Yeah if you are talking about aftermarket performance parts chevy still wins there price wise. The ls parts are everywhere so the parts are generally cheaper.
Probably not the big three but, I was mostly comparing it to a toyota truck i had for awhile and it needed parts often and they were always a lot more than the GMs. Needed a front disc caliper for my 1 ton Silverado dump truck once.Rebuilt caliper was $26, lifetime guarantee. I was expecting a lot more as its a big caliper. Just one example.
Really a toyota? I had a beater tacoma i bought for $500 with 275000 miles on it. I beat the crap out of it in the woods for 3 summers in that time i put 6000 miles on it almost all on the dirt. I only drove it on the road the first year till i rolled it the first time. After that it wasnt exactly street legal anymore. And i did nothing to it but add oil to it and occasionally roll it back onto its wheels. And it just kept running it only died when i misjudged the depth of a mud hole and swamped it. I got it running again but it was never the same. I have never had anything but fantastic reliability from toyotas.
Was a 1999 with only 75000 miles on it. Only good thing i can say about it is it had lots of power. Springs were crap, bottomed out with a few cement blocks in the back .MPG was crap. You could almost hear it rusting. Paper thin body panels ,leaning against the side might put a dent in it. Put more replacement parts on it than any GM product i ever had and those parts were a lot more expensive.
Like our 06 chevy with 75000 miles that has had the frame patched 4 times already and i dont trust it to tow our masonry trailer anymore because of the frame. Atleast toyota recalled theirs. Not to mention the brake lines and fuel lines that rusted by 45000 miles. Again no recall. They did recall one of the plugs that melted off but not the other 6. Every company has good years a nd bad years. And you can get a bad one even from those good years. I have no brand loyalty it makes no sense you have to research each vehicle to decide what works best for you.
All i can go on is past experience. Had a few fords over the years trucks, in the 80s and a car in the 90s . All plagued with numerous problems. Ill probably never buy another although i know there are lots of good ones out there,i just cant seem to get one. Even with research its the luck of the draw. Some just cant take these road salt winters in PA.
Yes i know our chevy truck and my trailblazer cant. My 1990 ford frame is perfect still. And our ford van doesnt have any rust at all yet but it is a 2010 so much newer. But it does have 165000 miles and we have had no issues other than a plug blowing out fixed under warranty.
Must be dependent on what year it is. My 1995 2500 Silverado frame is near perfect shape, for a truck 23 yrs old. Even the body has very little rust. My 93 Silverado has more surface rust on the frame but nothing deep. The toyota had way more frame rust and was very deep to the point of collapsing and was years newer.
Sort of ironic, that you’re posting that statement on a forum where people come to benefit from the experience of others, no?
Yeah ours is an 06 and needed patched the first time in 2012. If it hadnt been patched i am sure the frame would have broken by now. But the body has little rust on it. Ford really doesnt seem to have to many issues with frame rust but more with body. The same for dodge. Honestly in this area it is hard to find many road worthy gm trucks from the 2000s. A large percentage of them have frames that are to far gone. But they claim there is no problem with that or the brake lines or fuel lines. And toyota gets crap for a problem they issued a recall for.
Well i believed the opinions of others(like consumer reports) about the toyotas ,and got a real world experience by buying one and finding they are not all so great after all.
