The 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 arrives as the sixth model year for the latest fourth-generation pickup truck, introducing just a few updates and changes over the preceding 2023 model year. One of those updates, GM Authority has learned, is a new safety feature, specifically a rear seat belt indicator.
Tagged with RPO code UH5, the new rear seat belt indicator is included as standard on all trim levels of the 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 Double Cab and Crew Cab body configurations. The feature is obviously not available for Regular Cab models.
The new rear seat belt indicator for the 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 includes a small graphic that’s displayed on the driver instrument panel indicating which rear seat belts are buckled in and which rear seat belts are not. The feature should be particularly useful for those customers with children. The new rear seat belt indicator also provides a nice complement to the rear seat reminder feature (RPO code RSR) that was added as part of the 2022 Chevy Silverado 1500 refresh.
Further notable updates for the 2024 model year include the addition of a revised Hydra-Matic 8L80 eight-speed automatic transmission. Tagged with RPO code MFC, the second-generation eight-speed is paired with the turbocharged 2.7L I4 L3B gasoline engine, one of four engines offered for the 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500. The revised Hydra-Matic eight-speed replaces the previous eight-speed automatic transmission (RPO code M5T) found in 2019 through 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 models.
Further engine options for the 2024 Chevy Silverado include the naturally aspirated 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine, the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, finally, the 3.0L I6 LZ0 turbodiesel Duramax engine. Under the body panels, the Chevy Silverado 1500 rides on the GM T1 platform.
As GM Authority covered previously, the start of regular production (SORP) for the 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 is set to begin on July 17th, with production once again taking place at the GM Fort Wayne plant in Indiana, the GM Oshawa plant in Canada, and the GM Silao plant in Mexico.
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The rear seat reminder feature (as noted in the 3rd paragraph) is a true testament as to how far our society has regressed in the past ~20 years. If you need to be reminded by your vehicle to check the rear seats (in case your children are back there), I don’t believe that you should be driving or procreating in the first place. You should actually be placed in a home for the mentally unstable.
Oy vey…
I can see where this can be an very annoying feature very fast. I hope GM puts in a way to disable it. If I use a third party buckle for our dog or just put something on the seat other than a human or animal, I would hate to hear the ding going down the road.
The rear seat reminder has been around since 2017, not 2022. My ’20 Sierra has it.
A seatbelt indicator. Amazing.
I will say, at least I’m seeing actual changes with the software updates they’ve been releasing. They could *probably* add this to the 22/23MY. The dome override button in my 22 actually works after the latest update. Maybe a future one could have the interior buttons backlight when you open the doors so you can actually see the cargo light button.
Also what is with the mobile version of this site and having every single photo of Silverados ever taken in a mile-tall vertical list between the article and comments?
If it’s anything like Ford, it’ll be pretty straightforward and unannoying.
When you start the car, for the first 30 seconds it indicates how many seats are currently buckled.
If you unbuckle a rear seat, it brings up a 5-second display showing which seat just unbuckled, no alert tones.
If your dog/suitcase is in the back seat, there’s no alert or display because you never buckled the seatbelt.
The rear-seat-reminder uses whether or not a rear door was opened, and is a separate setting.
The rear seat indicator blocks the indicator for the transfer case mode until one drives about 1/8 mile. This makes it so you cannot determine what mode your transfer case is in. For those of us that live in snow country, this is troublesome. Depending on snow conditions we may or may not need 4wd to leave the driveway, and we need to know what mode it is in before driving 1/8 mile! It’s true that one can push a transfer case selection button and hope it actually changed modes, but it sure is nice to know for sure. Dear GM – If there is a way around this, please let me know.