re: Suburban owners- do you like it?

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had one when SUV meant sport utility vehicle and not oversized luxury car. It was burnt orange and looked like I worked for the highway department and it maneuvered like a supertanker, but it hauled all my hunting shite around. I slept in the back of it on occasion. I put 140,000 miles on it before the timing chain broke and the mechanic told me it would cost more to fix than the blue book value.

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80s suburbans were fricking tanks

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I have had one since 2006. It has almost 200k in miles. I have put about $8,000 in it for struts, brakes and various repairs outside of tires and oil changes.

The paint has deteriorated and needs to be redone.

I have a hard time letting it go. We raised three kids in that truck and traveled across the country in it.

Best choice I ever made.

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My parents had the same thing from maybe 1996 to 2014. By that time the AC was shot and it was the spare car used to haul dogs and messy stuff, and it smelled funny. We borrowed it all the time for road trips. Steamboat one year, a wedding in KC a few years later. My friends all remember it fondly.

Leased 4 suburbans over 16 years for company. Never had a mechanical issue. Keep in mind they got turned back after 4 years, but each was pushing 100k miles. Supremely comfortable out on the road. You can probably get by with a Tahoe if it’s mostly in town and short road trips. Suburban has more cargo room but rarely used other than long trips unless you have a lot of everyday gear.

Google GM lifter failure, common problem.

Wife has a 2017. Plan on keeping it as long as we can.. only has 70,000 miles on it. I think they’re the best vehicles ever made.

We have a 2022 GMC Yukon Denali XL with the 6.2L. Bought it used with 12K miles. Saved a good bit on the purchase price. It’s a really nice vehicle.

The 2025 Suburbans look fantastic.

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GM lifter failure, common problem.

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The 5.7 and 6.4 hemi are notorious for eating lifters as well. The new ford 7.3 reportedly has lifter problems. New 6.7 cummins is having lifter problems. Wtf is up with all the new engines having lifter problems?

You realize you're only going to get people that fellate Chevy/GMC in this thread, right? To go from Honda/Toyota to an American brand has a chance of not turning out really well. I'd take a hard look at independent reliability reports before making a decision. As new models of a vehicle brand get released, what tends to seem to happen is that the first year after a redesign, reliability is not good for American and European manufacturers. It usually gets better, when the manufacturer fixes stuff in the default transmission, etc.

Also, be very careful on test drives, which what trim levels and features you're comparing. My ex wife's Explorer Sport was nothing like driving an Explorer XLT, for instance.

You can get three rows in an Explorer for example, although the Expedition wasn't much more expensive than the Explorer. I drove five people to Florida from Texas and back for a week with all their garbage in an Explorer Sport quite easily. Two women and a girl were involved, and it worked out (to represent how much crap was packed, and still fit.) The Explorer seated 6, with the middle row captain's chairs, not the bench.

Chevy seems to have a mixed reliability reputation, from absolute disasters to the unicorns that have been touted in this thread, (300k, and only oil, tires and brakes!)

You can also get a pickup king cab, put on a lockable bed cover, and stick the three kids in the back seat. I mean, I could fit a 65" TV in the backseat of my truck standing up, it's not like it's small. In this age of inflation and vehicle costs, you want as many options as you can get.

Wife have a surburban for 6 years loved it. Went to get her another one last year and compared to the ford expedition max it didn’t match up. The ford has more room, better navigation I can get with an XLT package and it was honestly cheaper.

We have had the expedition max for 2 years now and we still love it. I have 3
Boys under 10 and it’s been great so far.

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You realize you're only going to get people that fellate Chevy/GMC in this thread, right?

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Any different than the threads fellating imports?

No, but that's different. Right?

*Have never had to put a tranny in a GM truck. Feel free to call me a liar while waiting at the Honda dealer as they replace your trans.