Redbull17

That is some great productions news, especially on a Friday😎. Can we expect these daily Z06 production numbers going into 2024 even though the Eray will be in the mix by then? Thanks in advance.

smithers

All I can do is guess.. but I think any new models production will cut into any existing models production to an extent. So E-ray production will probably reduce Z06 and Stingray production to an extent. The factory can only build so many cars a day.

z28lt1

In addition to your time, I know you have to pay for infrastructure and bandwidth. Perhaps you could add a donation link or something on your site? It's super helpful and I know other similar sites have an optional donation button or something where people could contribute a few bucks here and there to help cover your costs. I'd be happy to contribute a little, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Redbull17

Makes sense. At least by then, GM will have more experience and familiarity with building the Z06 so they can keep a consistent rate.

vettesweetnos

Dates are exact or very close.

1/26/23 allocation 1/27/23 (2000) 2/1/23 accepted by production (3000)

3/8/23 TPW of 3/27 scheduled for production (3300 status)

3/28/23 broadcast (3400) 4/6/23 BUILT (3800)

4/11/23 available to ship (4000) 4/12/23 invoiced (4150)

4/14 Vehicle at Museum (5000)

smithers

Hey thanks, glad to hear you like it.

As the site grows the costs are definitely going up. I've tried to avoid doing anything like donation links or banner ads, but after today I think it's going to happen. Two weeks ago the site would see about 200-250 users per day.. maybe 1,000 page views. Nothing that can't be handled by a single small instance + small database. But about a week ago, the average day has been about 400 users and 2,500 page views. Nothing crazy, but its growing pretty quick. At 9:30am today.. the site had 100 concurrent users for a solid hour. Average user only sticks around for a few minutes, so that was more like 2-300 people in an hour. For most of the day it had 40-60 concurrent users. It was constantly adding and removing resources as needed. I won't be surprised if today lands at 1,000 total users for today...which is definitely an amount I never expected to see. So its definitely grown to something bigger than I want to keep paying out of pocket to run.

So in the next week or so some banner ads are going to show up. I hate those things but its the easiest first step in getting a site to pay its own bills. Maybe a donation link too, haven't decided yet. I'm not really trying to make money, but covering the costs would be nice haha

EDIT - Ahh... I think I found the source my all my hits today.. haha I figure a mention on CorvetteBlogger will do that: https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2023...oduction-news/

adamsocb

Hi @smithers ,
I was just looking at your dashboard on C8tracker.com and noticed the total for SRs is almost 4,000 less than the count based on VIN numbers. 70th Ann and Z06 totals are also less but not by as much. The SR recent dailies also look much lower.
Are there that many window stickers missing? If so what do you think the reason is?

Thanks,
Charles

smithers

I don't have a way to verify it without GM giving me the data, but I am 90% sure that ~3,600 or so difference is simply the non-US market cars. That's about 11% of the current Stingray production being MIA when it comes to window stickers, I think its more than plausible that they just aren't US (or Canadian) market cars. The only windows stickers that show up on GM.com are for the US and Canadian markets (and the Canadian Z06 window stickers are completely messed up.. more on that later). Any other markets stickers just never become available on GM.com.

Here's some insight into my process just so everyone can see how unlikely it is that a window sticker will go unaccounted for.

Every day, an update script runs. It goes back a set number of VINs from the current high VIN to attempt to catch any cars that had their window sticker delayed by a QC hold or anything else. It starts its search about 300 VINs back from the current high number, then keeps searching until it runs into 10 "not found" VINs in a row. Once 10 in a row are not found, its proven thru testing to be a safe time to assume we have captured to current highest available VIN.

Then once a week I run a script overnight that is intended to catch the cars that sat in a QC hold for a while. These go back deeper in the VINs (3,000 for the Stingray, 400 for the Z06.. basically I try to go back about a months worth of production with this script), then stop at the current high VIN for each model. You can tell when this script has done its thing overnight because in the morning the 'all models' vehicle list page will show a handful of cars were added with pretty random looking dates over the last week. This usually runs on sunday night, but if the GM.com site is running really slow it stops and I do it another night... this week it ran on monday for that reason.

