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[Catbox]

My younger son is moving to Montana to play junior A hockey!

That is totally awesome!

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Whole front end rebuild at 95k miles, everything was completely worn out (had a balljoint fail and found everything else). Granted, it's had a 2" level most of it's 71k miles before I bought it and then I threw on a 3" but I've had several NBS trucks that were cranked to the moon with their original front end components with 150-200k miles on them. Wheel bearings both went about the same time too. Level kits on these don't put anything at weird angles like older trucks either, I'm completely at a loss as to why everything was worn out at such a low mileage.

Parking brake design is STUPID. It has cables that pull an L-bracket that goes through the backing plates. This L-bracket/pivot seizes over time from corrosion and there's no way to avoid it. Mine has never worked, gotta pull the axles out to replace everything. Just about everybody on the forums or IRL that I know with one of these have never had a working parking brake, even down south.

Not to mention the Hemi tick/lifter failures. LS's have them too, just as often. But after I'd bought the truck and was doing research, I found how bad a of a design the 5.7 Hemi is. The cam being raised so far in the block and a main oil galley being between it and the crank, blocking 90% of the oil splash it would traditionally get, was a bad idea IMO. Granted, my truck has no tick/lifter issues or anything, it runs like a scalded dog. It'll make a little noise on startup if it sits for a couple weeks straight but so do 100% of any vehicle with hydraulic lifters. I specifically looked for a '16+ truck cuz they seem to have fewer issues in this area. Oh and the oil filter location is stupid too, right above the front crossmember and EPAS rack.

Speaking of that rack, it's very common for them to just randomly fail and then it's $3500-up for a replacement. My GF had a '13 Ram and had to pay $4500 to get hers replaced by a shop.

The 8hp is awesome overall, especially paired with the 3.92s mine has. My only real gripe with it is that if you don't come to a complete stop and pause, it tries to start off in 2nd and feels like it's slipping till it goes down into first. It'll also do that in 3rd/2nd occasionally. That could be fixed with a tune though.

Oh yeah, the computer is encrypted too. So you have to send it off to be unlocked, which is like $400, before you can spend $7-900 to have it tuned. And the trans computer is a separate computer that also has to be unlocked and then tuned separately. So it's like $1500 to tune one of these things.

The reverse camera/radio will randomly be dark when I go to put it in reverse and I can't see anything. The heated seats also will randomly have days where they only work for a few minutes rather than till you turn them off. I've checked the grids and wiring and found no issues, seems to just be a random gremlin in both these cases.

This being a Daimler/Mercedes/semi-German designed product, it's just nature of the beast. It's a great truck if you keep up on everything. But I quite literally have worked on this truck more than my '85 over the past year and I'm over it.

Ugh....new vehicle c**p...why we roll old Detroit iron!

 

[TotalyHucked]

Ugh....new vehicle c**p...why we roll old Detroit iron!

Yeppp. That's why I'm going back to an '05-07 Classic Chevy or GMC. I've had 7 of them and know them back to front up and down

 

[DoubleDingo]

Yeppp. That's why I'm going back to an '05-07 Classic Chevy or GMC. I've had 7 of them and know them back to front up and down

That's why I prefer the 1965, I know them better than anything else

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

That's why I prefer the 1965, I know them better than anything else

My cousin (the one with the '60 Impala) had a '64 C10 for many years. After that, sold because the mileage (or lack of) was eating all his paycheck, he had a couple of TBI GMT 400s. Those are long gone and his current (retirement) truck is a '66 C10. He's so old school he makes me look good!

 

[Grit dog]

Whole front end rebuild at 95k miles, everything was completely worn out (had a balljoint fail and found everything else). Granted, it's had a 2" level most of it's 71k miles before I bought it and then I threw on a 3" but I've had several NBS trucks that were cranked to the moon with their original front end components with 150-200k miles on them. Wheel bearings both went about the same time too. Level kits on these don't put anything at weird angles like older trucks either, I'm completely at a loss as to why everything was worn out at such a low mileage.

Parking brake design is STUPID. It has cables that pull an L-bracket that goes through the backing plates. This L-bracket/pivot seizes over time from corrosion and there's no way to avoid it. Mine has never worked, gotta pull the axles out to replace everything. Just about everybody on the forums or IRL that I know with one of these have never had a working parking brake, even down south.

