Are Chevy Blazers reliable vehicles?

Crap, thats a typical USA made type of stunt. There is no epoxy on earth good enough for that job. I still say 700 clams is too much even though I am a cheap skate I am a smart cheep skate who knows the ropes. Before you spring for what those clowns should have done in the first place check here. Ask these guys how they fix em and how much it should cost.

http://www.autobodystore.com/forum/index.php

These guys lurking here fix em for a living and will tell you exactly where the bear craps in the buckwheat. May be I am wrong but with most things of this type if you have the gear, in this case a simple door jack and a felt tip pen then you can position them right where they are supposed to be and just weld it on. With a jack I wouldn't hesitate to do a weld job like this myself and it;s not because I am a hot shot welder but it should be rather simple. At any rate when you do weld the on make sure to change out the doors bushings (at least the front ones that get all the wear). I could be wrong but still it's worth asking.

Well at least his frame didn't rust and then bust in two like a Toyota truck

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LOL, so true!!!! And Toyota knew about it the whole time!!

Toyota must have spent a blue billion buying all those old trucks back from buyers. One can only imagine the money spent, and how they quietly crushed and shredded them into scrap steel.

I think I had right at a $100 in parts on mine, but the machine shop bill was around $250. First time I ever fooled with heads and if you follow the book, it's not really a hard job, at least not on these.

As far as the Dexcool, I thought I had read the problem there was mixing Dexcool and regular antifreeze?

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I have had both the big and small version. The small version I sold a few months back, it had 250 thousand miles, still ran great, and is still running strong for those folks who bought it. It was a 94 model, the 4wheel drive is a drawback unless you are a skilled mechanic. Upper control arms are about all we have had go bad on them, I had a 94 jimmy as well.

The large version was a 82, it was a fun toy but I wouldnt buy another one. I plan on looking for a jimmy or blazer for my kids when they are old enough to drive. Oh, and i got 18-20mpgs

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I hope you're talking the old, full sized ones!
Because the only thing more dangerous to a new driver than a large SUV would be a smaller one like a (S10/Trail)Blazer.

I know of three neighborhood teens who were nearly killed, in just the last year, when they rolled their SUVs. Two early 90s S10 Blazers and a early 2000 Suburban.
Ranch-raised kids, btw, who started driving in their elementary years.

Seriously, research the stats. They're not pretty!

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they are no more dangerous than the person driving them or a small pickup. if kids are going to be stupid they are going to get hurt or killed in any vehicle, its our job to make sure we prepare them as much as possible and for lack of better ways of putting it hope for the best. I can say after driving both in my op they are safer in the smaller one, I rolled a large bronco just barely hitting a curve trying to avoid an idiot who came into my lane and would have hit me. I felt I had more control over the small one, and ive been driving jacked up trucks just about all my life.

Sats are going to look rough because the smaller ones are more popular. The really are not that much higher than a car if you think about it

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Yeah, that's what THEIR parents said, too.
Argue with me to your hearts content. But please do the research on this.


The stats exist because of physics, not popularity. Add inexperienced drivers to physical laws that are not on your side and you have the makings of an unhappy ending...

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Nope, the frame on my current Chitty Chevy 1990 is a 2500 so it's thick enough that it hasn't split yet. My last old Chitty Chevy 88 was a 1500 which has the thinner frame rails. That one did need a piece welded in to replace the rotted out section right below where your feet sit where the rails drop down under the cab. That's one thing you want to watch for with Chitty Chevys that come from the Rust Belt. They just love to collect Chit in those frame rails in that spot below your feet and they rust out there.
FWIW a friend of mine just had to put an engine in a 2003 Chitty Chevy 1500. The oil pump went south while his wife was driving it and I guess she didn't stop. 67000 miles and a dead oil pump. A Toyota won't do that to you