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Just got my 2014 chevy Silverado Z71 4x4 5.3 ecotech. I traded a 2011 ford f150 for it. After ford would not fix a bad front wheel baring. The ford was under the manufacturer warranty. And I took it in 4 times. Wheel baring screaming, steering wheel shaking. The last time I took it in was the day before thanksgiving they kept it 6 hours. Then they called said I can pick it up, when I got there they said they could not find anything wrong with the truck. They also said just drive it tell something happens. Well the way I see it is if you are driving 70 miles an hour and the front baring goes out it's not going to be a fun ride. Anyway when I left the ford lot went maby 100 yards it started again. Made my mind up got rid of the ford and went to chevy. I love my new chevy Silverado Z71 Lt 4x4 5.3. I have only owned 2 other chevy's both of them were chevets the first one a great little car the second one was junk. I just hope that chevy's service department is better then fords. Will never buy another ford. This Silverado has way better gas mileage. Then fords 5.0 I had. Anyway I'll get off my soap box now. Just going to say that so far I have about 800 miles on the chevy. And I think it is a great truck. Ford has a long way to go to catch up with them. My parents both drive chevy trucks and my moms truck has just under 200000 miles and my dad's has about 230000 on his wit no major problems

Hope I can get that kind of millage out of this truck

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