Why Did YOU Choose GM/Chevy?

[Buckshot556]

Over say a Ford, Dodge, Toyota???

 

I personally chose my '16 3/4 GM because I was able to get the employee discount, and preferred the body style/features my '16 came with over the equivalent Ford I was looking at. I like how te dodge and ford trucks are bigger and that they have an ecoated frame, but very happy with my choice.

[diyer2]

Already posted. http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/197478-why-do-you-chose-gm/

[Rvduck]

I was a die hard Ford guy most of my life. As my handle suggests I love RVs and have been pulling 5th wheels and hauling campers for 43 years. I was active on the Ford Enthusiast Forum where we trashed GM trucks and called them a Buick with a box. I bought 8 brand new Ford HD pickups since 1975 and I just loved the 7.3 powerstroke diesels having a 95 and 2000. Then in 2004 I bought a new 6.0 Power stoke which became the infamous sick-0

After being towed in 3 times in 6 months ,tow truck drivers loved the sick-0, I was able to get the dealer to take it back and I did a factory order on an 05 F350 V10 which I liked and I drove for 3 years until I rolled it in an ice blizzard. It was a right off. I needed a truck right away, was not going to get another Ford diesel and no V 10s to be had unless you order them. I found a new 08 Duramax Dually LTZ and took a real leap of faith, it turned out to be the best truck I ever owned and I had it for 8 years. I still would have it but I wanted to buy a very heavy camper and I needed the extra 2000 pounds of payload I got with my 2016 Dually 6.0 gas. So far it has been flawless but only time will tell if it will be as good as my 08 Duramax was. The one thing that really impressed me with the Chevy HD was the way it towed my 33 foot fifth wheel. I have towed fifth wheels from the Canadian Border to the Mexican Border over a dozen times and the Fords all had this steering flaw. The straight axle on a Ford does not track as well as the IFS front end on a GMC truck. You get used to it and do not realize until you tow your fifth wheel all day.

The fifth wheel makes your truck track like it should. Then I would drop the fiver off at an RV park and head down the freeway empty. Every one of my solid axle Fords made you feel like you had to steer all the time to keep them going straight. My Chevy tracked the same towing or empty. Solid and straight and that is why I am sticking with the IFS on a GM built HD. My driveway ramp always gave me a big jolt with the Fords. My big Chevy Dually just crawls over that ramp like a big cat. Sure, if you are a rig welder and beat the crap out of trucks off road, you want that tough solid axle, for most folks the IFS is a more comfortable choice.

[pogrelis97]

I never looked at or considered a dodge, I've had a few years ago when we were into truck pulling and while the motors were great (pre common rail) I hated the transmissions, have seen to many 2003+ trucks drop valve seats, and the build quality just isn't there IMO.

I love ford and chevy, drove both and liked both so it came down to price for me. I ended up getting a loaded 2016 LTZ Duramax for 54k, the ford dealer had a 2016 loaded lariat and couldn't get it below 62k. This made the decision pretty easy for me.

[i82much]

cummins = perfect engine in a crappy truck.

hemi = decent engine in a crappy truck

powerstroke = better than 6.0 and 6.4 diesels but i still dont trust you

6.2 ford = you almost had me.

duramax = good engine but spendy and maintenance is spendy.

6.0 vortec = drive it forever and do not worry about a thing!

 

6.0 vortec it is!! sorry ford 6.2, you were the next to last voted off the island.

[magnum74]

6.4 Ram - awful gearing, major disappointment

6.0 GM - set it and forget it

[SMiller]

GM HD trucks offer the best chassis and drivetrain of any HD truck offered, they have since '11.

 

If we were talking half tons that could be a real toss up as I think the half ton trucks are much closer in every area.

 

We have new Ford Super Dutys at work, all under 40,000 miles and all feel like they have 400,000 miles, older Super Dutys we're not this bad. I do like the power of the 6.2 and the trans tuning of the Torqueshift.

[Bad17BowtieZ71]

Dodge's reputation for drive-train problems steered me away from them. I've never owned one, and maybe have driven them once or twice, but just couldn't see driving my family around in something I wasn't sure if I could trust, regardless of how well founded that feeling may have been.

