MDSilveradoGuy

Why are you posting in this thread?

It's hard to discount something that doesn't exist. They're not that prevalent out, yet. Mine was #2 for my dealer - right behind their demo, which sold the day after I drove it and ordered my truck.

I will keep my fingers crossed for you! I got pretty close to KBB for mine, which I was surprised at - particularly since it was an absurdly rare manual trans equipped truck. I figured they would nail me on it but they didn't. They complained more about my 20% tint than they did the clutch pedal. Mine was a 2015 2WD WT Extended Cab with every option except the appearance package and 75K miles and I got $11,500 for it, IIRC. CSX owned it before me, and there was some rail dust in the paint, a couple of dents in the tailgate and a healthy ding in the driver's rear door.

I went from a Trifecta tuned 2.5L 6 speed manual 2015 Colorado to my 2.7L RST. They are night and day different. It has the torque curve of a diesel and pulls like one from down low riding on turbo boost. It doesn't need to be wound out like the 2.5 to make its power, and in fact it doesn't exactly want to rev.

I'm an odd bird - I would have snatched up a 2.7L High Country or Denali in a heartbeat if I could. I originally wanted the Duramax but got tired of waiting - and I needed more capability and room than my Colorado had.

One would think... there are a lot of poor decisions GM is making with these trucks.

I have a fully loaded RST with the 2.7, including leather. You can equip them quite well. You just can't get a GMC with leather and the 2.7.

I have the Bakflip, and I have the exact same lifting. Mine leaks, but not too badly. I am going to give this a try and see if it helps.

Thank you. You dissected something that made me recoil and need a beer.

*yawn* I’m done with you. Continue to be a sad forum troll in a thread that your nonsensical ramblings aren’t welcome.

*shrug* Your ignorance is your bliss. You can't compare the NVH, power profile or drivability of a large bore, long stroke 4 cylinder with a 5,600RPM redline to another 4 cylinder of dissimilar specification. Again, what I do know. I only have 2 engineering degrees, a background in automotive engineering, have been a member of the Society of Automotive engineers for 20 years. Oh, and I actually own the engine... Sounds like an armchair review to me.

Yes - I get the rumble. I have a 2.7, so I am not sure if it is running on 2 of 4 cylinders at that point but it is annoying as all hell. At this point I am blaming it on the 8 speed. What engine/trans do you have?

I took a risk in doing it. I have zero concerns with the durability of the engine itself, personally. It's about the most overbuilt thing I have seen - it's the stupid accessories/electrical that make me cringe. Well, that and the horrid transmission that I have grown to hate.

+1 on the being off topic. Unfortunately every thread about it gets dragged down the same hole by ignorance. I will say this about my case - I gave them ample opportunity, I told them I just wanted it fixed right (not to have a 1 month old truck with a hacked up harness), they refused. They ran themselves out of time, I asked for them to replace or buy back the truck and they declined - in spite of the letter of the law being on my side. I sued - and could have forced a buyback, however in MD the manufacturer can keep up to 15% of the MSRP back to cover costs. We went back and forth and I ended up getting enough of a settlement that I can walk away from this truck in December/January when the diesel GC comes out and not lose any money. They screwed me up front, but I feel like I won in the end. Every 2-3 years I buy myself a new GM truck, and in the past 3 years I've bought a Colorado and 2 Cruzes (1 for mom, 1 for us). Because of one smarmy engineer, GM lost quite a bit of revenue from this 1 customer. Granted it is a drop of mist in a bucket but it is something. To the OP's point - if GM will replace it with the later harness (which has an updated part number), I would bet it would solve all of the issues. At the beginning of my saga, the part number was the same - and during this fiasco it changed, but GM wouldn't reverse course and put the proper part in.

To each his own. One could bring up 5.3 piston slap into your argument. Lines like "Every time I have driven a 4 cylinder car with a few thousand miles on it.. they rattle and vibrate and sound like heck" are ridiculous. "Nope." ? The ignorance of armchair reviewers never ceases to crack me up.

There is also a standalone Spotify app available on the uplevel head units.

I think we need to clarify - are you talking about the downloaded Spotify app on the headunit, or are you talking about Spotify within Carplay/Android Auto from an attached iPhone/Android?

I'm the one with the PIT5677 harness issue. I deposited my settlement check from GM into the bank Monday from my out of court settlement over their refusal to replace the harness, only repair it. They are losing a lifelong GM customer over this - but I digress. The engine harness pulls too tight over the cam cover, and there is a boss where one of the cam cover bolts goes which will rub through the harness and short it out. In the case of mine, it shorted out hard enough to blow the 400A fuse the first time - but not before backfeeding current through the TCM apparently. When it wasn't fixed right the first time by their TSB, it blew the fuse again and took out the ECM, starter motor, and something else. GM brought an engineer in who pointed out a second area, apparently not covered in the TSB, where mine had rubbed through. Instead of replacing the harness, the harness was spliced more and wrapped in more tape. The 2.7 is a phenomenal engine, and quite frankly all of this "I have to have a V8 in a truck" is nothing but nonsense. It has more horsepower and torque than a previous generation 5.3. Those who refer to it as "kludgey" have no common sense about modern engine design, particularly when bringing up balance shafts as a demerit, and then go on to refer to one of the largest 4 cylinders on the market as a "small 4 cylinder". The engine is not the letdown. The transmission mated to it is the work of Satan, and the lack of support from the manufacturer is disgusting.

Is there anything about these trucks you won't be an ass backwards curmudgeon about?

www.lemonlaw.com This whole engineering denial of replacing parts business rather than listening to the dealerships who are actually working on the vehicle needs to stop. In the end, it's costing them more money and customers.

Nope - it very much feels/runs like a diesel in terms of power output and willingness to rev.

The 2.7 redlines at 5,600 and you have to wail on it to make it get up there. It has the audible qualities of a Hyster forklift running across a factory at speed when wound up. Its not not what I would call an enthusiast’s engine for someone who likes to wind them out. I can’t believe GM is going to try putting it in a Cadillac.

Nothing that I have heard of. I'm not sure how good it would sound, to be honest. It breathes pretty well, stock. The 2.7 has a prominent exhaust note resonating from the downpipe, but not much at the tip. It spends a lot of its time at low RPM and in boost, quietly grumbling away under the hood. It doesn't like to rev - I could imagine that anything aftermarket is going to just be a loud buzz when you do get the revs up. It's got more than enough power for anything most people would throw at it - I tow ~4,500lb every weekend and not once has it ever felt like it was having to work hard. You can tell how flat the torque curve is by the way it drives - it feels lazy until you look at the speedometer and realize the rate at which you are accelerating - it's a bit anticlimactic and just goes.

There is a hardware difference. IOT has additional memory over IOS. That memory is for applications and other data, however Nav will work with either.

It is compatible with the 2019s as long as you have the Infotainment Plus system (Comes with Convenience II, which IIRC from the other thread, you have?). It involves a service visit to flash the cluster and infotainment, plus the SD card. It works without the subscription - you just won't get the other information. I keep going back and forth on adding it, myself. I hate Waze but I use it because of the Police and Traffic alerts - but I would really like to have the speed limit in the cluster. I already pay for 4g, so that is a bonus for me.