I still see a lot of these mid 90s Chevy and GMC trucks as well as the Tahoe and Suburban cousins roaming around, 20 years later. They seem to be pretty solid and well-built.
Josh Nixon reason why is cause its all old school technology in the engines and transmissions. if they woulda kept the same platform from the ck1500 it would be really durable
Joel Dale Should go back to the way it was back in the day, throw in some straight 30W or 40W and a zinc additive, they'd be purring like a kitten as long as you'd change 'er out every 3-4,000 miles. Don't drive my old cars in winter, so they're fine with the thick stuff. Daily driver, I use 5w-30 synthetic, I can go about 8,000 miles between changes on that.
I traded a cavalier for mine, lasted 2 years and sold it for the 2 grand I paid for it, its a scale of condition and value who it's worth what to ,new ones yeah not a good investment
You guys are all blind if you think this truck looks better than the same generation Land Cruiser. However I think the 2 door yukon of this generation was awesome!!
Extremely straightforward, capable replacements for the old K5. Handling, braking, and ride were much improved. These trucks are easy to service and highly sought after even now days!
I still see these things EVERYWHERE. They're usually all ratted out with peeling paint and aftermarket rims or done up like some shiny lowrider. Poor things
I have 93 Silverado with 196k miles but the engine is giving up is burning a lot of oil has been my dad daily work truck just sitting on San Francisco traffic and we are planning on engine swap for newer vortec engine or ecotec v8
Tim Joseph yeah. My family was broke and looked longingly out of the window of either our second gen xlt financed out or my dads 1987 dodge snow commander w350. Boy what a truck. These are great as well
We bought a used 97 2 door Yukon GT with the Vortec 350 14 years ago. It's been a great truck. We still plow a bit with it and it starts amazingly well even at -30 Celsius.
I still have my 98 Tahoe LS model and I absolutely love her. She is my baby, and I am lucky enough to be her second owner. Mine is the same color combo as the one in the beginning of this video on the road course. Mine has the 5.7 Vortec engine with 4WD. I have had it for 10 years and have had no complaints!
I have a coworker with one with 500k on the original automatic transmisssion and 400k on the second engine..the intake went bad on the first engine, but the second is still going strong. They can't be too bad!
I bought a 96 tahoe 4x4 5.7 250 HP in 2005 and now its december 2017 and still drive it, its my daily, i like to feel safe inside my truck, not like the plastic vehicles they make now days!
I had a 97 tahoe i bought with 220k miles fully loaded when we had our second kid because i was out of room in my 2500hd ex cab, plus it rode great!! Being in massachusetts the road salt fininshed off the frame so it had to go. By far the best gm ever made 88-98 pickups and the 95- 99 tahoe yukon. Still wont get anything but. Wife has an 11 tahoe and me a 15 crew cab silverado 1500, very nice but nothing compares with those. I had a 98 z71 ex cab i bought 5yrs old with 70k and drove it until it was 15 yrs old with 230k. Only regular maintenance no issues. Best truck i ever owned. Once again new england salt took its toll on the body. Love my 15 silverado but ive had more issues in 2 yrs at only 55k miles then i did with my 98 and 10yrs and 160k that i put on it. Best part is the 98 is still around town with the guy i sold it to, has well over 300k miles now, nothing left of the body, but he loves it too much to get rid of it!!
I have a 98 chevy suburban k1500,,, she is my baby!!💞 I call her the blue mule🐴,, Is 2018 and still hauling heavy trailers,, i have a saying i heard from an old trucker,, "" don't worry about the mule,, just load up the wagon""!!👍🇺🇸
Kills me, a man in his 60s had a mint 98 tahoe up the road from me, no rust, and thats in massachusetts! Knew it had under 100k and always kept clean, and it always caught my eye. One day im coming home from work and i see a new rav4 in the spot, with the same 4 number plate he had. Man i wish i knew id love to have bought it. Traded on a toyota and destined for 26's and a boom boom stereo😠
My 99 Tahoe is still running strong, I bought it from my grandfather 2 years ago. I love it and I'll never get rid of it. In my opinion, this is the best generation of the Tahoe.