So any VIN that doesn't have a window sticker the day after the "VIN range method" says the car is built has that window sticker searched for several times for the next month or two. So it's really unlikely that any are just missed... I'm confident they just don't exist as they aren't US or CA market cars.

I'm probably going to start running a monthly script that goes back even deeper (for the Z06's it may as well just cover the entire VIN range lol)

I will say that my site is missing recent Canadian market cars. These are a huge headache for me as they recently changed the file so my existing script doesn't work for them, and some of them are just 100% in French... so I have to write code that searches out the specific options in english and french.. not looking forward to dealing with that annoyance. This is a small number of cars and the issues just came up about a month ago. This only effects Stingrays as my Z06 data is 100% US market cars. The Canadian Z06 window stickers are really screwed up on the GM site right now... early cars just aren't available, recent cars are available but they are in the new file format. I haven't bothered with the Canadian Z06's since so many of them would be missing even if I processed every available window sticker... so its just not worth the effort. I'm really leaning toward marking the Canadian cars in my database and making my dashboard pages nothing but US market cars.

mikepage0007

is there a way to check dealer z06 orders.. i previously was able to check my dealer on matts list and it showed 1 allocation and order for my dealer up to when matt stopped updating. their order was at 3300.. want to know if they are being shady as i am number 2 and still say no allocation since 2022..even when matt stopped reporting dealer names on list, i was able to check by using their dealer number on his list

adamsocb

I don’t know if any way to check allocations before a car is built. Matt’s list picked them up at event code 3400 which is only 7-14 days before build, so not that much sooner. He also had to stop showing the dealer’s name for the last few updates. You can use Smithers site: C8tracker.com to check how many Z06s have been built for your dealer. Once you’re on the site go to Dealers, then Z06, you can search for your dealer and you will see how many they have had built through the previous day.

smithers

Looks like another good day. The VIN ranges looks like its another day in the mid-50's. WIndow stickers look like this:

Z06 - 31
70th Z06 - 7
Total - 38

Looked at the log for my script shows several window stickers just aren't available yet (didn't count them), so the typical QC hold or overseas car. Probably most likely QC.

550 Z06's for April so far. Monthly chart so pretty... lol... https://c8tracker.com/vehicles/dashboard/Z06

mikepage0007

I found that and it showit1 sale at each cwvy dealership he owns..looks to be telling truth..

adamsocb

Out of curiosity, how many MY23 Sting Rays have they had built? That should be an indicator of how many Z06 allocations to expect.

Redbull17

Wow, we could potentially see 600 Z06’s for the month of April. Are we on track for 5,000 Z06 for MY23?

Srtviper

Smithers thanks for your hard work. This tracker is very informative.
hey I saw production numbers for 4/22/23. That’s a Saturday. Is that right? The factory on ot now?

smithers

Hey glad you like it. The dates on the site are the day that the window sticker is made available. So typically the car would have been built the day before (unless there is a QC hold or something else for a particular car), so the 4/22/23 cars would have been built on friday.

Z51 John

Just looked at the tracker for the first time. great information. Thank you for doing it...

smithers

Z06 production for April passed 600 cars today. If they can manage to keep hitting about 50 cars per day, we might see 800 for the month. That just seems crazy after seeing how Feb and March went.

Window stickers for today…
45 Z06
13 70th Z06
58 total

On Sunday I had a script run thru the entire Z06 VIN range to search out any potential missed window stickers. The few it found would have been caught by my normal weekly script that doesn’t go nearly as deep in the VINs. So all the US market cars have been accounted for at this point.

adamsocb

I saw that. One of the VINs you picked up was for my dealer. Not there last week and now its there. Car was built a few weeks ago, must have been in QC. Shows the WS generated last week.

george vee

Thanks for making this website
I took a factory tour today and was lucky to see my White Pearl Anniversary #314 on the line at 1pm they said it will be finished later today