 

Ford makes some nice trucks with the 6.2 gas engine and some of the extra options you can get, but there were two things that steered me away. First, when I was pricing them out compared to the GM trucks, they seemed to come out more expensive when I tried my best to make them equal. Second was the fact that they don't have the LATCH system in their super duty trucks. As a family with a 2 and 4 year old, they will be in booster seats for a while, that was a huge killer. I know you can just use the seat belt, but the LATCH seems to hold the seat much tighter and is much more convenient in my opinion.

 

The GM trucks provided a power-train (6.0) that may be a little dated and "under-powered" when compared to Ford's, but it seems to be the most reliable/bullet-proof/proven combo around and the SOTP feel isn't much different. (I'm sure we've all seen the Ike Pass video where the GM truck beat the time of the others, just goes to show there isn't much difference despite the seemingly large differences in numbers.) That combined with the LATCH in the rear seat, lower equivalent prices, and the fact that I grew up in a GM home, led me to my current truck. Finding one with the options we wanted on a lot helped too. I don't regret it for a minute either. I'm not completely blind either, I know this truck isn't perfect, the lack of rear seat vents annoys me, but I probably won't ever ride back there myself and running the HVAC on high for a little while seems to equal it all out pretty quickly so it's not too bad.

 

EDIT: I wanted to add that I prefer the height of the GM trucks being a little lower than the others also. My truck sits high enough as it is, and since we have an older fifth wheel right now, it was a lot easier to get the heights acceptable to give me enough clearance to tow it than it would have been with a Ford or Dodge. I still had to add drop shackles in the rear, but I'm sure it would have been more than that on the others.

[sdeeter19555]

I had Dodge 2500s forever. The last one was a 3rd Gen Cummins, and it did me in...ball joints four times, tie rods a couple times and a PS gear (and a brace to make that one live), dynatrac hubs to get rid of the dreaded 70mph vibrations, clutch once (it was defective and died once power was applied), set of injectors, replaced every ujoint by 70k miles, couple lift pumps, two water pumps, bad seats, pinion leak that couldn't be fixed...

 

The only thing that truck had was gobs of power, cast iron 6spd and 4.10 rears, pull a mountain. But the emissions on these newer ones scared me from even considering another one.

 

I replaced probably $10k in parts in the first 100k on the Dodge, I am just now needing to replace the rotors on this truck.

 

 

 

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[i82much]

how many miles on rotors?

[sdeeter19555]

how many miles on rotors?

115k

 

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[i82much]

nice.

[rocnrol]

Blind loyalty to the General. All my dad has ever owned, never had any problems when I was a kid. All my trucks have been GM, amazing, tough as nails, dead reliable trucks. And I've always had nothing but gold treatment from GM over the few issues I've had.

 

Don't forsee me going anywhere else anytime soon.

 

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[Cowpie]

There really is nothing being made that gets me excited. Car or Truck irregardless of brand. I got my 2500 6.0 because of the reliability of the power train and the deal I got. Plus I need to haul more occasionally than can reasonably be done in a 1/2 ton. And also that I didn't want all the stuff that they do with the 1/2 ton stuff like AFM, DI, etc. I hope this one is my last pickup. And it should be since I am only putting on about 5000 miles a year on it now. With what they are doing to vehicles now, I dread the day we have to replace the wife's 2006 Caddy.

[KARNUT]

I feel your pain. Still have my 92 Chevy truck to tool around in. I do a lot a traveling so I feel the need to upgrade me DD every couple of years. I didn't want a turbo or cvt transmission and a loaded out ride. I bought a car I never in a million years though I would buy, a Toyota Camry. Decently loaded for 17K. The best part made in America. Exciting, not so much, that's what my old trucks for.

There really is nothing being made that gets me excited. Car or Truck irregardless of brand. I got my 2500 6.0 because of the reliability of the power train and the deal I got. Plus I need to haul more occasionally than can reasonably be done in a 1/2 ton. And also that I didn't want all the stuff that they do with the 1/2 ton stuff like AFM, DI, etc. I hope this one is my last pickup. And it should be since I am only putting on about 5000 miles a year on it now. With what they are doing to vehicles now, I dread the day we have to replace the wife's 2006 Caddy.