Such awesome trucks! I have a '95 Yukon SLE 4WD, that I've had since I was 13 yrs old, and it's still just as awesome now as back then. Gas mileage leaves something to be desired, but mine is pretty good for what it is, and despite all that, I still love it.
Sold a 97 burb and replaced it with a 03 Tahoe LT ... my seventh GM truck including 1500s... and two duallies.. I bought two new over the years . Great trucks !
Our new '95 Suburban came loaded (I ordered it and it took nearly 8 weeks...the Ford Expedition hadn't come out yet), was a disaster in so many ways, I couldn't WAIT to unload it 5 years later. Everything you could think of, failed. And though I paid for the bumper to bumper warranty, the inconvenience of all the repair problems became just too much: cracked exhaust manifold, exploding batteries (There was a new Delco battery design that year...it sprayed acid all over the engine compartment...twice!!...I let them put a new Delco unit in and it did it too a year later), 3 A/C compressors, failed windshield wiper motor in a driving rainstorm, interior hardware falling off, prematurely cracked leather upholstery(exactly like the one here, incredibly thin veneer of a hide), blown water pump, twice, left us stranded more than once, and finally the coup de grace, a failed transmission at 53,000 miles, out in the middle of nowhere. And we were soooo gentle with this car. Add to that 10-12 MPG at best. Traded it for a two-year -old '98Toyota 4Runner 4WD with 44,000 miles....that was 19 years ago...the 4Runner has 375,000 miles...best car I've ever owned. Original engine and transmission, A/C, starter, etc. Crossed the country numerous times. Never went back to GM after that.
Man my parents got one of these GMC Suburbans and let me tell you hauled all 5 of us and family members around with ease and towed anything. I still remember those plush seats where dam near comfortable. Always said thank god I learned how to drive one of those pretty much can drive anything now. Handled like a boat.
I had to have this generation when I bought my trailer tower, they are the best. Ended up with a '95 GMC Suburban 2500 SLT with a 454. My wife and I love it!
I've got a '99. The last year for this body style. I wish they still made trucks today like they did when these were around. Solid rigs that are pretty easy to work on. They look badass too!
Ya do know $29000 from 1995 is the equivalent to $58000 in 2023 when inflation is factored in? They have had an increase yes but they were still very expensive back then too
My parents had two chevy tahoes , the 97 and 99 (short versions), they were really great trucks at that time, and I agree with the other comments, the seats were really comfortable.
Thank You So Much For Uploading This!!! I love those old 90's Tahoe's and Yukon's their awesome vehicles, and I'm the proud owner of a dark blue 99' Tahoe LT with a tailgate. 90's FTW!!! The 2000-06, 2007-14, and 2015-Present Tahoe's and Yukon's suck!!!
I fill you new cars are not all that to me. I mean there nice but I don't see them being made to last long after 2007 or so. Car companies are all about there money so there nit going to make stuff to last like that use to.
I strongly disagree that cars are made less durable or reliable today. That is incorrect. Some marvellous innovations have come at different times in automotive history. However current modern cars last longer and are more reliable in every way. Look it up, or even better work along side some new and old cars! They don't make them like they used to. Thank goodness for that!
for 25 year old car theyre still nice! heated leather seats among the best! Chevy was ahead of their time during the mid/late nineties, even when these things were way past their warranty 10 years later when I was in highschool in the they still looked like a new truck.
Dang the C1500 Yukon SLE cost like 5 grand more than my 1994 C1500 GMC Suburban SLE did new. That's a crazy price jump for just 1 year and for a smaller truck.
Buy Wagner brake pads off ebay or from Advance or Oreilly auto parts because they are the only pads that will stop this truck without fading. The dealer pads are better but the last time i checked. They wanted $200 just for the pads.
