[RAYYOU]

My 2017 2SS was involved in an accident a few months back and the car needs a new steering rack and passenger front seat cover. No big deal right? Wrong, both of these parts have been discontinued by gm and they have no replacement part numbers for either. I have contacted several other dealers myself thinking my dealer was giving a line of bull. I got the same answer, discontinued and no replacement. Has anyone ever heard of this or offer any options? This is crazy, a 2017 that you can't get parts for!!!
Any help would be appreciated.

[avalonandl]

That can't be. The new steering rack has to be out there. Your service dept is not looking correctly. Mfr has to supply parts for 9 years. Second the 2018 parts should fit.

[RAYYOU]

My thoughts exactly. I called gm Thursday and waiting to here back from them.
Was just wondering if anyone else had seen this.

[avalonandl]

There may have been an eng change new pn and new pn not issued yet

[TedJS]

Originally Posted by RAYYOU

My 2017 2SS was involved in an accident a few months back and the car needs a new steering rack and passenger front seat cover. No big deal right? Wrong, both of these parts have been discontinued by gm and they have no replacement part numbers for either. I have contacted several other dealers myself thinking my dealer was giving a line of bull. I got the same answer, discontinued and no replacement. Has anyone ever heard of this or offer any options? This is crazy, a 2017 that you can't get parts for!!!
Any help would be appreciated.

That's impossible. Probably updated part numbers or parts on restriction. Doubt the seat cover is under some sort of restriction but the steering rack might require some escalation.

And what dealer would even tell someone that? A dealer who doesn't want to sell parts or make money. WTF?

[MotownBoy]

Assuming it turns out that you can't get, try salvage yards for wrecked Camaros

[RAYYOU]

Originally Posted by TedJS

That's impossible. Probably updated part numbers or parts on restriction. Doubt the seat cover is under some sort of restriction but the steering rack might require some escalation.

And what dealer would even tell someone that? A dealer who doesn't want to sell parts or make money. WTF?

We even tried That GM Parts Guy. He told us the same. When I called they said they were going to escalate it. We will see, they have not called back yet.
It just makes no sense that you can't get parts for current model year vehicle.

[Martinjlm]

Originally Posted by avalonandl

There may have been an eng change new pn and new pn not issued yet

This. By the way, just for the sake of accuracy.... there is no rule or law in the US saying a car company has to keep parts available for 10 years. Can't remember if there is in Canada, but I think not. Where this 10 year myth comes from is that for GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, there was usually a clause where the government or military required parts availability for 10 years from date of purchase. There is no such requirement for retail sales. Companies have to be able to provide parts for warranty repair. California and states that follow their emissions laws have to maintain parts that impact emissions for up to 8 years, depending on the part.

Since there is no apparent Engineering difference for the 2018 car versus the 2016 or 17 car, GM probably uses the 2018 part to service 2016 and 2017 cars in order to stock only one part number. It is also cheaper for GM to just add the service parts to production parts orders. If that is the case, it will be in the form of a service parts kit, that would include any parts required (if any) to make the 2018 part work for the 2016-17 cars.

[TonyNo]

A friend of mine has a Z/28 and was told that about several parts he needed. Seems impossible to me, but this kind of confirms it for now until someone hears from GM.

[iPODFAN11]

PM sent.

[RAYYOU]

Originally Posted by iPODFAN11

PM sent.

Response sent.

[RAYYOU]

Just an update. Gm next day aired the rack yesterday and the dealer received and installed today. Still nothing on the seat cover. Part number 84140058. Dealer is still waiting to hear back. They had said it was shipping with the rack but it was a no show today.

[Mike J]

Is it possible all new parts are being used for production and piece parts maybe on back order?

[RAYYOU]

Still no response to me or the dealer on the seat cover. This is getting very old,
car has been in the shop since May 9.