Throwing in the towel!

[rmsnickers]

Put 1k down on a new 2022 z71 Tahoe in Feb of this year and due to constraints my order has been sitting since then with no allocation. Tried another dealer and put another 1k down and have had no luck there as well. The $300 price increase for the "connected" stuff that just got added this past week is the proverbial straw; approx. 4k in MSRP increases since I first put in my order. I hope Chevy's greed is worth it when recession/depression hits and sales slow down.

Yeah, I'm salty...I was all-in on a new truck and got the matching GM card to rack up points while I waited on delivery. Guess that's not happening now and I'll just take my 100k points and buy some accessories for my dad who is still rocking his 1999 Tahoe with 185k on it!

Best of luck to everyone awaiting orders...hope your experience is/was better than mine.

 

[Chad G 1979]

Sprry to hear your wait and lack of movement for either of your orders. At the end of the day you have to do whats best for you and your family. Good luck with whatever you end up doing!

 

[THE YETI]

Bummer. Best of luck sir!

 

[OR VietVet]

Welcome to the forum, right after you ordered a new one. IMO, buy a used one that meets your needs. The crazy pricing is just now starting to get sane after all the used car market blow up. No sane yet but I believe it will be soon. Good luck.

 

[Blueinterceptor]

I’ve built 2 21 tahoes 2 22 tahoes 1 22 suburban and now 2 23 tahoes. I got 1 21 Tahoe. I built them and the dealer submitted the order. All premiers.
All except 1 never moved forward. I’m about ready to give up on Chevy myself. If I was a caddy guy, they’d build whatever I wanted. 3 decades a Chevy guy. 30 plus years and now I’m looking at a Ford Explorer

 

[swathdiver]

Prices went up because of inflation. It's not GMs fault, they are not a charity but rather a for profit business.

On top of that, y'all had to go buy a new car at the absolute worst time, during a worldwide pandemic with a new model release.

 

[skisanger98]

GM should not allow orders to even be placed then. There is nothing worse then placing an order and months later you find out it will not happen. I place an order last Nov. and I was told in March that it will not be built, due to Black rims. If GM did not except due to the rims why don't the give you the chance to make a change? I ended up placing e a new order in Feb. without the rims and I did get it in May. Bought the same rims on a after market GM site and the dealer installed at a lower cost. Same rims as I ordered. How does a GM after market site have them and GM does not. Good way to drive up cost????

I get it about inflation but the auto industry is a major part of that. Don't blame the pandemic!!!

 

[THE YETI]

Your dealer placed the order, did GM accept it? sounds like an allocation issue with your dealer maybe.

 

[ColeBlooded]

I don't blame you. IMO there's no better full size SUV on the market. But one should have to wait that long for a vehicle.

 

[Banks22]

GM should not allow orders to even be placed then. There is nothing worse then placing an order and months later you find out it will not happen. I place an order last Nov. and I was told in March that it will not be built, due to Black rims. If GM did not except due to the rims why don't the give you the chance to make a change? I ended up placing e a new order in Feb. without the rims and I did get it in May. Bought the same rims on a after market GM site and the dealer installed at a lower cost. Same rims as I ordered. How does a GM after market site have them and GM does not. Good way to drive up cost????

I get it about inflation but the auto industry is a major part of that. Don't blame the pandemic!!!

That’s probably your salesman fault. He gets weekly updates on constraints and rims have been on constraint for the last year and half. So there was mis-communication there on salesman fault to let u know what was holding up the order and make the change to get it accepted.

 

[rmsnickers]

Yeah, I'm going to wait for job losses and the market to really dive for people to start unloading their existing rides as they can't keep up with a 1k car payment. It's really my best bet at this point. And no, my dealer never got the allocation so GM never accepted the order. If you are spending this much money, having to compromise on things like a floor mat package or max towing or anything else is insane. Putting the onus on my dealer rep to figure out what is/isn't avail every week and then determine if there's anything I could forgo is a silly way to run a business. Just let manufacturers sell directly to the public...the middleman is a hassle.

I'm not so quick to let GM off the hook for cost increases by saying it's inflation either; forced onstar/connectivity packages aren't due to component increases...it's just greed. And Chevy has let dealers get away with pricing 5-20k over MSRP without penalty so they're an enabler/contributor of prices getting out of control.

