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2022 Refresh Order Experience
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Streetdaddy
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Maverickish.. i bet you don’t even have an order in yet.. I would call a big dealer and spec one out on the phone with a salesperson.. then they asked for 2k deposit a couple days later and i could see some action on the gmc chat within a week or two
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there was a gm authority article awhile back stating all crew cab 1500 sierra’s were built in Silao Mexico, and regular cab and double cabs were built in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Beings all refreshed AT4’s are only crew cabs, Fort Wayne’s shutdown might not affect us if that statement is true. But likely semiconductor shortages are chain wide.
I had a reservation in with a dealer about 40 minutes away. Within a week they called about what I wanted. I told them some very basic info, not enough to actually put in an order so I got suspicious. He didn't want to know anything beyond trim, engine, and box/bed. He told me orders picked up by the original reservation holder would be sold at MSRP. Any order that was not finalized by the reservation holder would be sold at market whatever it was at that time... So I put two and two together and figured they weren't ever going to put an order in for me because they don't actually want to sell any of these trucks for MSRP. He would pretend he didn't know I was trying to get the refreshed AT4 and emailed or called me about half a dozen times trying to sell me a 21 or a 22 limited that was enroute. I got sick of his games.
A little while later when the configurator came online I built what I wanted in there and I tried the "get a quote" function for my build at 3 other dealers in the area that aren't in the bay area proper where most every dealer is selling whatever they have for over MSRP. I thought some of these lower cost areas nearby may be happy to sell me a $75K truck at MSRP with no haggle. 1 of them never got back to me, 1 of them sent me info on a used 2021 SLT short box (wrong move), and the other just started spamming me random questions without ever addressing my request for a quote. Finally after not responding to their emails they sent another email stating "we see you have been opening our emails but you haven't responded. Why?". So I wrote back and said I keep opening the emails hoping to see the quote I asked for but so far it's just you trying to sell me something I don't want. They stopped emailing me after that.
So I started looking at other western states. Didn't find anyone that appeared to be selling at MSRP for their current stock so I assumed they wouldn't take an order without adding some markup later.
This whole time Laura GMC was my outlet. I knew they were a massive GMC dealer and had been watching their site for a few years already. I knew they weren't selling trucks for $4-8k below MSRP like I had seen in 2018, 2019, and 2020 but I had also not seen anything listed higher than MSRP. It made sense to buy from them years ago because of the money I would have saved on the sales tax alone but now that they are at MSRP factoring in deliver or a fly and drive it isn't really a deal anymore, unless everyone else wants to charge me well over MSRP. I figured if they won't take an order and sell it to me at MSRP or below, doubtful anyone would. Contacted them through a chat and prefaced the conversation with if anyone calls or emails me trying to sell me a 21 or 22 limited the conversation will be over. No games. Chat (bot?) said she/it understood.
Got a call maybe 10 minutes later. Explained what I wanted and sent the sales guy my build. He explained all the processes to me I wanted to know about. So I put in a new reservation. He sent me a build sheet from their system to check over. It had an issue that I had to get corrected. That cost me a couple days because the order system isn't open all the time apparently so when it opened up again they fixed the build sheet and resent it to me. I checked it off that it was what I wanted, signed and initialed some stuff, they put it in their system and a day or two later I paid an additional deposit. Now I wait. At the time the sales guy thought it would be 3-4 months to get it. I really have no idea how long it will take.
How much communication have you had with your salesman? I ordered about a week after you. He said I would be hearing from him every couple of weeks. I reached out to him last Friday about something and he answered my question but hasn't sent me any updates regarding my order.
Streetdaddy
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Yeah!! Good for you. When was it produced?
Jbryce561
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Anyone with a TPW of 3/28 get any updates?
I checked mine on Tuesday, and I had 3300, just checked now and I still have 3300. So unlike me you're right on with timing. TPW 3/28 doesn't mean they start building the truck, its the process that starts (paperwork, inventory needed for production, mounting whatever the heck has to be mounted to the machines, etc.). When my dealer told me I had a TPW of 3/28 they said that meant that it would be actually produced on the first week of April. Which is this upcoming Monday, but my truck isn't moving from 3300 for some reason.
I just checked. Didn't receive a code from the virtual assistant but it said my order was placed by my dealer but not accepted by GMC yet. I assume since my order is nothing like what GMC is generally building on their own it's going to be a long wait for if/when they decide to build it. That was the point of ordering it though. I knew I was not going to find what I wanted just randomly sitting on a lot somewhere.
I might be wrong, but my understanding is if your TPW was 3/21 then that's when your truck was being prepared, which is 3300, so the next week (3/28) is when they actually start producing it which is 3400. Which means your next step is 3450 which means your car is done being built, and is sitting somewhere in the plant (most likely in Mexico).
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