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  1. tnchevy
    I think you put too much trust in what GM tells you. There is no such thing as "better quality" tires that GM keeps over what Good Year factory produces and never trust the dealership to do anything right. The SRA's are some of the cheapest tires out there for a reason but GY does make some excellent tires but like most things in life they will cost you more.
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    For drinkable water just carry some iodine tablets or a small water filtration unit, both take up little to no room. As far as your battery goes my work trucks have always had a dual battery setup because we have winches on both the front and rear of our company trucks due to the large amounts of time myself and the other guys/gals I work with are offroad plus we have a radio communications system installed in some trucks. I got a 2018 silvy to replace my 2015 F150 back in the summer and it only has one battery this go around and I have been fine. I only run the winches with the truck running and these newer radio systems do not use up near the electricity they used to but if I forget to turn my radio system off at night I will have a near dead or dead battery the next day.
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    My 14 has tons of pops, cracks, rattles, etc that have been there within a year of when I bought my 14. Some I have remedied on my own, some the dealer fixed under warranty, others I just live with. My 18 work truck that I have had for 6 months now has now creeking and popping sounds yet, again I will never buy a first year model of anything again. It didn't help that my 14 is just not a new year model but that is was made in the first month of production!
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    My 14 does the same thing. I have weird beeps, a strange static noise that come out of my speakers when I open the door, and a backup camera that likes to stay on when the truck is in Drive. These three things are intermittent but have been going on for the last 4 years. The joys of buying an early build of a brand new design truck! I have an 18 base model as my take home company truck and it has none of these issues.
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    Or you could go with a 285/65 18" if you want. I don't think I have ever seen a 265/70 mainly because most go for looks over function and that size will be tall and skinny looking. The 285/65 will give you the same height (32.6") but a wider foot print and will look much better on the truck and will still fit on your stock rims.
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    I just got a 2018 silvy work truck that has the regular shocks while my 14 personal truck has the factory rancho's on it. I will say that I enjoy the highway and around town ride much better on the 18 with the softer shocks. The downside is that I do a lot of off road riding for my job and those soft shocks are terrible for that. I don't do much off roading in my personal truck so I probably would be better off with the the non-rancho shocks.
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    I wish I could just turn off the backup camera. Mine will sometimes not even turn off even after the truck is in Drive and going down the road. Have to pull over, turn off the truck and restart it for it to turn off. I do not depend on the cameras, prefer to use my mirrors anyway.
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    I've owned an 82, 92, 02, and now my 14 silverado and out of the 4 my 2002 was the best one out of the group. Next was my 92 which was about as trouble free as my 2002. It is a close one right now between my 82 and 14 model. The 14 feels like a car when driving down the interstate and has more power than my last three combined but I feel the overall build quality is not even close to my 2002 and 1992 models. I keep my trucks for 10 to 12 years so I got 8 or so to go on my current when so hopefully it will atleast beat out my 82 model which was nothing but trouble.
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    I don't either, what is this guy complaining about?!?! The drink bottle in my Jeep GC shake as much as that and it is one smooth riding vehicle. That is the downside to forums like this, people read something and then go looking for it in their own vehicle and some how find what was non-existent to them.
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    Don't know about the ecoboosts but my last two work truck have been F150's, got rid of my 12 model last year with 150k miles and it was doing fine. That one and my current one both had the 5.0 V8 though. I love my silverado's (owned 4 in a row the last 25 years) but my 2012 and current F150 work trucks have never been back to the dealer but my 14 has been back about a dozen times over mainly recalls but for a few other things (including the shake). I still would probably buy another chevy when it is time to move on which is about every 10 years for me but it would not bother me to look at a Ford either.
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    This being my third Z71 over the years I was dissapointed in the skid protection offered by GM for their "off road" truck but I knew it when I bought the truck and I knew I would eventually have to do something about it. The skid plate kit is adequate but as mentioned above the gas tank could use something if your going to be in an area with large sharp rocks. The whole kit (which is what I bought) came with the front, middle, and transfer case skid plate. The Z71's already come with the transfer case plate so I sold it on fleabay. The kit also comes with all the bolts you will need which are pricey on their own, about $8 a piece. I also own a base model Jeep GC Laredo with the off road package and it came with thick steel plates that run the whole length of the vehicle. How come Fiat can come closer to making a grocery getter a more off road capable vehicle than GM can with their trucks?
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    They will give you better protection but not great, the replacement skid plates are thin aluminum. They are about half the thickness of the ones that came stock on my 2002 Z71 but they are better than nothing. On a side note, if you considering your truck an investment then I have bad news for you, it is a terrible investment because it will always be worth less than you paid for it.
