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Are all Chevy people like this?

The Griff

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(sorry to be bringing drama here but its driving me crazy)

Please tell me they aren't.
I grew up around GM products, but we never went around purposely trying to piss off anybody who doesn't drive one.

I don't know about you guys but I get emotionally attached to vehicles, and think they have personalities, and constantly saying that they are sh1t, would run better if you pushed it, and similar BS kinda gets me irked.
Not to mention that my patience for stupid people is dangerously short.

I got a call from a "friend" that he was looking for a truck, he just sold his 99 that he never could the new 4.3 to work in. He says just chevy and gmc, and that's fine, but then he says no ford or dodge bull, cause there sh1t, and I say just grow up already. Know what he says? Grow up? F*ckin tell me that to my face! Its better than your sh1t! Alright, meet you here, says he'll be here in 15 minutes, I wait outside in 0 degree weather for the better part of a half hour, he never arrives. I go back inside and he calls me to tell that his truck won't start. I offer to go to his house, he says my Dodge couldn't make it this cold. I say fine, no skin off my back, I don't need to go to town. He says give him another half hour, so then he shows up in his mom's Jeep (a Chrysler product!!!!!) and proceeds to tell me that I am the one who needs to grow up, (not quite sure why) We have a long and heated conversation, just basically culminates in him telling me that he isn't going to change, and that I just need to deal with it.

What the honest hell? All this over me telling him that its kind of immature to instinctively think that anything non-GM isn't worth its weight in manure.

All the GM guys around here are like this to some extent, please tell that they aren't all like this? Also they can't really understand why I don't drive the Blazer every day, when the 95 Dodge with less than 80,000 miles is obviously crap, and the 94 3/4 ton Diesel Ford I put over 40,000 miles on in the space of a year and half must be even crappier.
 
Are you like that? If not, you just answered your question. A majority of the guys here own more than one type and make of truck, myself included. It all comes down to what comes along at the time and what suits your need. In all honesty, I would prefer a Ford or Chevy over a Dodge, but if a Cummins fell into my lap I can't say that I would pass it up.

Obviously, there are brand purists out there who live, breathe, and die by the BowTie. Most of the time, they don't know anything else, and they're ignorant. So leave the good trucks to the guys who know what each is worth, and let Bubba keep driving his clapped out K20 because he's too stupid to buy his brother's Ford....
 
I just needed to get that out, I don't have anything against GM products, I have two, but the local GM Nazi's drive me absolutely up the wall.

Sometimes I get phone calls just asking if my "p.o.s." Ford or Dodges have broken yet.

I get messages on facebook saying things like "I could of bought a Ford, but I like vehicles that work"

I might be bass-ackwards, but I never thought a 95 Half ton Dodge with a 360 and less than 80,000 miles, a 94 One ton Dodge with a 12V Cummins, a five speed and less than 160,000 miles, and a 94 Diesel F250 that was a farm truck its whole life and still runs like a champ were such undesirable crap.
 
In my mind they all are crap some you just get lucky on. I have owned 5 chevys a VW and a honda bike.
 
There's good and bad from all brands. I prefer gm stuff, but ford has had some really great products in the 80s and 90s.

However I have no first hand experience with dodge trucks, so I can't really say one way or another.
 
I'm proud to say my family is all GM!!!! (87 Burb, 03 Chevy truck and 13 GMC Arcadia). But, I've owned many brands. Dont need to type them all out but 7 other brands. I'm not like that at all. And I've heard some funny stories about those types of people.

But, I do hate Jeeps. Just because everyone in my drinking(offroad) club has one.

I'm about done with new GM's though. Our next new ride probably wont be one.
 
Toyota deuches
Jeep azz's
Chevy idiots.

Azz hats are azz hats. Doesnt matter what they are driving
 
2 chevys, 3 fords currently, 1974 K5, 2007 cobalt over 100k no problems exept for a evap solenoid at 65k, daughter drives it at college.

2004 F150 crewcab 120k never a problem except for the bastard spark plug change.

1997 ranger 5 spd 316k broke a valve spring at 250k other than that routine maintenance, hard to get a good slave cyl for it had to go to ford dealer, drive it to work every day 85 miles round trip.

Have a 2010 Ford Fusion, great car 30mpg 4cyl with plenty of power and room.

Had a 2009 cobalt 75k sold to son in law never a problem.

Had a 2002 F150 crewcab had for 70k no problems.

Had a 1992 S10 blazer 4 door became a problem child at 120k

Thats just in the last 15 years.

I buy whatever I like and the best deal. They are all the same, sometimes you get junk thats just the way it is.

Drive by your local transmission shop, you name it they are there.
 
I have always had pretty good luck with my vehicles. I do try and maintain them and watch for issues and try to fix them when they creep in.

I have owned Pontiacs, Chevys, Chrysler, Plymouth, GMC, Ford. Seen some good Toyotas etc.