If people were actually intelligent enough to protect their vehicles from rust, the only examples of these 90's Tahoes/Yukons/Suburbans that would NOT still be on the road today would be the ones that were wrecked. That is how reliable and well-built these things were. Even today, I live right in the heart of the rust belt and the only 1990's trucks and SUVs you see on the roads in any kind of significant numbers are the ones made by GM...the square body Tahoes, Yukons, Suburbans, Silverados and Sierras. There are still countless examples of these things available on Craigslist, and even the totally clapped-out, totally destroyed rust buckets with 250,000 hard miles on them still run and drive. Like I said before, if people actually cared enough about their vehicles to get them oil sprayed before the road salt got laid down every winter, there would still be hundreds and hundreds of thousands of these out on the roads.
I thought the Tahoe/Yukon was kind of a odd idea at the time since the Suburban was great in my mind. But I think it really appealed to many folks because of the smaller size and versatility. You could essentially have 3 rows and no trunk or 2 rows and a big trunk. I think for most people, that was good enough. Even today, you still see many of these older models on the road. I wish GM would focus more on the base level versions of their SUV's and trucks today at a bit lower cost. I bet they would bring in more customers at a lower price point versus making more money but on less units in the higher end models. The simplicity of the 90s GM trucks and SUVs really grabbed me. The 2000's is when they seem to start getting fancier and a bit more complicated. Give me a clean 1996 Tahoe over a 2016 Tahoe any day.
Ist year (1995) they made the Tahoe/Yukon and the only year with a tbi 350, next year (1996) was the Sequential Fuel Injection 350 and the 1st year of the creation of the vortec adding 55 hp
I have a 2003 Yukon that I haven’t even changed spark plugs yet, still runs great. These things run forever and cost peanuts to maintain especially compared to foreign competition.
I have a 1992 2 door yukon. Parts are dirt cheap and it's a very easy truck to work on. Parts are available at any parts store and are always in stock. And for harder jobs it does not cost that much to pay a mechanic to fix it. Compared to my other truck a dodge ram diesel. Any time it goes to a mechanic it's always a couple of grand.
These mid 90s trucks sacrifice power and fuel economy for reliability. If you get a newer vehicle it starts to switch. IMO the early mid 90s was like a sweet spot for reliability
I have a 96 vortec truck. Way better than tbi. The biggest problem to me is none of the cup holders are worth a shit. Too shallow on the passenger dash, the one that pulls out of the dash bounces drink out of the cup on bumps (the main one) and the one that flips out of the pull out for the passenger won’t hold anything as it’s too shallow. The ones you pull from the raar of the console will hold a can of pop until o floor it. Otherwise a great truck. Just started rusting two years ago.
Couldn't of said it better now I see why a large cup chick-fil-a soda kept jumping out the cup holder seems they only use cans back than I guess there only made for canned beverages
When I was growing up, I loved these trucks, especially the GMC Yukon or GMC Suburban with the tailgate (the Yukon XL would not exist until the 2000 model year with the redesign).
Not only do I own this GMC Yukon SLT 4x4 but tan in color but I have managed to aquire the negatives from this show. I even managed to aquire the engineering drawings from 1994 of this particular truck.
I have a 95 Yukon SLT 4X4 maroon & gold 131k everybody tries to buy it. I love it. Especially, compared my 95 F350 Crew Cab 123k ... Love these older vehicles. So, easy & cheap to maintain.
I've never understood why GM only allowed the diesel option on trucks and two door SUVs of this era. It's as if they couldn't understand why someone might both want four doors and the extra milage and torque in the same vehicle.
I have right now a 99 Chevy Tahoe with 350 LT model love it leather seats barn doors hate it has the push button 4x4 which I really do like and has the gm 12 bolt posi rear daily driver no rust 2 tone silver and black love with has 185k on wish they put 5 speeds in this year like they did in the 90s
Thystaff Thywill she was well taken care of! Still had lots of life left. Hopefully it’s still driving around Spokane. Kind of wish I still had it, but had to get something better on gas for commuting.