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    Went 11 years and 125k miles on the OEM battery in my 2002 silvy! Started getting worried at the 10 year mark and carried one of those booster box's with me and sure enough it crapped out across the road from an Autozone of all places. My jeep GC is also going to be a pain to change when the time comes, it is under the passenger seat and is about 30% bigger than a regular sized battery.
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    I am on my second F150 work truck with the cap-less fuel tank and never had a problem with anything getting into it. Since the 2019 looks more like the F150 then maybe GM should have done a better job copying the cap-less fill area!
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    This is nothing new and has been mentioned multiple times in this thread. Works for some but not for others.
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    When the 2014's came out they called for 8.5 qts of oil but was later changed to 8 quarts I think due to the oil being over the top of the fill mark. It is safe to say then that putting in 8.5 qts is not really over filling it because that was what the engines were originally filled with in 2014.
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    At the rate I drive my truck it will take me 15 years to hit 100K! The upside (or downside, according to how you look at it) of taking the company truck home, only drive on the weekends. I got rid of my 2002 at 12 years old and 125K miles (drove that truck more early on) and it was in great shape mechanically but the body was rusting off of the frame by the time I got rid of it. I just hope my 14 can fend off the rust better than my last one did. Just hit 21k over the weekend and truck has been fine over the last 3 years except for the crappy FM radio.
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    Ford has been "piping" in the V8 rumble through a speaker for years now on their mustangs and maybe the trucks.
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    I know what the purpose here is as I dealt with and kept up with this problem longer than most that are still visiting this thread. After 4 model years people are still buying and GM is still selling 3/4 of a million of these things a year. If vibe problems are so wide spread how come they are still selling these trucks? How come there has not been a successful lawsuit? The reason is that it effects so little trucks. If 1% are effected than that is 7,000 or so trucks a year and that would be about 28,000 over the last 4 years. I think that it is strange that some people including your self claim that every body you talk to has a vibe problem while myself and others can't find any body with the vibe problem (outside of the internet). There will never be a real fix from GM for those effected and they will probably remedy it when the truck is re-designed. If re-balancing or new tires won't fix and you can't stand it then your best bet is to move on to something else or continue coming back to this thread just hoping there is a miracle fix but after 4 years there has not been one yet.
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    Joined this forum because of my chevy shakes 3 years ago. Followed this thread since the beginning and of course the only people chiming in are the ones with troubles. On the road a lot for my job so asked hundreds of 2014+ silverado owners I have met in the last 3 years and every single one of them said they had no vibration problems. My company now has more than 50 2014 + silverados in our fleet and I have asked all the guys who drive them if they have vibe problems and all of them say no. Re-balancing the tires took care of half my shakes and over the last 25k miles they have lessened to some degree. I see you only have 2 posts so that means you joined because you have the vibe problems and you are pissed off about it but just because yours has problems does not mean the other 3 million K2's on the road have them. You can choose to believe that every truck has or will have the same problem as yours or you can face reality and do what you can to fix it or move on to another brand of truck. Best of luck to you.
  21. tnchevy
    Is this a serious post?? Have you not read through the nearly 800 pages of this thread? I can sum it up for you. Tires re-balanced fix alot of them, some get the rear end replaced and it helps, some the vibes go away over time others they get worse over time. This effects a very small amount of people who own these trucks (me being one of them). Your options are 1) try everything that has been discussed in these 800 pages 2) trade your truck in on another GM or a different brand 3) live with it. This may sound blunt but that is how it is. Go to another brand truck forum and look under their "issues" thread and you will find problems there as well.
  22. tnchevy
    Guys, don't you know that your not supposed to feed the troll?
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    They have fords in their fleets because they were the lowest bid, it has nothing to do with which truck is better. My company puts out bids every year and purchases 50 to 75 new trucks a year and we do it at one time. Send the bid info to all the dealerships in the city where my company is located and take the lowest bid. It usually either ford or chevy but sometimes a dodge dealer will win the bid. I have had all 3 in my many years at my job and we don't treat them very nice and at the end of the day it boils down to none are better than the other. We've had good and bad in all of them, some model years are better than others, etc but with all 3 you get the same, a truck that is made cheaper every year but costs more. The grass may be greener on the other side but often times it is not.
  24. tnchevy
    TSB doesn't mean squat if you are out of warranty which most 2014's are by now. That rust is not the end of the world, my ford work truck looks just as bad. It is surface rust and as mentioned it would be a very long time before it would be a problem.
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    The problem with those sites and others like them is that the majority of people who respond are those with issues. GM puts out nearly half a million of these trucks per year so that is about 2 million of the K2's are on the road. Out of that 2 million the majority are pretty happy with their trucks but about 5% are not and if 1% of those get on one of those sites and complains that is 20,000 complaints which would look like all K2's have issues.
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