Originally Posted by Kodiak544

I will take a gm any day of the week! I have a 2001 gmc Sierra 5.3 with 307,000 same transmission, rear end,s tarter, wheel bearing. Put motor in at 300,000 only reason was I wanted something wit a little more pep! Only thing I have replaced is water pump, alternator, fuel pump and two water pumps had it since 50,000!

Originally Posted by 1Bear

I guess I’ve had better luck than some when it comes to vehicles. I purchased my ’01 C3 late in its model run and only experienced one recall for the tailgate cables. I did have to have warranty work done back in ’03 for the truck going into REP and the dealer nor GM knew at the time how to fix it, so after multiple trips to different service departments, I decided to take the throttle body apart and found that the grease GM had used inside the throttle body had crusted up causing it to more or less freeze up. Once cleaned up and re-greased using good synthetic grease, it lasted about 10 more years before I finally had to replace it. The steering wheel button lights burned out and were replaced under warranty, and they replaced the factory body colored soft bed cover with a hard Snugtop, as the factory cover would keep stretching out and blowing off going down the highway, but as far as warranty items that has been it. Yes I did explode the G80, but that was my doing and a good Eaton LSD later, it has also been fine all these years.

Now for my ’12 model GMC Canyon, which everyone would consider a pretty cheap vehicle, it has never had to make a trip to the dealer for anything. I just did a L9H 6.2L swap in December and don’t plan on getting rid of it anytime soon, as it finally runs how I feel a GMT-355 with a V8 should run.

My wife has a ’12 model Chev. Malibu and it is a turd that has had 3 or 4 recalls so far. All the common items you see on the news, like ignition switches and so on.

Before that, she had a Cadillac Seville that both of us wish she still had, but the HVAC controller decided to take an early lunch and surprisingly, I couldn’t find a replacement anywhere, new or remanufactured. It’s a shame, as it was a nice car and would run circles around the little Malibu, but you can’t expect anyone to be happy driving in South Texas without working air.

Maybe I’ve just had better luck with trucks!

Originally Posted by 1slow01Z71

I bet that canyon is a fun little truck with a 6.2. How's the mileage and power?

Originally Posted by 1Bear

The power increase going from the stock little VVT 5.3L to a small cam 6.2L is as can be expected, amazing. I haven't had in in there long enough to get a real accurate feel for what the mileage is going to be like, as I have been running it pretty hard between getting it tuned and playing with it, but what highway driving I've done, it doesn't seem like it has changed much at all. I would imagine in-town mileage to have dropped a measurable amount with the looser converter, but beings it is only flashing to 2500rpm, even that shouldn't be too bad.