Stay away from General Motors pickups 1500 2500 and 3500 series. While some trucks may be ok, you would have to be a rocket scientist to tell which ones would give you a problem down the road. I know, your saying that is true for all trucks, but not all manufactures could legally sell you a vehicle without disclosing a widespread flaw in the vehicle you are about to pay 40 grand for.

Apparently General Motors and Chevrolet can. I purchased a 2006 Chevy Silverado 4d 4WD with only 6 miles on the odometer. Every thing seemed fine during the test drive so we wer happy with the vehicle. A few weeks later we noticed that there was a popping noise coming from the driver side wheel well and also some minor vibration around 45 mph that we attributed to tire imbalance. So we took the truck into the dealership and told the problems. They looked at the truck for a day or so when the technichan said he has good and bad news. The good new is that the popping was a loose bolt that is now tight. The bad new is the vibration is a (while handing me a feild report) characteristic of the vehicle and will not be repaired. I said EXCUSE ME? The paper states that this has been known for quite sometime ( '00 to 07") on all models of GM truck (Chevy included).

The technician as well as the service manager told me that my truck was the most severe case of shaking that they have seen yet. So they know that there is an actual problem. They told me to "just throw 300 to 500lbs. of sand bags in the rear of the vehicle and youll be alright." There is no way in hell that I am gonna put sand bags in the back of my truck when I know for a fact that all other manufacturures of pick-ups do not require sand bags for thier trucks to perform normally.

BTW: My truck shakes badly at 45mph and constantly around 70-80mph. Unfortunately, these are the speed that we drive at the most.