2022 Orders Buyer Beware - Sitting in Texas for months

toad1987 · Dec 15, 2022

My 2022 Tahoe 3.0 was built in May of 2022 and finally was able to take delivery 2 weeks ago. Sitting in Texas for the last 7 months I had my worries about the paint condition and tires (flat spots). My concerns were validated upon delivery.

-Paint was already swirled from being washed with all the dirt and plenty of hard spots - see BadPaint.jpeg
-3 inch bird crap burn on the roof - see birdpoop.jpeg
-Thumping and shimmy at 45-80 mph.

Purchasing dealer offered to buff the paint, I didn't want them to make things worse and took it some someone that actually knows paint and does high end ceramic coatings on everything from $300k boats to Lambos. Still waiting on the solution for the roof paint. It was my coating guy that found it. Was a PDI even done on this?

Purchasing dealer rebalanced tires and sent me on my way saying the thump and shimmy was gone. Clearly wasnt so I took it to another dealer down the road. Other dealer quickly identified all 4 tires failed a road force test. Spec is under 23 for said test, some were as high as 70! 4 new tires (warranty) and I finally have a smooth ride.

Moral of the story for those that have been waiting for your vehicle sitting in the Texas field for months. Demand new tires and a flawless paint job on delivery.

Also posted a photo after 25 hours of paint correction and ceramic coating. Looks great now.

texasdriver · Dec 15, 2022

That is tough to hear, but glad you got it figured out. Nothing like being done with all that shit and enjoying your new truck! Had some issues myself after I took delivery, and now I'm happy as a clam.

toad1987 · Dec 15, 2022

@texasdriver glad I am not the only one. Sad that we have been forced to deal with all this but I dont see any other alternative. Walk away and they just sell the vehicle to the next guy in like for $10k over and we wait another 2 years.

But yes, happy also as a clam to finally be able to enjoy the Tahoe.

Pertzbro · Dec 15, 2022

What was process for new tires...? i have a feeling I'll be in same boat. Thankfully it's bright white so less issue there and i do my own detailing.

toad1987 · Dec 15, 2022

Pertzbro said:
What was process for new tires...? i have a feeling I'll be in same boat. Thankfully it's bright white so less issue there and i do my own detailing.

They need to do a road force test which is just another button on the balancer. An arm puts force on the spinning tire to identify flat spots. From there they just ordered the new tires and installed them. Put in a claim to GM for warranty with all the details. You will know pretty quick once you hit 70 MPH if you have flat spots. I could see the steering wheel wobble and feel it in my ass and legs. Its was obvious.

Polo08816 · Dec 15, 2022

Btw, this appears to be a problem across a bunch of makes for stuff that has sat for a while. Tons of these problems being reported in the Expedition forums.

That's why people should hold off buying for as long as possible while demand continues to crater and production capacity improves.

greg_tahoe84 · Dec 15, 2022

Polo08816 said:
Btw, this appears to be a problem across a bunch of makes for stuff that has sat for a while. Tons of these problems being reported in the Expedition forums.

That's why people should hold off buying for as long as possible while demand continues to crater and production capacity improves.

Thats assuming that dealers haven’t caught the taste of blood and just continue ordering the bare minimum to artificially increase demand and markup.

Crabby · Dec 15, 2022

My 22 SLT sat from April to the end of September. At time of delivery it was pouring rain so it was hard to see anything was amiss. It looked ok
so I took it.I always detail any new vehicle I get and that's when I found all the shit on the paint. With mild cut compound I had to do the whole vehicle
and l was lucky it cleaned up pretty good.I haven't had any issues with the tires in 1,900 miles and it rides fine. It's going in for the retrofit of the front and rear
heated seats on the 27th but they still don't have the parts for the parking assist. It sucks that on a brand new vehicle we have to do these things. As Polo said it's
not only GM. Good luck I hope you get sorted out with your brand new vehicle.

Polo08816 · Dec 15, 2022

greg_tahoe84 said:
Thats assuming that dealers haven’t caught the taste of blood and just continue ordering the bare minimum to artificially increase demand and markup.

That only works if that's the only dealer in a reasonable geographic area and the manufacturer doesn't move their incentive structure to one that benefits dealers that are moving volume.

I would imagine if a manufacturer has sufficient production capacity and dealer A sells less than what the manufacturer expects, the manufacturer will end up giving the allocation to dealer B.

This may work a little longer for GM's ordering process than Ford's. It wouldn't work at all with Ford's ordering process - otherwise dealerships that are punching way about their weight like Granger Ford, Chapman Ford, etc. wouldn't exist.

JT653 · Dec 19, 2022

toad1987 said:
My 2022 Tahoe 3.0 was built in May of 2022 and finally was able to take delivery 2 weeks ago. Sitting in Texas for the last 7 months I had my worries about the paint condition and tires (flat spots). My concerns were validated upon delivery.

-Paint was already swirled from being washed with all the dirt and plenty of hard spots - see BadPaint.jpeg
-3 inch bird crap burn on the roof - see birdpoop.jpeg
-Thumping and shimmy at 45-80 mph.

Purchasing dealer offered to buff the paint, I didn't want them to make things worse and took it some someone that actually knows paint and does high end ceramic coatings on everything from $300k boats to Lambos. Still waiting on the solution for the roof paint. It was my coating guy that found it. Was a PDI even done on this?

Purchasing dealer rebalanced tires and sent me on my way saying the thump and shimmy was gone. Clearly wasnt so I took it to another dealer down the road. Other dealer quickly identified all 4 tires failed a road force test. Spec is under 23 for said test, some were as high as 70! 4 new tires (warranty) and I finally have a smooth ride.

Moral of the story for those that have been waiting for your vehicle sitting in the Texas field for months. Demand new tires and a flawless paint job on delivery.

Also posted a photo after 25 hours of paint correction and ceramic coating. Looks great now.

We are in same boat. Our 2022 that we took delivery of a few weeks ago has bad vibration on the interstate over 60 mph. Dealer said GM won't warranty the tires until you drive 500 miles to see if flat spots come out. So a $66k vehicle is delivered that can barely be driven on the interstate for the first 500 miles? Not a great solution. Just dropped it back off to dealer now that we cleared 500 miles. So potentially tens of thousands of GM vehicles are going to have flat-spotting issues? Curious to know how many people's tires smoothed out on their own versus needed to be replaced. Are tires going to be in short supply as I assume most manufacturers have this issue with their backlogged vehicles? What a cluster.

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