mroma23
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I picked up my 2500hdAT4 gas on August 15th, so far very pleased with all aspects of the truck. Took about a week to get used to the size and driving characteristics from my 2014 Sierra 1500, but nothing major, parking and narrow roads are fun. I took the truck on a long trip Monday 8/31 about 600 miles total to the top of Mt. Washington Auto road and back. It got a respectable 15.5mpg all around. I thought that was fair given going up an 8 mile auto road was steep and coming down I was in low gear. The truck rides good and is very comfortable. I just got back from towing my travel trailer for the first time, it is light for this truck at 7700lbs fully loaded, so i would say arounf 55-6000 with all of stuff in it. Truck was confident had plenty of power and had awesome grade breaking compared to the 1500. I got around 9.4mpg for the entire trip, which is ok, i saved 10k from getting a diesel so i knew fuel cost were going to be more. Overall after 1300 miles in about a month I love this truck. Not a lot on the road so it feels unique, gets a bunch of looks and it will be pulling a fifth wheel in the next 18-24 months hopefully. I feel full confident in it's ability, the extra weight and added payload and power are awesome. Like you guys said a mild tune and it will be unbeatable. Mike
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I just picked up my 2500HD AT4 yesterday and plan on getting a fifth wheel in the next 2-3 years. There are plenty of fifth wheels that our trucks are capable of pulling with plenty of left over payload. Grand Design makes at least two or three in the 30-35 foot range. I like the fact that when you know your capabilities and max weights it can limit the amount of options that you can pick from because there are so many options out there. My two cents on toy haulers are you are getting the best of both worlds, RV and a trailer for your gear in one. The toys themselves are heavy so make sure you know that weights of all the stuff going in the toy hauler. Also be aware that toy hauler fifth wheels are designed to have the toys in the back so unloaded tongue weights can be higher than actual weight to make it easier to calculate GVWR. In my estimation you may have to get a smaller toy hauler to stay safe.
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EXACTLY!
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Have to wait till the end of the week, most likely next week to get everything figured out. Service manager is away and general sales manager is in Russia watching the olympics. was there any improvement at all from the new tires?
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Yeah door jam, area behind the door, i guess the sill, or threshold. must be a new england thing
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the build date is on the sticker in the door jam.
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Sorry for you brother, this entire process is so frustrating. I am dealing with GM now, Dealership pretty much said they can not do anything more for me and directed me to go to GM. We talked on friday, idk what the ultimate result is going to be yet, but tomorrow is the day I hope this will all be resolved. Idk if I asked you this yet, but when was your truck built, mine was june 2013. Just curious
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Just an update on my vibration issues, after the bridgestones were installed still vibrates over 60. Not the v4 drone that happens, at least in mine do other people feel that? The vibration is in the steering wheel, and floor, it feels like you are never in a smooth road, ever. Constant vibration in the steering wheel on the highway, over 2k on it and it did since day one, balancing the driveshaft did help a little, but feels like it is coming back. GM field service engineer said it was fixed and now dealership is saying there hands are tied and have to wait to here from district manager to see about a resolution. How would other people describe there vibration? How did they give you on trade?
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went to dealerships today to pick up truck, new bridgestones on it and feels the same. Idk maybe I am crazy ginna have my buddy drive he has a 2014 wt, I am gonna drive his and see if there is a difference Called GM and expressed my utter and complete dissatisfaction with my truck and the entire experience, gotta wait and see now. Took it home because 6-10" of snow coming in tonight, woohoo
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Hi Mark, I am aware of the 4cyl vibration and I can live with that for the mileage it has been getting on the highway best 22.4mpg. The driveshaft and two new tires took care of the floor/seat/gas pedal vibration I will give them that, but there is still a slight vibration in the steering wheel. Idk how they missed or did not address this you only have your hands on the wheel 100% of the time. Do you know what Bridgestones they are getting us? I asked, he was not sure and i was done there. I am hoping they take care of the rest of it for me. Your vibration does sound different than mine, It was always above 50mph for me. No experience with Tundra's, if i were to go another way it would be ford or see how the diesel ram 1500 is. Mike
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Hey Mark, just got back from the dealership, drove home in a nissan rouge. After all that the truck still had a vibration in the steering wheel. It was not awful but there, drove with shop Forman and he felt it, told jeff when we got back. We are going to get rid of the goodyears, for bridgestones. After that there really no other option, also the third attempt is the tires so idk what happens after. Jeff told me that he knew you and I have talked on the forum and understands our frustrations. I lost my cool for a good part of my three our trip and got pretty loud. This is a condensed version of the entire encounter, but it us not perfect as they stated and at this point i will no accept anything but. Message me with questions Mike
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PM26 I agree, tires can and are bad from the factory, when I was a Jaguar tech we used continentals all the time and the cheaper ones seemed to be one out of eight was bad out of the box. Then all of a sudden they were back ordered then boom no more issues once the new ones got there. Just trying to say that these things happen, a couple bad days of tire manufacturing can cause thousands of bad tires. I am truly hoping my truck that i have not even made a payment on and has been in the shop twice is fixed! My only real frustration with the process is that I swore up and down it was tires to the dealer and they told me they checked out good. Now they are bad, but again these things happen. In my short life no matter the make or manufacturer of anything there can and will be issues, I just wish it didn't happen on my truck. But if GM steps up and makes it right, hopefully I will love this truck for a long time Mike
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yeah, I guess that maybe since i had a case open about two weeks ago then they have more freedom. I emailed gm and they called that night, then since it was taking to long to get things done i requested to be transferred to a district manager and she called or emailed jeff and they set the engineer up. We'll see what all this leads to. mike
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To be honest with you Mark, Jeff seems like a reasonable enough guy and actually concerned about fixing this stuff, i would ask to swap wheels and tires from another truck and see how it does in the am after a cold soak, i mean what do they have to loose at this point? just a thought mike
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