General Motors is cancelling weekend overtime production of the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks due to the global semiconductor shortage.
According to The Detroit Free Press, the automaker will idle both the GM Fort Wayne Assembly and GM Flint Assembly plants this weekend – the first time it has halted any sort of production of the full-size pickup trucks over the semiconductor shortage. Fort Wayne Assembly builds the light-duty Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500, while Flint Assembly builds the heavy-duty variants of the two pickups.
“As we continue to manage the semiconductor impact on our plants, we are balancing parts availability with our ability to run efficiently for the entire week,” GM spokesman David Barnas told the Free Press in an email. “With that, we have made relatively minor weekend production adjustments.”
The GM Silao Assembly plant in Mexico, which also builds the light-duty Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, will continue to run as planned and is not affected by the chip shortage at this time.
GM previously idled some of its car and crossover plants over the semi-conductor shortage, including at the GM CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario, GM Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas and GM Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri, among others. The automaker has said it will prioritize its full-size trucks and SUVs amid the semiconductor shortage, as these are currently its most popular and profitable models, and would try its hardest to avoid reducing the output of the vehicles.
“GM continues to leverage every available semiconductor to build and ship our most popular and in-demand products, including full-size trucks and SUVs for our customers,” the automaker said in a statement last month. “We continue to work closely with our supply base to find solutions for our suppliers’ semiconductor requirements and to mitigate impacts on GM.”
The automaker started producing the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra without Active Fuel Management (AFM) and Dynamic Fuel Management (DFM) technologies last month in a bid to keep the production lines up and running and maintain an adequate inventory of the trucks. This change lowered the fuel economy of the trucks by an average of about 1 mpg, the automaker said, but was a necessary move to avoid production downtime.
“By taking this measure, we are able to meet the strong customer and dealer demand for our full-size trucks as the industry continues to rebound and strengthen,” a GM spokesperson said at the time.
GM also said there will be no summer shutdown at the majority of its plants this year in order to try and recoup any lost production due to the semiconductor shortage. The only plant that will take the usual two-week shutdown, which typically occurs at the end of June through to the beginning of July, is Wentzville Assembly. The Wentzville plant builds the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickups and Chevy Express and GMC Savana full-size vans.
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Thank obama for outsourcing them.
The “ORANGE MAN,” WAS RIGHT! Bring manufacturing back to these shores, under OUR CONTROL!
Well at this rate we will never see the 2022s.
I’m still waiting for my 2021😭
How long have you been waiting
Dealer in SAN Diego looks more like a used car lot. 2016 vette in the showroom! No new trucks or Tahoe’s anywhere
I ordered my GMC SIERRA 1500 last week of Jan 2021. Was told 8 weeks for delivery. It will be 18 weeks in a few days.
2031 Me too
i guess just in time inventory was not such a good idea and the chips do not take up much warehouse space
Prioritize chips for Mexico,good way to save a buck.
I’ve been waiting since March 11, 2021
Dealer told me scheduled for week of May 3rd
A coworker ordered a Silverado 3500 on October 1 and it’s still not built.
Make your own chips……
Ordered my new GMC October 17th 2020 was built February 22 2021. Truck is sitting still at the Mexico plant. No delivery date available. So I purchased the first truck I could find on the GMC locator in Minnesota. this Friday got everything I ordered in this truck except my the color. Went from Cayenne red tincoat to White frost tincoat. I am happy Just could nit wait any longer.
You made the right call , I wouldn’t want a truck made down there either probably has reman parts on it lol
Still waiting for my Tahoe that was ordered Feb.6 😡
I got my 2021 2500 HD in Nov as promised I love it
We let the government send your high technology to to built in China instead of here. Nobody can be that stupid. Oh wait Binden can.
To be fair we’re not missing out on much. I’m in the market for a new pickup but they new Chevy is so ugly I’m waiting for a redesign anyway
How can I donate the chip out of my 2021 LTZ?
Ordered jan 15 and still waiting. I’m told it might be another 3 to 4 months. Guess I’ll be getting a 2022 at this rate! Sad, really sad.
Just past 6 months and still waiting.
Ordered in Dec 2020; Dealer just called me today and notified me my AT4 order has been cancelled due to chip shortage. GM will build the truck but without any tech packages, driver alert, premium, etc…basically a 2″ lifted LT; Guess I’m now waiting for a 2022-2023 unless Intel can supply needed chips; can’t believe a single chip factory fire caused this issue; and GM, Ford, etc. are apparently single-source dependent.
You can thank all the out-sourcing by these greedy companies and this country doesn’t have the balls to get the job done
To mitigate the impact, GM has partnered with Doritos…
After 7 months of waiting for a GMC I ordered in early October I finally bought one 900 miles away in international falls minnesota. I basically looked at The GMC availability web site everyday and waited for the truck I wanted and jyst bought it frim a different dealership. They were very accommodating and I must say I love this truck 6.2 motor SLT crew cab with a standard box White frost tri coat. If you dont want to wait This is a option.
Well, we opted NOT to have the “chip” and we took delivery of our 2021 GMC 2500 quad cab 2 months after we ordered it, and we couldn’t be happier! I worked for GM in Indiana and my job was outsourced to Mexico, not due to Obama, mine was thanks to Clinton. Regardless, the jobs need to come back! Every time we as Americans vote in a democrat something ridiculous happens! Remember the peanut farmer and the hostage crisis, or the world famous womanizer and who can forget Obama care? All those did this country well… NOT!!! No one is perfect, but just try and imagine what this regime is going to put us through?