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THanks Larry, I called GM customer Service to get a location since my dealer seems to be pretty useless in this regard..I called him before a few days before I posted this and he never got back to me.. Anyway I called GM yesterday and they said my truck just got unloaded from the rail car Friday in Lordstown, Ohio..I guess it should only be a few more days unitl it comes into the dealership by truck..Lordstown OH, is a straight shot right across I-80 to my dealership. Although Im sure the transport truck will have other stops to make..

 

Drove right by Lordstown as I also drove right through PA, on my way to and from D.C. this past week/weekend. I coulda picked it up for ya and dropped it off! :(

 

Mine went 3400 last Friday. My inside guy (plant logistic's liaison) is looking into build dates/times, etc as I type this. :troll:

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THanks Larry, I called GM customer Service to get a location since my dealer seems to be pretty useless in this regard..I called him before a few days before I posted this and he never got back to me.. Anyway I called GM yesterday and they said my truck just got unloaded from the rail car Friday in Lordstown, Ohio..I guess it should only be a few more days unitl it comes into the dealership by truck..Lordstown OH, is a straight shot right across I-80 to my dealership. Although Im sure the transport truck will have other stops to make..

 

Drove right by Lordstown as I also drove right through PA, on my way to and from D.C. this past week/weekend. I coulda picked it up for ya and dropped it off! :)

 

Mine went 3400 last Friday. My inside guy (plant logistic's liaison) is looking into build dates/times, etc as I type this. :troll:

 

 

LOL.. that would have worked!! although the truck would have 400 miles on it by the time I got it... :(

 

It took mine 7 days to go from 3400 to 3800, so you should be in production this week.

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LOL.. that would have worked!! although the truck would have 400 miles on it by the time I got it... :lol:

 

It took mine 7 days to go from 3400 to 3800, so you should be in production this week.

Ahh come on now, they would have been all good "break in" miles though.........trust me. :troll::lol::(

 

I have been informed, sense my last post, that there is a partial vin available for mine and that while he couldn't get

me exact build date/time information, he assured me that it would be built in the next few days as Fort Wayne produces 1428

trucks.......per day. As long as it isn't a Monday, or Friday, truck, I'm good with it. :)

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LOL.. that would have worked!! although the truck would have 400 miles on it by the time I got it... :(

 

It took mine 7 days to go from 3400 to 3800, so you should be in production this week.

 

As long as it isn't a Monday, or Friday, truck, I'm good with it. :jester:

 

 

:D Mine was a Monday truck ....Hopefully it was a "good" monday in Mexico :P

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LOL.. that would have worked!! although the truck would have 400 miles on it by the time I got it... :(

 

It took mine 7 days to go from 3400 to 3800, so you should be in production this week.

 

As long as it isn't a Monday, or Friday, truck, I'm good with it. :jester:

 

 

:D Mine was a Monday truck ....Hopefully it was a "good" monday in Mexico :P

 

 

No worries.. Automation has pretty much dispelled those old ideas about the UAW's. In addition, QC is thru the roof now so it does not matter what day it is completed on....Remember Completed is the key. A truck is on the line for serveral days getting built so once again being finished on a given day makes no difference. Larry

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I'm not so sure the truck could be on the line for days, as Fort Wayne alone, produces 1428 trucks, per day.

 

As for mine, it went all the way to 4800 yesterday. Done and awaiting shipment. Come on good incentives for May!! :lol:

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I'm not so sure the truck could be on the line for days, as Fort Wayne alone, produces 1428 trucks, per day.

 

As for mine, it went all the way to 4800 yesterday. Done and awaiting shipment. Come on good incentives for May!! :lol:

 

Sure they are...From stamping the body panels to welding the chassis , to laying in the wiring harness, to paint, to parts assembly, to mating the drivetrain, to installing interior components, to inspection etc. There is actually several building that the Trucks go thru as they are having different processes done to them. I was trying to find out how many trucks are actually on the line at one time but could not come up with a definative figure to share with you. There is a great video from National Geographic that takes you inside the Oshawa plant and follows a Camaro down the line. They take 4 days to complete as an example.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/seri...s/4904/Overview

 

Larry

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Final assembly doesn't take 4 days, that's my point. Fort Wayne can produce as many ex-cab cabs in the body shop that they want, only one is mine and until it hits the paint department, it isn't mine and even then, it doesn't take 4 days before it is driven off the flat track but, I digress.

 

Anywho, my logistics contact called Ft. Wayne this morning and made sure my truck was loaded on the carrier and northbound, on its way to me, first thing Monday morning. He got a call back a few hours later that it had been strapped down to the trailer already. It's nice to have connections. :lol:

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Final assembly doesn't take 4 days, that's my point. Fort Wayne can produce as many ex-cab cabs in the body shop that they want, only one is mine and until it hits the paint department, it isn't mine and even then, it doesn't take 4 days before it is driven off the flat track but, I digress.

 

Anywho, my logistics contact called Ft. Wayne this morning and made sure my truck was loaded on the carrier and northbound, on its way to me, first thing Monday morning. He got a call back a few hours later that it had been strapped down to the trailer already. It's nice to have connections. :shakehead:

 

Boy you said that for sure. Sounds like you have an awesome contact to boot. I will get in touch with one of the guys that would maybe have some more detail on such matters. Everything I see is it takes 28 to 35 hours to build a truck. I am not sure but if they are doing 3 shifts at the factory that would be a day and a half to completion. Larry

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I have recently been informed that my truck, among others, is currently on quality hold at the plant. Some sort of body weld issue with the bed that they are investigating, as I type this. Bums me out but better to catch it at the plant, I guess. :shakehead: They flagged it as they were loading it on the truck for delivery. They are shooting to have a resolution for it before the end of first shift today.

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Hope someone here can help......Ordered our brand new truck the last week of Feb and have yet to see it . Got an email from onstar asking me why i haven't activated it yet, not much sense really without the truck. Called the dealer they have been awesome (lent me a vehicle while im waiting) keep getting the same story, they say its shipped but being not able to see where it is or when it will be here is slowly making me rethink the whole deal. I do have the vin number (got from the onstar email) 1GTR1VEA6BZ316715 Hoping someone can help me with some info. Thankz in advance.

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Hope someone here can help......Ordered our brand new truck the last week of Feb and have yet to see it . Got an email from onstar asking me why i haven't activated it yet, not much sense really without the truck. Called the dealer they have been awesome (lent me a vehicle while im waiting) keep getting the same story, they say its shipped but being not able to see where it is or when it will be here is slowly making me rethink the whole deal. I do have the vin number (got from the onstar email) 1GTR1VEA6BZ316715 Hoping someone can help me with some info. Thankz in advance.

Considering that it was built on March 23rd and Fort Wayne got caught up in all of the truck driver union job b.s. I'll bet that it is probably sitting on one of their off site shipping lots, waiting to be loaded for delivery or it's on its way to

you.

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Considering that my inside guy has been off for vaca sense Tuesday the only thing that I currently know is that my truck was flagged for a weld issue and returned back to the plant for repairs. I assume that they will be just swapping the box with a good one but I have no confirmation on that. GM refuses to release any May incentive reports still so I'm in a holding pattern for those anyway, I guess.

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