jdelrizzle

Buy back? This would be the second time I've read about this concerning the 2014, I know there's always going to be bugs to be worked out, but bad enough to justify a buy back?

I get it! Crew cabs are built in Mexico, mexicans celebrate cinco de mayo aka may 5th.

Well that's my truck

Hey that's a clean job^^^ the trans cooler that is

You could get a tuner that will allow the fans to be programmed to kick on at a cooler temp, I've read about members on this forum installing an after market trans cooler and a fan with a switch. must be the 4.3 and 4.8 that are programmed that way as far as the fans go, I was thinking maybe its to save fuel, although we've ruled this out as being something that is within the norm, I didn't like it one bit when I had the 4.8.

See the way I know that the fans kick on more often on my 5.3 then they did on my 4.8 is not by the coolant temp gage, but rather the tranny temp gage on the dic. 4.8 I would see the temp rise up to 200 before the fans would kick on, on the 5.3 they'll kick on at about 165/175.

Yep, I came on the forums as well for some guidance, and a bunch of dudes chimed in talking about how they could idle their 5.3 with a towing package all day with the ac on, and the needle will never go past 210, well it's been mentioned here on this forum that the temp gage is nothing more than a dumby gage, it's not very accurate. Take it to the the dealer I guarantee they'll find nothing wrong with it because there is nothing wrong with it…

Ah! I just saw your other post 2013 4.8, well here it goes, this is all from my personal experience with my very own 2011 4.8, now I have a 2009 5.3. I noticed your new truck doesn't have a hitch, well it probably didn't come with a trans cooler either, after only owning my 4.8 for a few days I noticed the exacted same thing on my truck, took it to two different dealers and well they found nothing wrong with it. My current truck doesn't do that the fans kick on way earlier, it does have a trans cooler (external one), the point I'm getting at, is that I believe the load of the tranny is making the coolant temp rise, I remember the tranny gage in the dic read like 200 degrees f going through stop in go traffic in the summer and winter, and that's when the coolant temp would climb past 210. After owning the 4.8 with no auxiliary oil coolers and now having the 5.3 with auxiliary tranny cooler I noticed the tranny runs cooler won't go over 175 f Sorry for writing you a book but as a former 4.8 owner nnbs, I know exactly what your talking about your truck is fine, don't believe me go test drive another 4.8 through stop and go traffic and then let it idle, see how long it takes for the fans to kick on without the ac on. I also believe that on the nnbs the fans on the 5.3 and 4.8 are programmed to kick on at different temps. It annoyed the heck out of but after much research I came to the conclusion that it was perfectly normal

Are we talking about the 2004?