I Got to Watch Them Build MY New Chevy 3500 HD at Flint Assembly!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- We took a trip to Flint, Michigan to watch Howard's 2024 Chevy 3500 HD come together at the assembly plant.
Come along for the journey and see how a new HD truck is built.
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Really cool of GM to allow you access to watch and film this - congrats on the truck!
GM does stuff like this from time to time, that's one thing I like about them.
They better let me if spend $100,000 at the communist company.
has to be ok'd by plant shift supervisor. If he says NO then you're SOL
What truck? That's not a real truck
If I paid over $100,000 for a truck, I'd expect them to let me go watch as well.
Pretty cool to see your own truck being made!! 🙂
I am amazed that they let you in there. I worked there for 17 years and it was not a common thing. BTW, they rust out from the inside. Paint be damned.
Hello I work at Flint Assembly. I'm glad you enjoyed your trip through our facility. Over 1,000 people touched your truck to get it assembled. I work in Chassi 1 exhaust install on 2nd shift. I missed working on your truck. In one day we build on average over 1,000 trucks a day. It's a smooth operation to get this done. I hope you enjoy your truck for a good long time. It's Proudly built by UAW Local 598 members.
Very cool!
Jeff anyway to get a detailed update on a truck build I ordered? Dealer just says been accepted. I checked with the message bot and said accepted by General motors headed to production but been saying this for a while. Build# DDMJ1F
good luck. I ordered one last June (2023) it was built first week of January and being held for "quality inspection" ever since. it's been 2 months as of March.@@nicklouallen4784
Heck yeah great job!
Thank you guys and gals for building great trucks - we customers appreciate your efforts.
Ah, the memories of when I worked there in the late 70's! Surprised to see it so familiar. I was a painter one year and I see that robots have replaced me. I used to paint the left door inside and out, dashboard, left side of box and left side of tailgate. I had a guy across the booth doing the other side.
When I was there, they built GMC and Chevy trucks on one line and Blazers and Sububans on the other. Line speed was usually 62.5 trucks per hour.
Thats an amazing number like 1 every minute. Hard to even imagine that
You might have built my vehicle 👍👍👍
If it is a’78 or ‘79, there is a 33% chance I did. There were three shifts at the time and I worked second shift.🙂
ha you probably painted my truck
The paint shop is in a whole new building now. This complex has gotten quite the face lift since your days.
Thats all interesting to watch being built..explains alot about why they are so hard to work on..dont believe it is worth the $100k price...bet it wont still be running and working in 46 yrs like my 1977 chevy squarebody..that cost about $5k when new.
DM if you're interested on getting anew truck for rent and for sell
Who else is watching this in 2043 looking at these good old L5Ps get built?
My 2024 is still running great, they don’t build them like they used to! 😂
@@keithhall4009 nah 2026 was the beat year, glad they got rid of diesel emission regulations 👏😂
This comment is still true today in 2056. The new L20P's are absolute junk.
Thanks for sharing this amazing process. But for $102k I would've expected a happier ending.
This truck should be no more than 50k. GM= con artists
@@Jeff-sp7bg Even 50k is really too much as there are houses within just a few miles of this factory that are priced under 50k.
Howard I think I was as excited as you were watching the video of your truck! By far the coolest video I have seen
From your channel. Very rare to actually be on the assembly line participating and watching your little baby come to life. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to more videos of her! ❤
Truck guys won’t want to hear this… But if you really want to be impressed you should watch a Tesla being built. It’s like regular army vs. special forces!
That is sooo cool! Thanks for sharing!
Honestly, a complementary invitation to watch your truck be built for the insane price you paid should be standard at this point.
You should be screaming put on lots of anti seize on every bolt for all the recalls 😂
Fantastic experience actually watching your personal truck being built! Very few people will have the provenance of their actual truck like you do. I am happy for you to have been able to watch you watch your Baby being built! I bet you can't wait to pick it up back home. If it was me, I would have begged them to just let me drive it home. HA!!!
me too
Radiant red is the best color GM has right now. Gorgeous
now i see why there junk, even the plant looks like trash, that explains why they fail apart and break down all the time.
