Home Forums Gear Hunting Trucks and Four-Wheel Drives Pulled the Trigger - New Silverado 1500 3.0

I finally did it, and traded in the F150 Powerboost for a 2023 Silverado 3.0. This is a CC Standard bed 4x4 RST. Has z71 off road package. GM is offering some pretty crazy rebates right now to clear out the 2023's. Between MSRP Discount and Trade allowance rebate, it was worth over 12k to me.

Anxious to see what kind of mileage this thing will end up giving me. Most stuff I read on the new LZ0 3.0 has been very positive.

As far as towing, my TT is around 7500 loaded and I pull it only a couple times a year so should be plenty good there.

Monday I will take it in for running boards and a soft tonneau cover. The goodyear tires on it are trailrunner at's - im sure not great but they look ok for a factory tire - probably run them at least next couple months and see if I need to replace before hunting season.

Is g fry bag the Chevy turbo 4 cyl?

??? I believe the 2.7 is the small 4 cylinder turbo.

This truck is the 3.0 inline turbo deisel.

Good looking truck! That was the color of my last Duramax. I suspect you will get highway mileage about 27-29 mpg, depending on the speed you drive. In my Duramax, the sweet spot seems to be 65 mph, maybe up to 68 mph. After that, the mileage does drop off some, more like 24-25. A steady 60-62 mph will usually get you close to 30 or above, if flat and not hilly.

WTH!? I guess I didn’t proofread!

Damn fat fingers anyway.

But, you ciphered my question. Thanks

If those are a P rated tire you will want to upgrade before towing a 7500# trailer.

Possible airbags or a set of Timbrens as well.

Only my opinion and we all know what those are worth.

I read the 3.0 Liter Duramax uses a wet belt so I would add it to your maintenance plan.

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/belt-driven-oil-pumps-just-5-0-and-2-7.18568/

At 150 to 200 K belt replacment

I asked the service manager about the belt - on the LZ0 its 200k miles - I have never owned a truck that long and the odds say I wont have this one that long to have to worry about it.

Got running boards on it today and decided to bite the bullet and replace the SL tires with LT Falken Wildpeaks for more towing stability. Should have those on by end of week.

A friend has the GMC version for over a year, raves about it. Loves the engjne and the mileage he gets. Hope yours delivers as well. Mighty fine looking truck

Lol. What was the question supposed to say? "g fry bag??"

Nice unit !!!

FWIW.......... About 2 years ago, a fellow came to the Christmas tree farm in a 2500 or 3500 Ram Cummins. We started talking trucks. He was a Dodge salesman (so he had zero reason to B.S. me). Said a buddy of his had to run from west PA out to the Indianapolis vicinity and back. Had a new 3.0 Duramax. He took he tailgate off (if that makes any difference...... I don't know) and proceeded to make either 35 or 36 mpg for the round trip.

Second-hand info. So...........

I do know that the factory tires are probably going to get you better mpg than huntin' tires. Just took a set of BFG All Terrain TA's off Momma's Yukon. Replaced with Cooper Discoverer AT3's and picked up almost 3 mpg in local running. Crazy..........

Good looking rig. I have the '22 GMC version and am loving it. 23.4 avg mpg over the 22k miles that I've owned it.

Just took a 900 mile round trip up to Vancouver WA - On the way there I averaged 26.1, on the way back 24.9 (strong winds) going about 75-80 MPH.

I will say that with the 10 speed, the motor feels like it has unlimited power - shift points are good and any time I punched it, it got up and went.

Nice rig!!

I have BFG AT on my Duramax and it does well in the mpg department. Not sure how it would do with highway all-season tires

Yea by the end of next week it will have a 2" front level on it and LT275/60/20 BFG ATs.

In my 14-19 models, I've went with an 1 1/2" leveling kit, which still leaves about an inch of rake.

Not sure how much they're raking the new models.

Great looking truck. Let us know how the mpg goes. Congrats

Nice truck....But a little color on the inside wouldn't be a bad thing. Mines all black and you can fall asleep without even trying.