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Hey everyone, I've been around for a little bit, reading up on these trucks while I was looking for mine. I brought mine home last Friday. Figured I'd start a thread to show it off and post anything I do to it.

 

Some background. This is my first vehicle. Grew up with GM trucks, learned how to drive in an '88 Sierra. I've been sharing the family Corolla with my brother the past few years, but it was time to get my own vehicle. I've always been a regular cab guy, briefly looked at a double cab but I have no need for it. Looked at the Z71, but I won't go off road much so went with the LT trim. And I just had to have the Blue Topaz after I saw it in person.

 

Found this baby at the dealer about 15 km from my work. I emailed about 20 other dealers at the same time and none of them had exactly what I was looking for. One of them actually said they could only find one in the province that matched what I wanted which was the one from the local dealer that I bought.

 

Silverado LT, 4x4, 5.3L V8. It has the convenience package and trailering package. It came with the 17" wheels, I wanted the 18's so I ordered them and am going to keep the 17's for winter. I also had the dealer put on chrome door handles.

 

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So far all I've done to it is take off the front plastic air dam. I think it looks much better without. Oh, and washed and waxed it of course. I'm thinking I'm going to drop the back so it sits level. I do like the looks of lifted and lowered trucks, but I actually quite like the stock ride height when driving around. So I'll level the back just for looks and leave it at that. I'm planning on getting a spray in liner, hard folding tonneau, and probably tinitng the side windows. Other than that, well we'll just have to wait and see! I have a cousin who has a truck shop so I'll talk to him about doing the rear drop.

 

I'm definitely loving it so far. The are two things I've noticed. One is the FM reception, not sure if there's a fix for that? And, the seat doesn't go very far forward. I'm not a short guy at 5'11, but I have it all the way forward and it's almost perfect. But I don't know how any shorter guys would find it.

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Looks good !! Glad too see another fan of the regular cab ! As for the FM reception it is a major complaint in this forum especially going in and out of HD mode.

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Thanks guys!

 

Talked to my cousin yesterday. We're going to drop the back 2", and while he has it he'll do a spray liner and tint the side windows.Hopefully next Saturday.

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love the truck. funny you mention the seats-I'm 6', and this is the first vehicle (truck or car) i've ever driven where I didn't have my seat rolled all the way back. I actually have 2-3 inches to spare. they definitely build the front cabin with big guys in mind.

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love the truck. funny you mention the seats-I'm 6', and this is the first vehicle (truck or car) i've ever driven where I didn't have my seat rolled all the way back. I actually have 2-3 inches to spare. they definitely build the front cabin with big guys in mind.

 

I am 6'2" and I have the seat all the way back and feel there is barely enough room. The dealer told me the double and crew cabs have more driver seat (front seat) room than a regular cab. The front bench seat I feel can only fit 2 1/2 - 3/4 normal people because it is very tight. My 1983 Chevy regular pickup had a bigger front seat and could easily fit three normal people in the front seat and had more room etc. I also had more room behind the seat. Maybe I got bigger over the years but I feel the new trucks just got more compact inside. It looks bigger but it is less than the very early years.

 

The Ford regular cab looks a little bit bigger inside. .

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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Ford and Ram have significantly larger regular cabs. There is tons of space behind the seats in them.

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Luckily it's not an issue for me, I've got plenty of room. I feel bad for whoever get stuck in the middle, that seat keeps getting worse and worse. But for two people its fine.

 

My mileage keeps getting better. The other day I went to town (25 minutes away) and got 30mpg or 7.8L/100. Lifetime average is still only about 18 but its still slowly improving.

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Yeah I am torn on it. My 2011 is an extended cab and I like the space for interior storage and the occasional passengers but I do love how regular cabs look and with 2015 adding the availability of the 8" infotainment screen there is no other disadvantage. A lighter truck that can do like 380 HP on E85 is pretty damn appealing.

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the seat thing is their answer to fix the fact that the seat doesn't fold forward to access behind it so you need to go forward all the way to put stuff behind the seat so they tried to leave extra space back there.

 

you will also notice its a PITA to clean the inside windshield because you can barely reach far enough to clean it, not sure why they made the dash as big as a table top but if they made the dash normal size and removed the extra unused wasted space under the hood they could shorten the truck by 3 feet

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you will also notice its a PITA to clean the inside windshield because you can barely reach far enough to clean it, not sure why they made the dash as big as a table top but if they made the dash normal size and removed the extra unused wasted space under the hood they could shorten the truck by 3 feet

I think the dash is that big as a function of having a smaller windshield angle- more aerodynamic.

 

There is a lot of space under the hood, isn't there?

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I think the dash is that big as a function of having a smaller windshield angle- more aerodynamic.

 

There is a lot of space under the hood, isn't there?

yep, there is enough room to probably fit a dead body between the grill and radiator and never see it lol.

 

plus you need a damn scaffold to get high enough to get under the hood to begin with, so sad that a front license plate fold down step is a requirement to check your own oil.

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