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First thing I picked up on is towing in the mountains, where are you located? Higher elevations work against a NA gas motor. I drive a '13 2500HD 6.0 as a daily driver, it is hard on fuel, but not as hard as I expected, averaging around 12-13mpg depending on how much idling time in traffic. On the highway (empty) is gets 15-16mpg. Towing would be another story, especially if you start pushing the tow weight up towards 10,000#. Really going to come down to your budget.

Just make sure the truck you are looking at has 3.42 gears, not the 3.08's. 3.08's are manageable on the highway but cause too much hunting on rural roads where you are driving in that 45mph range and down.

Mine was consistently going non-functional. It either wouldn't connect to my IPhone or wouldn't have any sound. Had this issue with my '15 Silverado and the '12 Cadillac SRX that I had prior.

I'm a Chevy, Ford and Dodge guy, have had all three brands over the years. Last three (02 Silverado, 05 Avalanche, 15 Silverado) were GM, prior was a 96 F150 before that was a 88 Dodge 2500, before that was a 78 Jeep PU. Each one was a little nicer. I need to see the 19 GM's in person, but from pics the 19 Ram styling is where they should've taken the GM. Having a real hard time with the narrow lights on the GM and the fender curves.

Was at the Phila Auto Show yesterday. I do like the '19 Ram. Styling is cleaner and more crisp than the next generation Silverado and Sierra, I particularly like how they brought the front bumper back in some as opposed to being so pronounced on the outgoing model. 12" touchscreen, I could take that or leave it, I'm good with 8" screen. 5.7L is a good compromise between GM''s 5.3 and 6.2. Cab on the crew cab is huge. Rarely have more than two people in my DC (hardly ever anyone in the back seat) but now realize the benefits of a crew cab just for hauling cargo. Storage bins in the floor are a nice touch. Lot of nice features. Having had an "05 Avalanche for 8 years, RamBox would be nice to have although in the Avalanche only thing that I ever carried in those compartments were the drawbar, crossbar and ratchet straps. If low cost option it's a maybe but not a must have at a couple grand.

I haven't seen interior of the next Silverado/Sierra, dash treatment on the Tahoe/Yukon is nice and would be just enough added style if this is what it was getting

Couldn't agree more, absolutely a supercharger is hands down going to add power. Cam, headers and converter route should be a lot less $$$.

Right converter for the setup does not do that. 9.5" or 10" converter set up to stall at 3000 or higher absolutely would suck in a truck. 12"-13" towing converter set up to stall at 2200-2400 will not. Worse thing you can do is install a bigger cam with a stock converter. To each his own. Just making suggestions on first hand experience. Forget I even mentioned a higher stall converter. What the OP should do is go ahead, install a cam with a lumpy idle, then we can sit back and wait for the new threads to appear. "Help, can't get motor to idle in gear"; "Help, changed cam, truck is slower" http://www.coanracing.com/converters.html

I understand that John, just wanted to input that when dealing with the weight of a truck it takes a large power increase to notice a difference. First thing I would do (don't laugh) is higher stall converter. I had Coan build me a 2600 stall towing converter for one of the 454 builds for the Chevelle. Was great, allowed the motor to get into the fat of the power curve a lot quicker then very little slippage. Not saying you need to spend big money on a converter, but if you've ever ran an automatic with a higher stall, you'd know what I mean. Not talking about a 9.5" racing converter, but a good 11" unit. That's absolutely something to be considered, especially if you want to install a little more cam.

You're going to spend a bunch of money and barely notice any power increase. Anything less than 100 hp increase in a full size truck, you'll barely notice the difference. Give you an example. Had a '69 Chevelle SS (4,000# car). First motor was a 396 putting out about 400HP. Ran ok but nothing special. Swapped that out to a 454 putting out 500HP. Now we're getting somewhere. Next up was 468" motor pushing 575HP. Basically ran the same ET/MPH as the 500HP motor, little faster, but surprisingly that extra 75 HP wasn't night and day. Last iteration was a 540" BBC dyno'd at 705HP. Now that made a difference. Point being, when you say you really want to add some power think 100HP. JMHO.

My '15 has 59,000 on it. Lifter failed at about 10,000 miles. Truck was leased for 39 months, lease is up in February. I'm debating on whether to buy it out or just turn it in and pay the penalties. Reliability is a concern. AFM was deactivated via reprogram at about 20,000 miles. Difference in running in AFM and without was about .75 mpg loss overall. Seemed the truck was rarely in V-4 mode for long anyway.

Put these on the 2500HD last week, only about 300 miles so far. Compared to the Bridgestone Duravis M700 that came on the truck OEM these are night and day. Duravis had 32500 miles on them, fronts were technically a little over 3/32" but had no siping left at all, center treads were solid rib treads. Rears had 5/32" left, about 2/32" of the block tread left. BS's overall appeared much narrower, and were very rough ride with terrible wet handling. AT/3's ride3 nice, are quiet, and so far were good in the 4" snowfall we just had, to the point where I just drove the truck in 4x2. AT/3's are much wider overall. I realize we went from a worn commercial grade LT tire to an all terrain LT tire, but still big difference. We'll see how they hold up.

Guess I should have opened the owners manual! You guys were talking engine hours and trans temps, didn't even know those settings were available. 2311 hours / 58,600 miles Approx 25 mph average. Kinda funny, cause my wife commutes 8 miles one way (teacher). Drives a Volvo XC60 with a 3.0 turbo'd straight 6, that I kid you not is fast. She putts along at the speed limit (roads she travels on are 45 mph max), factoring in lights, stop signs, etc, the car is averaging 19 mph. I really would've thought my average speed was a lot higher than 25 mph. Thanks for enlightening me.

Where's the hour meter? Mine's at 58600 miles

I put a set of the chrome wheel skins on my '15. May get a set of black also for a different look. Chrome ones are made with retainer behind the lug nut, have to loosen the lugs, pop cap on then retighten the lug. Black ones show a retainer tab at the spoke. I'm assuming one of these was a redesign, wonder which design will stay on better. https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-New-2014-18-SILVERADO-1500-18-Chrome-Wheel-Skins-Hub-Caps-Aluminum-Rim-Covers-/231839999317?vxp=mtr&hash=item35fabda555 https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-GLOSS-BLACK-14-18-SILVERADO-TAHOE-18-Wheel-Skins-Hub-Caps-Aluminum-Rim-Covers-/221696137312?vxp=mtr&hash=item339e1e9860