The production restart for the Chevy Blazer, Chevy Traverse, and Buick Enclave has been delayed until September 27th. The latest round of production stoppages are a result of the ongoing global microchip shortage.
The Chevy Blazer is produced at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, while the Chevy Traverse and Buick Enclave are produced at the GM Lansing Delta production facility in Michigan. The GM Ramos Arizpe plant is also putting a hold on production of the Chevy Equinox until October 4th.
The new production stoppages at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico and GM Lansing Delta production facility in Michigan are just a few of examples of new stoppages now in place at numerous North American General Motors facilities. For example, production of the Cadillac XT4 at the GM Fairfax facility in Kansas will be down until September 20th, while production of the Chevy Equinox at the Ingersoll/CAMI plant in Canada will be down until October 4th.
The GM Lansing Grand River facility will be down until September 27th, impacting production of the Cadillac CT4 and Cadillac CT5 (including both the “standard” model and the high-strung Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-V Blackwing), as well as the Chevy Camaro. At the Orion Township plant in Michigan, production of the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV will be down until September 27th.
Further production stoppages are in place at the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, where production of the GMC Acadia, Cadillac XT5, and Cadillac XT6 will be down until September 20th. At GM’s Wentzville assembly facility in Missouri, production of the GMC Canyon, Chevy Express, Chevy Colorado, and GMC Savana will be down until September 27th.
Meanwhile, GM’s San Luis Potosi plant in Mexico will idle production of the Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain until October 4th, while a production restart date for the Chevy Onix is currently unavailable.
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Is there serious discussion regarding domestic chip production?
They should stop producing this cars forever since the engine is total crap. My traverse 2010 has spent 70% of the time in the shop fir engine related problems
Should of bought a toyota.
Jokes on you for continuing to hold onto and put $$ into that pile of junk.
What makes you think Toyota is any better. Most sold in the US are assembled here. The quality control of vehicles between companies is very equal these days. I know many people with high end vehicles (Mercedes. Audi, BMW) that have had issues. Support the country you live in.
Buying a Toyota does support the country by virtue of the fact of what you said. Most are assembled here and parts content are majority here as well. Toyota has better reliability than most. It’s their reputation and the general public knows it.
I’m all for supporting domestic companies but you have to support your finances first. If domestics don’t care about quality as much as Toyota why should you care about their survival? Who comes first, you or the companies you pay for products?
Toyota support the Taliban making their trucks
You make a valid point but even if Toyotas are assembled here the company is making the overall profit. Because Chevy is mismanaged and has been for some time now I actually am considering my options on my next vehicle purchase. Mary Barra has to be replaced.
Went from a Buick Enclave to an Acura MDX, what a mistake. The ride is worse, dashboard is worse, the mileage is even worse. Went from upper 20’s with Buick to lower 20’s with Acura.. Buick can disengage all wheel drive.
Very interesting story. As a recent Enclave purchaser, I would be interested in knowing how many total weeks Enclave production has been halted. Thank you.
the plant has been down since july 16. Also, we lost a week in april as well.
I know it’ll never happen, but this is an excellent time for a “what if” scenario where we stop producing overly techy and unnecessarily flashy cars with a million and one features nobody really needs, and instead focus on the basics. Preserve microchips for simple things like Bluetooth and any truly pertinent active safety features. But going back to hydraulic power steering won’t kill us. Foregoing touchscreens and cutting down to only one or two charge-only USB ports is saving microchips that don’t have to be used for anything that’s not important. It would cut costs for both production and purchase. It would produce interesting, sensible cars. What an idea.
That’s why I buy 2000s cars. I don’t have to worry about a chip shortage nor do i have to put up with unreliable overcomplicated tech BS.
It’s a fair question, but they did it TO cut costs. Going back to hydraulics increases engineering, parts and packaging content. It begs the question, if the foreseeable future is dim, do they revert to older technology? How long would that take?
Is there any type censor or electrical recall on the 2010 Buick Enclave because something keeps draining my battery and I’ve had the battery checked and it’s not the battery it’s practically brand new then when I have it charged it’s dragging like it doesn’t want to start before it starts
Most of the time it’s a bad ground. or some people call it a open ground. Some grounds go to the engine and work lose other times it’s rust that cuts off the ground. Just some old guy thoughts..
I had the same problem with my 11 enclave it now has 200,000 miles what a great car but when I had the battery issues was when I had the windshield replaced and the water was leaking all over the electrical components
60 minutes did an interesting piece about cost of equipment to make chips. Billions of dollars. Not so easy to stop outsourcing. Production & shortages(in a lot of sectors) continue to get worse. Should be on every news every night.
The repeated pushbacks must be affecting a lot of families. I don’t know what they expect them to do or how to survive. If there only means of survival are finding other jobs GM still won’t be able to produce when they get the chips. Scary times.