I Drove A Chevy Avalanche Someone Traded In To A Dealership. It Was Phenomenal - Trade-in Tuesday
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- "It's a compelling machine. It rides so well. It's incredibly versatile," I say to the camera filming my first-ever drive in a Chevy Avalanche - a 20 year-old vehicle that I'd been admiring since I was just a young teenager. I was never really sure what to make of the truck, with its odd "sail pillar" buttressing the back of the cab to the bedsides; with its blankets of gray plastic cladding adorning much of the exterior; with its peculiar proportions. It always seemed a bit... weird; but now, after having driven an Avalanche that someone traded in to Galpin, I get it. In fact, I more than "get it." I adore it.
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This is my new favorite car series on UA-cam. Soooo good
Miss my Escalanche. Was a good, but, thirsty truck.
Passes everything but a gas station!!! Lol
VOLUME LEVELING. the vids are great and fun and funny and the text drop ins are hilarious, but the volume surges need a little work. thanks for the great content
I owned a 2004 Avalanche Z77. I loved that truck! Yes it was comfortable. It was 4 wheel drive. It didn’t have all the plastic cladding of the earlier models, only had plastic wheel well trim, the sails, and box trim. I thought that made it look better. The earlier models with all that cladding along the lower sides, I thought was pretty ugly. I also had a black steel bush guard on the front of mine, which gave the truck an even tougher look.
I bought the truck in 2005 with only 18,000 miles on it. I kept that truck for 15 years and put over 200,000 miles on it!
I rebuilt the transmission, including rebuilding the 4 wheel drive, which quit working at about 150,000 miles. I drove it about two years without the 4 wheel drive working which hampered my hunting a bit because it limited my ability to get to my downed deer for recovery. Everything worked fine after the rebuild.
I gave the truck away, with nearly 230,000 miles on it to my wife’s son, who was moving from Tennessee to California. The brakes gave out on the truck somewhere in Texas, rust had blown out a brake line and he had to get all the brake lines replaced.
Over the years of owning that truck, other than the transmission and 4 wheel drive rebuild, it never needed anything more substantial than just routine maintenance.
In the 15 years that I owned that truck, I took the glass out, and dropped that mid gate, twice. And both times that was just for kicks. It was a pain to do and took a lot of time to open up and put it back. It was also easier to do with two people.
Those covers on the back of the truck were heavy as hell and once the rubber had weathered several years, the bed of the truck was no longer waterproof.
The rear window trim, or frame around the glass, was made of steel and mine rusted in the bottom drivers side corner, which allowed water to drain into the box. That was OK, as long as the truck was sitting level, or higher in front than back. The water would just drain into the box, then out onto the ground.
But after I met and moved in with my girlfriend, (later my wife), in 2015, her driveway was sloped downhill from the road to her house, and I discovered that if the truck sat in the rain, nose down, the water would run into the cab and I’d get a puddle of water in the carpet under the drivers side dash!
I tried to find a replacement window for the back of that Avalanche and that was impossible! So, I just started backing into her driveway and made sure I never left the truck outside, in the rain, nose down.
As far as I know, that 2004 Avalanche Z77 with the original 5.3L engine and rebuilt transmission and transfer case, is still running strong in California!
I just bought an "05" version, dark blue and my plastic was grey until I used a Mother's product for plastic that takes it back to vivid dark black, I opted for the thicker rub on cream rather than the spray and I gotta tell you, the plastic looks brand new again. I absolutely love this truck
I owned a 2003 Chevy Avalanche Black love it
South Dakota plates... trailer hitch... motorcycle club patch... I wonder how many round trips this truck made to Sturgis hauling a hawg on a trailer.
The new Silverado EV is really an EV Avalanche.
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Still driving my 2002 Avalanche. Everytime I go get an oil change one of the guys ask me if I'm interested in selling it. NOPE 😂
I have an 04 z66 avalanche.. it’s great. A Swiss Army knife of vehicles
I got this exact truck a 02
Avalanche prices go through the roof. Or mid gate.
This series is fantastic. David Tracy is the best-I owned a 5spd ZJ because of him (such a great truck)
What did I just watch? First the intro that‘s so bad it‘s actually great, then we learned the concept of auralism, after that the choir every time David said „Midgate“, it was perfect. I loved the video! BTW: did you swear in German when you inspected the underside? Anyway, Grüße aus Deutschland!
I'm willing to bet David had to train himself to say "Volkswagen" the way most Americans do because he's in the auto-review business and still always pronounces "Adidas" the German way.
Ooh, that pinkie retro trailer is how much, who I call for pinkie....
Wait, WHO TRADED IN THAT GLORIOUS CLASSIC WITH THE HORNS ON TOP?! Do that one next, please.
I was offered $4,500 just for the motor which is full synthetic
I want that GMT400 crew cab short-box that you show a picture of.
The transmission is fine, but it's the smaller of 2 transmissions that GM had at the time and the weight and power of the Avalanche means the transmission is the weakest part. So it's the bit that breaks the most.
Personally, I never considered fireball as a hand cleaner. Questionable thought process there...
"Maybe they were a part of a bicycle club?" Wait, what?!?