Currently I have an Explorer with 309,000 miles, Pontiac G6 with 153,000, The jimmy with who knows how many miles. Out of all of those I have done the most work to the jimmy, but then it is a 1970 that has gone thru several drivetrain changes.

I am more to liking certain body styles than brands. Maybe your friend will mature when he gets out of high school and quits borrowing his moms stuff. Let me guess he is 30 something?
 
Nope, I am 18 as of tomorrow, and he is 16, and had his license for 8 or 9 months.

And interestingly enough, that's what he keeps telling me, that I will get how he is right later.

Looking at things from an outside view, I really don't act my age, I don't like going out on the town, I don't like new music, I don't like to go partying, I really don't like people for that matter. I would be perfectly happy with a couple hundred acres with a house and a few out buildings, a few vehicles, and a lot of guns all to myself, And just go to town every month or so.

I know this must sound like a couple of kids bickering, believe me I do, and can see how this could be awfully annoying, and I do apologize if it is.
 
He's 16 and thinks he knows all there is to know about the different brands... Wow.. yeah, still has a lot of growing up to do.. when and if he ever gets around to working on the different brands, and sees just how they are designed and work, he'll figure it all out.

They ALL have their goods and bads about them somewhere.

I'm primarily a GM guy, mainly because that's primarily what I have tinkered with since early age, but have worked on quite a few different vehicles through the years. There are things with every vehicle's design that are nice, easy, complicated and whatnot. Even in the GM lineup.

He'll figure it out eventually.
 
It has nothing to do with the brand and everything to do with the person (person's insecurity). I know what I like and I got there after taking a hard look,lots of thought,and have strong opinions. But,I don't need the rest of the world to agree and can allow them their right to an opinion. Right now I don't own any Chevys at all. But I do own 4 GMCs :cool:
 
as a kid i brought up gm. i had chevells and grand prix's. the day i brought home a ford escort as a winter beater, i lost my parking spot in the garage, and his boat has been their since, this was around 91 or so. when i came home from the army around 05, i bought a 98 mustang gt, it still was not allowed in the garage because it was a ford. he even made me do all my work on it at the shop i worked at. i would be willing to bet that his tools have never worked on a ford.

i grew up at the drag strip. in high school, we had the rich kids, and the farm kids who were all gear heads. we were all gm people and picked on anyone who wasnt, which would usualy end up in a race.

when i was 19, i came home with my grand prix sj with t-tops, and my dad started in on me. the first thing he said to me was, what does the sj stand for super junk.

the good ole days
 
I was also brought up on GM May grandpa worked for GM for 32 years, we actually used to get the employee discount! My first truck was a 78 k20 400/400 bad a$$ truck which I rolled in phx.
Now though I have owned 4-5 Chevys mostly all 70s a 03 s10 a Saab and 5 newer VW's really the chevy gave me most trouble.. But I love them because they are super easy to fix and cheap. And when they are fixed they work for a really long time before anything breaks. They can take insane abuse and keep going, I hate the reliability dispute because everyone treats their crap different. I have a reason to have a special place in my heart for GM and always will but it has really nothing to do with the trucks..
 
Went to my Dad's house and parked my Yukon XL behind his Sierra. My brother-in-law parked his Duramax behind my brother's Tahoe. Growing up in Michigan I still have this belief that buying a foreign make is a mild form of treason. Plus I worked for GM and Delphi for 15 years, so I can't hide my bias.

Fords I can see. My grandpa has been buying Ford/Mercury longer than I've been alive. I even have a BBF in the RV. (although I still haven't forgiven them for TTB). But I had a K-car once and worked on a friends Shadow and I'm telling you that even now I can't think about buying a Dodge. When I see them retire nameplates and create brand new ones every 5 years, I'm just *sure* that's how long it takes people to figure out they're pure crap. Plus they vary from run-of-mill ugly to ghetto-fabulous ugly to where I would be embarrassed to even be seen in one. I can't imagine buying a Kia, and Dodge is maybe tied with Kia for me.

Maybe the RAM trucks are OK, I don't know. I don't see the appeal outside of Cummins. Technology on the "Magnum" engines seemed outdated and poor MPG, but they must have improved since they are everywhere. But I still don't see why I would ever get a Dodge or Ford truck when the used Chevy market is so good.
 
In my mind they all are crap some you just get lucky on. I have owned 5 chevys a VW and a honda bike.

I agree..used to think GM was "best" and I owned many different GM trucks and had multiple chevy's and pontiacs,buicks,and liked them all very much..

I never cared much for fords,but did own a '69 Cougar for about a week,then decided to trade it for a '67 Impala instead,it had multiple problems and I wanted a reliable vehicle..I did dislike fords when it came to looking up parts for them at the parts stores though..

