Good luck on your trip. I live in B’ham for 5 years. Beautiful place. Not sure if it’s still there, but the Peace Arch cafe in Blane was one of my favorites. Their On the Border candied bacon sandwich was delicious.
Peach Arch Cafe is still there and downtown Blaine is getting prettier by the day. I'll always miss the ocean; be trading it to being in the desert which I love too. Looking forward to fishing in the lakes near Las Vegas; here too much of my time is consumed by maintaining our lawns, shrubs, roses etc. It sure does look very pretty but its time to move on to the desert look.
Fair enough. Desert landscape is nice too. We are currently at our favorite resort in Tucson and we love the landscape here. Wouldn’t mind owning a house here with a pool.
Coolant control valve? I recently had to reposition the upper radiator hose clamp to the CCV. Whoever replaced it put the clamp crooked and coolant was leaking. I went in from the top. I had to remove the baffle/slotted cover where the hood latch is in order to slide the snorkel off the air box. Only way to be remove the air filter box. Once you do that, the CCV is accessible. That’s in addition to removing the tire and well wheel cover. Good luck.
Charge air cooler pump.
Unfortunately, no. At least the ccv is covered under GM's new bulletin. This is the charge air cooler pump. It's right in front of the left wheel on the bottom part of the frame. I'm guessing constantly being in the salt isn't helping. From what I see, It looks like more a poorly designed electrical connection to it that gets all corroded. If they can't get it covered under extended, i'll just do it myself and at least I'll know it's done right.
I'm still struggling to decide whether to purchase an extended warranty; have until next month to decide. Following clearing initial gremlins, the truck has been faultless now at only 13800 miles since new. I could save the$3000-$5000 on extended warranty and hope for the best.
I usually never get one, but I've always bought new vehicles. I bought this truck used with 25k miles on it because I couldn't find what I wanted new. Reading all the possible issues on the 1500's (especially with the duramax) is why I bought it. Had I bought it new and known I wasn't inheriting someone else's headache, I probably wouldn't have purchased one, but that's just me.
Im totally going to get an extended warranty. Nothing on this vehicle looks to be cheap if and when it breaks.
Hmm.. Thats a tough one
