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99-ls1-ss Enthusiast

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The fact that my 6.2 can and will not do a burnout for more than 2 seconds... and no I'm not trying to do burnouts left and right... just want to do a nice burnout and take pics.

I agree completely! It has the power it just get's smacked down by the Super Nanny Ninja Traction Control.

99-ls1-ss Enthusiast

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All in all, I love my truck. It's my favorite truck I've ever owned. I do have 2 little annoying things though.

My 2 issues are:
1. The little plastic area on the dash, where the windshield and dash meets, rattles sometimes on rougher roads. I could probably fix it but, I don't think about it when I'm not driving and I can't fix it when I'm driving. Also, I don't want to take it to the dealership and have them tear my dash up.

2. My truck is a GMC Sierra so I don't know if this is an issue for the Silverados or not. When it has rained or if there is any standing moisture/water on the hood, water constantly gets sprayed up onto my windshield while I'm driving. It continues until all of the water is gone. I sort of feel like it might be related to the hood shape and/or fake hood scoop on the front of the truck.

2016 Sierra Owner Senior Enthusiast

2016 Sierra Owner

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All in all, I love my truck. It's my favorite truck I've ever owned. I do have 2 little annoying things though.

 

My 2 issues are:

1. The little plastic area on the dash, where the windshield and dash meets, rattles sometimes on rougher roads. I could probably fix it but, I don't think about it when I'm not driving and I can't fix it when I'm driving. Also, I don't want to take it to the dealership and have them tear my dash up.

 

2. My truck is a GMC Sierra so I don't know if this is an issue for the Silverados or not. When it has rained or if there is any standing moisture/water on the hood, water constantly gets sprayed up onto my windshield while I'm driving. It continues until all of the water is gone. I sort of feel like it might be related to the hood shape and/or fake hood scoop on the front of the truck.

 

Is your truck leveled or do you keep it waxed? Reason I ask is mine is not leveled and I have not had a chance to wax it since I got it. The only time I have the problem you are describing is the few times it rained right after I bought the truck and it was really clean enough for the water to bead up and stay on the hood. Now since it runs off during the rain I have not had the problem in a while. Maybe its because I have not leveled mine.

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99-ls1-ss

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Is your truck leveled or do you keep it waxed? Reason I ask is mine is not leveled and I have not had a chance to wax it since I got it. The only time I have the problem you are describing is the few times it rained right after I bought the truck and it was really clean enough for the water to bead up and stay on the hood. Now since it runs off during the rain I have not had the problem in a while. Maybe its because I have not leveled mine.

Both. It's leveled and recently waxed.

Havvkeye Enthusiast

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Both. It's leveled and recently waxed.

 

Same here, I had rain beads on my hood this morning from the rain last night before I pulled into my garage... perfectly sunny out and I am using my wipers :driving:

 

All in all I love the truck. Wish it had rain sensing wipers, my '07 has them and they are amazing. I found I can easily live without them though. I don't like how fragile the paint is on my '16 but I guess when you care more about the environmental impact than making a quality product that will happen.

sk Senior Enthusiast

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Sometimes when I hit the lane change feature the signal blinks once and other times three times. Maybe it is me.

Jim

 

It's you - maybe you are not pressing down hard enough. It should spring back up then blink 3 times unless you have the Tow/Haul button pressed in then it will blink 6 times.

jagabom (Esquire) Enthusiast

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Every so often when I turn on the radio it goes to the audio/settings screen rather than the screen it was last on. Anoying to always have to hit the button to put the previous screen back up.

Jim

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I'm really loving my truck, I do have a couple of things that annoy me:

 

What's the need for 2 antennas?

The old fashion key and fob isn't the greatest.

Randomly my radio will come up with the warning screen and I have to press OK. Not every start just like maybe once a week.

Sometimes Apple CarPlay doesn't let Siri work through the radio and I hear her talking to me through my phone.

Wish it had more options on the DIC (like not to have the volume show up there and the radio stations not scroll on there)

 

These are minor, the key probably bothers me the most.

chrisfg Enthusiast

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saw that many people had wanted to do wireless charging so i decided to make a video to share on how i did mine. hope this will help someone out on their project. it was not very hard to do and only cost about $19 it works very well and you need almost no tools. you dont even have to cut any wires no no void of warranty.

Wireless Charging Part 1

Wireless Charging Part 2

Thanks for the inspiration of all the people in this forum

chrisfg Enthusiast

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i saw people on the forum doing the homelink add on so it inpired me to do a video on how i did it. i paid $9 for the part and it was easy. to do. hope that this can help someone in here with their project.

 

Homelink

 

Thanks for the inspiration of all the people in this forum

Dnt Senior Enthusiast

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Since I had the GM Borla exhaust installed on my 2016 Sierra 6.2 8spd a few weeks back I have had a brand new annoyance. At slow speeds (below 50 mph0 when the truck kicks into V4 mode the exhaust note changes to a helicopter like sound. Hate it, so I ordered a Hypertech Max Energy 2.0 part 2000 and now have AFM set so it does not come on except 50mph and above so "FIXED IT" haha too bad GM did not have enough confidence in drivers to allow them to adjust certain parameters of their vehicle without having to go aftermarket.

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