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  1. Antonm

    Best and MostReliable Engine

    This is the 2021+ section, there is no AFM on these, its worse, its DFM . With DFM all the cylinders can deactivate and there are 17 different strategies that determine which cylinders turn themselves off when. And bonus, each vehicle has its own code that needs to be broken to reprogram it, so...
  2. Antonm

    Best and MostReliable Engine

    Nothing new is reliable , gas or diesel, from any manufacturer. It's been a race to the bottom for the cheapest parts and cheapest manufacturing processes for the last decade or so, everything has been outsourced and its all crap. So basically pick your favorite piece of junk. Its like cell...
  3. Antonm

    Which center console do you prefer?

    I have the power sliding console as well. Personally I think it's more of a gimmick and just something else to break. We wanted a high country deluxe package with second row buckets and air ride, since we didn't special order it, we just kinda stumbled into this one with the power console...
  4. Antonm

    How to know if oil has been changed at dealership

    I'd guarantee they used an impact gun on the drain plug. For dealership mechanics, speed is the ONLY thing that matters. They get paid for a given amount of hours to do a certain task. Say an oil change pays 1 hour, (its doesn't , just using 1 hour for easy math) then they get paid one hour of...
  5. Antonm

    6.2 not a good idea because of issues?

    This is 100% the reality of the auto parts supplier business. I worked as a quality engineer at a TS/ IATF 16949 certified Tier one auto parts supplier (tier one supplier means that parts go directly to the automakers assembly lines to be built into new cars). And financial liability was one of...
  6. Antonm

    YUKON 2022. Driving on AUTO Mode

    Have you tried driving around in auto at all??? The 03 Silverado I used to own ( bought new in November 02 I think), was absolutely terrible in auto 4x4, hated it and never used it. Turns out the electronics have gotten a lot better in the last two decades. As for driving a 4x4 with the front...
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    YUKON 2022. Driving on AUTO Mode

    My company provides me with a lease vehicle, the last two have been Silverados with the same auto 4x4 button. Since they’re lease vehicles I’ve left both in auto literally from day 1 picking them up at the dealer. The first one (a 2018 model) had a little over 70k miles when they took it back...
  8. Antonm

    Please Help: What does this Carfax Report tell me?

    That’s assuming they didn’t get that wrong,,,which they do. It’s not just a matter of incomplete information, it’s that both incomplete and just plain wrong information is known to be present in Carfax reports. Take my car that I bought brand new that showed three different owners when I had...
  9. Antonm

    Please Help: What does this Carfax Report tell me?

    About the only thing I'd use a Carfax report for would be emergency toilet paper, so I really wouldn't care what it said. Why bother reading it when its 100% known to be inaccurate? And it would appear that even dealers that do participate don't necessarily participate all the time with every...
  10. Antonm

    Please Help: What does this Carfax Report tell me?

    Yet another thing that makes Carfax pretty much useless. If you can enter DIY stuff (which BTW I didn't even know you could), then owners could fraudulently enter anything they want. A few years ago I was looking for a used car and bought ten Carfax reports. Settled on a car before I used up...
  11. Antonm

    Please Help: What does this Carfax Report tell me?

    A Cadillac Escalade 4x4 Sport Platinum is a $100K plus new all day long even in 2021. You'd think for that kind of money it would be darn near perfect. Maybe I'm just getting old , but it just seems like everything is crap now, nothing seems to be made to last yet it's twice as expensive...
  12. Antonm

    Please Help: What does this Carfax Report tell me?

    A 2021 being sold at auction with only 41K miles means something is surely wrong with it. Might not be a deal breaker if you can get it for the right price, just know someone dumped it and it's likely a lemon law/ dealer buy back car. ...
  13. Antonm

    Maybe not all 6.2's have the bad lifter bore/ bearing wear issues

    Not that I can think of and you really wouldn’t want to do that anyway. If your engine is good, leave it be. Changing out an engine involves taking a lot of other stuff apart. Dealership techs get payed based on book time. So if the book says it takes 3 hrs to do a job, they get paid 3 hours...
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    Maybe not all 6.2's have the bad lifter bore/ bearing wear issues

    Gm doesn't know which vehicles do, and which vehicles don't, have a defective engine. This is a "fix it if symptoms appear" type TSB. They can't publish an "Affected Vins" listing, because they simply don't know which vehicles are affected, but the TSB covers everything they put the truck 6.2 in...
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    Maybe not all 6.2's have the bad lifter bore/ bearing wear issues

    All VIN’s within the year model range are affected, there is no “ good or bad” window, it basically says to fix it after it breaks. …
  16. Antonm

    Main Bearing Failure with 6.2L at 3,200 miles

    The GM LS engines of the early 2000's had close the same HP and never failed, what the hell did GM do, forget how to build engines? ...
  17. Antonm

    Maybe not all 6.2's have the bad lifter bore/ bearing wear issues

    It’s sad for sure, but absolutely true none the less. The auto mechanic trade is gone, no one thinks, no one understands, no one troubleshoots,,,,they just plug into the port and mindless do whatever the box tells them. There are no mechanics anymore, only parts changers. Blame whomever/...
  18. Antonm

    Maybe not all 6.2's have the bad lifter bore/ bearing wear issues

    IDK. I have zero faith in dealerships “mechanics” to be able to do literally anything the computer scanner doesn’t tell them to do. Maybe there are one or two actual humans with functional brains working in dealership service departments, but every single one I’ve met/ talked to in the last 15...
  19. Antonm

    Nice Ride

    Heck, I have two Cummins powered trucks that are manual transmission (both are 4x4). I have to replace the clutch in those at about the same interval or less, which obviously requires the transmissions and transfer cases to come down, so I guess I'm not that opposed to removing transmissions...
  20. Antonm

    Nice Ride

    You’re thinking that belt is good for 150k plus miles then??? No other oil wet belt in existence ever has been. Maybe they created a new material for it. …
  21. Antonm

    Nice Ride

    I'm actually more of a diesel guy myself (we have three diesel trucks in our little personal fleet). I wanted the baby Dmax but couldn't get over the whole belt driven oil pump at the back of the engine where you have to drop the transmission and transfer case to replace a freaking belt. And...
  22. Antonm

    Catch Can. Why only one valve cover?

    What year and what engine? Also could you post some pictures of this, sounds completely different from mine and all the ones I've seen. I'd be interested in seeing this setup. ...
  23. Antonm

    Catch Can. Why only one valve cover?

    Because air goes into the valve cover (the passenger side one) from a tube connected to the air intake (filtered air), and air/ oil vapor mix is drawn out of the engine through the other valve cover (the driver side one), then routed back into the intake behind the throttle body to be burned...
  24. Antonm

    Nice Ride

    That one even has the bigger 6.2 V8 in it. The exhaust tips are different for the 6.2 compared to the 5.3. ...
  25. Antonm

    If you didnt have a Yukon/Suburban/Escalade, what would be your next choice?

    We traded a 2013 mercedes gl450 in to get the 2023 tahoe. We bought the mercedes new and it was a good car for the most part, but when stuff did go wrong outside of warranty, the parts were expensive and it always took a week to get them shipped in. So my wifes daily driver would be down for a...

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