Well, buying any ten to twenty year-old vehicle is going to be a bit of a crapshoot, and decent used four wheel drive pickups are scarce. But GM pickups of that vintage are reasonably reliable. We bought a new 2004 Silverado 4WD, drove it for a couple of years and sold it to our son. He subsequently moved to Las Vegas for a few years, so the vehicle has spent half its life out west and half in Michigan, but it's still rust-free. It has been reasonably trouble-free, just the usual stuff: brakes and routine maintenance. He's had to replace a couple of bad injectors. Last week he got check engine light which turned out to be a knock sensor code. I did a little research and it turns out this is a common failure with the 5.3 V-8. The part is cheap but you have to pull the intake manifold to change it out.
Some years of these vehicles are known for getting a "piston slap", which sounds bad but doesn't seem to hurt anything. So knocking on start-up probably isn't something to worry about.
You might ask him why he needs a four-wheel drive pickup. Since he's a Marine, I assume he's either in Camp Pendleton, CA or Camp Lejeune, NC. Neither location is known for blizzards and snow drifts, so I have to assume he's thinking of going off-roading. If he takes his pickup out on the beach, it's not going to last long.
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