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Some 2024 Chevy Silverado HD ZR2 Buyers Didn’t Get Their Black Badges

First breaking cover in April of this year, the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD ZR2 ushers in a new heavy-duty off-roader model for the Bow Tie brand, offering impressive capability both on and off the pavement. As expected, the new Silverado HD ZR2 incorporates several unique styling enhancements, while customers are offered a number of optional styling upgrades as well. Now, GM Authority has learned that some 2024 Chevy Silverado HD ZR2 buyers did not receive the optional black badges included with the Dark Essentials Package.

Badging on the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD ZR2.

For those readers who may be unaware, the Dark Essentials Package for the 2024 Chevy Silverado HD ZR2 is tagged with RPO code PDB, and is available as an LPO-level option, which means it is installed onto the vehicle by the dealer, rather than at the factory when the vehicle is initially produced. The Dark Essentials Package is priced at $550, and typically includes the following content (relevant RPO codes listed in parentheses):

  • Black Silverado nameplates and Black ZR2 badges (RIK)
  • Black Bow Tie (SFZ)
  • Black tailgate CHEVROLET lettering (SB7) 1
  1. Replaced with Black Bow Tie if truck is also equipped with QK2 Multi-Flex tailgate

Now, some Silverado HD ZR2 owners who ordered their pickup with the Dark Essentials Package did not receive the Black nameplates. Dealers are advised to contact affected owners to return to the dealership in order to complete installation of the missing black nameplates once the dealer has received the missing parts.

With regard to styling enhancements over the rest of the Silverado HD lineup, the new Silverado HD ZR2 is equipped with a unique front grille, flow-tie emblem, unique wheel opening moldings with integrated mudguards, ZR2 badging, and a taller stance as the result of a factory-installed 1.5-inch suspension lift.

2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD ZR2 side rear three quarters

The Silverado HD ZR2 is also equipped as standard with the naturally aspirated 6.6L V8 L8T gasoline engine, while the updated 6.6L V8 L5P turbodiesel Duramax engine is optional. A more capable variant of the GM T1 platform provides the underpinnings, while production takes place at the GM Flint Assembly plant in Michigan.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. One thing that causes this is that since it is an LPO dealer installed option the service department misses it during the PDI. It is shipped separately from the vehicle to the parts department. It is clearly marked on the window sticker as a dealer installed option and the PDI people can simply look there to see what, if anything, they need to go get from the parts department to install.

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  2. What a half ass company

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  3. Lol
    My ZR2 didn’t come with a spare tire…
    Full size to match the other 4..
    The sales guy just played dumb…
    Said I’d have to purchase myself separate.
    Not impressed with anything GM…

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  4. But did any get Chevy lettering on one side and GMC lettering on the other?

    Or the correct lettering on one side, and nothing on the other?

    (Have seen both on our fleet vehicles…)

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  5. What’s a flow-tie?

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  6. “Badges” are basically free advertising for the OEM, IMHO.

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  7. Nothing to see here. It is just an addition to the countless overpriced “special” packages from GM that are nothing more than aesthetics. $550 for black badges? Anyone with an ounce of knowhow could do this themselves for less than $50. As a person that owns several late model GM performance vehicles (Corvettes/Camaros) and enjoys modifying them himself, these packages are laughable at best.

    Oh well, a sucker is born everyday.

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