Is a Four to Eight Week Production Window Realistic?

[MikeBoom]

I’ve paid my down payment on a Yukon Denali and the dealer tells me it’ll go into the order bank on Tuesday. He told me that they have a current production allocation they‘ll use and that it could be produced in as little as four to eight weeks. This is my first GMC factory order and I’m not really familiar with the production/tracking process, but is this anywhere close to realistic?

Obviously lead times vary with demand and component availability, but most discussions I’ve seen online suggest that it generally takes much longer. Any insights?

 

[WalleyeMikeIII]

Could be, if he indeed has an allocation he is giving you, and you are not ordering anything currently on constraint.

My experience was:
I committed to order on 11/16/21
Dealer sent order to GM on 12/6/21
Vehicle produced 1/6/22
Vehicle arrived at my dealer on 2/9/22
I took delivery on 2/11/22

 

[jforb]

I ordered a really basic Tahoe in early May, this year, and took delivery at the end of June. So yeah, it's realistic if they have the parts and get to work on it.

 

[todayusay]

sounds like our order back at the beginning of August. called them that first Monday afternoon and the salesman said that he thought they had an open allocation...tuesday came around and he gave me my order #...by Friday I noticed it was moving forward so I called back and talked to the ordering "guy" and his exact words were...."this one will probably go pretty fast". Showed up to the dealer 4 weeks later

Aspects that I think helped us...allocation available, only 5hrs away from Dallas, it was a fairly mundane Z71 (luxury package and 2nd row buckets)...

my guess is that if they think it'll go quicker, it'll probably be built quick, but delivery from the plant is the one fairly significant step that they don't have much control over

I'll admit that 4-5 weeks from order to delivery isn't normal, but possible for sure

on the flip side - we also had an order earlier in the spring that took 4 months from order to delivery and back then that was considered quick....big picture is that out of the 4 months, 1.5 was waiting to be accepted, built in 4-5 weeks and then the rest was waiting for it to get to the dealer...the acceptance part is usually the longest "wait time" in the whole process

 

[MikeBoom]

Thanks, all. So, it sounds like it’s within the realm of possibility.

My only experience with ordering a new vehicle—the Jeep Rubicon 4xe that this Yukon will replace—was shrouded in mystery. Jeep actually has a user-friendly utility to track one’s production status, as well as humans who respond to inquiries. However, this all showed that the Jeep was getting close to being scheduled for production, but not there yet, then the next day it was in transit. That, of course, was a further mystery.