Not to mention the Hemi tick/lifter failures. LS's have them too, just as often. But after I'd bought the truck and was doing research, I found how bad a of a design the 5.7 Hemi is. The cam being raised so far in the block and a main oil galley being between it and the crank, blocking 90% of the oil splash it would traditionally get, was a bad idea IMO. Granted, my truck has no tick/lifter issues or anything, it runs like a scalded dog. It'll make a little noise on startup if it sits for a couple weeks straight but so do 100% of any vehicle with hydraulic lifters. I specifically looked for a '16+ truck cuz they seem to have fewer issues in this area. Oh and the oil filter location is stupid too, right above the front crossmember and EPAS rack.

Speaking of that rack, it's very common for them to just randomly fail and then it's $3500-up for a replacement. My GF had a '13 Ram and had to pay $4500 to get hers replaced by a shop.

The 8hp is awesome overall, especially paired with the 3.92s mine has. My only real gripe with it is that if you don't come to a complete stop and pause, it tries to start off in 2nd and feels like it's slipping till it goes down into first. It'll also do that in 3rd/2nd occasionally. That could be fixed with a tune though.

Oh yeah, the computer is encrypted too. So you have to send it off to be unlocked, which is like $400, before you can spend $7-900 to have it tuned. And the trans computer is a separate computer that also has to be unlocked and then tuned separately. So it's like $1500 to tune one of these things.

The reverse camera/radio will randomly be dark when I go to put it in reverse and I can't see anything. The heated seats also will randomly have days where they only work for a few minutes rather than till you turn them off. I've checked the grids and wiring and found no issues, seems to just be a random gremlin in both these cases.

This being a Daimler/Mercedes/semi-German designed product, it's just nature of the beast. It's a great truck if you keep up on everything. But I quite literally have worked on this truck more than my '85 over the past year and I'm over it.

Damn. Makes me wanna sell it and just have him drive the Freedom wagon!

 

[TotalyHucked]

Damn. Makes me wanna sell it and just have him drive the Freedom wagon!

It's all relevant really. My buddy has a '13 with 185k and has had less issues than I have, though his is not leveled as high as mine. They're cream of the crop as far as comfort/options/actually driving them IMO. But I like to mod stuff and these are really difficult to do that with. And I don't see them lasting 50yrs like the older stuff.

 

[Grit dog]

It's all relevant really. My buddy has a '13 with 185k and has had less issues than I have, though his is not leveled as high as mine. They're cream of the crop as far as comfort/options/actually driving them IMO. But I like to mod stuff and these are really difficult to do that with. And I don't see them lasting 50yrs like the older stuff.

Ya it was tongue in cheek. I’ve had 3 new Chebbies and a Ford company truck in the last 8 years and I’d take the Dodge for some reasons and the chebbies for others. The Ford is fine …lol
And 2 Hemi cars that have been largely trouble free. Engines have had zero issues in either.
Luck of the draw? Who knows

 

[TotalyHucked]

Ya it was tongue in cheek. I’ve had 3 new Chebbies and a Ford company truck in the last 8 years and I’d take the Dodge for some reasons and the chebbies for others. The Ford is fine …lol
And 2 Hemi cars that have been largely trouble free. Engines have had zero issues in either.
Luck of the draw? Who knows

Agreed. My mom has a '12 Charger R/T and outside of maintenance and one failed alternator, it's been trouble free for them for over 150k miles now. My dad's '14 Ram is like mine tho, it's been a nightmare. He bought it at ~140k and it'd already had a bunch of repairs (receipts in the glovebox), he figured it'd be good to go. Nope, 30k later and the pinion bearing went so whole rear end rebuilt, front end rebuilt (to be expected at 170k), now it needs a motor cuz it's making all kinds of god awful noise

 

[Catbox]

Y'all are making me happy my newest vehicle is from 1995.

And for thread relevance, here it is the last time I had to drive down to the office.

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[TotalyHucked]

Damn. Makes me wanna sell it and just have him drive the Freedom wagon!

Got a verbal/handshake agreement to sell it today

 

[TotalyHucked]

The big white Fiat is officially gone! Met the dude at his bank yesterday, got a certified check and cancelled registration today. Now to find a nice NBS crewcab Z71

 

[Aiden Clark]

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My daily is the 1991 GMC 1500 SLE 305 with 97k miles, and the 1997 Chevrolet 3500HD Silverado 454 is the work horse.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Picked this up today for daily duties. 2 owner, 175k miles, fresh trans, 5.3, 4L60, 3.42s, G80 locker, bone stock. Even has the stock exhaust on it. Totally rust free, mostly straight. Had a paint job in 2018 and the roof is failing again, so that’ll need attending too. The rest of the paint will buff out nicely I think. Buckets, console, Bose sound, steering wheel controls. LineX, 5th wheel hitch and helper bags are the only mods. Runs beautifully, cruises down the road like new

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[idahovette]

^^^^^^^WOW Zach, that's......red^^^^^^^^