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1 hour ago, RedHot6.2 said:

Thanks. Mine is a 1500 crew cab so I'm assuming it was built in Mexico too. Did you get that info from your dealer? I may have to check with someone higher up at my dealership, getting a straight answer from my salesman is proving difficult. ?

GM builds 1500 Crews here and in Mexico. Does your VIN start with a 1 or a 3? If it's 1, it was built at Ft. Wayne (Roanoke) Indiana. If 3 it will have been built at the Silao, Mexico plant. 

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RedHot6.2
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Thanks. I figured they still used vehicle transport trucks but those are after they've traveled by train from the factory to a destination where they are put on transport trucks for the last leg of tr

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They're picked up at the rail yard by the truck. The vast majority of Silverados/Sierras will spend time on a rail car.

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I'll second this...I work right around the corner from Flint Assembly and drive by it every day. The are def shipping via Rail from there as well as some via truck transport.

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1 hour ago, jlong1984 said:

GM builds 1500 Crews here and in Mexico. Does your VIN start with a 1 or a 3? If it's 1, it was built at Ft. Wayne (Roanoke) Indiana. If 3 it will have been built at the Silao, Mexico plant. 

Thanks. Mine does start with a 1. Hopefully that means it will be here sooner than coming from Mexico on rail, boat or however they send them now..lol. Found some good vin reference info. 

2020 Silverado Vincards-2.pdf

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2 hours ago, RedHot6.2 said:

Thanks. Mine is a 1500 crew cab so I'm assuming it was built in Mexico too. Did you get that info from your dealer? I may have to check with someone higher up at my dealership, getting a straight answer from my salesman is proving difficult. ?

Good afternoon. When I ordered my truck way back in February. My salesman printed a copy of the build sheet. It had an order number. You go to the Chevy website and click on the chat box. And hopefully you get a competent Chevy chat person. Some of them are clueless. But. If you get one that knows their job. You can get information on your vehicle. You just give them your order number. Don’t give them any more personal information. They will ask. It takes about 5-10 minutes for a chat person to check your order. After event code 3800 truck has been produced vin number available. You get a vin number. If it starts with a 1 it’s made in Indiana. It will be shipped by rail or truck. If it starts with a 3. It’s made in Mexico. It will either go by rail, truck, or slow boat. Depending on what part of the country it’s going to. I’m unfortunately way the heck up in the north eastern USA. So. I’m still waiting for the slow boat to reach Rhode Island. Then a truck ride to the dealership. Hopefully next week. Or the week after. Good luck ? 

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34 minutes ago, USCGRetiredJosh said:

Have dealership activate the onstar on the truck and then you can have onstar track it’s location for you. Haha

Haha. I’ve asked that question. The dealership and Chevy chat both tell me that feature is not supposed to be known?? They both claim that they cannot access this feature. 

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15 hours ago, RedHot6.2 said:

Showing up on my dealers website now so hopefully won't be too much longer till it's at dealer. 

 

 

https://www.kevinwhitaker.net/VehicleDetails/new-2020-Chevrolet-Silverado_1500-Crew_Cab_Short_Box_4_Wheel_Drive_RST-Greenville-SC/4602383883

 

My truck appeared on my dealerships website 10 days ago. And the truck was offloaded from the boat this morning. I’m hoping sometime this week. 

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So dealer tells me that truck is on the way to Indiana to have the rally package put on. Totally makes no sense because the truck was built in Ft. Wayne. Say it should be here by the 15th. ?

I'm sure they are just as eager to get some trucks back on the lot. This is as empty as I've ever seen this dealership. There are usually 4 full rows of Silverados in this lot with hardly an empty spot left.  

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So I’m on the same boat as some of you.

 

i purchased my truck 2 weeks ago. Already listed on their site and had a vin. 
 

dealer has no idea when it will arrive. I find out that it’s being built in Mexico. I contact Chevy chat and afte da few tries I get a competent person that actually told me the exact day it departed Mexico via ship and where it was headed to. 

luckily I’m in south Florida so via ship should take about a week and the port is a 15 min drive to my dealer. Hoping this week I get a call.

 

btw I tried activating onstar lol! They couldn’t connect with the truck. 

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So I’m on the same boat as some of you.
 
i purchased my truck 2 weeks ago. Already listed on their site and had a vin. 
 
dealer has no idea when it will arrive. I find out that it’s being built in Mexico. I contact Chevy chat and afte da few tries I get a competent person that actually told me the exact day it departed Mexico via ship and where it was headed to. 

luckily I’m in south Florida so via ship should take about a week and the port is a 15 min drive to my dealer. Hoping this week I get a call.
 
btw I tried activating onstar lol! They couldn’t connect with the truck. 
That's because ships are like giant faraday cages

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Thanks to you guys, I just found out my truck was made in Mexico. I was hoping for Indiana, but whatever. I spoke to my dealer a week ago they said the truck was in Baltimore, but needed to up to Pennsylvania before it could go south to southeastern Virginia. Is DC so toxic that GM won't transport trucks through there, lol? The irony about it being built in Mexico is that it'll practically be a homecoming for the truck when I move to Southern California next month.

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When I drive by the Flint, MI truck and bus where the HD Silverados are made there is a train full of frames and train full of trucks out front.  Also, In Lansing where the Traverse is made, trains cars lined up being loaded all the time.  

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Depends where the dealer is located. Mine was built in Fort Wayne and trucked to Detroit it never seen the railyard


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On 7/5/2020 at 4:22 PM, krisftw said:

So I’m on the same boat as some of you.

 

i purchased my truck 2 weeks ago. Already listed on their site and had a vin. 
 

dealer has no idea when it will arrive. I find out that it’s being built in Mexico. I contact Chevy chat and afte da few tries I get a competent person that actually told me the exact day it departed Mexico via ship and where it was headed to. 

luckily I’m in south Florida so via ship should take about a week and the port is a 15 min drive to my dealer. Hoping this week I get a call.

 

btw I tried activating onstar lol! They couldn’t connect with the truck. 

Vehicle orders are tracked by the 'order number' and are not assigned assigned a vin (part of which is the production sequence number) until their is a vehicle to stick it to.

Soon after the vin is assigned it becomes part of info available with the order number. 

 

Lots of dealers will show/advertise a vehicle as 'in transit', and have a picture of a similar vehicle.   VEven more common when a new model comes out as they may not yet have any on lot to advertise.

  

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