Teegunn
Well-known member
Yeah, her "mom car" thing with a highly spec'd Tahoe or Yukon was just her spoiled nonsense.
I actually NEED a truck for my business as a builder and contractor. She doesn't need a truck. She just wanted one. Sometimes need should trump want. It's not like her truck - which MSRP'd for about 70K 3 years ago (we got it for 59K as there were big incentives at the time, plus we have access to employee discount codes for GM vehicles) - was a need. She went for the literal top of the line AT4 available, only other truck GM made that was higher spec'd/more expensive was the Denali, which neither of us like with all the grandpa chrome those come with.
I had found a really nice Tahoe for her at a local dealer while I was scrambling searching online for her perfect truck (had to be a certain color and certain, top of the line specs for the AT4 that year with only the 3.0 duramax engine). Was a 2020 Tahoe in a beautiful color, with a top of the line interior for that year. She should have gone for that Tahoe. I'm pretty much done going through a lot of work to find her perfect vehicle for her. If she finds one that has landed in our lap, then maybe we get that. Otherwise - she can stick with her really nice 2020 AT4 Carbon Pro.
Of course, now she is jealous that I have a nicer truck in my new AT4X. It's not like I wanted to or planned on getting a new truck, it's that the failure codes making the truck undriveable, leaving me stranded out of state for 4 weeks, with the dealer unable to figure out what/why/how to fix the issue, forced me to trade it off. Since the truck was stuck in limp mode, it would have only gotten me a few hundred miles down the road before the progressively increasing limp mode would have had my top speed at 5 mph. Since I was lucky the dealership got a new AT4X fresh off the semi, and the dealership gave me premium trade value for my truck AND waved the ever mounting service bill racking up, and also honored the employee discount code I had in hand (dealers don't have to honor those codes anymore and most don't) I took the deal to get out of what was now a lemon. Otherwise, I was perfectly fine keeping my 2020 AT4, planned on having it at least 6 years, maybe longer. But I don't think it was ever going to be reliable enough for me to trust again. I hope whoever bought it does not fight these likely lingering issues with it like I was having to fight.
