75 rock avalanche on 55-65mph roads through the hills) then 78 again on I-75 and back through ohio.
Round trip I averaged 19.8 mpg. Best 400 mile span was 22mpg, it shows best 25 and 50 mile spans as well, but that's kinda useless (though both were over 25 mpg I think).
I was pretty impressed with the mileage considering i wasn't driving super slow, and passed a ton of people on the back roads.
The new GM trucks seem to get good fuel mileage. Latest review on pickup trucks.com had the 6.2l 8sp and 5.3l 8 sp getting almost the same mileage unloaded and towing. Impressive.
Yeah it hit 26 on a 50 mile span and over 28 on a 25 mile span (I checked after posting). I was pretty impressed with the 19-20 overall trip mileage, that's 4-5 mpg higher than my 09 and my 08 tahoe were able to get on similar road trips.
Damn it, good thread. 14+ tahoe seeing similar improvements? I drove my Dad's 15 crew 1500 for a weekend and promptly returned it because I knew I'd end up buying one if I kept driving it much longer. Need the seating now though. How did the 08 do?
I found a 13 with the 6.2, but it's only extended cab and I don't see anyone over 5'2" riding back there. Trans logic was fine, steering wheel was shit and the tires were loud, but other than that it seemed fine. But I still think a certain truck made in Texas is better for me.
Averaged 22.1 mpg on the 401 in Canada on our way to Niagara Falls at 111 km/h. Got fuel in Buffalo and averaged 19.8 mpg on our way back through the rust belt at 79 mph. I did slow down to go through the cameras at the toll booths. And I had a toolbox in the back, not sure if it has much of a change on aerodynamics. The tooling around Niagara-on-the-lake and both sides of the falls it averaged in the 20s but it gets great mileage at low speeds and the traffic lights were timed like Detroit so you pretty much never stop.
This winter's fuel economy has been pretty bad... 16.5ish average for the last 5000ish mile oil change. But, after analysis, it seems that LaFontaine Buick GMC in Ann Arbor put 5w30 in it instead of the 0w20 it's supposed to have. And, since I did the last oil change myself with Mobil1 0w20, it has been averaging 19ish but I wonder if the changeover from winter blend fuel to summer blend fuel happened also. Some of that difference is due to liberal application of the remote start. Except when it was on the 5w30, usually when I turn it off it shows 20.something mpg on the DIC and when I get in it to drive it after a remote start it shows 16.something. It slowly climbs back to 20.something. The DIC is optimistic by ~.5mpg pretty much all the time. Driving up and down M52 at 62mph it usually says it averages in the 22-26mpg range and usually it does hand calculate to that but as soon as you start/stop/start while going through places like Stockbridge or Perry the fuel economy plummets back to 19-20 pretty much immediately.
My best fuel economy to date was 28.8 mpg for 25 miles on the DIC and 26.something mpg for 63 miles hand calculated.
It doesn't seem to be getting as good of fuel economy as some of my coworkers with 2015 and 2016 5.3L trucks (within 1mpg, but they either drive slower or live in town) but I still see no reason to buy a 5.3L.
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