Problems with a 2015 Chevy Suburban

[besserheimerphat]

I don't know where you are living that an average house is that price. those are the ones that need major work/upgrades to begin with or are absolutely tiny.

As I recall, Argent is in a smallish southern/southeastern Iowa town. Get out of the top 10 metro areas in Iowa and housing is cheap. The flipside is it doesn't appreciate hardly at all (unless you are putting a lot of money into it).

When we lived in Gladbrook (20mi NNE of Marshalltown) we had a place on 2.5 acres with a brick barn. I think we paid like $110k. When we decided to move to Ames 7 years later, we sold it for like $118k. That was after replacing the entire septic system, rewiring the house and barn including electrical panels, finishing the basement, installing premium vinyl windows, and new flooring throughout.

Now in Mount Vernon, WA, a town pretty comparable to Marshalltown except that its 60 miles north of Seattle, our first house cost like $235k in 2012. Last year we sold it for about $325k and we'd made basically no improvements.

 

[AgronAlum]

I guess I don’t see much wrong with that list of repairs. If you are up on 100k, stuff will wear out. When you pay 70k for a vehicle from GM, you’re mostly paying for the additional features/size/etc. not upgrades on standard parts that every car has, if that makes sense. Those parts are going to be mostly the same when compared to a base level Tahoe or Silverado. Either learn to fix it yourself, spend less knowing there will be issues at that many miles or eat the cost. There are few major brands that use non standard parts across a wide range of models, one of them being the Land Cruiser. The Land Cruiser uses a lot of parts only available on that platform and it shows by how incredibly long they will last.

I don’t understand Iowa’s obsession with GM vehicles. In general, Ford has by far the best domestic vehicles out there. This coming from an owner of two GM vehicles 2014 and newer but has put A LOT of miles on Ford, GM and Ram vehicles from the same years. Im currently driving a 2020 F250 through work.

 

[JP4CY]

Have you told the dealer you are totally done buying GMs and they will never get your business again?

 

[AgronAlum]

Have you told the dealer you are totally done buying GMs and they will never get your business again?

Full Karen mode.

I can tell you they don’t care right now. They can’t get vehicles to sell anyways. You’re also never going to get anywhere talking to corporate. Find a good individual dealership and you might get somewhere.

 

[cb1030]

As any owner of an F150 prior to the switch to aluminium bodies will tell you, just be lucky that you aren't seeing the corner of your back seat rust out. Not much you can do about it either once it has that scale of cancer. OPs list of repairs seems mostly routine and somewhat bad luck.

 

[NWICY]

That completely sucks, man. But i would have to chalk it ip to the vehicle ‘aging’. I own two GM vehicles - acadia and cruze. You said there are known issues. Are you reading about these issues online? Reason i ask, is one thing ive noticed is if you look deep enough you can find DIY tutorials online and save yourself a good chunk of $.

For my cruze it needed some small repairs, that i was able to do by myself that would have easily cost me $1k, and in no way do i consider myself ‘handy’.

Have you had the service stabiltrack light come on? Did you fix it yourself? That one is stuck on mine right now.

 

[BoxsterCy]

This thread is not making me nostalgic for the only American car I ever owned. It was a 1972 Chevy Nova coupe. Not a cool Nova, a stripped down straight six three on the tree. Been driving Axis enemy cars since that one.

 

[StormnClone58]

Have you had the service stabiltrack light come on? Did you fix it yourself? That one is stuck on mine right now.

I have not, thankfully.

To date i have done the MAF sensor, water outlet pump with outlet tubing, valve gasket cover, and spark plugs (was getting a misfire notice). I did all these with youtube. I would recommend googling the stabilitrack item, it may be a quick fix.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

Sorry to post this on here but today I had yet another thing we had to fix on our suburban that FYI cost $70k when we bought it . It has 97,000 miles on it and in the last few years and of course it started almost as the warranty expired on it . So far we have replaced the antenna which (cost $450), the evap twice ($500), front shocks ($2,200) , a/c pump ($750) , fixed trim around windows ($250) , and now the condenser that’s under the dash that is going to cost us $1,800. So that’s a total of so that’s nearly $6,000 we’ve spent over your general maintenance on the car . So I called GM to see how they felt about such a high dollar car having major issues and major quality issues and I’ve owned 10 total GM vehicles in my life and they pretty much said tough crap sorry but not sorry. So I asked the person so you don’t care if I go trade my 2018 Chevy crew cab truck and our 2015 Chevy suburban Ltz and two different people that are suppose to be customer service quality management said they pretty much care less the only way they would help me is if it was under warranty. You hear about this cancel culture and no wonder people are like that no one will stand behind what they sell. It’s either you get lucky and you have no issues or you just dismiss the people that do.
Has anyone else had these same issues with the newer suburban’s and what did you do ? From reading on the internet seems like a lot have had the same issues but I never saw anything other than most took it in the back side and paid to fix stuff.

