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oh well i guess
So hows everyones trucks doing?
My one beef now is that GM extended the 0% till January 2nd. I could have ordered a new 2002 with the same options in the color I want. (Polo Green.) and still got it before the rates ran out. ;( But I love the truck, and I like Pewter, just wouldn't have minded a change since my last truck was pewter. I love the 255x85R16 Kelly AWR (33x10) They make the truck look awesome. I still need to install the folding cupholder and GM bedrail caps that are sitting in the garage back home.
Oh, I heard from a good friend of mine, who is a wholesale auto dealer, that I should NOT put a spray in bedliner in my truck. He said that at the auction (which all trade in value is based off of), a sprayin bedliner will reduce the selling price by $500-$1000. A drop in will add $100 to the value. I can get a pendiliner for $130 bucks. Plus save the $500 plus for the spray in. Overall, It would cost me over $1000 bucks in the long term for the spray in, and I hear the dent very easily. The only bad part is that I have scratches in my bed, since I thought I was getting a spray in. But they aren't very deep, and wouldn't cause rust.
Hunter
My wade on one side are not staying down at all
I would highly reccomend the folding cupholder if you don't have it yet. I really missed it off my 99 and 00, and thats why I ordered it, it was $50.
Hunter
Ryan
If you got a spray-in, you wouldn't have any paint left, since they sand it off. No thanks. You can always touch up scratches or re-spray it later. At least you have some paint left! Poor Ryan's only got bare metal under his...
AC PART NUMBER
Got it over at gm-trucks.com
OBYONE how much did they charge for your filter?
Ryan
Kyle
i have been living with it for a few months
Truck is going in 1st or 2nd wk of december for new door latches and the nickel plated yoke maybe then ill have them look at it
http://www.autosite.com/editoria/asmr/svolpu.asp
Looks like 0% financing is helping out truck sales.
It also looks like the Tundra is barely outselling the Avalanche.
SHouldsnt have it this wk since itll be in the 60's (wierd to warm for november) I WANT SNOW!!!!!!
As far as value goes between a spray in and a regular drop in, it should not matter. If it did why not get a "cheap" drop in and cover the spray in liner up when you sell it or trade it?
My drop in always came loose and rattled, not to mention it looks cheap. Although the spray in may not be as thick as a drop in it will more than cover my needs when it comes to protection.
I'm looking for the info on the paint sanding though. Not that I can do anything about it now.
BTW, looking at a Dell today. 1.9mhz 256mb, 19"monitor, 40gb and 64mb video for $1500. This same machine 6 months ago when I started pricing was at $2200 with a much slower proc and less memory.
Dano
Kyle
Layoffs coming at work. I think i'll survive, but if i don't, the first thing to be sacrificed will be the Silverado. Have to sell it (probably take it to carmax first and see what they'll give me) and use the money to pay off the wife's car loan. Very painful thought, but these are tough times... wish me luck, and pray if you are so inclined...
Hunter
Oh man this thing is sweet
Hunter, what folding cupholder are you talking about? Do you have a part number or a picture link? I bought a second snap-in cup holder to customize, but I'd like to see your folding holders, too.
About bedliners. I'm just an engineer, but it seems to me a truck bed will dent whether it has a spray in or drop-in liner. The drop-in may not show it, but a blow hard enough to dent the bed will still dent the bed. When the cover comes off, or someone walks over it - surprise! Maybe a bed mat with a drop-in over it would give some padding, but a liner alone wouldn't.
Mike
http://www.rtol.net/scornell/mirrows.htm
If you have a clunk in the door....there is a TSB out for it...just too lazy to look it up. If it makes a louder clunk with the windows half way down, you got a clunker...hehe..get it fixed.
Danog-
Bought a few months ago.....through pricewatch.com
AMD 1.4 with A7M266 mobo
512 mb PC2100 ram
Gforce3 64mb video
40gig 7200 rpm IBM HD
CD-DVD
CD-RW
Soundblaster Live
case, power supply
under $1000
just to play my games....
Dang Gforce3 card alone was $399....
I like the larger screen (12.1 old 14.1 new)
Speed is amazing
Ryan, did you get the port replicator? Pretty handy for externals like a 17" monitor and full size keyboard.
