Bought a new (to us) car yesterday.
 

So yesterday we traded in the wife's 04 lancer ES (no cruise, smelled like smoke, auto tranny was slipping, cigarette burns in the seats, 70K miles, pile of ----) and they gave us (surprisingly) $5500 for it so we picked this up.

2001 tahoe LT, heated leather seats, front/rear heat/ac, heated mirrors, electronic seat position memory, towing package, roof rack, etc... pretty much every available option for this except the sun/moon roof and the dvd player.

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Gas is gonna rape you

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$55 to fill it and 17 MPG. :)

We needed something we could haul our dogs in and something we could trailer our cars with.

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bad choice, those things a piles of ----.

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nice I just picked up a 97 f150 lariat at work for half of private party book with low miles on it, I'm probually gonna sell it in a few months and make a couple grand.

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sounds alot better than what you had :3 they didnt have anything else that was decent besides that?

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And to think I have a car with only a v6 and it takes $50 in gas and gets 21 mpg...

I'd pimp it

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wrong...i'm a tech, i work on ---- like this for a living....common problems...alternator, intake gaskets, water pump, fuel pump, and fuel pressure regulator.....the have all already been done :)

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This is what we were looking for. :)

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now you gotta get that auto insurance for your dogs(saw it on tv a minute ago)

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im guessing you will need a fuel pump in a year and your gonna eat brakes. boom!!! gm sucks all lick my balls :y

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main reason fuel pumps go is because people run on ------- e all the time. the fuel pump keeps cool by having it full all the time. but yea chevy pumps like to go. im on my 3rd.

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Since when is a intake gaskets a common problem on one of those ???

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i wasnt talking common problems, you work on them but you dont drive them as your daily driver. my friend had one and it was a piece of ---- low quality typical GM product. squeeks, rattles, noises etc. basically they slowly fall apart, as per GM owners manual spec.

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if you paid anything over 14k for that tahoe, you got raped

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Add on to that the fact that no one ever changes the fuel filter and when they finally do then they will be putting in a pump within a week.

Intake gaskets are a common problem on almost all gm engines.

I'm going to drop the tank in the next couple days and check out the pump that is in there and maybe put one in as insurance. :)
And brakes for these are cheap as hell, what do I care?

Not even close. :)

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Not on a Dry intake like the 5.3/6.0L. Only reason ud need to take that intake off is to replace the knock sensors

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nice rig, those are good powerful motors and get good mileage compared to others

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The o-rings fail and cause a lean condition on one bank. I just did a set on an 03 sierra 5.3 today that came in w/ 1,3,5,7 random misfire and b1s1 lean. Sprayed some carb clean along the edge of the intake and she bucked like ------ crazy. Took the intake off and sure as ---- the gaskets had failed. :)

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weird ive worked at a GM dealership for the last 4 years and have never seen that, Leave it to GM to ---- everything up :1

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17mpg is really not that bad consider it is a SUV with a v8

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Those are nice, but I don't see 17mpg city driving out of that thing. :l How do you know what it gets already? How long have you had it? My Jeep weighs a tad over 4k and it gets about 12mpg city with a 4.7 V8. My Sierra got 9mpg no matter what. :3

I wouldn't mind having a Tahoe, but I've always thought they were gas hogs. :-\
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the chevys are much much much better on fuel than dodges. all while making more power

the 4.7l v8 is pathetic as well as the 318 in the older ones.

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Not to defend my Jeep in ANY way, but it's a peppy motor and scoots that pig of a Jeep around pretty damn good. I think they're rated at ~235hp. What is the smaller Chevy motor rated at? ???
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the 5.3 vortec?

310hp/335tq

the 6.0 vortec is

300hp/360tq

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The 5.3 puts out more hp? That's still .7 bigger than the 4.7. The HO 4.7 puts out a bit more.
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4.7
230hp and 295ftlb

4.7 "ho"
260hp 310ftlb

both make less power, use more gas. just like a said 8)

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But it's smaller. :P
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ok so it makes less power and uses more gas lol.......

vortec engines are awesome powerplants. just like the lsx engines

OHV all the way, torque + gearing + low revs = power & mileage.

like i've said a million times

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they dont get 17mpg their rated at 13mpg city and 16mpg highway ::)

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My 6.0 Vortec got HORRIBLE gas mileage. :l
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I`ve driven a few 15 passenger van with both the 5.3 and 6.0 motor :P They are pretty nice motor to carry heavy ---- and have some serious tork
the 6.0 is WAYYYYYYYY more powerful and both gets 10mph hwy with full load of ---- :1

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it also had huge ------ wheels on it

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those things do not get 17mpg, maybe idling while being pulled by a tow truck. they get 10-12 at best.

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C1500 Series - 5.3L (2WD)
19 / 27 / 22

K1500 Series - 5.3L (4WD)
18 / 24 / 20

C1500 Series -6.0L (2WD)
17 / 23 / 19

Silverado SS - 6.0L (AWD)
14 / 19 / 16

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2005 Chevy Tahoe

Vortec 5300 5.3L V-8 (L59)
2WD: 14 / 18 / 16
4WD: 13 / 17 / 15

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my pathfinder gets 17mpg :3Its exspensive comming from a 4 cyl

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yeah johnny, we all know how accurate fuel economy ratings are ::)

go drive one around for a week, ill bet you 500 you DONT get over 12MPG with ANY kind of driving.

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I drove it with stock rims/tires for a few months and it still got ---- for mpg. :l I towed a trailer loaded with ---- in it out of state, still got 9mpg. :S
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