It’s very exciting to see your own truck being built I totally understand because I also saw my 2011 GMC 3500 HD turbo diesel Z71 being built . It’s an amazing experience that I will never forget, in fact I love my truck more because of it . I took over 100 pictures and had the chance to talk with the GM workers . Those workers are amazing at Flint Michigan 🇺🇸 USA great team work. By watching your videos I know that the factory line has changed so much since 2011 . The body marriage is so different now and the truck are on a suspension conveyor belts , and they are putting the tires at last stage of the process . Back in 2011 the tires 🛞 were installed right after the frame and motor installation. Many improvements have occurred since then. God bless America 🇺🇸🇨🇦
TK, It breaks my heart that they don't make these 3500s with 8 foot beds in Oshawa . 😭
Off to canada to be a rust bucket within 10 years. Hahahaha
He got to watch them build his pile of 💩 😂😂😂😂 so proud
That’s awesome thankyou for sharing that was your best video yet
Can’t wait for the review you do on this truck, in that video can you please tell
us why you got rim of your Ram? Thank you Truck King!
Edit- missed the video where you explained why you got rid of the Ram lol
the average guy with 2 kids and a wife would never ever be able to afford one of those trucks......kinda like old hotrods ,ONLY FOR THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS AND RICH
I'll stay with my 2006 Silverado 2500HD With 200,000 miles running strong and looking new. The new trucks are around 40% over priced and built like junk.
OHH WOW,, I just found a 3500HD at my local GA dealer for $82K. wow. what a deal. 1/3 the price of house on depreciating piece of metal with 4 round rolling rubber things
Nice truck. But shouldn’t cost 100k.. at most 65k. They’re using 300+ duramax’s a day. They must have their cost pretty low on these trucks they’re gouging consumers at this point
I can certainly see how running a pneumatic wrench while getting parts delivered to you equates to $100K annually.
Been driving my 2002 silverado 1500 since new. Looks like the only truck i will ever be able to own. 🥺 Too bad your truck will live at the dealerships though, with all those emission problems. Good luck.
MSRP over $100k. Regulation pushed by appointees from politicians driving up cost. Voting has consequences
It just amazes me how these robots work well with one another without arguing with each other and getting along very well.
Back in 95 I got to see Peterbilt build my 357 tri axle it was a great experience
Excellent video, cudos to you & to GM allowing you to get right in the thick of the assembly process ! Love your proper 8 foot bed - a real truck ! And the gorgeous RED metal flake - not boring grey primer color we see too much of. I miss my Chevy C3500 2000 MY dually 454 gasser. This truck will pull your 5th wheel like there's no tomorrow
Always a ford guy to but my wife's ford needed an engine before the first oil change and ford gave us a short block so now not numbers matching even though she never had anything else!!!but ford and same dealer would NoT give us another new one .so now i have a 23 GMC Sierra that we ordered got to pick color and lots of stuff and my wife has a 24 buick encore thats right the ford girl and guy in General motors products now boy no comparison appointment for service no run around !!!!! Ours are bolth red ones 👍
You didn't happen to see my truck being built, did you? LOL! I placed my order on 3/23/23 and it hasn't been built yet!
One of the reasons for the chain driven line is that these are heavy vehicles.
Picked up my BMW 320d from the factory in Munich about 10 years ago. Part of the deal was a complete guided tour through the factory which showed the exact same technologies as this Chevy factory albeit much cleaner in Munich. Pretty cool to watch. At the end we went and picked up our vehicle after a lengthy orientation in the "showroom". A great experience and we were treated like royalty.
Thanks for using marriage instead of mating. Sick if that word.
Nice, but before buying a Gmc or Chevy, ask if they have all the parts first. Two of my sons received incomplete trucks over a year and a half ago.
Did you watch as the union guy put his beer can in your door?
Btw, i was born and raised in flint. All along saginaw street across from the old fisher body plant were bars. Shop rats would go get plastered at lunch then stagger back to work.
