2016 Chevy Silverado 1500 To Offer Pickup Box Delete Option
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The freshened 2016 Chevy Silverado 1500 will offer a new option that removes the pickup box from the truck at the factory. The option was not available on the 2014 or 2015 Silverado.
Carrying free-flow RPO code ZW9, the pickup box delete option is only available on the 2016 Silverado 1500 Work Truck (1WT), LS (1LS), and LT (1LT, Double Cab Only) trim levels, and deletes the following equipment:
- Rear bumper
- Spare tire
- Spare tire carrier
If equipped, the pickup box delete on the 2016 Silverado 1500 also deletes the trailering equipment (Z82) and trailer brake controller (JL1). The package also includes calibrations that deactivate perimeter lighting.
Equipping the 2016 Silverado with the package also requires:
- C*15903
- (RC5) LT265/70R17C all-terrain, blackwall tires
- (L83) 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine
It is not available with the following RPOs:
- (UF2) LED cargo box lighting
- (UVC) Rear Vision Camera
- (CGN) Spray-on bed liner
- (CTD) Cargo tie downs
- (FHS) E85 FlexFuel capable engine
- (VJH) Rear Chrome Bumper
- (Y65) Driver Alert Package
It is also not available with the following LPOs:
- 5JY
- S41
- VBR
- VXJ
- VQK
- VQT
- VRV
- VZX
Finally, it’s not available with the following SEO options
- 5Z4
- 9G3
Are you interested in the box-deleted 2016 Silverado 1500? Talk to us in the comments.
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Now who will have the highest payload and towing?!?!
Seriously though, nice option for up fitters who would ditch the bed anyways. Save some money.
Good move. This way the service and construction industry can put utility boxes and beds on them and not have to waste a truck bed.
But that means less cheap used truck beds for the rest of us…
It would have to be a hell of a deal for me to want to buy a used construction purposed, high mileage, pickup truck, especially with how I drive my company truck on sites.. and I’m only the consultant.
It’s as bad or worse as buying an ex-rental vehicle.
I think what he meant was, when the upfitters convert the truck they sell the bed, cheaper than they cost new.
I would rather they bring back the stepside, I would love a mid level, 4X4, crew cab, stepside.
I never understood the step side… Less bed space for a barely functional step? Plus they looked rediculous. It worked in the 50s, but in the ’00s, the front end is all edgy and muscular, and then the step side is rounded and throwback style. They didn’t mesh.
I wouldn’t mind a nice “hybrid” design. AKA Give the step functionality without the drawbacks, like they did with the rear bumper (although the avalanche got that 13 years ago…)
The silverado is begging for it. Just put an indented step right there in front of the rear wheels, below the belt line. It would fit the style, its far enough down that it wouldn’t impact bed space/size, and then we’d have full step functionality without any of the drawbacks…
Stepside, for a different look. The bed space you lose is the four corners, in front of and behind the wheel humps, a lot of times useless anyways, depending on cargo, sheets of plywood won’t slide around in a stepside.
Edgy and muscular equals square shaped, which Ford had in the ’90’s with a stepside and it worked fine, not all stepsides are rounded.
I would like one, just because other people don’t like it…..
GM should do the same for the Colorado.
Any more pictures of the 2016 Silverado?