Used EC have become sort of a Unicorn, nice find.
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Congrats on your find
Congrats on getting an Extended Cab
Extended Cabs were only around 10% of Sales and did drop off near the end as Fleet Sales changed
The Crew Cab Short Bed was about 85% of the Sales

 

Congrats and welcome!

 

Guys (and Gals), I finally joined the 2nd Gen Club after searching for MONTHS for a nice, low mileage, V6 4x4 2022 COLORADO LT EXTENDED CAB!! I was a bit dismayed during my search regarding the utter lack of EC trucks (with the V6 and 4x4 that is). The CCSB trucks were for sale like everywhere I looked, but almost NO suitable EC specimens. I almost bought a CCLB, but my patience finally paid off, and I found a nice EC version with only 19K miles. Satin Steel Grey, it does not have ALL the equipment I wanted, but still a nice clean truck.

Now I have to sell my old friend, my 1998 S10 EC. Has the 4.3 Vortec auto, NOT a 4x4 though. Bought it new, has less than 140K miles. Well taken care of. Always garaged since new. The only rust on it is on the front/rear bumpers if you can believe that. Runs fine, nothing at all wrong with it. Has a full color-matched fiberglass cap on it as well. Can anyone suggest a starting selling price? I'm gonna ask the same question over on the S10 forum. I really have NO idea what to ask for it. Truth be told, I'll be a little sad to see it go... It's really been a good truck for me, just gettin' a little long in the tooth

Awesome find! Any pics? I did the same thing you did, looked for a 4x4 LT for 3 months until I found mine. Satin Steel is one of my fav colors on the 2nd gen.

 

Welcome !

 

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! So I've had the truck for about a week now, still figuring out all the electronic crap on it as compared to my old S10. A bit frustrating, and definitely gonna take some time to get there. I DO Love the way the truck handles/drives though, and glad I held out for the EC over the uber-common CCSB trucks. Engine is great, idles smooth and power is good. I do like the sound of that factory exhaust, at least how it sounds to me in the cabin. To my ears, has a nice "tone" to it. The tranny shifts nice and smooth, runs up through the gears nicely, although that 8-speed does shift a LOT. Still gotta get my GM mudflaps on it, getting my mind right to do that task... Should be a one hour job at most, but it will probably take me more like three hours or more LOL. Still under 20K miles, hope to remedy that and get some more drive time in. Been a little busy with other stuff (called "life")

One thing that was a bit frustrating to me, was the initial set-up of the OnStar and Sirius radio (free trial) at the dealership. OMG, it took like forever, we couldn't hardly understand the person on the other end (accent) and the person doing the set-up stated you had to have the truck running. So we're sitting there for like an HOUR with the engine idleing while we're doing this. I know it doesn't hurt anything, but extended idleing is probably not a good thing. I later determined all that was necessary was for the ignition/accy position to be "on" no need to run the engine. Go figure....

 

One thing that was a bit frustrating to me, was the initial set-up of the OnStar and Sirius radio (free trial) at the dealership

I remember that took much long then before when I had to set it up for my 2017 when I bought it

 

Congratulations on finding you EC. It took me ten months to find mine. Finally found a perfect 2022 low mileage Z71 lease trade in. One thing I would suggest, if your truck doesn't already have the leveling kit installed I would add it. They look so much better without the rake

 

Dave--when you say leveling kit, are we talking about raising the front end a bit or are we talking about lowering the rear? Forgive my ignorance on this subject, but the back end of these trucks seem unnecessarily high. Like they have their ass ends stuck WAY up in the air. If there were a reasonably easy way to lower the rear a bit, that would seem to be the way to go?

 

Thanks for that. I'm quite sure I wouldn't want to raise the front of the truck. If I did any off-road at all maybe that would make some sense to me? So I've had the truck for about 3wks now, and other than the utter lack of adequate interior storage areas (my S10 had way more and larger capacity places for "stuff"), which is a complete "miss" on Chevy's part, I'm really liking the truck and it drives just beautifully. I had a friend along with me the other day, that is a die-hard Ford F150 guy, and even HE commented on just how quiet and smooth the ride was while going down the Interstate at 65-70 mph. Felt pretty good about that comment coming from him.... The truck is averaging 23mpg in combined city/freeway driving, that's about 3mpg BETTER than my old S10 4.3 Vortec did, so happy about THAT as well. Installed the front Chevy/GM mud guards, will do the rears soon. The fronts were a bit of a PIA, not happy about drilling holes in the fenders.

Still trying to decide on a hard tonneau cover, leaning towards the "LUX" or "Elite LX" plastic?? covers, painted to match the color of the truck. These covers are formerly the Undercover brand but now sold by RealTruck I believe. I don't know if the fiberglass covers, like A.R.E. and the like, are worth the extra cost. They are like $500-1,000 MORE. If there was a tangible benefit to the fiberglass over the plastic I would buy it though. What comes to mind for me is, the extra weight of the fiberglass cover might be good for traction in the winter though.... More thoughts/comments from the brethren on this would be appreciated. The cover would be a significant investment of 2-3K, the "plastic" painted LUX cover is about $1900+tax, and the fiberglass examples are quite a bit more.... I really don't want to make a mistake here!

 

ColoranyonKidd I posted this on your other thread asking about hard covers. Don't know if you read it so I thought I would post it here also.

I had trucks for over 30 years and have always had hard one piece tonneau covers on them. I like the looks, security, they never leak, and they last forever. At one time there were dozens of manufacturers, unfortunately now your options are rather limited. And, because you have an EC long bed(6' 2") it is even more limited. When I went looking, for my EC, i found three: Undercover, ARE, and Leer. ARE got bought out by Undercover and are pretty much like them(ABS plastic) except more expensive. I ended up getting a Leer fiberglass tonneau cover. The color matches perfectly(satin steel grey), doesn't leak at all, and the additional weight has help smooth out my ride. The down side: it took 3 months for my cover to come in, you must buy them from a Leer dealer, and they are rather expensive. But hard tonneaus have always been expensive. Just thought I would add my 2 cents.

 

Sorry, I should have stated that this is a Leer 700 that I bought this past winter for approximately $2800. Although I just went to the Leer web site and it stated that fiber glass tonneau covers are no longer available for the older(2nd gen) trucks.