Never thought I'd own a ford,even if I was given one--then I was!..I ended up liking it a lot,and now miss it..

I never was one of those "Chevy VS Ford" guys..though I liked my trucks,and may have thought they were "better" than Fords,I didn't go around boasting or putting other's trucks down who owned them..

My dad was a Mopar man ,he bought only Dodge and Plymouths until he got a 68 Chevelle wagon for a company car--ended up buying it after the company was ready to trade it in,and kept it several more years..then he had a 76 Ford Torino wagon for a company car,he ended up liking that too--sadly he ended up getting T-boned in it one day coming home from work up the street,and it was totaled--he put 97K on it in two years,never put a scratch on it,but they refused to let him take a company car home any more after that accident..

Now I feel no matter who's brand name is on the grille,they can all be good,or crap...poor design as far as serviceability is rampant on all makes and models,and they all have their troubles..
Toyota's frames rotted..
Fords oil pans rotted.
Chevy's just RUST!
Dodge's seem to have weak trannys & ball joints..

Nothing is perfect...
 
(sorry to be bringing drama here but its driving me crazy)

Please tell me they aren't.
I grew up around GM products, but we never went around purposely trying to piss off anybody who doesn't drive one.

I don't know about you guys but I get emotionally attached to vehicles, and think they have personalities, and constantly saying that they are sh1t, would run better if you pushed it, and similar BS kinda gets me irked.
Not to mention that my patience for stupid people is dangerously short.

I got a call from a "friend" that he was looking for a truck, he just sold his 99 that he never could the new 4.3 to work in. He says just chevy and gmc, and that's fine, but then he says no ford or dodge bull, cause there sh1t, and I say just grow up already. Know what he says? Grow up? F*ckin tell me that to my face! Its better than your sh1t! Alright, meet you here, says he'll be here in 15 minutes, I wait outside in 0 degree weather for the better part of a half hour, he never arrives. I go back inside and he calls me to tell that his truck won't start. I offer to go to his house, he says my Dodge couldn't make it this cold. I say fine, no skin off my back, I don't need to go to town. He says give him another half hour, so then he shows up in his mom's Jeep (a Chrysler product!!!!!) and proceeds to tell me that I am the one who needs to grow up, (not quite sure why) We have a long and heated conversation, just basically culminates in him telling me that he isn't going to change, and that I just need to deal with it.

What the honest hell? All this over me telling him that its kind of immature to instinctively think that anything non-GM isn't worth its weight in manure.

All the GM guys around here are like this to some extent, please tell that they aren't all like this? Also they can't really understand why I don't drive the Blazer every day, when the 95 Dodge with less than 80,000 miles is obviously crap, and the 94 3/4 ton Diesel Ford I put over 40,000 miles on in the space of a year and half must be even crappier.


it's being young...

from my teens thru my mid 20's, I was diehard Mopar, f*ck Ford and Cheby... :woot:


but most grow out of it.. I succumbed to the king of the junkyard and found a new love in building chevelles after yr's of cuda's, Challengers, etc...

that said, I'm not a Ford guy... other than an early 70's pickup sheetmetal lines, I really have no like for any mustangs, etc.. just nothing to get me going... and I'm definitely not a fan of ford motors.. the later fox body 302 era get's props.. but I never liked the early 70's V8 mills...

I've owned yota's, Hondas and such too... heck, I had a Renault.... but I've never owned a Ford... not that I'm opposed to running something newer that was decent, just never had the sweet ford deal fall in my lap I guess..
 
You need different friends. If all of my friends lined up their vehicles, I don't think 2 would be the same. One even drives a lifted Karmen Ghia and another drives a Cube.:doah:
 
Man there are some long posts on here. So let me add another ;)


I grew up around mostly GM products and thinking GM was the best, and I would never own a front wheel drive or foreign car. That is until George W Obama got in into yet another endless war and gas prices started to skyrocket.

That's when I bought my first Honda. After 11 years and 200,000 miles of treating that car like crap (volunteer fire dept), I'm a Honda man first. I know it's a bit sacrilegious to make such a comment here but, that's right I said it.

I now have an '04 (Government Motors) Trailblazer and a '13 (Honda) Pilot. The difference is night and day. The Pilot gets around better on snow and ice than even my K5 with 37" tires. And the build quality is not even comparable. And to be honest the Hondas are just as easy to work on as the old GM's. They are fairly easy to work on, but chances are you'll never need to. If you keep the oil changed and take care of it they'll outlast anything made by the American big 3. That's why they have such a high resale value.

In conclusion, I still like the old GM products, simply because I know how to work on them and their parts are so interchangable. I'm not a huge fan of the newer stuff, because they over complicated them and they just don't last. And no we are not all like that. They just mess with you because they know you will let it get to you. Every 16 y/o kid wants to believe that they know everything and that what they have is "the best". He'll grow up one of these days (maybe).
 

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