 

[THE YETI]

Every manufacturer has dealerships selling with markups. I wouldn’t blame just GM for allowing it. But I understand your gripe.

 

[BrokerThis]

Putting the onus on my dealer rep to figure out what is/isn't avail every week and then determine if there's anything I could forgo is a silly way to run a business. Just let manufacturers sell directly to the public...the middleman is a hassle.

While the middleman is a "hassle", your dealership and salesperson should be doing their part to provide you with that info so they can earn their commission on the sale, especially if they are ones to mark up over MSRP. Atleast, that's when people actually had to know things about vehicles and actually sell them while being a true sales person.

Not sure if you have used GMC/Chevy chat to ask for updates on your order. But imagine dealing with something like that multiple times over if GM did a direct to consumer approach right now.

 

[todayusay]

feel your pain.

we ordered three tahoes and an AT4 at the end of the year and only one tahoe ever showed up - we just got lucky with that one...

hopefully your deposits were refundable, but then again, if you never received a vehicle the dealership would be hard pressed to fight to keep your $$

although GM's ordering process boggles the mind (allow an order to be placed that GM knows at the time of the order that it'll NEVER get built - think including RSE on a 2022 order at the beginning of the year), the dealerships are receiving the allocation/constraint list(s) every week or every other week. in about 30 mins someone should be able to review the pending orders and see if anything either matches up with an allocation or see which orders could be modified and ping the customers and see if they want to make a change.

100% on board with the sentiment that spending $70-80k shouldnt mean you miss out on an option the buyer is wanting...but everyone's in the same boat, not like there are golden tickets floating around for a Denali Ultimate WITH supercruise right now...but there are silver tickets by way of allocations for a duramax...

Unfortunately it does seem to be more of "chance" to be able to actually order what you want and to have it built. I can think of 5-6 dealerships within 75 miles of where I live that I've either bought from or used their service department and if I had used them to order a Tahoe/Yukon, it would have never been built...the conversation I had with them told me to look elsewhere...one of the dealers told me he had 21 Tahoes ordered and they've never received more than 5-6 in a year...yes this was a small rural dealership, but I can only imagine what the "lists" at a larger dealership look like

I'd take a look at the 2023 inventory that is in transit and send some emails to those dealerships...if nothing else, you can create a network of possibilities in the near future...after contacting probably 20 dealerships over a 2-3 week period in Jan (contacted dealerships until one of our four orders was accepted)...from March - May I had an opportunity to probably buy 6-8 Tahoes from the same dealers I had contacted earlier...turned down all of them since ours was in the queue and delivered in April

 

[Blueinterceptor]

In my case, the tahoes I ordered were adjusted to meet the constraint list several times. No max trailering or floor liners etc etc but the dealer got no allocations. I wouldn’t adjust below premiere’s though.

 

[Jettix2]

We just bought a new ‘22 Burb LT in early August. Needed to ditch a troublesome Expedition on trade. Had a GM referral coupon that most dealers wouldn’t take due to so little supply of vehicles. Ordering would have taken way too long, found a couple that were “built but waiting shipment or chips” but that could have been a several month +++ delay. She really wanted a 6.2 High Country or Premier but only if we could have used the referral coupon to bring price down to $72-74k range.

So we gave up and just found a nicely equipped Suburban LT with panoroof and a few other goodies.

It’s not her dream car but it will certainly get the job done nicely for a year or two….at which point, perhaps, things will have returned to normal and we can upgrade for nominal cost.

After all, this is literally just a kid hauler at this point

 

[DarkHorizon]

The price "markup" from year to year is less than inflation so the price is generally going down. My 22-23 order renewed with more options (supercruise, etc) and a few hundred bucks more than my 22 order.

 

[Craigy]

After the excruciating wait for my Corvette I doubt I will order any GM vehicles ever again.

 

[Blueinterceptor]

After the excruciating wait for my Corvette I doubt I will order any GM vehicles ever again.

trying to get a corvette now will be next to impossible from what I understand

 

[todayusay]

The price "markup" from year to year is less than inflation so the price is generally going down. My 22-23 order renewed with more options (supercruise, etc) and a few hundred bucks more than my 22 order.

I was surprised the base price difference in a late model 22 Z71 and an early 23 was only $500 since there were over $2k in price increases during the 2022MY production run. Will be interesting to see how 2023s are priced next spring