Read your profile, and i have a lot of family down there in Southern IL. Several living in Carterville, if you know where that is.
BTW.....just heard yesterday that the 0% has been extended 'til Jan. '02.
man, there are a few guys that are out there, especially a guy named brojace. he's telling everyone how Royal Purple is nothing more than a bunch of garbage cause they put a purple dye in the oil that disappears right away......LOL......he based his theory on what he has heard.
I need to update my profile, for what I drive (2500HD Duramax/Allison) and my asperations. I graduate in May with my agribusiness economics degree. I no longer plan on going to Law School or graduate school at this point (I am BURNT OUT!!!). For now I am just planning on farming, and we will see how that goes. I live up in Marion County, which is the county that had the high unemployment.
Yes I do know where Carterville is, I drive past it all of the time.
Best of luck, prayers and wishes
Hunter
cowboyjohn
Sorry to hear that you will (or have) lost your job. But if your attitude is right, you will survive. You may have to take a lesser paying job for a while, till something opens up for you. I just read in the USA Today that a mine near the mine in Montana I used to work at has layed off 300 people. That will depress that small community quite a bit. I wish you the best of luck.
Hunter
Congrats on your forthcoming degree. I picked up a similar one a few years back. On the paying off the farm, if grain prices don't go up it is going to take a while.
cowboyjohn
Living in Calif. and sking a lot (though not for the last couple of years) they are very strict on chains in the mountains, with Highway Patrol check points. When the conditions aren't that bad they let 4WD vehicles through without chaining up, but they sometimes check these vehicles to be sure they are carrying chains. They especially like to stop the ones with the large oversize tires. I know because a friend of mine in high school had a lifted truck with huge tires and they not only made him show his chains they made him take them out and drape them over the tires to be sure they fit. HP said a lot of guys were carrying passenger tire chains just so they had a box in the truck to show the HP. It's funny though you go through the parking lot of the ski areas and you can always find a few 4WD trucks with smashed fenders or grills. Guys from the city who think 4WD can do anything. I've personally seen a couple of guys speed around a group of slow moving cars with chains on and then a few miles away you see them munched off to the side of the road.
Excerpt from the CHP website:
Chain Requirements
R1: Chains are required - snow tread tires allowed.
R2: Chains are required on all vehicles except four wheel drive vehicles with snow tires on
all four wheels.
R3: Chains are required - all vehicles - no exceptions.
R1 and R2 are the most common conditions. The highway is usually closed before an R3 condition is imposed.
I've never had a problem not carrying chains with 4wd in CA.
Mike L
Another spray-in comment. When I was picking mine up, there was an older truck on a trailer that someone is restoring. They had the floor pans and the bottom sprayed to protect it. Not sure how well it will stick and protect the truck. I am sure they didn't sand the entire underside of the truck.
Dano
It didn't work out too well for 2 reasons:
1) That transmission hump gets VERY HOT, even if it is just a 350 hydra, when you take out those two heavy cardboard relfective panels on either side of the hump.
2) Get in and out of the cab a thousand times and the material on the driver's side floor loses its appearance where your feet drag in and out. It looked like ground in dirt and actually wore smooth (all of the "cottage cheese" bumps wore down) which made it very interesting getting in and out of the truck on rainy days.
Still, I would have kept the truck but the 350/350 trans combo was way too much a dog in an old 3/4 ton. I kept the 73 3/4 ton 454/400 instead - hauls/tows anything - when I have the intenstinal fortitude to risk it in a 29 year old beater.
I found your post interesting in that it gave the levels of chaining up requirements. I don't live in CA, but I believe that I have seen those levels before. I do drive to Orange Co. just about every Christmas, so I suppose I seen them at that time. Generally I agree that if it gets bad enough to put chains on a 4x4, the road should be closed. That is usually good for the freeways, but not so good on remote roads and I do get on remote roads once in a while. Bottom line - I will still carry chains and a scoop shovel - habits I developed living in Nebr, Mont, and Wyo. And a few times I have used them both. Thanks again for the "levels."
cowboyjohn
Ryan
txyank - yes, might very well be...
Hunter - my Mom is from Bunkum (not sure if I even spelled it right). I've spent some time in Marion over the years... used to have an Aunt and Uncle there that we'd go visit. You don't know anyone from the Poole family, do you?