Custom2020T2.7l

Hey guys and gals, I am the proud owner of a Silverado 2020 custom 4x4 with a crew cab and 6.5 feet box. I am a foreman/forest technician for a tree planting company and logging trees in the winter(foreman) in northern Canada. I use the truck for my personal use and for work. The truck has a little over 28k km on it and about 19-20k of it has been on gravel roads, a lot of it on badly maintained or unmaintained road. So far I love the truck and the engine, powerful smooth quite economical driving at very low speed on old logging roads. I've towed trailers without any problems on bad roads, thru mud pits, up steep rocky hill, nothing I threw at it phased it. In short I love that engine. My girlfriend has a Sierra Elevation with a 5.3l engine and going from one to the other doesn't change much from one truck to the other aside from the engine noise and the fact that the 2.7l has more grunt down low. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between both engines in normal or spirited driving. The only things that could be improved are that dreaded 8 spd transmission, when driving normally it work ok but when you step on it, its slow to react and dim witted. The other thing I discovered latter in the season when we had lots of rain is the rear brake get full of dirt and wear prematurely. On that point my personal opinion is the placement of the rear brake which is behind the disk brake. I discover that a lot of dirt gets into every holes around the brake caliper and provoke a premature wear of the brake pads. I think that GM knows about it because they replaced the rear brake pads for free after only 25k km. I'll see how it goes next summer. To finish here is a couple pics of my pride and joy.