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Good point. Truck sits outside, and the Passenger's Side was South facing. That could be what's going on. I'll have to try and check the pressures in the evening, after it's been sitting for a couple of hours post-sundown.

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Well, I traded out of the Sierra today and into the Silverado. I'm missing exactly what I thought I would - the red lighting on the dash versus the blue. It's far easier (for me, at least) to distinguish the DIC menu items that I'm scrolling through with the red color scheme versus the blue. It's pretty much impossible for me to tell what's highlighted and I'm already finding that it's a game of chance when scrolling through the choices.

 

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Mark, as far as selection on the DIC screen...I have a Silvy and noticed a couple of subtleties that I thought I'd pass on...when you have the screen list showing (left button on steering wheel), you should see the letters on current selection in white and the others are blue. As you scroll down the list, the letters will change to white as you scroll. The white letters highlight the one you are selecting. There is also a blue outline that follows, but it can be hard to see.

 

I had trouble figuring out the selection at first, but looked closer at it while my truck was still in the garage in low light. Just thought it might help...nice truck!

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Mark, as far as selection on the DIC screen...I have a Silvy and noticed a couple of subtleties that I thought I'd pass on...when you have the screen list showing (left button on steering wheel), you should see the letters on current selection in white and the others are blue. As you scroll down the list, the letters will change to white as you scroll. The white letters highlight the one you are selecting. There is also a blue outline that follows, but it can be hard to see.

 

I had trouble figuring out the selection at first, but looked closer at it while my truck was still in the garage in low light. Just thought it might help...nice truck!

 

Thanks for the info. I will definitely look closer to see if I can make better sense of it. It just seems that, for me anyhow, the color scheme in the Sierra is much easier to pick up on.

 

When you say "left button", I'm presuming you mean the left-pointing arrow of the group of buttons on the right side of the wheel?

 

As far as the outline - it almost seemed (the last time I tried looking closely) that the outline might have stayed either one behind or with the one that was currently selected.

 

I don't have much need to scroll through these much... Just a little frustrating when I do have to. I'm liking the truck overall, but not terribly impressed with the ride quality of the tires. I've removed the 4x4 stickers off of the bed. I think they look very out of place on this truck and take away from the look overall. To me, it looks much cleaner overall without them.

 

I might look into grabbing the 4x4 emblems that they use on the Sierra and put them on in front of the mirrors (like they do on the Sierra).

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Thanks for the info. I will definitely look closer to see if I can make better sense of it. It just seems that, for me anyhow, the color scheme in the Sierra is much easier to pick up on.

 

When you say "left button", I'm presuming you mean the left-pointing arrow of the group of buttons on the right side of the wheel? YES, THIS IS WHAT I MEAN

 

As far as the outline - it almost seemed (the last time I tried looking closely) that the outline might have stayed either one behind or with the one that was currently selected.

 

I don't have much need to scroll through these much... Just a little frustrating when I do have to. I'm liking the truck overall, but not terribly impressed with the ride quality of the tires. I've removed the 4x4 stickers off of the bed. I think they look very out of place on this truck and take away from the look overall. To me, it looks much cleaner overall without them. I SCROLL MAINLY TO USE THE FAVORITES FEATURE ON THE PHONE OPTION TO MAKE CALLS AND THEN BACK TO INFO

 

I might look into grabbing the 4x4 emblems that they use on the Sierra and put them on in front of the mirrors (like they do on the Sierra).

. Added my comments in all caps above. Mine is a 2WD and came with Contentals...changed to Michelins and ride and handling greatly improved. Good luck.
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. Added my comments in all caps above. Mine is a 2WD and came with Contentals...changed to Michelins and ride and handling greatly improved. Good luck.

 

I've had good luck with Michelins in the past, would definitely consider them again. The Goodyears that I had on the Sierra were actually pretty nice. I'm surprised that these are transmitting so much more "road feel" than the others were. They're 18" and and the Sierra had 17" on it - that will play into it a little, but I can't believe it would make THIS much of a difference.

 

Just don't know that I can justify the expense of all new tires at this point with about zero confidence of being able to recover a significant portion of it by selling these as take-offs. 300 miles on the truck, so they're absolutely "like new".

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Step up to Ltz and you will get more features, very happy with mine!

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Step up to Ltz and you will get more features, very happy with mine!

 

Don't want the LTZ... Don't like the projector bulbs. And there's nothing in the LTZ that interests me that I don't already have.

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Don't want the LTZ... Don't like the projector bulbs. And there's nothing in the LTZ that interests me that I don't already have.

I said the same thing when I had the lt

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I said the same thing when I had the lt

 

Glad it worked out for you. I don't want the LTZ, and that won't change any time soon.

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I might look into grabbing the 4x4 emblems that they use on the Sierra and put them on in front of the mirrors (like they do on the Sierra).

Congrats on the new truck, nice color.... It's funny that you were talking about putting the 4x4 emblem from the GMC on the Chevy, I just removed mine a couple weekends ago because they looked so outta place. I'm thinking maybe I'd remove the SLE from the tailgate and put one of the 4x4 emblems from the fender up there. I thought about putting the chevy stickers on the bed but decided I wasn't too keen on those either. I guess the only 4x4 that matters to me is the one on the dash!

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Yeah... I'm sort of looking at it similarly... I don't really care whether the truck "advertises" that it's a 4x4 or not as long as it works when I need it. I doubt I'll put anything on, but I just thought the stickers looked so out of place. Everything else is "chrome" and raised lettering style, that was a red/white/black sticker. It just didn't look right to me, so off it went.

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