Problems with a 2015 Chevy Suburban

[Sousaclone]

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.

Got it. People that spend money on trucks that have capabilities they don't use is wrong. Spending money on a jaguar (assuming it's currently working) or other high performance car with power/handling that isn't of any practical use on the normal roads is okay though. That argument drives me crazy.

Although, the number of people daily driving 3/4 or 1 ton diesel trucks in Houston still blows me away (the ones that are obviously not used for some aspect requiring a HD truck).

 

[cyfan4St8]

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.

I actually have a ford truck for work and that thing is fine as long as you don’t want it to be anything like a truck lol . The minute you try to load it up or pull anything with it it’s so light weight built it just feels like your driving a car trying to do truck work with it .

 

[cyfan92]

Get a minivan. $35K for a EX-L Odyssey or XLE Sienna. A lot more interor room than full-size SUV's. They run for 150K miles without breaking a sweat.

Also, 100K miles on a 5 years old car seems like a TON of miles, no?

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

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.

100K is nothing for a suburban, it just getting broke in.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Anyone have any input on lease vs buy

 

[cyfan92]

2015 looks like a problem year for the Suburban

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[Pat]

2015 looks like a problem year for the Suburban

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I’m not a car guy, but I immediately had a pretty good guess about the correlation between the spikes in 2007 and 2015. Hint: maybe hold off on purchasing the newly redesigned 2021 Suburban.

 

[BCClone]

2015 looks like a problem year for the Suburban

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It was the new model year. Always have bugs in those.

 

[clonedude]

Someone that has $120k in vehicles, and toys also to pull with those vehicles, shouldn't be complaining about $6k. They probably carry that around in their wallet.

I have 4 vehicles that if I traded them all in, I'd probably get about $25k for all of them!

Vehicles are the biggest waste of money there is.

 

[ArgentCy]

we actually looked at Mason City when I was job hunting 2 years ago, would have bought an acreage just north of town. for a decent price but otherwise everything we found was in need of some sort of work/updates, and most were around the $130k + mark. friends are in the process of closing on a house now and it was a struggle for them to find anything under $120k that didn't need major work done to it.

I did say average or median might even be more accurate. It's an older town with a meat packing plant. So yeah, you probably won't want to buy the "Average" house. But I bought a Repo for less than $70,000. Of course, I had to put some money and effort into the thing but not that bad.

 

[ArgentCy]

Someone that has $120k in vehicles, and toys also to pull with those vehicles, shouldn't be complaining about $6k. They probably carry that around in their wallet.

I have 4 vehicles that if I traded them all in, I'd probably get about $25k for all of them!

Vehicles are the biggest waste of money there is.

In my best Dave voice, you better make $250k a year or those cars are killing you.

 

[ArgentCy]

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.

A lot of price gains come from the land value. Or in other words, you need growth and more buyers with money to help bid up the existing supply. Houses themselves generally depreciate, or you pumped a lot of money into them.

 

[jbhtexas]

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.

I pulled an old broken-off concreted-in basketball pole out with my 2005 Jetta TDI. I worked, but I don't recommend it...

 

[Bipolarcy]

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.

I would have treated you the same way. You sound like a choosing beggar to me. You expect a car with nearly 100,000 miles on it to still be operating like new and if it doesn't, you want someone else to care about it. Cars wear out no matter how expensive they are.

 

[cyfan4St8]

I would have treated you the same way. You sound like a choosing beggar to me. You expect a car with nearly 100,000 miles on it to still be operating like new and if it doesn't, you want someone else to care about it. Cars wear out no matter how expensive they are.

I have zero problem fixing things on a car that are wear and tear but in all the different cars/trucks I’ve ever owned..... 10 different since high school all GM stuff the things we are paying to fix are not things that are because they are wearing out it’s because it’s cheap parts that are not holding up like they should . 100,000 miles on a car isn’t anything .....Heck I had a 1997 truck that I didn’t get rid of it till it had 230,000 miles on it and beyond oil changes and brakes and tires the only thing I had to do to it was u joints. I don’t expect it to be working like new but parts and functions that have gone bad so early on as far as mileage on this that’s what I have problems with. So I don’t get your comment. I have a feeling you don’t even understand cars at all lol.

 

[Bipolarcy]

I have zero problem fixing things on a car that are wear and tear but in all the different cars/trucks I’ve ever owned..... 10 different since high school all GM stuff the things we are paying to fix are not things that are because they are wearing out it’s because it’s cheap parts that are not holding up like they should . 100,000 miles on a car isn’t anything .....Heck I had a 1997 truck that I didn’t get rid of it till it had 230,000 miles on it and beyond oil changes and brakes and tires the only thing I had to do to it was u joints. I don’t expect it to be working like new but parts and functions that have gone bad so early on as far as mileage on this that’s what I have problems with. So I don’t get your comment. I have a feeling you don’t even understand cars at all lol.

I understand cars enough to know that they start to break down when they approach 100,000 miles and that expecting a car company to care about your problems long after the warranty has expired is an exercise in futility. If you expect every vehicle you own to match your 1997 pickup, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

 

[Dr.bannedman]

I understand cars enough to know that they start to break down when they approach 100,000 miles and that expecting a car company to care about your problems long after the warranty has expired is an exercise in futility. If you expect every vehicle you own to match your 1997 pickup, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

agree. especially with gm. my 2013 chevy cruze was one of the last with 5 year 100k and brother it got very weird towards the end. luckily some drunk driving 80+ year old smashed into her parked in front of my house.

 

[cyfan4St8]

So

agree. especially with gm. my 2013 chevy cruze was one of the last with 5 year 100k and brother it got very weird towards the end. luckily some drunk driving 80+ year old smashed into her parked in front of my house.

so you guys think a car’s shelf life is only to 100,000 miles and at that point they should expect to be junk ? So that means any car that is 5-6 years old has lived it’s life ?

 

[Dr.bannedman]

So

so you guys think a car’s shelf life is only to 100,000 miles and at that point they should expect to be junk ? So that means any car that is 5-6 years old has lived it’s life ?

Yes. I think buying a redesign vehicle for 70k from a company that no longer offers 5 year 100k warranty is a bad decision.

 

[NodawayRiverClone]

Cared-for power trains should mostly last well over 100k. All the other stuff - not so much. Agree with those who say makers don't care after the warranty is up unless they are taking a real PR beating. We will not even look at a Honda vehicle based on my wife's experience with a Civic before we were married.