No more wireless charging (for now?)

[garymyman]

When they dropped auto stop/start and gave a measly $50 credit, I shrugged. I've always turned off this feature, personally.

Now they've dropped wireless charging - a huge selling point in the year 2021! - and given $75 credit. That would be a deal breaker to me. They've also dropped steering column lock and given another 50 bucks. Funny the values the bean-counters place on these amenities.

Wonder if wireless charging could be retrofitted after the chip shortage ends? Or did they run out of pads?

 

[waynehead99]

Guess it wouldn't be that big of a deal if you could come back at a later time and pay the 75 bucks to get it put back in... But I agree I don't think the cost reflects a reasonable value for a missing feature especially if its permanent.

On a side note, I do like the wireless charging, but the wireless CarPlay is still a little buggy (not sure its just a chevy issue and Apple doesn't have some blame in that too), so I am still hardwiring my phone which defeats the need of the wireless charging... sure hope they figure that one out.

 

[robgreg75]

I have the wireless charging but I am the type that only charges my phone when I can charge to 100% so I have used the wireless charging 1 time on a road trip in 12K miles of owning it.

 

[Blueinterceptor]

Pretty soon you’ll be lucky to get the front seats

 

[Stbentoak]

That’s pretty sucky really, it’s a feature that if you’ve never had it, you won’t miss it, but once you’ve had it you don’t want to be without it. Are things really that bad that they can’t include this basic feature? Why does everybody think as soon as we switch to 2022s everything is going to magically be better?

 

[Chloe_21]

That’s pretty sucky really, it’s a feature that if you’ve never had it, you won’t miss it, but once you’ve had it you don’t want to be without it. Are things really that bad that they can’t include this basic feature? Why does everybody think as soon as we switch to 2022s everything is going to magically be better?

My order is going to roll over. I don’t think the 22 model year will magically get better. There are articles that show GM opened up another plant “as the chip shortage eases”. And they were saying they expected to be at normal production by 2022. They just never said early/mid/late 2022.

However, this steering wheel lock & wireless charging pad, deal breaker. Not dropping $$$$ on a vehicle GM cannot even build with the features they advertised it having.

idk why GM cannot secure chips, Ford just did.

i miss walking on the lot & finding the vehicle i want, already there.

 

[SAdude]

I use the wireless charging daily... Big loss IMO

 

[SSGUNNER]

Same here, use it daily.

 

[Quark]

You just know that when the time comes to trade these in the salesman will say something like, we can't give you the best trade-in because of these missing features, sorry bud.

That ding will be multiples of the token $50 - $75 mini credit.

 

[wendal]

I took delivery today, and my sales guy mentioned to me that I was lucky to get the wireless charging, as they are removing it as an option. He didn't say whether or not it was permanent...