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2005 Escalade EXT (aka GMT 800 argument thread)

Beat95yj said:
That price is off the charts. I was looking at GMT 800 SUVs last night and I’m pretty sure you could pick that up for about six grand. I was searching Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. I did see a few 8.1 2500’s and they were nowhere near that price. Leather blah blah blah, etc..
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thats 8.1 2500. a 1500 would be 6-7k
 
Beat95yj said:
They were closer to 3 to 4 for a 1500. I didn’t look at anything over 200 K miles. Most were in the 120s to 150s.

Next time, read my post! :flipoff2:
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You are correct, I didn’t read all the way, it sounded like you were/are confused about what you saw.

That 15 is priced about correctly for the east coast being an 8.1 8lug 4x4 120k clean rust free truck. 6.0 8lug would be 10 ish, and 1500 6-8. 2wd will knock 30% or so off those numbers.

It’s not hard to imagine that an 8.1 truck would be cheap where gas is $6/gal though. (2.97 here.). I bet ca emissions is not doing any favors either.
 
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Beat95yj said:
Here trucks are worth the most. SUVs do not hold value near as well.
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Yeah I was looking at a boat I. The Bay Area several years ago and noted a few lower priced 8.1 suburbans that it might be worth combining to transit the country.

Might need to look into stacking gas guzzler burbs up in 2bb’s IBB storage yard til I can fill an auto transport rig up for the journey east.
 
Beat95yj said:
That price is off the charts. I was looking at GMT 800 SUVs last night and I’m pretty sure you could pick that up for about six grand. I was searching Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area. I did see a few 8.1 2500’s and they were nowhere near that price. Leather blah blah blah, etc..
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The market is awe inspiring;
( like I said before, I think this guy had a weak comprehension of market values and paid 8.1 4wd money for a 2wd 6.0. And so the cost of regearing is going to pale in comparison to the beating he’s going to take unwinding from this truck.)
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That guy wound up HGTD’ing because of the jimmy numbers level skewering he was taking. :lmao:
 
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FleshEater said:
So I decided to call on that work truck. Got more pics and she’s mint.

BUT…they sent me the car fax and two things jumped out at me. Are these common issues?

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They’re willing to deliver this truck to me for around $700 (which I’ll have a decent amount driving down and staying in a hotel). He said he’d work with me to insure those issues are not a problem, but there is nothing someone 9 hours away can do to insure that, especially a salesman. :laughing:
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40,000miles in 9 years? seems odd. if the fuse block replacement was after it would make sense to me. I've seen a few where they sit parked for a long time, mice get into the under hood fuse box and either chew up wires or piss and shit on top of the fuses
 
WTF? said:
correct, the ecm was checked 40k later than the fuse replacement. as a result that ecm/pcm check went from meh, to worth looking into


what was your goal in trying to explain that intermittent nature to a used car salesman? so the used car lot tossed all the records and doesnt have original owners contact?

if someone let this truck roll through auction as a dealer trade, I'd tap out. ( a dealer would most likely put this on the lot and have juan or carlos scoop it up in hours or at least run it by their wholesale contacts directly. That's a lot of coincidental happenstance/planet alignment that has to fall in place for it to not be someone's newly single cougar ex wife with lingering red flags below the surface. )
If the owner's dead, that's probably the only reason i'll accept that its ok to not know the story at that price.
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If I remember correctly it’s been to auction once or twice. First sold December 23. So it’s getting tossed around.

Something is suspicious. My wife said she has a bad gut feeling about it, and she’s almost always right. Probably going to pass.
 
FleshEater said:
If I remember correctly it’s been to auction once or twice. First sold December 23. So it’s getting tossed around.

Something is suspicious. My wife said she has a bad gut feeling about it, and she’s almost always right. Probably going to pass.
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yeah, that's suspicious as hell for all the reasons i laid out above, hard pass unless there's a huge amount of wiggle room on that asking price and you've got time and patience to iron out kinks.
 
WTF? said:
yeah, that's suspicious as hell for all the reasons i laid out above, hard pass unless there's a huge amount of wiggle room on that asking price and you've got time and patience to iron out kinks.
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Exactly. Asking price makes all the difference.
 
TRINDU said:
Nope. Barn doors are neat though.
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I had one with barn doors once- definitely not a huge fan of that giant blind spot in the middle and 2 portholes flanking it in the rearview.
Super difficult to gauge closing distance to a boat trailer with that center blind spot completely obstructing the winch post that serves as your visual marker for that.
 
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WTF? said:
I had one with barn doors once- definitely not a huge fan of that giant blind spot in the middle and 2 portholes flanking it in the rearview
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Meh, I rarely use my rearview. Driving a strait truck or pulling a GN rendered it useless and I got over it.
 
