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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Who hauls with a GMC? Particularly a 3500 Denali? |
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| I have a 2011 GMC 3/4 ton denali and absolutely LOVE it. Payed enough for it used but really do love it better than my old dodge. No comparison. |
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Location: OH. IO | We haul with a GMC 4x4 crew cab dually 3500.LOVE OUR TRUCK |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | This is good to hear. SIX months later...we are finally divorced from our dodge 5500. Check in hand, truck sitting at a dealership waiting to be towed to Dallas.
?The local chevy dealer was supposed to have ordered our Silverado 3500 6 weeks ago. 3 weeks ago i called to ask for an estimated delivery date, to find out they hadn't ordered it and would get it in that day. Yesterday we found out they still have not ordered it yet. They said *IF* the order gets picked up next week it will be roughly 8 weeks until we get it. I was beyond frustrated so we started looking around and are driving 3 hours today to look at a brand new 2015 3500 Denali for a little less then what the chevy would have cost us. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I miss our duramax every day. I don't think you'll have any issues with that truck. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Our trainer hauls with one and he loves it. |
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| I'm jealous!! Would love to have a spanking new Denali dually!! Congrats  |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | I hope you have better luck with yours than I had with mine.
after a laundry list of problems that included injectors, head gaskets, rear diff bearings, ac condensor and cab leaks, I finally got rid of it at a considerable loss and bought something else.
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | 1DSoon - 2016-03-16 2:58 PM
I hope you have better luck with yours than I had with mine.
after a laundry list of problems that included injectors, head gaskets, rear diff bearings, ac condensor and cab leaks, I finally got rid of it at a considerable loss and bought something else.
Well.....Ford wasn't a consideration and after two brand new dodges that were way worse then anything...... |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | We have had great luck with GMC and chevy, and the Duramax/Alison has been very reliable. Even with heavy farm use, they have held up super well. I love the redesign on the 2015s. Especially the Denali. My truck is a 2010 GMC slt 3500. The only issues I've had from it were caused from it being a rebuilt. (Won't do that again). The 2005 and 2008 I had were great trucks and are still being used on the farm. The only reason I'm not still driving the 08 is because it was a 3/4 and I needed a 1 ton. |
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Location: Montana | missroselee - 2016-03-16 12:08 PM
This is good to hear. SIX months later...we are finally divorced from our dodge 5500. Check in hand, truck sitting at a dealership waiting to be towed to Dallas.
?The local chevy dealer was supposed to have ordered our Silverado 3500 6 weeks ago. 3 weeks ago i called to ask for an estimated delivery date, to find out they hadn't ordered it and would get it in that day. Yesterday we found out they still have not ordered it yet. They said *IF* the order gets picked up next week it will be roughly 8 weeks until we get it.
I was beyond frustrated so we started looking around and are driving 3 hours today to look at a brand new 2015 3500 Denali for a little less then what the chevy would have cost us.
I don't know what is going on with your Chevy dealership, but I was talking to the Ford dealer I go to (ordered my car through them) and they have cars they have ordered but over a month later Ford hasn't gotten around to making them yet, and some they quit producing and they still have allocations for those cars. Its kind of ridiculous, and I don't know if Chevy is having a similar issue or if it is with your dealer.
Basically, the GMC Denali is the exact same truck (mechanically) as the Chevy you were ordering, only Denali's are REALLY fancy usually, top of the line. GMC's have always had more equipment and held a better book value used than Chevies have, even though mechanically and drivetrain they are the same thing. So I hope that helps your decision. :) |
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Location: Warsaw,NY | I have a 07 2500 HD crew cab duramax. 184k on it. bought it new and the truck is a beast!! have had no issues, only have done maintenance basically. i haul anything from a 3h BP, 35' 5th wheel toy hauler to a 3h w/15'sw lakota. Driven it to florida mulitple time for motocross, alabama, ohio, georgia, it has been the best truck ever. I have owned other duramax, but always traded in after 2yrs. this is the first one i kept |
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Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Well.....we came home with a brand new 2015 3500 Denali for less then what the 2016 3500 silverado LT was going to cost |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | I would say that the dealer that kept delaying your original order is having money problems. The day a new car or truck goes on the line the money is taken out of the dealers account. If the money is not there the order is kicked out. |
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Location: Oklahoma | You will love it. I have a 2015 and have had zero issues with it. Pulls like a champ and I couldn't ask for anything more. We weren't looking for a Denali (just a Chevy LTZ or GMC SLT), but we found it for thousands less than what the LTZs/SLTs were going for... and the interior is much nicer. |
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| missroselee - 2016-03-16 1:08 PM
This is good to hear. SIX months later...we are finally divorced from our dodge 5500. Check in hand, truck sitting at a dealership waiting to be towed to Dallas.
?The local chevy dealer was supposed to have ordered our Silverado 3500 6 weeks ago. 3 weeks ago i called to ask for an estimated delivery date, to find out they hadn't ordered it and would get it in that day. Yesterday we found out they still have not ordered it yet. They said *IF* the order gets picked up next week it will be roughly 8 weeks until we get it. I was beyond frustrated so we started looking around and are driving 3 hours today to look at a brand new 2015 3500 Denali for a little less then what the chevy would have cost us.
Do it - you won't be disappointed.
The Duramax engine is great and the Denali interior is pretty fantastic. We (my family and I) have had a Duramax of some sort since 2002. Hauling across the Rockies multiple times a year with loaded, double decked livestock trailers has never been a problem.
My SO and I have a 2006, 5.9 Cummins Dually, 4 door - great engine put in a tin can. It can pull anything, but the ride does not even compare to our Chevy dually. The Dodge is turning into the farm pickup and we're buying another Duramax in the near future. |
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Location: West Texas | Dodges can be great trucks, as long as you keep the super glue handy!
I bet your new Denali is extremely nice. Congratulations
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | It may take us a year to learn all the buttons.....
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Location: Iowa | We ordered our 2016 HD2500 Gmc Denali in December, just got it last week. Can't wait to pull the trailer with it. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | missroselee - 2016-03-17 8:36 PM It may take us a year to learn all the buttons.....
My mom has had hers since May 2014 and still doesn't know what all the buttons do. I'm a gadget freak, so I have to push everything in the first 10 minutes to see what happens.  |
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