Bought a 2000 Chevy Silverado Extended Cab 4×4 Today
That’s right, we bit the bullet and invested into a 2000 Chevy silverado 4×4. Technically, it’s an extended cab, but both sides have the 2nd suicide door making it a 4 door with a back seat. It’s perfect for our needs. I haggled a little with the previous owner who wanted a firm $2,900. We ended up at a $2,400 cash deal + tax / title / license of course.
That’s the good news. Now for the bad news. We invested into this truck knowing that the 4×4 gearbox needs repairs. 2 wheel drive works fine, which is all we need at the moment and the main reason I got $500 knocked off the price (To compensate for the cost of the repair later).
Here’s where it gets, interesting… With the above understanding, and all parties (Wife, Myself, Seller, And his mechanic) aware that the truck should never be taken out of 2 wheel drive until it’s repaired, you’ll never guess what happens next!
The wife and I sign the paperwork, pay for the truck, the mechanic parks the truck next to our car so we can take delivery, and he hands us the keys. The wife jumps into the neon and I jump into the truck and head home. As I get on the interstate I notice that the RPM’s are revving up and the gears aren’t shifting. What in the world could it be? The test drive went fine and it ran like a champ! Low and behold, I look down and the mechanic had put the truck in 4 wheel low! Ya, you heard me right, 4 wheel low, which shouldn’t exceed 25 to 30 mph and here I am on the on-ramp of the interstate
So I pull it over to the shoulder and the oil pressure light pops on around the same time and the truck stalls out. I fiddle with the truck to try and get it back in 2 wheel drive but it won’t engage. WTF!! After 10 minutes of cursing at the truck, I get it to lock back into 2 wheel drive.
Now the truck is running good enough to get me going again, but the low fuel light comes on. Dang it! so, off to the gas station I go to put fuel in it before I head home.
I call the seller, who forwards me to the mechanic and I have several colorful words to exchange with him for putting the truck in 4 wheel low at delivery knowing that the 4 wheel drive doesn’t work and the limitations of 4 wheel low. I explain that the oil pressure light comes on now after the incident and that it loses power. His response was, “Just let the truck cool down for a couple hours and it will work fine, you overheated the oil sensor”. Fine, so I try that. Bam!! 3 hours later and the problem is still there. now the mechanic doesn’t answer my calls and hasn’t returned my messages.
So… (Deep breath)…. Tomorrow I am taking the truck to my mechanic for a full diagnostic hoping that it’s just the oil pump going out (That’s what my research says it should be). We’ll be forwarding the bill to the seller and his mechanic. If they refuse to compensate us, off to small claims court we go. Such fun, right?
Anyways, to wrap this story up, we already have the truck fully legal (Tax, title, license, insurance, etc.), so we intend to still keep it, we just want to be compensated for our headache and financial losses. With that said, I added a few pictures of our truck below that we’ll put a light weight slide-in camper into the bed of (Once we get the truck fixed up a bit). Enjoy!
Since 1996, Eric has managed companies with 240+ employees, online communities with over 1 million members, attended numerous industry related events/conventions and has personally worked with start-ups, personalities, small mom and pop businesses, corporations, freelancers, news outlets, and a variety of domain investors one-on-one from all over the world. That equates to a lot of years behind the scenes with his fingers firmly on the pulse of multiple industries.
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