GM’s production efforts continue to be affected by parts shortages, including at the GM Fort Wayne Assembly facility in Indiana. According to a recent report, the GM Fort Wayne plant is now set to idle for an additional week through September 8th. The GM Fort Wayne plant produces the light-duty Chevy Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500.
According to a recent report from The Detroit News, which cites a letter sent from the plant’s executive director to employees, the GM Fort Wayne plant will be down an additional week through September 8th due to an unspecified supply constraint. The Indiana plant was originally scheduled to be idled the week of August 28th due to a parts shortage, and was set to resume production on Tuesday, September 5th following the Labor Day Holiday. Now, however, this no longer appears to be the case.
“GM is actively working with our supplier to resolve the issues that have arisen so we can begin producing the vehicles that are in such high demand with our dealers and customers,” writes Fort Wayne Plant Executive Dennys Pimenta in the letter obtained by The Detroit News.
Unfortunately, the GM Fort Wayne plant isn’t the only General Motors facility that has experienced production constraints as of late. Chevy and GMC pickup production has also been affected at the GM Silao plant in Silao, Mexico, which was idled between August 11th and August 28th, or roughly 17 days, once again due to a parts shortage. The production stoppage at the Silao plant follows a two-week shutdown this past March.
Meanwhile, production issues also hit the GM Wentzville plant in Missouri, which has been forced to run two shifts per day rather than the normal three between August 28th and September 5th, affecting production of the Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Chevy Express, and GMC Savana.
Finally, the GM Oshawa plant in Canada has also experienced a slowdown due to an axle shortage, affecting production of GM’s light-duty pickups.
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hahah nobody is buying 70k trucks anymore so time to start creating shortage. local dealers have 50-60 of them on the lots
it will fail. whoever bought bought. they might as well convert the plant to ice cream. market is tapped out
Here in Pa half the vehicles on the road are pickups, most are the high-end models. Chevy and GMC are well represented.
No surplus of Silverados on lots in my free red farm state. All I’ve seen available are crew cabs with 4 cylinders that nobody wants and super high end models that cost too much. I think the middle of the road models are sold before they come off the transports.
im in a red state that actually has money. not some flyover country one. trucks are not the thing any more. everybody who wanted one bought one. we have massive numbers of 2018 – 2020s on the roads, since then its been stagnating hard.
its all about SUVs now. trucks sit on the lots. we are up to 8500$ off on anything half ton on the lots, no takers. perhaps come buy some from us?
Where are you, what state? What makes you think flyover farmers and contractors have no money? They have plenty of money but not much use for SUV’s, we need trucks.
Figures. They finally get around to building the work trucks (is that really an 8 foot box in the photo??)… and then the plant shuts down.
The photo is from a GMT 900 truck, so its old. Thats fine, the aftermarket will gladly serve customers who want to keep old trucks running. GM’s loss for not producing enough.
Maybe RAM will finally make more sales and inroads on GM.
There’s a market here for dressed up traditional pickups, regular cabs with 8-foot beds. Farmers want nice trucks with 2-doors which GM no longer builds for some dumb reason. A local dealer could make some money dressing up new WT’s with chrome, carpet, and other amenities.
Those photos are from 08 to13 time period.
Yet EVEN more of this hoax.
Unbelievable! GM needs new leadership now!
As others have said, I’m a bit skeptical of the unidentified parts shortage report. The two midsize Chevy dealers near me have over 60 full-size PU’s in stock each. One is parking the excess inventory in a shopping center parking lot next door to the dealer.
On the other hand, I have heard there may be some axle supply issue from AAM (American Axle) so perhaps there could be some truth to the story.
Where are all of these trucks? Not here as I already mentioned.