rabbiporkchop
Adventurer
I prefer mine...
I've never really been a fan of the "barn doors" or "cargo doors" (on the old FJ40 they were often called "ambulance doors") on the Tahoe and Suburban but there are a lot of people that seem to like them.
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Seems to me one of the advantages ought to be the ability to mount the spare tire or possibly cargo (like a fuel can) on the door. I know on the old vans of the 1960's and 70's it was very common to see the spare mounted to the left cargo door.
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But for some reason I never see that with the modern barn doors on either the GMT-400 (1991-1999) or GMT-800 (2000 - 2006) Suburban/Tahoe/Yukons.
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I wonder if this is just because the only thing that made this practice feasible in the "old days" was the fact that vehicles used heavier sheet metal that was capable of supporting the weight and modern vehicles with their lighter sheet metal can't handle it?
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My next question would be: What do you like about barn doors as opposed to the 1 piece liftgate? (My personal favorite is the lift/drop gate like the 1991-1999 Suburban/Tahoe/Yukon's came with but unfortunately they dropped that configuration when they introduced the GMT-800's in 2000 in favor of the one-piece liftgate or as I like to call it the "soccer mom tailgate.")