Acpantera

We have a front camera on the wife's car, I've seen the sprayers go on, and Delta advertises the under-carriage spray as part of the basic super kiss. We use the new one on Transit in Depew.

I live in the WNY area as well(60 years), I never bother with extra rust proofing products anymore. Best thing you can do is keep it clean, and we are very fortunate to have the best car wash chain north America in our area. Buy a Delta Sonic Super Kiss Unlimited wash plan, For about 30 a month you can get your vehicle washed every day and breeze buy the sales people. We've been members for about 20 years, and our cars have no rust anywhere. I keep my vehicles about 4-5yr and wife keeps them 7-8yr. The basic Super Kiss wash does a good under spray rinse every time and our cars are shiny as new at trade in time. You also get a discount on gas if you're a member.

Getting good life out of the tread? Did you notice any difference in MPG?

Thanks, but I'm a highway truck kinda guy, the most off roading I do is driving across the lawn to park my sled trailer in the back yard....lol.

The Bridgestone Alenza tires that came on my RST 4x4 have been "just ok", currently I have about 23,000 miles on them and they have 6/32" left on them. Normally I like to use my tires down to the wear bars(I'll run these till December), but I use this truck to tow my snowmobile to snow country and these tires were barely ok when new. Not really a many choices in this 22" and I really don't want a snow tire, just a good all season. Goodyear has a new "Wrangler Steadfast HT" in my size and it has a good UTQG of 800AB but not many reviews on it yet. If you're running 22 inchers on you vehicle, I'd like your input on what you may have bought, I don't go off road, but I do encounter some snowy roads for a few hundred miles a season. Thanks

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Can't go wrong with M1 oils, I've been using it since the 80's in practically all automotive and small engines(lawnmower, snowblower, generator, motorcycles and 4stroke snowmobiles) with no issues. When draining the oil out of your 2.7 I highly recomend draining into a 5 gallon bucket, oil comes out fast and furious from the ginormous drain hole, and it keeps the splash contained, trust me on this one.

"Tux Mat" for me in the winter time, and carpeted floor mats in the other three seasons. Rubber mats always make me think "cheap" and this truck was not cheap....My bed is even more "trunk like", as it has a hard cover and a Bedrug.

I'd much rather pull with a turbo engine. My brother has a 26' camper, a few years ago we used his Tundra 5.7 v8 to tow to Indy, the next year towed the same trailer to Indy, but with his new F150 with the bigger turbo v6. The turbo pulled much easier, less rpm and didn't sound like it was screaming out of the engine compartment like the tundra did. Fuel mileage was about the same, but the drive was just more relaxed. I for one would rather have the 2.7 vs the 5.3 to tow, especially if towing into altitude, a naturally aspirated engine looses 3% of power every 1,000 ft of altitude, the turbo engine won't. That means a lot when climbing over 5,000+ ft.

So power is more than adequate, but you should have weight distribution bars over 5,000lbs. Proves again the 2.7 is an over achiever.

I personally have not seen any real high mile ones yet, mine only has 20,000m on it and it's been a good trouble free engine. There have been some reported near 100,000m with out issue. I can only imagine the amount of sweat the engineers put into a 4cyl meant to power GM's best selling vehicle, full size trucks. GM knew it would be heavily criticized, so it's well built and extensively tested. No worries, If the truck is in good over all condition and it's a decent price, buy it.

I personally have not seen any real high mile ones yet, mine only has 20,000m on it and it's been a good trouble free engine. There have been some reported near 100,000m with out issue. I can only imagine the amount of sweat the engineers put into a 4cyl meant to power GM's best selling vehicle, full size trucks. GM knew it would be heavily criticized, so it's well built and extensively tested. No worries, If the truck is in good over all condition and it's a decent price, buy it.

My suspension is stock height.

I have been considering a rear bar for my 21RST, The Hellwig 7780 seems like the go to, although it's $700. The Belltech 5519 looked like an alternative at $300, but Belltech states theirs is for lowered suspensions only (flipped springs?). I don't see why it wouldn't work on a standard set up, I like how it's anchored to the frame better than the Hellwig deal. Has anyone installed the Belltech 5519???

I've done 5 oil changes so far on mine, same oem plug, no problems. Would you mind telling us what the oil change place charged for the new plug?