superdave160

My son and I both bought new trucks in 2017. Both of us immediately put Truck Covers USA American Roll Covers on our trucks. My son still has his truck and it never sees the inside of a garage. We live in Alabama, so not much snow. My truck was my daily driver and was in the garage when I wasn't driving it or at work. No issues with either cover even after almost 9 years. About a year ago I sold my truck to my brother and bought a 2025 Silverado 2500. The second thing that I put on that truck was a new Truck Covers USA cover. They are very well made and have a very positive locking system. I looked at a Retrax and my concern was the way that the cover locked to the rail. BTW, the first thing I put on the new truck was step bars. Those new trucks are high!

The Allison 10 speed torque converter doesn't "lock up" like the previous transmissions. It has 4 operational modes; open, slip, transition from open to slip; transition from slip to open. I have an Edge CTS3 monitor and I monitor transmission torque converter slip. Step on the gas and you get a little slip. Take your foot off the gas and you get a little negative slip. I have not found a way to display the torque converter mode beyond that. My Edge CTS3 also displays something that our trucks should already display, the current gear. I also monitor throttle body position and engine load. If I see the engine load getting too high, I'll manually drop a gear.

Pictures for the steering wheel.

I have an instrument cluster and steering wheel from a 2017 Silverado WT. Both were removed when I upgraded to the Denali cluster. The instrument cluster is the most basic cluster that was installed in these trucks, and the steering wheel is basic as well. The steering wheel has cruise control buttons, but no buttons for the Display Information Center or radio controls. I do not need them any more and was about to throw them in the trash. I'll keep them for a little longer just in case someone on here wants them. I'm letting the items go for free, you just have to pay shipping. The cluster worked when removed and has been stored in a box since then. Let me know if you want them!

Look at these: Search on "Denali cluster". There's a lot to read in there about this.

I had a 2017 Silverado WT and I installed the Denali cluster and replaced the steering wheel to add the additional controls. The original steering wheel was the base wheel, I replaced it with a leather wrapped wheel. I believe that I had to add some wires to make it work, but it has been a few years. If you search on my name, you should be able to find the post that I wrote detailing the installation. I bought a programmed cluster from WAMS. For what its worth, you can also upgrade the radio so that it communicates with the cluster. I'm pretty sure that WAMS can help you with that as well. I didn't go that route, I replaced my base level radio with an Alpine unit. Because I had an aftermarket radio, there were a couple things that didn't display on the cluster because that data comes from the radio. The compass heading, for instance.

5 3/4 inches wide and just over 3 inches high

Harbor Freight has an attractive alternative. It has adapters for a variety of cars. Includes a reservoir so you can pour a quart in there and let it drain while you open another one.

I just noticed that your truck is a 2021. I don't know if they have front bumper light mounts for the new style Chevy/GMC trucks. I now have a 2025 2500 and I've been looking for bumper mounted light bar mounts for it and they don't appear to have them yet.

This is the website for the kit that I purchased. The picture below is my truck. https://zroadz.com/i-23909934-2016-2018-chevrolet-silverado-1500-front-bumper-top-led-kit-with-1-30-inch-led-straight-double-row-light-bar-pn-z322082-kit.html

The Harness Dr. sells conversion harnesses for upgrading mirrors. I went from power adjust/heated mirrors to tow mirrors that were power adjust, heated, turn signal, and reverse lights. I could have also added power fold but I didn't want that. I installed the mirrors and installed the harness that I got from the Harness Dr. and everything worked.

I had a front bumper mounted light bar from ZRoadz on my 2017 Silverado. It was easy to install and worked great.

I took it into the dealer yesterday and they confirmed that this is "normal." I don't know why an OEM would put untreated/unpainted steel under a new truck but that is where we are. There are some good suggestions above and I will decide what to do about it in the near future.

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