New Truck

[ferrari99]

Very nice truck. You don't see many pick-up trucks here in Australia.

 

[Bigfoot62]

Very nice, considering trading my 2013 Silverado for a 2015....love the new interior.Now wait; the GM bashers will be along any minute.

A Ford man here. I currently own 4 of them. And I don't bash GMC's, just Chevy's!!! No, really, there's nothing wrong with driving a Chevrolet, if that's all you can get. :laughing:

Just kidding. Couldn't help myself.

 

[nc redneck]

Nice ride ! I think you made a good decision. I bought a 20013 3500 diesel and have been amazed over improvements over previous years. I few years ago I had a 5.3 in a 1500 short bed extended cab, great motor.

 

[bdeboer]

Congratulations on the new truck. Keep us updated on the mileage etc.

 

[s219]

Well, I ended the first tank at 19mpg, which I am real happy with. I was steady at 20mpg for the first third tank or so, but then did a lot of shuffling materials up/down the street between a neighbor's place and mine, with a bunch of idling. That got us down to about 16.5mpg. A few days of commuting on the highway averaged back up to 19mpg.

So far I have a few gripes:

There is no dead pedal in the driver's footwell, which was annoying for the first few days (my other car is a manual transmission so I am used to having something to do with my left foot, and our other auto transmission cars have all had dead pedals). I sort of took this for granted on Japanese and European cars.

I hate the auto-locking doors (they lock as soon as you go out of park) with a passion, and there is no way to override (for 2013 and below they could reprogram the ECU, but there is no bulletin for the '14 models as of yet). This gets especially annoying when doing short hops on my property to move stuff around, or stopping to let a passenger hop out to open/close a gate. The current solution is to set the option to auto-unlock all doors when going back into park, which helps a little. But not only is that a lot of needless lock/unlock cycles, I am sure there are also going to be situations where I don't want to unlock everything all the time.

This thing is a monster to park. In fact, I will need to make myself a new parking area next to my barn, as parking up by our house is a chore. Years ago I drove a pickup and large chassis-cab flat-bed trucks for construction work, but never really had occasion to park in residential settings or parking lots where everything is scaled to cars.

Thankfully, my gripes are all that minor. Otherwise the truck is great, drives better than I could have hoped, and functions well.

Thus far I have been just throwing stuff in the bed, putting down plywood if it's real rough cargo like cement blocks and pallets. Not sure if I will get some sort of bed mat or liner, or just let it ride as-is. When I worked construction, we never had bed liners, usually just keeping a ratty sheet of plywood in the bed to take hard abuse. Not yet sure how I feel about protecting the bed in a nice truck that I plan to keep for a long time... Be glad to hear suggestions on that front.

 

[George2615]

Well, I ended the first tank at 19mpg, which I am real happy with. I was steady at 20mpg for the first third tank or so, but then did a lot of shuffling materials up/down the street between a neighbor's place and mine, with a bunch of idling. That got us down to about 16.5mpg. A few days of commuting on the highway averaged back up to 19mpg.

So far I have a few gripes:

There is no dead pedal in the driver's footwell, which was annoying for the first few days (my other car is a manual transmission so I am used to having something to do with my left foot, and our other auto transmission cars have all had dead pedals). I sort of took this for granted on Japanese and European cars.

I hate the auto-locking doors (they lock as soon as you go out of park) with a passion, and there is no way to override (for 2013 and below they could reprogram the ECU, but there is no bulletin for the '14 models as of yet). This gets especially annoying when doing short hops on my property to move stuff around, or stopping to let a passenger hop out to open/close a gate. The current solution is to set the option to auto-unlock all doors when going back into park, which helps a little. But not only is that a lot of needless lock/unlock cycles, I am sure there are also going to be situations where I don't want to unlock everything all the time.

This thing is a monster to park. In fact, I will need to make myself a new parking area next to my barn, as parking up by our house is a chore. Years ago I drove a pickup and large chassis-cab flat-bed trucks for construction work, but never really had occasion to park in residential settings or parking lots where everything is scaled to cars.

Thankfully, my gripes are all that minor. Otherwise the truck is great, drives better than I could have hoped, and functions well.

Thus far I have been just throwing stuff in the bed, putting down plywood if it's real rough cargo like cement blocks and pallets. Not sure if I will get some sort of bed mat or liner, or just let it ride as-is. When I worked construction, we never had bed liners, usually just keeping a ratty sheet of plywood in the bed to take hard abuse. Not yet sure how I feel about protecting the bed in a nice truck that I plan to keep for a long time... Be glad to hear suggestions on that front.

Bed liner - On previous trucks I had the spray in bed liner (Dealer installed). Very durable and after years of tossing stuff in it still looked good. My dealer doesn't do spray in liner anymore but on my latest truck (2013) I have the factory bed rug or bed carpet. It covers the bed and sides. I have a hard top tonneau cover and don't haul much in there other than chains and ratchet tie downs. For other stuff I use a trailer. Plywood will work just fine if you don't get something to protect the bed.

Auto Locking doors - Mine auto lock but not until I start moving. Auto unlock when put in park. I can change certain functions of this but not sure if I can change the delay time as to when it locks. That's all in the Driver Information Center programming the owner can do.

Glad your getting 19 MPG. Mine just turn 12K miles and only getting about 16.5 or so from combination local / highway driving.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Sprayed in bed liner is the only way to go.

Hand calculated or Dodge Lie O Meter? Dodge is notorious for the mpg computer being way off.

Chris

 

[kf4uda]

Sprayed in bed liner is the only way to go. Chris

I agree 100%. I had one sprayed in my '03 Sierra when I bought it new. It has stood the test of time and abuse.

 

[George2615]

Sprayed in bed liner is the only way to go.

Hand calculated or Dodge Lie O Meter? Dodge is notorious for the mpg computer being way off.

Chris

He didn't buy a Dodge. He bought a GMC.

 

[Diamondpilot]

He didn't buy a Dodge. He bought a GMC.

Sorry, got the two new truck threads mixed up. That's about right for a GM.

The Dodges are notoriously off.

Chris