My Regular Cab Sierra

Likarok · April 30, 2014

Well it was time to update my wifes ride, plus the lease ran out .....or close to it. That's my story and I am sticking to it!

Went with another Regular Cab Sierra short box . She loves these little trucks! Cool little truck at least I hope it is, all I have seem are dealer pics. My local dealer had it brought in from northern Alberta. I actually found it on the GM Canada search page and steered my dealer in that direction. Made the deal last week but I am having some heated Katskins put in it and some 3M Durashield installed. It is the Iridium Metallic. pretty much loaded for what you vcan get on a reg. cab.

I pick it up this Friday and am dying to see the seats. Went with what they call Black Cuda Combo. Perforated with dark grey underliner and the side bolsters have the carbon fibre look to them like the All Terrain seats.

Will post pics when I have them!

ChevyZ71LTZ · April 30, 2014

So what are you having the heated seats function connect to? Did you have the OEM dash buttons installed?

ChevyZ71LTZ · April 30, 2014

I wouldn't mind getting a regular cab if I could get heated seats and maybe the big my link touch screen radio atleast.

Likarok · May 1, 2014

So what are you having the heated seats function connect to? Did you have the OEM dash buttons installed?

They just tie into power under the seat (harness is there for normal heated seats) and they put a nice small rocker switch on the lower side panel were the power seat swtiches are. It actually looks pretty good. If you did not know were to look you would never know it was there.

Likarok · May 1, 2014

I wouldn't mind getting a regular cab if I could get heated seats and maybe the big my link touch screen radio atleast.

I am not to hung up on the smaller screen! Yeah I would like the bigger one, but it is not a deal breaker. As I see it, the main function of the screen on a truck like this without nav is a back up screen. Still better than having it in the mirror like the older trucks. And as we have discussed in another thread here on Factory Navigation, Fac Nav pretty much sucks as well so I won't miss that either. I have all that stuff in my Silverado and Corvette and I never use it! I just wish you could get HUD in a truck like my Corvette has. It is far more usefull than Factory Nav! A good ole Garmin that you can plug into the desktop keep updated yourself is the way to go for Nav.

The way I look at it, this truck has a hell of a lot more options than the truck I am getting rid of so it is all a bonus. Really IMO the cloth seats are the biggest thing that I hated in the my 11 SLE Sierra and the Katskins are taking care of that. And for a daily driver that ain't to bad!

Likarok · May 1, 2014

PS: The reason I went Sierra instead of Silverado is that you can get a few more things on a SLE Sierra than you can on an LT Silverado. The main things I liked were the body colored mirror caps, door handles and body side mouldings. A few other things as well like the driver alert and front parking sensors.

ChevyZ71LTZ · May 1, 2014

I love leather seats but I am going back and forth on getting cloth for my next truck just because I feel the side bolsters won't wear out as fast.

Likarok · May 1, 2014

Really, That is exactly what I did not like about my cloth seats. The bolsters always looked grubby and dirty. I literly would clean them about once a week! I know anal right. But maybe GM has improved there cloth seats since 2011.

I have been told that the Katskins seats are a lot better quality leather than even the factory leather so I guess I am going to find out! At one dealership I was looking at a Silverado reg cab that had the seats swapped out with Katskins and It did appear to me that the leather was a lot nicer than Factory.Thicker and more supple! They almost feel like furniture quality leather!

Hey I am old, I need a nice place for my Butt!

Likarok · May 3, 2014

Here are a couple of pics. In garage today because it is nasty outside!

Katskins

Sooperdave · May 3, 2014

Very nice!! Nice garage too!

fondupot · May 4, 2014

center Console on a regular cab? Nice.

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Plwtwo · May 6, 2014

center Console on a regular cab? Nice.

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That's what I was thinking! One dealer close to me doesn't have a single truck with full console- everyone has the 40/20/40 bench- yuck. Likarok your new truck is nice

MikeNH · May 6, 2014

That isn't the full console. The center belt buckle is clearly visible in the photo. It's just the flip down seat/console.

fondupot · May 6, 2014

That isn't the full console. The center belt buckle is clearly visible in the photo. It's just the flip down seat/console.

Damn you're right. Although I did see a thread where a guy put a center console in his regular cab k2. Looks great.

If GM makes the Cheyenne concept....it better have a console. looks so cool

Likarok · May 7, 2014

Yeah Mike is right ! No full console.

Gm has never put a full console in a reg cab truck! The 2002 reg cab truck I had was the last year they put a short between the seats console in making it a true two seater! I actually like it better this way. Best of both. I actually like the folder better because it is up higher and you can use it as an armrest. The seats are still independent as well so they are like a bucket seat.