hawkeye08
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I would like my towing mirrors to go out 2" further. They are close, just not quite enough.
What feature do you hate about your truck/suv?
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RalphVa
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Too bi and heavy. Want Toyota to bring back our Tacoma. The present 2005+ models are T100s.
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Retiredguy2
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I average about 13.5 overall...best mileage ever was on the freeway (16.4 mpg) at 63 mph with 6 people aboard and about 600 pounds of cargo. 6.0 liter, 4WD, 3.73 gears. Not too bad for 7500 pounds with the aerodynamics of a barn door.
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2000 gmc Sierra . 1500 ST Nice leather seats, fair gas mileage, engine fairly easy to work on.
The bad: Absolutely garbage thin rear frame. 13 years old and I had to pull the box off remove the axle , springs ect and make my own frame from the cab back. Not my idea of a good time but now I have a truck with a solid frame. The 5.3 engine is decent power wise and if you keep the radio turned up it mutes the piston slap................ I think GM has seen the last of me.
The bad: Absolutely garbage thin rear frame. 13 years old and I had to pull the box off remove the axle , springs ect and make my own frame from the cab back. Not my idea of a good time but now I have a truck with a solid frame. The 5.3 engine is decent power wise and if you keep the radio turned up it mutes the piston slap................ I think GM has seen the last of me.
The thing I hate the most about my 16 GMC Denali is the temperature gauge. As in the ambient temp. It has some code built in where it won't register an increase in temperature unless you go over 20mph for five minutes or something like that. This is done so it doesn't register radiated heat from the truck when sitting still I guess. I work in the oilfield and my truck is on from 5am until 5pm most days and during that time I may never get over 20mph due to idling on location and driving around on the rough roads.
I couldn't care less about what temperature it displays on the dash but it registers a low temp in the morning when it is cool and then keeps that temp all day and it affects the AC operation. The AC won't work as good when it is 100 degrees in the afternoon because the truck thinks it is 65 from in the morning. On the older ones there was a combination of buttons you could press to force a reset but neither me nor my dealer can figure one out on this one.
I couldn't care less about what temperature it displays on the dash but it registers a low temp in the morning when it is cool and then keeps that temp all day and it affects the AC operation. The AC won't work as good when it is 100 degrees in the afternoon because the truck thinks it is 65 from in the morning. On the older ones there was a combination of buttons you could press to force a reset but neither me nor my dealer can figure one out on this one.
RollingsFarms
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2016 F150 FX4 ecoboost. Only thing I hate is the fold down center arm rest. I hate the design with the head rest, I hate the fabric. In all honesty they should have copied GM's current fold down arm rest console. Other than that I love the truck.
Copperhead
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They just keep making the noses on pickups bigger and bigger. Interesting, semi truck noses are becoming more sloped and pickup trucks are getting bigger. Not a terrible thing going down the road, but a PITA if working in tight areas, construction sites, farm and ranch, etc. My 1998 Chevy 2500 was more pleasurable in this regard than my current 2015 2500. And the former had a 454 big block whereas this one has a little 6.0L gasser.
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Retiredguy2
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Respectfully saying here that the "little" 6.0 gasser in your truck has 360 horsepower while the old big block 454 had only 290. And fuel mileage is probably much better.
srs
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2015 RAM 1500. When activating the horn button you can't gently tap it to "toot" it. It blasts the sound really loud, not to cool when you want to warn pedestrians or acknowledge the neighbors waving to you. Also no hand grabs above the head, just on the "A" pillar. I have the Big Horn edition and it's a nightmare figuring all the electronics in the dash.
Interesting problem... probably came from geeks in cubes doing the HVAC control programming, who have never used a truck for work. Either that or they are trying to protect the motor.
By late morning, if you take your truck for a boot on the highway, will it then hold the higher temperature the rest of the day ? You might want to contact GM directly, they may have a re-flash available for the truck that the dealer doesn't know about. If you hang a Scangauge II on the OBD connector, it should tell you the actual coolant temperature, but that doesn't solve your problem.
It would be interesting to know if the same year base GM trucks have the same problem. Denali makes sense for a private "boss" truck, but it's probably safe to assume companies don't order fleets of Denalis. The HVAC control code for the base trucks may account for real-work use like yours, but may not be directly portable to the Denali as it will probably have a different control system.
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