Wonder what scotty would say about this?
Just bought a 2024 2500hd duramax myself and love it, I had a 2007 2500hd LBZ duramax
When do I get to go pick out my free diesel pickup? They still owe every taxpayer one for the 2008 bailout!
It amazes me how many UAW Autoworkers are doing absolutely nothing, as they stand around with their thumbs up their asses!
In about 4 or 5 years you will be making a video about how terrible the truck is. They don't make them to last. Terrible poor quality
And sadly if that truck goes and lives in the salt belt of new York, etc, you'll be lucky to still have it in 10 years without it being rotted in half and in the crusher
nobody can afford this 92k truck, this guy is salary I'm sure, and why can't people take photos in the plant yet this stuff can be released on yt?
Oh so you watched them pur a plastic mold and put cheap parts on mostly plastic 🤔 and you payed $100,000 dollars 💵for this you could have bought a house five years ago for that wow they need to lower the price to $8,000 max for a new 3500 pickup truck
At 102K CAD GM should have let you sleep rent free in their factory while they developed the HD
Said 23 GMC Sierra volcanic red love it and buick is a bit darker red ! Said my truck Ft Wayne Indiana .
Give us an update to when it first goes into the shop for work … seems like a lot of these new trucks have a lot of problems besides being expensive
What amazes me the most is that someone would pay over $100k for a pickup truck.
It was amazing seeing your truck being built. congrats on ur new chevy
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
3500......cool, because that's probably the monthly payments on it too..........
that’s cool & all but,, still an overpriced & over engineered POS !!
Hey, there are people out there that like to pay too much for a vehicle these days, more power to them. I call those people suckers.
Imagine spending $100k on a vehicle built by people who live in Flint.
My 3500 has to be around there somewhere can you make sure they’re not messing up?
You should have got the Toyota tundra has more horse power and more reliable than the chevy
*350 trucks a shift. 3 shifts a day means over 1,000 trucks a day
nice truck, can't believe they let the drive shaft flop around when flipping the chassis
Congratulations! That was a once in a lifetime experience!
Maybe the dealer will let you watch them work on it because they will have it more than you do!
I heard these roofs are leaking now on new GM trucks...bummer
Wow, talk about the ultimate truck buying experience 😮
As much as it is a POS, that "Marriage" was REALLY cool.
The frame will start rusting within the first year after the wax coating flakes off
Awesome video. I've spent a lot of time in a GM plant. We originally lived in MA and my dad worked at the Framingham plant. Got transfered to DE to work at the Boxwood plant. Think they were building the Solstice before that one closed down. Now it's an Amazon hub. Anyway, did a few field trips with schools there over the years plus spent time after school waiting for dad to finish for the day. Watching that plant operate in unison with those robots was amazing!
Now I'm 40 and my 4th GM truck is 10 days old sitting outside this same Michigan plant. 24' Sierra 3500 crew cab long bed gas at4! Ever since my first truck, my 04 Colorado, I've wanted a HD beast. Now I actually need it for work and it's a reality. I have had great luck with each truck. The truck my new one is replacing is a 2015 max tow 1500 sierra with 282k on it now. Still looks new. I've got almost 700,000 miles out of the previous 3. Looking forward to another 250k out of this one! Can't wait
Its so cool that Chevy recognizes you as a fellow trucker and gives the privilege. So I thank Chevy and thank you Howard, you are a great trucker and do deserve this extremely rare and nice approach of the General. Kudos.
Trucks are so out of this world priced now, just crazy.
I'm Pro Cevy/GM and this in an awesome video, Cudos to Chevy for letting you see your truck being built and video it. Chevy!!!!
Good. Pr too
Congratulations! Did u have to pay a buyer premium to watch this build ? I know GM offers a museum for costumers who pay an extra 1k or so, it’s called a museum delivery!
God bless it
Of course. This is a paid for experience. I have heard this money goes into a pot which then goes to the plant workers for social events etc.
Not sure how accurate. Wish the GM employees would verify but they sure are 🤐 unlike Ford or Chryco line personnel 😂
Did you see all the parts unloaded from the ship from China?
