The 2022 Chevy Silverado Limited offers reduced availability of the digital climate control display, GM Authority has learned.
Currently, 2022 Chevy Silverado Limited LT, RST and LT Trail Boss models are equipped with dual-zone automatic climate control (RPO code CJ2). These models will lose the digital temperature displays located on the Climate Control Knobs.
Affected models will be tagged with RPO code 00D, Not Equipped with Climate Control Knob Digital Temperature Display. At the moment, there are no photos of the revised knobs.
Meanwhile, 2022 Chevy Silverado Limited LTZ and High Country trim levels will continue to include the digital temperature displays. To note, 2022 Chevy Silverado Limited WT, Custom, and Custom Trail Boss models are equipped with single-zone manual, semi-automatic air conditioning (RPO code C4P).
It is currently unclear if this feature change for the 2022 Chevy Silverado Limited is temporary, or if it will last throughout the entirety of the 2022 model year for the stop-gap Silverado 1500 Limited. The exact reason for the feature change is unknown, but it is possible that it is related to the ongoing global microchip shortage, which has affected production and feature availability for the entirety of the automotive industry.
As a reminder the 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited is meant to bridge the pre-update 2021 model year Chevy Silverado 1500 with the refreshed Chevy Silverado 1500, the latter of which is not slated to arrive until late in the 2022 model year, or possibly the 2023 model year.
Production of the 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited begins in the second half of September of the 2021 calendar year, as GM Authority reported previously. Production will initially kick off at the GM Silao plant in Mexico on September 20th, while production at the GM Fort Wayne plant in Indiana will begin September 27th. Order books for the 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 Limited are now open.
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Good idea, keep that cheap, crappy interior more manly for the real trucksters! Get rid of the seats to, milk crates will work fine.
Hopefully this is a limited 500-1000 unit run. In WW2, when the hamtrack plant ran out of engines for Sherman tanks, they grabbed 4 cylinder Oldsmobile motors, strapped 5 together and made the “Sherman eggbeater” 26 were made and sent on down the line.
Remember forever: Do not buy a used 2021 or 2022 model of any GM vehicle because you’ll have half the features missing. Are they lowering the price and making it clear on the window stickers of these decontented models that you aren’t getting what you’re supposed to get?
Of course they are. Take a look at some stickers.
All the complainers should probably be thankful. Word is Mercedes will not have any 2022 V8 products available with the exception of the new S class. Issue appears to be supply chain related. But according to the complainers, only GM is being impacted.
Actually No they don’t I just purchased a 2022 GMC Canyon Denali and their was no mention of this feature no longer available or any reduction in price. If it was not for the diesel, I would have purchased a different vehicle.
Bend over, gm’s got something for yah!
The weak get weaker.
Maintain your current vehicle and keep what you have until this supply/demand issue resolves itself.
gm should make all these deleted features easily replaced with “plug and play” kits to be easily installed at a later date. The kits should match the price of whatever the difference is on the window sticker.
This is indeed a good point. I’m about to order a Silverado Limited (this week, we’re almost done setting this with the dealership…). I don’t mind much if I can’t get all the elements right now, if I can get them later. But deleting the rear seats’ heating is not good, I’m in Canada, I want this feature for my kids… Not acceptable to remove this from a High Country / Denali or any other mid-range trims…
Some of it is being blamed on the chips but most of this is GM decontenting to maximise profits. I see they already removed one of the rear seat map pockets on the Equinox and they eliminated the leather wheel on both the SLE Terrain and Acadia and it isn’t even available unless you climb up to the SLT trim levels which are thousand more.
Have you ever heard of the word “inflation”?? To keep the cost down they have to lower content….it isn’t a hard concept to grasp.
Losing customers as you hollow out a product to save pennies to vendors who are not is also a simple business tenant as well. GM was doing this back when inflation was negligible. In their corporate DNA to feel for the absolute bottom of what it’s current customer base will still buy.
Not just inflation but changing regulatory standards require new equipment. For example, in 2018 backup cameras became required by law. How are you going to pay for it? Fuel economy and emissions standards have been rising. Safety too, IIHS small overlap required hundreds of pounds of new metal. Cars used to not have airbags, or seatbelts for that matter.
Tell the government and insurers that you don’t care about the environment or safety, and are willing to let people die.
Go get a Tesla then Sam so you can save the environment
The real cynical side of me says that this is a grand plan for permanent higher prices and low inventory. Translation- get used to paying MSRP with little selection- even AFTER the chip shortage is resolved. I’m driving my vehicles until the wheels fall off. No way am I paying MSRP for a car. I’ll walk before any dealership gets their way.
You know it is coming. Based on my seeing 10 Ram TRXs in past few weeks in my ex burbs county of 175k people there are a lot of people willing to order and drop big bucks on a vehicle. Not sure where the market leaves those of us that are not identified by what we drive. My guess is it goes like full size SUVs. 20 years ago everybody could stretch to have one and then now they are all 80k and everybody else relegated to CUV. Same will happen to trucks. $70k or you drive a mid size or fake front wheel drive truck.
I think you’re right. I initially thought covid would destroy auto sales and was waiting for the other shoe to drop, thinking I could waltz into any dealership and get the deal of a century. Instead here we are. I remember lusting over the then-new Grand Cherokee and balked at the Limited version at 30K. The ML350 was 35K when it came out in ’98. Now 70K gets you the “I’m a cheapskate that wants a Benz” version of the GLE350 with MB-Tex (vinyl), no navi, dorky wheels and black trim. Escalade ATPs are an eye-popping $102K, great for GM and the gonzo margins on that vehicle alone, but as you said, that relegates us common (sense) folk to a 40K Equinox. I don’t mind that automakers have fattened their margins; it’s the dealerships that are in the driver’s seat that makes my blood boil.
We would never buy a new vehicle without dual A/C zones and digital temperature indicators. Other musts, heated seats, heated mirrors, heated steering wheel, TPM, adaptive cruise control and other safety suite items.