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Mine is 410xxxx became open yesterday 5/31/2022

Do you have possession of yours or is it on the dealer lot?

Mine is 4113xxx, still 'unsold' dealer stock and status says “Incomplete. Limited or no parts available”

Most of what I've read suggests the dealer stock is being prioritized over 2022's in the wild, and oldest build dates are eligible for replacements first. Meaning that once a dealer stock '22 with a VIN just below yours qualifies, yours should be eligible soon. Anyone else willing to share their 4th last digit so we can keep better track?

 

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I'm not sure on the release schedule, but the last list of eligible VINs was released on June 21st. I'll check next week to see if a new list gets released. Doesn't appear to be on a schedule of any sorts.

What's the deal with this 'list'? Is it something the dealers or public have access to or do you have to ask a concierge about it?

 

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Looks like another small batch of '22 dealer models became eligible today, mostly N4108 VINs, all US, no Canada. Seems to be slowing down a bit, maybe due to delays in shipping or slow swaps at the dealers.

Tuesdays appear to be when the status changes.

Hopefully they'll add more later in the day, the number I've seen so far seems really small, at this pace they'll be selling 2023 models before they finish with the 22's.

 

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Where do you get the numbers of 2022's that become eligible?

I just got a sampling off of the Chevy website's inventory section (cars.com has similar info and the VINs waiting for batteries seem to come up first in the search there). Set up a list with links to the recall site so I can check with a few quick clicks.

 

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Yeah. My 2022 sitting on the lot has been there since last July. Still waiting on a battery. Dealer has no batteries. All used cars done in our area. All but the dealer stock. And can't get a battery as they have to go to the new ones I guess.

... isn't the assembly plant shut down until at least the 21st, though, for the model year switch-over, as @SpicyBolt noted? Because of that, there should be lots of packs available for the dealer cars over the next couple of weeks.

That being said, I haven't seen any new VINs come up recently. My spidey senses are telling me tomorrow is going to be the day for a lot of us who are still waiting.

 

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Fingers crossed for tomorrow....

It seems to me like a new batch of '22 dealer VINs turns to 'open' or 'incomplete' every 2nd Wednesday, and the last I spotted was July 6, so tomorrow is my barely educated guess on this. Will update with stats tomorrow if I see any movement.

I'm tempted to write a script to automate checking all the outstanding VINs and provide everyone with the real-time transparency that GM won't...
but since I don't really know how to 'write a script', I've just set up Visualping: #1 Website change detection, monitoring and alerts to alert me if my recall status changes.

 

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That's great, I'm impressed & looking forward to trying it out!

If you're open to suggestions for features, I was thinking it would be good to be able to set a flag to track dealer stock and owner-held 2022 models separately.

The other thing would be to calculate stats on what % / # of the cars on the list change status every day so that we can estimate the rate of swaps.

Thanks!!

 

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1G1FY6S04N4111274 was moved to closed status on 7/6 if you want to test with that one, it just shows no active recall now.

I was thinking if we have a list of say, 200 vehicles, and on 7/6, 20 of them switched from 'limited parts' or similar (no battery available) to 'open' or similar (battery available) and 15 of them switched to 'no recall' (swap complete), then it would log the following:
- 7/6/2022:
-20 out of 200 vehicles (10%) were allocated batteries
-15 out of 200 vehicles (7.5%) had battery swaps completed

That way, after a few updates we can see if the replacements are speeding up or slowing down.

This is a great tool, thanks so much for putting in the work and sharing it with us!

 

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So I added my list to the tracker and made a summary for the dealer stock, see below. A few points to note:

• The starting point is this week, so it doesn't include any vehicles with finished swaps yet. Based on the recent NHTSA report, likely around 1000 dealer stock vehicles have already been done.
• This sample represents about 10-15% of the outstanding dealer stock, enough to give a rough idea of how they are progressing overall.
• The summary implies that swaps in the 4112xxx+ VINs haven't started yet, but that's not the case, I've seen a few 4112's and 4113's get done over the last month or so. There just happen to be no open ones in our sample.

VIN bin	Total sample	No battery (#)	No battery (%)	Open (#)	Open (%)	Swap complete (#)	Swap complete (%)
4100	5	0	0.0%	5	100.0%	0	0.0%
4100	5	0	0.0%	5	100.0%	0	0.0%
4101	2	0	0.0%	2	100.0%	0	0.0%
4102	7	1	14.3%	6	85.7%	0	0.0%
4103	14	1	7.1%	13	92.9%	0	0.0%
4104	15	2	13.3%	13	86.7%	0	0.0%
4105	27	0	0.0%	27	100.0%	0	0.0%
4106	15	0	0.0%	15	100.0%	0	0.0%
4107	35	4	11.4%	31	88.6%	0	0.0%
4108	22	7	31.8%	15	68.2%	0	0.0%
4109	22	19	86.4%	3	13.6%	0	0.0%
4110	24	21	87.5%	3	12.5%	0	0.0%
4111	19	17	89.5%	2	10.5%	0	0.0%
4112	25	25	100.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
4113	19	19	100.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
4114	6	6	100.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
4115	0	0
4116	1	1	100.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Total #	258	123	47.7%	135	52.3%	0	0.0%

Spot any trends?

 

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Note that a valid Bolt VIN for a car where the recall remedy has been done will show no recall on the GM web site. I.e. a car with the recall that is open will see the recall disappear after the battery is replaced.

It may be worth retaining such VINs and displaying them as "remedy complete or not recalled".

@sir3lit's excellent tracker is showing a few of those were marked as completed today:

Bolt Recall Tracker

bolt.areyouscared.dev

 

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Looks like another batch of dealer vehicles just flipped to 'open' yesterday.

Including mine, an N4113 VIN!

At my dealership in Vancouver, 3 out of 8 vehicles just became eligible for new batteries, and oddly enough they are the highest VIN numbers (latest build dates). Seems a bit random.

So for those still waiting, take heart: your number could come up any day.

 

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Are they all EUV's

7 out of 8 are EUVs, mix of LT and premier. The lone EV just switched to 'open' along with 2 LT EUVs.

 

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I'm confused, I thought the status had to be "Open" to order a battery.

Some websites show 'open', others 'incomplete' (eg the Canada recall site). Both mean the same thing, a battery is available.

Update on my dealer stock 2022: switched to 'open' 8/22, confirmed swap with dealer a couple days later, switched to 'no recall' 9/2, dealer says ready for pickup 9/9 (this Friday!). So less than 3 weeks start to finish.