Glad that factory built your truck perfect. My black 2024 LTZ had some errors the workers missed. A dust nib in the paint on back driver passenger door. Noticed it a week after owning it, went to several body shops and they said they could try to wet sand or repaint but I chose neither of those two options. Small dent on front passenger rockers, luckily the paint wasn’t cracked or chipped. Front driver seat floor trim not lined up properly. Inexcusable for $75,000 truck. Already looking forward to getting a new one in two years. Pretty upsetting that I’ll have to be on the lookout for errors that shouldn’t be there from the get go.
I feel like your dealer should've caught that stuff during the PDI process and let GM know about it. Because if they caught it, they might not have let you taken delivery until all the issues were addressed.
Are GM's robotics more sophisticated than Ford's?
Excellent Episode and Very Cool you got to see your Truck being assembled!!! 😁
Hey that's where I work at! ( In the sanitation department)
And gets the extended warranty, on the way out of the factory.
Does that model come with the optional pre-rusted bed ?
Yikes, zero Bias from you guys now hehe....
Now you can put a face on every quality issue youre going to have to endure. 🤣
Right now I'm on the road sitting in my own 2020 3500hd that I also got to see being made. Flawless pickup with no issues at all ever.
Wish I had $100,000.00 for a new truck!
BEAUTIFUL! Like a big piece of candy
Go scratch your frame with your finger nail
I didn't see mine made but sat down with the dealer and went over everything took 7 months but well worth it!!!!
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around how there are 10s of 1000s of wealthy people every week that can lay down a 100k for a new vehicle.
I have a feeling that is going to change over the coming years with far fewer "haves" and and far greater "have nots". Plus there would be a percentage of those that are financed to their eyeballs and as soon as the economy burps and they loose their job there are vehicles being repossessed.
Man, just imagine watching your own car getting built
Why didn't you go with a GMC Denali?
Awesome video, thanks for posting this. Loving my 2024 GMC 2500!
Why not a high country but gorgeous color😍😍😍
Congratulations Sir !!! 😊🙏🙏🙏✊✊🤘🤘
I'm envious that you got to watch the birth of your new baby. Have you picked a name yet?
I have a 2022 F-150 and I joke with friends, not sure who will die first, me or my new truck. Hoping we both go beyond 2042 but never know...
Funny you ask about naming a truck! People think I’m weird when I call my truck by its name. I have a 1999 Silverado 2500 with 318,000 miles on it that I named Chevy Chase (not original, I know) and my 2023 Silverado 2500 is named JB since his VIN ends in 007.
Based on the lifespan of my 1999, I doubt I’ll outlive my new one and I’m only 50!
Big mistake getting fire engine red should’ve got black resales a lot better.🚒
Hi 👋
GM should have let you just drive it home!
God bless her. Beauty. Congratulations.
Don't drink the tap water in Flint MI!
Excellent Job. WOW! 👍🙏
The red and assembly line reminds me of the movie Christine 😅 congrats on the truck 🎉
I suppose that means this truck of his will live forever then 😉
Now that was a great video!, fantastic you guys were able to do that and GM sees the value in allowing this to happen!
Gmc right in front of it on the line. That in of itself is crazy... two brands, slightly different, coming through.
I used to work for GM on the final line for 1.5 years. It was a continuously moving job that was mind numbingly boring because it was so repititious . When my body parts would wear out I would be transferred to a different job on the assembly line until that part of my body was in pain. Same parts over and over and over etc. Women tend to tolerate that repititious job better or so it seemed to me. When ever I was discontented with my future jobs I would think back to my GM days and it would brighten my mood to know that I was not working on an assembly line. Having to get a relief person to do my job to be able to go to the bathroom because the line never stops. A roller coaster of downsizing / layoff/ strikes / and plant closures if you stick it out.Paid well and I feel for the people who have made this their life's work. The boredom leads to a high rate of alcohol and drug abuse. People were never meant to be machines but, for many people this is a fact of life.