Looking for help

Adam Leinss · November 12, 2016

I've had my 2014 for 3 years...the vacuum pump went on it recently, otherwise the other stuff was that was "broken" was recall stuff that is free of charge to fix.

Doobs41378 · November 12, 2016

He is looking at a GMC SLE, which had the crap headlights.

After looking at the link the OP posted, I personally would pass. A 2014 with 80K miles should be priced less in my opinion ($27,995). Put another $10K and get a new truck with a full warranty.

That link he gave goes to an SLT and he says in a later post that he is looking at the SLT so it is probably more like 15k more (43kish) to get into a comparable SLT.

cbrsilv15 · November 12, 2016

I didn't have an extra 10k to finance so I went the used route.

pnowak · November 14, 2016

Ok I do appreciate all the replies, all have been helpful. So the more I looked at theses trucks I found a 30k mile 2015 SLT crew being sold by the original owner. Truck is awesome. Carfax is clean. Owner says no issues. Reading these forums I'm scared as hell to pull the tiger and buy any gm truck 14 thru 17. Are they all really that bad? Headlights, vibrations? WTF? Don't like ford's or dodges but maybe I need to look there instead.

Doobs41378 · November 14, 2016

Do you know why he is selling it already? I have like 37k on mine and it has been great. A few issues arose and were taken care of under warranty swiftly. If you go the Ford or Ram forums you will see people have issues with those trucks too. Any thing that is mass produced will have some flaws.

pnowak · November 14, 2016

Story is the company he works for gave him a nice company truck. Didn't need this one filling up the garage and insuring. I have no reason to doubt his story. I drove it ran it up to 80 set cruise, ran it up and down a little, all seemed good.

But reading the section on vibrations, some of their issues didn't surface until around this amount of miles on the vehicle. Just trying to understand if these issues are across the board or isolated to certain models.

No Tyme · November 15, 2016

He is looking at a GMC SLE, which had the crap headlights.

After looking at the link the OP posted, I personally would pass. A 2014 with 80K miles should be priced less in my opinion ($27,995). Put another $10K and get a new truck with a full warranty.

AND 80,000 less miles.

Dnt · November 15, 2016

Might want to check out some new ones.......

http://www.laurabuickgmc.com/VehicleDetails/new-2016-GMC-Sierra_1500-Double_Cab_Standard_Box_2_Wheel_Drive_SLE-Collinsville-IL/2831444973

smrr1 · November 15, 2016

If you have taken the truck on a test drive at 80 ish and all is well i would bet it is good to go. The problems largely discussed on here usually creep up before 30k miles. If you have a contact in gm service you might be able to have them run the vin and see any and all service/complaints with the truck. Also maybe ask the seller to allow you to have it looked at by a service department on your own dime, they could easily look up history then and give you a clean bill of health.

AND THE BIGGEST SUGGESTION I CAN GIVE YOU IS TAKE EVERYTHING YOU READ HERE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. IT IS A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE OF TRUCKS BUILT.

GOOD LUCK.