Philosking

From what I have learned about the Ford 3.5L is that the problems did exist, probably just like this batch of Silvers, in the beginning. Especially with the miosture like with Snarkee stated but I made sure to speak with people in high miosture areas that are driving Eco's now from the 2013 batch and they say it running fnatastic. All vehciles have the potential for problems, I agree 100%. My goal is walk in with my eyes wide open and try not to become one of those consumers with buyers remorse. I plan on holding on to this truck for about 10-15 years so reliability is number. After that comes fuel consumption and that is why I am shying away from the 5.0L but do like the the thought of the Silverado at 17 in city. Talked to my buddy, who is the salesman at the dealership, and he has been asking around at the delaership and reading about the issue here online. He is getting the never heard of this story. I should say that the model I test drove never vibrated even when I punched it and drove it at or above 65 mph on the freeway. Matter of fact the ride was one of the smoothest I have felt in a truck, even better than the ford.

Thanks for the reply gdadlow and pm26. The price of the rig I was looking at was about 2K below invoice and it meets all of my check boxes but after reading all of this crap it looks like I will have to shell out more money for a ford. Especially when the poll on how you like your truck includes comments to the effect of "I love it but could do without the vibration." Makes me think someone is not being honest with themselves. Just to play devils advocate for the moment. What is the difference between the AFM and Ecoboost? Don't they do they same thing just in different ways?

I have to say, as someone that was/is considering a new 2014 Silver, this thread is not instilling a lot of confidence in the purchase. Disliked this brand because of my impression of loose steering, prefer the stiffer Ford steering, until my buddy talked me into testing this years rig, much better. Still looser than Ford but perfectly fine. Now I find this thread and another one, on a different forum, that is double in size. Cut the plastic skid plate seems to be the only solution I have actually seen out of all that I have read. I know some people have different issues or solutions but this one could be a universal solution. Which begs the question as to how this even became an issue, should this not have shown up in the wind tunnel testing? What engineer was sitting behind the wheel doing the observation? Lastly, someone please confirm how they would suggest go about making sure they would minimize the grief endured regarding this or any other of the issues that are repetitively popping up. I was shocked at the service guy who denied a customer service when figuring the dealer had done all they could do to troubleshoot the problem. I would pulled the guys tonsils out and then screamed for a lemon law. With all the crap GM is going through right now the product quality inspection would be a ton better. We bailed your asses out as a country so you could offer us overly inflated products. If I move forward with this purchase the dealership better be prepared to offer a very sweet, I mean sweet, deal on an extended warranty.