Not really a tow rig.....BUT......New to me pickup

[BlkGS]

I've thought the same thing about an avalanche or escalade ext. I always thought both were handsome vehicles, and IMMENSELY practical. Not as long as a fullsize truck, enough of a bed for most stuff, and the midgate for the rest. About the only thing it can't do is haul REALLY big TVs upright. But everything else is a breeze.

The issue is they're SO expensive now. A nice lowe miles escalade EXT is like $35 to $40k now, and you can get an f150 platinum that has more features for that. Hell, even regular Silverados have the same or better features now, for that same sort of money.

Escalade ext was on my shopping list when I bought the TBSS. There just weren't any low mile clean ones available, and the TBSS was. Really wish someone would make that form factor of pickup truck again, I'd buy one if they didn't overdo it, or do something dumb like make it EV only.

 

[2kwik4u]

I'd buy one if they didn't overdo it, or do something dumb like make it EV only.

Was going to point you at the Silverado EV......but you beat me to it

BTW I cancelled my reservation on the Silverado EV a few weeks ago. Just don't see a $100k EV in my near term future. More likely I'll land in a 2500 pickup to start taking the camper places first.

 

[Coult45]

Was going to point you at the Silverado EV......but you beat me to it

BTW I cancelled my reservation on the Silverado EV a few weeks ago. Just don't see a $100k EV in my near term future. More likely I'll land in a 2500 pickup to start taking the camper places first.

We pull 10k lbs of 5th wheel camper with our 2500HD. It's an LT, so not a lot of extras in it, but we love it. The crew cab is huge, and the 6'9" bed carries almost anything I'd ever need to haul. I get 17 mpg around town, 20 on a trip, and about 10.5 towing.

 

[BlkGS]

Was going to point you at the Silverado EV......but you beat me to it

BTW I cancelled my reservation on the Silverado EV a few weeks ago. Just don't see a $100k EV in my near term future. More likely I'll land in a 2500 pickup to start taking the camper places first.

That's fair. I think with rising interest rates and a slowing economy those expensive EV trucks are going to be hard to move. Especially given that EVs typically don't have great resale.

I like the small diesel trucks that are on the market, but sometimes it feels like the smarter move is to just get a 2500 diesel..they're a lot more money, a lot worse on fuel, but a LOT more capable. Sometimes I still kinda wish we had gone diesel suburban.

 

[2kwik4u]

Dash is back in the Silver-Ay-Do.



Everything on it works now except the A/C and the parking brake. Hoping a parts store recharge will get me through the summer. Need new cables and pads for the parking brake to start working.

Also, still need to replace the push-to-connect fittings on the heater core. Have some light seepage of coolant there. Got about 1k miles on it now since I bought it. It's a fine daily driver, and has ben working well to carry random crap around the house.

 

[2kwik4u]

First update to this thread in well over a year now. Guess that is what happens when life gets busy.

I basically drove it once a month or so from May of '23 through December of '23. Then in January of '24 I got the promotion that moved me to New York. The same day I flew up here to be introduced to the new company, a coworker back in Louisville asked to borrow it. He daily drove it while his F150 was in the shop until about May of '24 when his truck was finally finished. I drove it up to NY the next week.

New house up here doesn't really have a great space to store it, and we didn't want to have to shovel/plow snow around it. Wife also isn't the biggest fan of it just sitting in the driveway and not moving. I think the words she used were "eye sore", but I could be wrong. SO, I've been parking it in the back lot at the office since about June or so. Had a shop guy ask me what the deal with it was and I explained. He told me he blew up a motor in his Subaru last week and needs some basic transportation until he figures out what he wants to drive (or finished his project WRX, but us car guys know how that goes ). Also, I have no real use for it at this point since I went and bought a bougie and expensive EV pickup.

So I sold the pickup to him this afternoon. $1,500 cash. Same as I paid for it. Might have another $500 in maintenance in it over the last 18mo or so, but that's no big deal.

I'm a little sad to see it go. I had visions of my oldest (13yrs old now) driving "papaws truck" as his first vehicle, however I think I'm the only one with that vision. Wife didn't think it was safe (2wd in snow country), boy didn't think it was "nice enough", I'm guessing due to having to "play those old CD things for music" and "Not even having window buttons". Oh well, not going to force my vision of the future on him. We'll figure it out when the time comes.

Was a good truck for the 23yrs it was in the family. Hope it serves it's new owner just as well.