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ullose272 I agree DEF got easier since they started putting it at stations, but we still didn't have it at the stations in our area. The GM gauge on the instrument panel is terrible, coupled with he numerous sensor issues made it problematic for us. When you have a sensor go bad, it would pop up on your dash display saying maintenance require, covering up the entire instrument panel. When it takes two weeks to get your truck in for an appointment, that sucks. You can drive it for a while in that state, but each time you get in the truck to go somewhere you get this ominous mileage countdown and from what we were told at our dealer, you don't want to run the truck to the minimum because you will introduce new problems.

My two cents... Well, in February, we traded our 2016 Chevy Colorado with a Duramax in for a 6.2 L 2020 Silverado. Yes, we wanted a bigger truck, but the main reason we traded our Colorado in was we hated the hassles that came with the Duramax engine - DEF fluid and numerous sensor problems. I had discussions with my dealer's mechanic who said everything changed with diesels when the EPA started mandating DEF fluid and having additional sensors for diesel vehicles. They just caused more heartache than they were worth. Thank you Barrack. The truck was almost paid off and really babied. It only had 21K miles on it at trade in as we used it for in and around town driving and working on our farm. Gas milage and power were great; however, dealing with DEF fluid sucked and taking it to the dealer every other week because of a bad sensor really pissed us off as the truck was honestly unreliable. BTW, the big Duramax in the Silverados have even more diesel sensors than the 2.8 that was in our Colorado. We decided to go with something that just burned gas. Granted our new Silverado is the USS Enterprise to the Colorado's space shuttle, but no more aggravation in dealing with the Duramax.