TRINDU said:
Meh, I rarely use my rearview. Driving a strait truck or pulling a GN rendered it useless and I got over it.
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I added the boat trailer detail after the fact after you quoted me. That first boat trailer hookup backdown where I had to open the doors was the point I knew this wasn’t a long term fleet member.
 
WTF? said:
I added the boat trailer detail after the fact after you quoted me. That first boat trailer hookup backdown where I had to open the doors was the point I knew this wasn’t a long term fleet member.
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Minor inconvenience. if it's a trailer you hook up to regularly, you can guess distance/center pretty easy.

Unless you're one of those plowfags.
 
TRINDU said:
Minor inconvenience. if it's a trailer you hook up to regularly, you can guess distance/center pretty easy.

Unless you're one of those plowfags.
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An empty boat trailer for a 28’ boat has nothing but the fenders that are 20’ back from the coupler to indicate where you are in closing distance to hookup single handedly. That trailer is invisible with barn doors.

Example. (That red padded wishbone isn’t there on most trailers.)

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WTF? said:
I had one with barn doors once- definitely not a huge fan of that giant blind spot in the middle and 2 portholes flanking it in the rearview.
Super difficult to gauge closing distance to a boat trailer with that center blind spot completely obstructing the winch post that serves as your visual marker for that.
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I have no idea why people like those. I have never liked them. Some people say it’s because you can load with a forklift. They’ve probably never seen a pick up truck.

They are worse on a square body when you give up the rolldown window
 
Beat95yj said:
I have no idea why people like those. I have never liked them. Some people say it’s because you can load with a forklift. They’ve probably never seen a pick up truck.

They are worse on a square body when you give up the rolldown window
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barn doors seem to be much more common on the 2500's i guess they're for 5'2 horse people housewives who cant reach a hatch liftgate to close it. shit it's for you too i guess. :idea: :tank:
 
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WTF? said:
An empty boat trailer for a 28’ boat has nothing but the fenders that are 20’ back from the coupler to indicate where you are in closing distance to hookup single handedly. That trailer is invisible with barn doors.

Example. (That red padded wishbone isn’t there on most trailers.)
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I have a boat, trailer is 102" wide. You can gauge by fenders.

I can't think of a time I ever hooked up to it empty. Even then, I would only have to get close as they're tongue light. Just make sure you keep the winch out of site and you know it's square and make a couple 10ft trips to see distance


You're an amateur :flipoff2:It's best for society you don't on a tree-quata ton :flipoff2:
 
TRINDU said:
I have a boat, trailer is 102" wide. You can gauge by fenders.

I can't think of a time I ever hooked up to it empty. Even then, I would only have to get close as they're tongue light. Just make sure you keep the winch out of site and you know it's square and make a couple 10ft trips to see distance


You're an amateur :flipoff2:It's best for society you don't on a tree-quata ton :flipoff2:
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your fisher-price trailer might be tongue light but the big boy trailers as pictured isn't something you push more than the inch or 2 the tongue jack flexes/sways. hook to an empty trailer all the time when you splash the boat on friday and reload it monday so as to avoid the amateur hour weekenders, but still have to run errands over the weekend.
 
WTF? said:
your fisher-price trailer might be tongue light but the big boy trailers as pictured isn't something you push more than the inch or 2 the tongue jack flexes/sways. hook to an empty trailer all the time when you splash the boat on friday and reload it monday so as to avoid the amateur hour weekenders, but still have to run errands over the weekend.
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Nah, my trailer is aluminum I beam as well :laughing:

I'd just leave the truck hooked up and grab another. Apparently it's "poor people, with skewed depth perception, that don't own another vehicle, who also have a boat, but think they're better than weekenders, but self righteous and can't spend all day on the water, to afford a slip" problems :flipoff2:

By all means, barn doors aren't for that class of folk.
 
FleshEater said:
Me either, but I’m in a position of beggars can’t be choosers. :flipoff2:
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Not the best color but not a w/t and maybe worth a look at shipping if you can stomach gold-ish tan on tan:

Cig burns In door cards would be an odor question I’d ask about but an ozone machine is $60 if odor returns after a few months. And yes cloth door card inserts were fitted in most the early gmt800 leather ec trucks.

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Sorry to butt in, but since this is thr gmt800 guru thread...

need new wheels and tires for my 2004 sierra quadrasteer. It has rollers now on tacoma wheels (hows that even possible)

Cant seem to find stockers for sale anywhere, so whats the advice? 265/70r18 going to be a little big assuming?
 
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