Don't really know yet, kinda depends on what Insurance says (will know today), I have most of my stock parts I can throw on it if they don't want to repair it. I like the body style the best, (was considering a 2005 CCSB with 98K). I like my truck and all that I have done to it, but I want something else to drive every day. I have been looking at a CTS-V for DD use, but those cars never drive like I think they do, always a bit of a let down. It would be nice to have a new truck, new project to work on and build out. It would be nice to have a truck from brand new and take care of it accordingly. I would also like to pass it down to my son.

So it is a hard decision, one of my biggest qualms is paint work. The passenger side doors and bed side have been painted due to a previous break in and a tree branch hitting the bed side. So with a new tailgate and i'm told the driver side door will have to be painted since the Jimmy Jammer caused the handle to be reinforced. So instead of the handle breaking, it dented in the door. So now 40% of the truck will have been repainted and re-paint does not hold a polish as does the OEM paint. I could kinda deal with it on one side, but now on the driver side it is another story.

my wife and I had basically decided I would get a new truck and this summer once everything calmed down she would get an Accord or something to commute in and I would DD the ATS. But this was before they found the truck.

In the last 8.5 years, it has been broken into 2 times, increasing severity of damage and property lost. Happens about every 4 years and it is getting really annoying.

Plus I suspect some components may need to be rebuilt in the next 30K, possibly sooner and if I did that I would throw a 6.0L in it, so that is another cost I may consider just putting in a new truck. The truck is sitting at 169K on the odometer

 

let me know the asking price when you decide to sell.

 

Sad as it is to say I don't see these new trucks making it much past being paid off much less long enough to pass down. 8-10 is their limit to it and they are going to discontinue parts at a increasing rate from here on to make it less and less cost effective to fix old stuff versus buying new stuff. They are trying to turn cars into color tv's and washing machines you just scrap them before spending money to fix them.

 

Will do, I'd like it to go to a good home

One of the guys on GMFS does PDR in my area and he thinks he can get out the handle damage, so I am going to let him take a crack at it before I sign off on any body work.

That is the issue I am running into, Getting parts that ran through the entire production run of 99-06 are fairly easy to get. But others specific to 99-02 are getting harder and harder.
Although, to me, this truck is at that pivital point where it has enough computers to where it runs well, but it is still fairly mechanical in nature (Cable TB, Simple radio and AC controls), use the new CUE system and you will instantly know why a simple radio and ac controls are beautiful. Plus the steel is thicker, the truck has no body rust. I think if any truck is going to be serviceable it will be this one. I think hard parts will be easy, it is the "soft parts" (interior plastics) and what not that will be harder to find. GM doesn't offer an escalade cluster from that year anymore, luckily there is a company that reman's them (they repaired mine, so I trust they rebuild them right)

You have companies like LMC that already offer parts, but allot of times they don't fit like stock. So as long as I can get GM parts, I'll take em.