Poll: How Long Have You Been Waiting For Your GM Vehicle?
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It’s no secret that automotive production has been hit hard by supply chain issues, with some customers waiting a very long time indeed to park their new ride in their driveway. Now, we want to know – how long have you been waiting for your GM vehicle?
Obviously, automotive production is an extremely complex process, with thousands of individual parts required to make just one vehicle. All of those parts must arrive at the production facility on time, with GM sourcing the parts with the intention of keeping purchase costs as low as possible. Once the vehicle is produced, it must then be shipped to dealers.
Naturally, this process is vulnerable to any number of complications. For example, GM may be faced with rising purchase costs amid inflation, as well as supply constraints that not only raise part pricing, but also delay the arrival of parts outright. These part constraints could also result in GM being unable to build all configurations of its vehicles. Shipment of completed vehicles may also run into complications due to rising costs and labor shortages, among other problems.
Indeed, the process it takes to build a vehicle and get it out to customers isn’t always a smooth one, which obviously leads to delays. This was made particularly apparent by the widespread disruptions experienced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, GM is still figuring out ways to build vehicles without all the necessary components – for example, by placing constraints on certain features to be retrofitted at a later date, such as heated seats.
So then, we want to know – how long have you been waiting for your GM vehicle? It’s important to time the wait for your vehicle from when the order was actually placed, rather than when a reservation was made or when you “raised your hand” for the vehicle. For example, a customer who just reserved a 2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 will have to wait at least a year, which wouldn’t count in this particular poll.
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(SIgh) Can anyone explain to me what is going on. I am 10 months in on my 2nd attempt at a 2022 Colorado. They want me to re-configure and resubmit a build for a 2023 as that “might” speed things up, but there is no guarantee. I honestly don’t like the redesign and had my heart set on a 2022.
Everything I have read says that the factories have been operating non-stop. I have seen multiple reports (including on this site) that there are parking lots or fields full of partially finished vehicles just waiting for chips. If they haven’t finished the 2022’s yet, how can they be starting 2023’s? With inflation I feel like my purchasing power is declining by the day, not to mention the value of my trade in. If GM does eventually get their heads out of their collective asses and builds the thing, I honestly may not be able to afford it anymore.
I had a similar problem trying to order a 2022 Bolt EUV. The factory would never pick up the order. The dealer finally figured out they weren’t making any 2022’s with SuperCruise. So a few weeks later I ordered a 2023 (with Super Cruise) and the factory picked it up immediately. So they had plenty of SuperCruise for 2023’s but none for 2022’s!? I think they had just shut down production of 2022’s and didn’t want to tell anyone.
I canceled my orders after talking to a few dealerships. While there is still a select chip shortage it all pertains to ICE vehicles. GM’s focus is EV’s. Every dealership owner I spoke to told me they are being pushed to sell EV’s. Since the dealers can’t get answers from GM on existing orders I canceled. The gov and industries’ push to all EV’s is going to come back to bite them.
I mean I don’t know either, but the folks trying to order EV’s have the same issues. I think GM wants to blame everyone but GM. Most other manufacturers have quit using the “chip shortage” line. Maybe they should switch to “the dog ate your order papers” or something.
This is the first time in my life I have ever ordered a car from a name manufacturer. Looks to be at least an 11 month wait may 19th 2022 to April 2023 and then they changed the order on me besides.
If I buy gm in the future it will be for a vehicle ready to go on the lot. I didn’t think car companies would devolve into clown worlds.
By the way this is for an ev so we can’t get them either it isn’t just ice’s.
Update 2 months later……
The main reason GM can get away with this is that a few of their new EVs are compelling – if they were available on the lot…. I Could have bought a 2023 DEBUT Lyriq ev by now, but the dealership 500 miles away wants a $25,000 adder onto the very nicely priced $59,000 vehicle – available only because someone could not come up with the final cash required. So I’m sticking with my original order from 5/19/22…
Of course I tried back in 2021 to order it, but they only accepted a relatively few orders, so I was not even allowed to begin to order a vehicle until 11 months ago. And then months later they ran out of blue paint which was optional, but since black is also a ‘premium’ color now, i have to pay a premium for a color I do not want.
The BIGGER ISSUE of course, is that GM is coming out with photo shopped brochures and gets people to order the vehicles, whether ICE or EV… But they have incompetents running production….
If all they can make is Stripped models – they should at least turn those out…..
My next vehicle – while still driving the LYRIQ by then hopefully, will be a KIA EV9 – which is a large Telluride sized vehicle – and while I don’t need 3 rows of seats at least the last 2 rows can be folded down for bigger storage….
They also have a standard configuration with not too much on it – namely around a 200 hp motor, and a 99 kwh battery -so it has the range I need and adequate power, with a minimum of pretty useless gobbledygook which complicates production…. If this car was available a year ago, and I knew it was going to take over a year to purchase my Lyriq – I would not be buying Cadillac any longer.
Since GM market share has been falling off a Cliff – including grade F treatment of longtime GM buyers, the amount of ill-will Mary Barra is accomplishing with her ‘Woke’ attitudes are FINALLY filtering down to production incompetence. Obviously GM needs radical change at the top to prevent another bankruptcy, – in this case – the Trend is not their Friend.
Update on my truck (because I said I would). It’s been awhile. I ordered in August 2022, truck made last week of September 2022, completed with build sheet and window sticker sent to me October 6, 2022. Sat at plant until December 12th and then moved 40 miles to rail head. It’s been at the rail head until April 19, 2022 and then put on a train. The dealer called today to say they should receive it from the car hauler delivering from local rail on Monday. I’ll pick it up in the next couple of weeks when convenient. So, from build completion of October 6, 2022 until May 2, 2023 the truck has been completed and waiting for delivery. Who knows what the real story is because everyone is blaming the railroad and related logistics. FOR SURE, GM HAS BEEN REALLY LOUSY WITH COMMUNICATING BOTH TO THE DEALER AND TO ME.
Local dealers where I live have been receiving similar models from Mexico for about a month for inventory. The truck I ordered is a Denali 1500 with Reserve and Technology packages and that seems to be rarer and made in Indiana. Still, the truck has been made for seven months but not delivered. I’m sure I’ll love the truck but next time (if there’s a next time) I’ll buy from dealer inventory and take my chances on price. I did get a good deal on the truck so there’s that.
I assume this is a 2023 Denali? So you lost 6-7 months of not driving it while it sat at the factory and rail depreciating. It’s obvious GM has significant issues internally and with its supply chain and the customer suffers. Hopefully, it will arrive in May and it meets your expectations. Enjoy.
Ordered 2024 Denali ultimate 2500 4×4, with trailering pkg. On August 2 2023. I was told 4 to 6 weeks. It.hasnt even been to the next level. I’ve been a 40 year GM buyer. I’ll give it another 2 Weeks. Thinking about Dodge for the first time since I’ve been driving. What the he’ll is GM thinking?????