I owned serial Suburbans back in the day, starting back when they were
actually trucks and not all tricked out like rolling whorehouses with
headliners and the like. There was actually metal on the interior that
you could screw stuff to. My first one had only three doors, two on
the curb side and one for the driver--not counting the tailgate, of
course. The second seat was optional back then, and had to be unbolted
to be removed. My experience with them has made me swear to never buy
anything from GM again, and I haven't. Mostly nuisances like broken
door handles, failed light switches, snapped speedometer cables, leaky
driveline seals, etc. etc. etc. An engine-mount bolt fell out up in
the Purificación cave area in Mexico. When a fuel pump failed on one
of them, a dealer fixed it but returned the truck to me with the
sparkplug wires mixed up. (Not clear why they were even removed.) The
last straw was when my last one had a total ignition failure on the
way home from a Sunday swim two days before I had to leave for an NSS
convention somewhere in the NW. Then on the way home the fuel pump on
that one went out, too. I suppose some people think things like that
just add spice to a trip. I kept none of them beyond ~ 130K miles.
"Your mileage may vary." -- Mixon
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