2020 Tahoe..Weird stuff

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This 2020 Tahoe is THE weirdest car I've ever owned.

Granted, the newest vehicle I owned prior was a '96 (Tahoe)

Is it wrong to expect a 2020 Tahoe to have small lettering on the taillight that says something like "STIAR, SAE 2015" It makes me feel like the dealer replaced the tail lights with ones from ..."chinya".

Is it wrong to expect the owners manual to spec-out the replacement fuses and bulbs?

Is it wrong to expect there be a tire change/jack stowage placard somewhere?

Is it WRONG ..... for the owners manual to be written partially in 'Ingrish' and read longer than Homer's Odyssey?

It has a back-up camera and a video screen.... but no glove box lamp, and no footwell lighting.

You can't tie anything to the roof rack even if you have the cross bars installed because you can't tie anything through the side rails to keep it from moving side to side.

There are like .... FOUR decals on this car. I get the feeling there is a lot of stuff they don't want me to know. Where is the line setting ticket......and that familiar blue or gray mfg date decal?
Seriously, who put the tire pressure decal down there, a midget?

The compass graphic always shows North, it's just a graphic to surround the letters 'N', 'NE', 'SW' etc.. HELLO!!! Who designs like that?? People with public school educations that can't find the Missouri River or New Brunswick on a map? These are the same types of people as the thirty (forty) something sandal wearin' new age, traffic engineer hipsters who studied in Europe for a semester and came back enamored with the idea of circular @&#king intersections, completely ignoring .....110 yrs of economy of motion studies. (HELLO WISCONSIN ...I'm talkin' to you, as well as other states)

But. I digress.

Don't get me wrong, love the car, it's just weird ... quirky.

Some day I'll save up the $700 it costs to buy the service manual. No exaggeration, have you priced it?
 

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should have got a 2015 then ;) lol

my manual specs out bulbs.
are you expecting to blow out a bunch of fuses? :anitoof:
& who needs a light in the glove box? it ain't that deep hehe

but yeah there are a few parts from overseas, for sure
 

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This 2020 Tahoe is THE weirdest car I've ever owned.

Granted, the newest vehicle I owned prior was a '96 (Tahoe)

Is it wrong to expect a 2020 Tahoe to have small lettering on the taillight that says something like "STIAR, SAE 2015" It makes me feel like the dealer replaced the tail lights with ones from ..."chinya".
that is GM legit tail lights found a couple on ebay for older cars with the stiar in the title
 
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Yea they really changed things in the last quarter century ;) The full service manuals for the 2019's are 475 from Helm, found them on Ebay for 250 still in plastic shipped, there are MANY books in the set. I came from 6 Suburban's and 12 Escalade's from 1994 to 2019, my Callaway Tahoe is my best truck yet, although the next one will probably be better. I replace all the non LED bulbs with LED bulbs, and in 25 years I have yet to blow a fuse in any on my trucks, and you are under warranty in you don't want to fix it. Enjoy and congrats on your new truck. :)
 

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This 2020 Tahoe is THE weirdest car I've ever owned.

Granted, the newest vehicle I owned prior was a '96 (Tahoe)

Is it wrong to expect a 2020 Tahoe to have small lettering on the taillight that says something like "STIAR, SAE 2015" It makes me feel like the dealer replaced the tail lights with ones from ..."chinya".

Is it wrong to expect the owners manual to spec-out the replacement fuses and bulbs?

Is it wrong to expect there be a tire change/jack stowage placard somewhere?

Is it WRONG ..... for the owners manual to be written partially in 'Ingrish' and read longer than Homer's Odyssey?

It has a back-up camera and a video screen.... but no glove box lamp, and no footwell lighting.

You can't tie anything to the roof rack even if you have the cross bars installed because you can't tie anything through the side rails to keep it from moving side to side.

There are like .... FOUR decals on this car. I get the feeling there is a lot of stuff they don't want me to know. Where is the line setting ticket......and that familiar blue or gray mfg date decal?
Seriously, who put the tire pressure decal down there, a midget?

The compass graphic always shows North, it's just a graphic to surround the letters 'N', 'NE', 'SW' etc.. HELLO!!! Who designs like that?? People with public school educations that can't find the Missouri River or New Brunswick on a map? These are the same types of people as the thirty (forty) something sandal wearin' new age, traffic engineer hipsters who studied in Europe for a semester and came back enamored with the idea of circular @&#king intersections, completely ignoring .....110 yrs of economy of motion studies. (HELLO WISCONSIN ...I'm talkin' to you, as well as other states)

But. I digress.

Don't get me wrong, love the car, it's just weird ... quirky.

Some day I'll save up the $700 it costs to buy the service manual. No exaggeration, have you priced it?
The roof rack thing is completely maddening. I’ll give you that. You can get eye hooks that screw into the rails though I believe.
 
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The roof rack thing is completely maddening. I’ll give you that. You can get eye hooks that screw into the rails though I believe.


Glad to see someone else is as critically observant.
I was thinking of the shallow 'u' shaped strap tie downs like this; https://www.go2marine.com/Sea-Dog-Line-Tie-Down-Eye-Strap-Stainless-Steel screwed to the top of the rails near each rail anchor......BUT......sheet metal screwing something into that Al extrusion isn't a hot idea. Better to leverage the existing bolts for the crossmembers either with cable with ring ends and perhaps Nylon tubing over the cable or some kind of fixed tab that is bent 45 degrees or so with a 3/4" hole.

I think D-rings or the cable idea would flop around too much.

STG!! There must be some cut-off year where everyone born after that is a retard. What is up with these young engineers??

I think the fixed tab is the way to go. Stainless.....maybe 1/8" thick with something in the hole to give it a fairing kind of effect. Like a Nylon grommet or something ... maybe a Malibu Stacy head...
 
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The roof rack thing is completely maddening. I’ll give you that. You can get eye hooks that screw into the rails though I believe.


Oh wait ..... I see what you mean, like there is something already made that slips into an existing provision? Wait.... the rail is closed. I can't envision that.
 
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Yea they really changed things in the last quarter century ;) The full service manuals for the 2019's are 475 from Helm, found them on Ebay for 250 still in plastic shipped, there are MANY books in the set. I came from 6 Suburban's and 12 Escalade's from 1994 to 2019, my Callaway Tahoe is my best truck yet, although the next one will probably be better. I replace all the non LED bulbs with LED bulbs, and in 25 years I have yet to blow a fuse in any on my trucks, and you are under warranty in you don't want to fix it. Enjoy and congrats on your new truck. :)

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