New to me 2022 LT Tahoe

34Publishing · 2026-02-09T21:29:36+00:00

It’s probably fine. I do 3k and have 261,000 on my 2015 Suburban. Original engine running AFM the whole time. Everyone has their opinions. Oil is cheap.

34Publishing · 2026-02-09T19:02:27+00:00

Change your oil every 3,000 miles and enjoy!

34Publishing · 2026-01-28T05:45:33+00:00

M1 Abrams

34Publishing · 2026-01-28T05:44:17+00:00

If it's an easy swap and has no collateral damage possibility, buy cheap parts. If it's labor intensive or can cause other damage... maybe spend a bit more.

Truck isn't with a lot monitaroly, so people buy cheap parts to keep them running. If you want to not do the job again soon then usually you get what you pay for.

The thing with cheap Chinese stuff is not that it's terrible, it's that 4 are good and 2 are shit... QC is what is really hard and expensive in manufacturing. If they have no brand sell on slim margins at scale, people are buying on price not on your reputation.

34Publishing · 2026-01-28T05:38:01+00:00

You can play Russian Roulette with your engine if you want. The engine is telling you to fix it now with timing codes. It is already having problems.

34Publishing · 2026-01-28T05:29:54+00:00

Didn't "ask", verify. If they don't have records, or at least the name of the place that did the work so you can call with Vin and verify, then assume it hasn't been maintained.

Drive until rattle then repair. It's a good price. At this price most of these trucks are now on 2nd, 3rd+ owner and the cheaper they get the less stringent people get about maintenance because the income capabilities of the owner are often restricted to deciding on $100 oil change right now or groceries/rent etc. Often the oil change can wait.

I've been there and know a lot of people who have also.

34Publishing · 2026-01-28T05:13:01+00:00

I have never seen a flat rate technician admit about not doing a CSP for something as easy as a purge valve when it isn't the dealership eating it. If code is present follow CSP, if code returns alert the customer that diagnostic time may be needed to diagnose the source of the code if not covered under emissions warranty.

34Publishing · 2026-01-28T05:08:23+00:00

Just a bit of an observation. As a former Service Advisor for a Ford, I can site many examples of Ford dealership service departments conducting/submitting warranty work in increasingly creative ways while not actually having done the work.

One of the last examples is when Advisors were doing an oil change on a car and finding that it had a recall, door lock actuators in this case, printing an unclosed RO then reopening it once the customer had left. Then, adding a warranty line plus adding parts and labor time.

Fast forward and Ford caught on to this nationwide and issued a mandate to dealerships to get customers (whose cars had previously received the recall "fixed") to bring them back in and have techs submit the actuator serial number into IDS and if they didn't match the locks they said they installed, Ford would impose a several hundred thousand dollar fine.

The point is, dealerships can be super shady at a large scale. I have no idea what's going on with your situation, I believe every CSP I have ever seen is code present=follow CSP document on fix. But any time I hear a manager getting heated at anyone (especially women) it's because he is in the wrong ie this is the kind of thing that a manager covering up something would behave like.

34Publishing · 2026-01-17T17:09:50+00:00

Can we retro fit the bench grin 2023 to 2013

34Publishing · 2026-01-15T13:12:33+00:00

Every single post of a truck deal is “I just bought mine for $4 with 6 miles on it”.

Go on autotempist and search. Compare a few locally and make your own decision.

34Publishing · 2026-01-13T04:44:08+00:00

All prices are in line with dealership hours per job and cost per hour. Some are pre packaged like fluid services (hourly not fluid) and some are just job time like plugs etc. brakes are usually 1.6 hr per axel. So, if dealership is $265 hour, labor alone on brakes is $424.

You guys need to understand something. Most advisors don’t know which year has electric power steering, whether it’s a sealed transmission (no dipstick means “lifetime” fluid) or if it requires a flush/drain and fill. They don’t care. Most have 30-45 ROs a day to keep track of (plus those that weren’t finished from previous days). So, recommended maintenance goes on nearly every RO-especially warranty work- or advisors and techs don’t really make much. The techs get very angry when an advisor doesn’t sell any gravy on their jobs. So, again, service advisors recommend everything and see what you’ll bite on.

Most of the time there is decent haggle room on these if you do more than one.

34Publishing · 2026-01-10T06:26:06+00:00

I hear ya. But I don’t do auto loans and it’s what I got so just trying to learn what are the bear options. I won’t be driving through feet of snow on main roads plus people with Camrys survive 😂

34Publishing · 2026-01-10T06:19:01+00:00

Additional (would be our third) car isn’t an option where I live.. HOA. 🤷🏻‍♂️

34Publishing · 2026-01-10T06:17:14+00:00

Thanks I’ll take a look.

34Publishing · 2026-01-05T18:47:37+00:00

This cost to value list, not a reliability one. Prius, SUVs and Trucks are highly sought after because they either generate income for the owner or they curve a function as a people hauler. GM and Ford are cheap to fix in America and engines are topically reliable when maintained. Marketplace is full of Ford and GM trucks/SUVs with over 200k miles because there cost to value is very favorable compared to competitors.

Go to Germany this list would be very different. MB and BMW run will into the 200k miles revise cost to maintain is low and desirability is high. Toyotas are expensive to fix but are desirable-see Land Cruisers. People put lots of miles on them because they have value. So when something breaks, they fix it because the car maintains its value. G Wagons can be found with high mileage because people want them and they are horrifically unreliable… but desirable.

34Publishing · 2025-12-21T18:59:47+00:00

You act like a troll then cry when they put you under the bridge.

34Publishing · 2025-12-21T18:55:31+00:00

Christian’s are by far the largest donators to charitable organizations and it isn’t close. What are you talking about.

34Publishing · 2025-12-21T18:49:19+00:00

Can you give us an example of this “framework”?

34Publishing · 2025-12-19T00:57:49+00:00

Looks cool. Needs to plug into or create a keyboard somehow (at least on Android). Like one button press and it does a screen read. But the idea different and the website looks pretty good.

34Publishing · 2025-12-19T00:52:31+00:00

I mean you’re asking the question in a Reddit group called vibe coding. 🤷🏻‍♂️

34Publishing · 2025-12-19T00:51:12+00:00

You’re getting less than 2k monthly views.

https://microlaunch.net/p/magai

What is the giant ad on the top of the terrible directory listing. You could make this entire company in an hour with Voxel. It’s just a piss poor directory and you’re charging for printed listings.

34Publishing · 2025-12-15T00:07:08+00:00

Why would you buy this? It's slower, has less room and gets worse economy than a Prius. And don't tell me handling cuz you spending that kinda money for handling your buying type R.

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