Thousands Of 2023 Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, GM Vans Damaged By Hail
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The 2023 Chevy Colorado and 2023 GM Canyon made their formal introductions last summer, with both models ushering in all-new third generations for their respective nameplates. As GM Authority has covered in the past, there are currently a large number of units of 2023 Chevy Colorado and 2023 GMC Canyon pickups stored at and around the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri, the facility where the two truck models are produced. Now, GM Authority has learned that thousands of units of unshipped 2023 Chevy Colorado and 2023 GMC Canyon pickups, as well as GM vans, have been damaged by hail.
According to GM Authority sources, the GM Wentzville plant was in the path of a significant hailstorm over the weekend, and as a result, roughly 3,300 unshipped vehicles were damaged. The unshipped vehicles that were damaged include units of the 2023 Chevy Colorado, 2023 GMC Canyon, and GM vans (Chevy Express, GMC Savana), all of which are produced at the Wentzville facility.
The damaged vehicles, and in particular the 2023 Chevy Colorado and 2023 GMC Canyon pickups, were not all parked at the Wentzville plant. Rather, some of the damaged vehicles were parked at nearby lots which GM is using as storage areas, including a nearby quarry. Some of the vehicles are waiting for retrofits and / or quality control, as GM Authority has covered previously.
Most importantly, the hail damage will result in yet further delays with regard to shipping and customer deliveries for these vehicles.
Late last month, GM Authority took an exclusive look at what’s going on with 2023 Chevy Colorado and 2023 GMC Canyon deliveries. Per the exclusive, GM Authority has been inundated by hundreds of queries from readers asking for an update on their new pickup, with some claiming to have been waiting weeks, sometimes months to take delivery. In a statement emailed to GM Authority, the Director of Chevy Truck Communications, Shad Balch, said that “Production of GM’s midsize pickup trucks is well underway and we are shipping to dealers every day. During launch, it is a common practice for us to temporarily build and hold vehicles to ensure quality before shipping to dealers.”
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I’m still waiting for the Paintless dent removal to get done on my vehicle from hail damage, even though I was not on the special list. Supposed to get done this coming Tuesday. Guy was in the hospital last week who is supposed to do it. Otherwise the truck is totally awesome.
they need to post vins of all trucks damage so the customers know what there buying
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I have one on order that has hail damage! Some body there has to know ABOUT how long it will take to repair ans ship??, Would it be faster to just order a new one!?? Or would I be better off to JUST order a 2024 Colorado, Looks like it will be the end of the year before the 2023s will be ready, SAD state the USA is in!!
I believe that the hall damage is true and that there were issues with EPA fuel economy ratings holding things up at the beginning, but they are also voluntarily holding vehicles that are ready to ship in order create a scarcity so that demand stays high and dealers don’t need to discount prices to move vehicles. I read an article about it recently and it sounds like GM and several other manufacturers are doing this. There have been all these predictions of auto prices falling because of supply finally increasing, high interest rates, and economic uncertainty. The manufacturers are getting out ahead of this by limiting the supply shipped to dealers.
DC Thanks. This is basic business strategy. Control supply to retain demand. Just like DeBeers diamonds. DeBeers has tons of diamonds in their vaults. And DeBeers also controls mine purchases. It’s a perfect monopoly.
I just got my truck back from the dealership for Paintless dent removal due to hail dammage. It wasn’t on that magic list of VINs. I found it the day after delivery after my detail guy pointed it out after putting a ceramic coat on the truck. The dealership and General Motors were great about handling it. They got a third-party painless dent removal pro to do a flawless job on it. I’m sure GM wants to do the right thing here so even if it’s missed, they will take responsibility for it.
I purchsed my 2023 Colorado a week ago and I just found an invoice from Know How Systems Global for over $2k in hail damage repair. The invoice has my vehicles Vin number and a detailed description of the work performed. This was not disclosed at time of sale and the salesman is making up lies about the invoice. What are my options? I want to stay with Chevy, but feel they need to discount my teuck or upgrade me to a higher trim.
Most states have a dammage disclosure law and if the repairs were over 3% of the selling price of the truck they were required by law to disclose that to you. If your truck was 40k, then 3% would be 1200 dollars and so a 2k repair would fall under that law. Web search dammage disclosure law in the state you bought the vehicle and then notify the dealer if they are in violation of that law and what you want the remedy to be. If you are not satisfied, then contact your state’s attorneys general and they will help you with a buy back if you do not want to keep the vehicle. My hail dammage was repaired after delivery and it looks flawless and I am happy.