Not to be rude but if you have 120k ish in vehicles (70k SUV + 50k truck) I’m not sure 6k in repairs is your biggest issue.

 

[SECyclone]

I disagree completely. Did you ever own a car made in the 70s, 80s or even 90s? I can't remember the last time a car left me stranded on the side of the road. Was a common occurrence when I was younger. Cars are much more reliable now than they've ever been.

Reliable yes but all the comforts and amenities seem to have a short life. Chevy doesn’t want him to fix all those problems they want him to trade it in for a new one.

 

[cyclone4L]

Get a Lexus GX.
Solves all your problems.

 

[BCClone]

Get a Lexus GX.
Solves all your problems.

Those things are much shorter than a suburban. He would be strapping stuff to the roof on a regular basis with that.

 

[g4ce]

Those things are much shorter than a suburban. He would be strapping stuff to the roof on a regular basis with that.

So get a Sequoia. I love mine. 2014 with 82k miles and have only done tires, front brakes, and oil and filter changes.

 

[Remo Gaggi]

I'll never understand this obsession with trucks. They are everywhere, usually with only one person in them. It's comical to see someone trying to park one at the grocery store. And as if these things aren't already high enough, some of these dopes insist on jacking them up even higher, as if they are going to enter them in some sort of monster truck event.

I drive a mans car. A Jaguar. It can run circles around any of these overpriced dump trucks that people spend stupid money on.

 

[BCClone]

So get a Sequoia. I love mine. 2014 with 82k miles and have only done tires, front brakes, and oil and filter changes.

A sequoia is basically a Tahoe. My sister had a tahoe and I had a suburban. A family of 5, that added room for storage is a world of difference.

 

[IcSyU]

I'll never understand this obsession with trucks. They are everywhere, usually with only one person in them. It's comical to see someone trying to park one at the grocery store. And as if these things aren't already high enough, some of these dopes insist on jacking them up even higher, as if they are going to enter them in some sort of monster truck event.

I drive a mans car. A Jaguar. It can run circles around any of these overpriced dump trucks that people spend stupid money on.

How is your jag going to do towing my toys around? Or how about pulling a tree out?

Congrats on wasting money on a Jaguar.

Note: lift kits are stupid.

 

[BCClone]

How is your jag going to do towing my toys around? Or how about pulling a tree out?

Congrats on wasting money on a Jaguar.

Note: lift kits are stupid.

There are two groups of people who seem to lift their pickups or SUV's; first is the 25 and under group, no surprise. The second group are the men under 5 7" and /or single men. I don't mind certain ones, but if I would have to basically do a pull up to get myself into my pickup, it would get old.

 

[cyfan4St8]

I'll never understand this obsession with trucks. They are everywhere, usually with only one person in them. It's comical to see someone trying to park one at the grocery store. And as if these things aren't already high enough, some of these dopes insist on jacking them up even higher, as if they are going to enter them in some sort of monster truck event.

I drive a mans car. A Jaguar. It can run circles around any of these overpriced dump trucks that people spend stupid money on.

Well as far as my truck it’s actually used as a truck and we show horses all over the place and it would be dumb for use to have a truck to just pull the horse trailer and livestock trailer and then have to have another car to get everyone to the same place . Pretty sure your jag can’t handle hooking up a goose neck trailer to it lol.

 

[cyfan4St8]

It's a 2015, you're supposed to have traded in earlier this year per the dealer guidelines.

I get a letter or email from Audi ever other week citing details of how they can give me $X for my 2015 and put me into a new 2020 for only $XX,XXX! If they looked at the maintenance records at all they would see it only has 25,000 miles on it and I haven't hardly been driving it...not like I need a new one. Covid distancing plus retirement and not commuting means I have more miles on my bicycle than Das Audi this summer.

I’ve checked with them through the last few years about trading but it’s dumb to walk away more or less having zero equity and starting all over at now these suburbans costing in the $80k range now.

 

[Sousaclone]

Unfortunately it's got almost 100k miles on it and it's a higher end vehicle which means higher end problems. Does sound like a lot of AC problems though. Have you considered taking it to a different dealer or mechanic?

As far as GM corporate? They couldn't care less about you selling/trading your trucks. There is probably someone just like you on the Ford side telling them that they are going to sell both and switch to GM. You are a drop in the swimming pool (not even a bucket). If you were a major fleet customer they might care. My project probably has a fleet of ~100 GM trucks and we are a tiny customer for fleet services here in Houston. The dealer by the jobsite has probably twice as many fleet vehicles (generic white trucks) on the lot as personal trucks.