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The global chip crisis is far from coming to an end, and while some industry experts believe the whole thing will ease up in the second half of the year, carmakers are still struggling to find a way to deal with the lack of semiconductors.
General Motors knows how hard it is to cope with this problem without turning to temporary production halts. The company has already decided earlier this month to sell some of the trucks and SUVs produced by the brands it owns without start-stop systems.
That is because GM doesn’t have enough chips to power these systems, so the company decided to give up on them completely, therefore selling the vehicles without them and providing customers with a $50 price cut.
And now the carmaker has turned to another similar move, as select 2021 pickup trucks and 2022 HD models will be sold without HD radio. According to an email sent to dealers and seen by GM-Trucks, General Motors says this is a permanent change, with the company offering another $50 price cut.
The 2021 trucks that will ship without HD radio are the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (LS, RST, LT, Trail Boss, LTZ, and High Country) and GMC Sierra 1500 (SLE, SLT, Elevation, AT4, and Denali). All the 2022 HD trucks are sold without the system as well.
Vehicles not sporting HD radio would get a special Monroy label with RPO code RG0, which indicates this feature is missing.
As for when these models could get back HD radio, nothing is certain at this point, though it’s important to emphasize GM flags this change as a permanent one.
The system, however, could return to the affected models when the global chip crisis is over. According to industry experts, that won’t happen until at least the second half of 2022 when the foundries out there finally manage to fill all their orders and ship enough semiconductors to their clients.
That is because GM doesn’t have enough chips to power these systems, so the company decided to give up on them completely, therefore selling the vehicles without them and providing customers with a $50 price cut.
And now the carmaker has turned to another similar move, as select 2021 pickup trucks and 2022 HD models will be sold without HD radio. According to an email sent to dealers and seen by GM-Trucks, General Motors says this is a permanent change, with the company offering another $50 price cut.
The 2021 trucks that will ship without HD radio are the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (LS, RST, LT, Trail Boss, LTZ, and High Country) and GMC Sierra 1500 (SLE, SLT, Elevation, AT4, and Denali). All the 2022 HD trucks are sold without the system as well.
Vehicles not sporting HD radio would get a special Monroy label with RPO code RG0, which indicates this feature is missing.
As for when these models could get back HD radio, nothing is certain at this point, though it’s important to emphasize GM flags this change as a permanent one.
The system, however, could return to the affected models when the global chip crisis is over. According to industry experts, that won’t happen until at least the second half of 2022 when the foundries out there finally manage to fill all their orders and ship enough semiconductors to their clients.
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