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I ordered a 2024 3500 gasser crew cab long bed. About 6 weeks ago my dealer contacted me and said they had an allocation for a truck and could do everything I wanted except the long bed. I wanted a truck asap so I said order it but let me know if a long bed build becomes available in the near future as if it were only a matter of 2-3 weeks I might wait for the long bed.   So the short bed is built and in transit from Oshawa.   I was told the long bed build was also picked up but they don't know where it's coming from until they get a vin#.

I would rather have the long bed and I would rather have a truck from the Flint plant I think.  I actually grew up in the area and had friends that worked at the truck plant so there's a little bit of sentiment involved.   But just curious if anyone has reason to believe the quality is better in one plant or the other.     

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Oshawa only builds crew cab standard box Chevy.  Flint builds everything else including what Oshawa builds. Both plants are good.  Oshawa has been struggling getting things shipped due to train and truck shortages.  

 

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Flint, Silao, Oshawa and Ft.Wayne all pump out great quality for the most part.

 

I'd take an Oshawa truck any day as Oshawa has been one of GM's top rated plants for YEARS in the past.  They ran truck production for many years until 2008 or so when GM dropped trucks from there.  They also made in the past many of the W body products, 14-20 Impala, 10-15 Camaro, and much more.  

 

Silao doesn't do HD's but I've had zero build quality issues with my 2022 1/2 ton crew cab.  

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Thanks for the thoughts,   So The long box would be from Flint which I suspected.  Now to figure out if I want to wait for it.   The old 2020 has 145k on it and I do a lot of driving.

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Strictly anecdotal but in the years gone by my personal observation was that the Oshawa truck did not hold up as well for rust through. Again, thats just what I saw. 

As far as today, as MTU says, Oshawa has had some significant shipping issues. Its widespread though since it took Precision 15 days to get my truck 12 miles across town from Flint assy. For over $150 per mile I would have pushed it there. 

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My last two trucks came from Flint and I had no problems, plus it just felt kind of good to be driving a truck built in the plant I had driven by probably a thousand times, maybe more. 

You would think you could get it a little faster when the dealership is 20 minutes away for sure.

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I ordered a 2024 2500 High Country gas this spring of 2023.  It was built in Oshawa and has been waiting since late May 2023 to get on a train.  It is now July 28 2023 and can't get any answers as to when it might get on a train to Denver, Colorado.  All I'm told is that it's a train issue. Initially it was supposed to arrive in Denver late May or early June 2023.  I've been ordering Chevy pickups and suv's since the 1980's from Chevy for our construction/real estate company and never had to wait this long.  Very disappointed.  This might be the last time I order a Chevy product.

 

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The fact that it shows in shipping doesnt necessarily mean its ready to ship. Theres some semantics in the terms since the truck could be in shipping but still have a hold on it for a repair or a built short item. Some part of the issues with slow "shipping" are likely due to holds on the vehicle for a variety of reasons. 

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You’d think GM could save a bundle and have happier customers by setting up some sort of minimally staffed factory pick up program. They probably could charge $500 per truck for the “privilege” of picking it up in lieu of shipping charges. The dealers would fight it, though. 

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GM makes profit from the shipping charges, The current model has been around forever, I wouldnt look for it to ever change. 

Having said that,I witnessed (40+ yrs ago) a couple times where a new car was delivered straight to the customer once it came off the line but these were well connected people that worked literally 300 yds from the gate where the cars were staged at the plant. 

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On 7/29/2023 at 11:08 AM, Another JR said:

You’d think GM could save a bundle and have happier customers by setting up some sort of minimally staffed factory pick up program. They probably could charge $500 per truck for the “privilege” of picking it up in lieu of shipping charges. The dealers would fight it, though. 

They all have union contracts with shippers and if they ever tried that there likely would be a teamsters strike and shut everything down industry wide.  Not only that, the vehicles are not ready to drive away as many need the dealer to take it out of hibernation and install misc items that the plant does not.  All these stories about circumventing the shipping and picking up at the plant are just that, stories.  There is NO WAY to avoid paying the shipping charges.  Even Corvette's with museum delivery option have to place order with dealer (and pay dealer for everything), pay the same shipping as every other one + an additional optional fee for museum delivery and then it has to be delivered to a local dealer for prep and then delivered to the museum. 

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Took delivery 7/1/23 of my 2024 long bed from  the Flint plant, which is what my preference was.  Happy so far, some minor changes that I prefer from my 2020.  Overall I love the new truck. 

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On 7/28/2023 at 7:34 AM, TechCon said:

I ordered a 2024 2500 High Country gas this spring of 2023.  It was built in Oshawa and has been waiting since late May 2023 to get on a train.  It is now July 28 2023 and can't get any answers as to when it might get on a train to Denver, Colorado.  All I'm told is that it's a train issue. Initially it was supposed to arrive in Denver late May or early June 2023.  I've been ordering Chevy pickups and suv's since the 1980's from Chevy for our construction/real estate company and never had to wait this long.  Very disappointed.  This might be the last time I order a Chevy product.

 

It is now Aug 20 2023 and it's still waiting to get on a train.  Very frustrating.

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