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Is this a one-off or are there reasons for why this Z07 is completed wrapped? Might standard Z06’s with the complete aero package also be shipped identically?
Let’s put aside the “it is wrapped because GM is trying to hide something” that was recently suggested, for I asked a GM rep and that is not the reason, but instead there are very positive reasons for why this picture will also not be a one-off but be future de riquere for what we will be seeing starting with every customer shipped Z07 and every standard Z06 with the aero package.
While this car is a Z07, these pictures are also a precursor of transporting the standard Z06 with a high wing aero package. But why are they doing that if, as we know it costs money to re-design a wrapper, taking two employees to put it on and should involve two more when it comes off, e.g., expenses that would not be incurred if the Z07’s high wing were shipped off the car? But the ovbiovus next question is, since there is no way to transport high wings off the car, nor inside the car, nor on the transporter itself, would there not be considerable shipping costs USPS, FedEx, or similar?
Yes there sure are. I have no idea of comparative costs for any of thoses method but I know that shipping and wrapping costs in the last paragraph is not the reason for why the Z06’s high wings (both versions) are going to be assembled onto the car within BGA, wrapped, and shipped as shown here.
This of course is a major departure from past GM practice of shipping high wings not mounted to the car while in transport. But again why are they changing what they have done for a while?
Digressing and saying thank you first… Let’s start with what I was able to learn at the Bash from a super knowledgeable BGA Manager who was a gem in his explaining how the standard Z06’s two “corner duckbill spoilers” are adjustable — and also thank this wonderful GM rep for explaining some of the answer to this thread’s second question, e.g., why are the Z06’s high wings going to be all be installed within BGA — something I just learned separately. [Had I been smarter I would have asked him that part of the question too.]
In talking with this BGA Manager, we discussed what we all know, that for the standard C8 which has the optional high wing, it was shipped off the car and then added onto it during the PDI process, though first requiring the complete removal of the rear fascia. What I learned that was new to me, but candidly not a surprise, was that in the PDI process and even more so for owners or aftermarket installed high wings, let us to be gentle say that that all of the following become more that isolated problems.
1) Not every Technician (dealership, private nor every owner) was placing the bottom edge of the rear fascia onto a piece or carpet or cardboard —with thankfully consequent, usually-unseen lower fascia paint damage (or occasionally worse). Did one ever get leaned against something and fall over at a body shop while they were doing an aftermarket install of the high wing?
2) Removal of the rear fascia can be done perfectly but it was not always done to that standard. Sometimes one person without experience would remove it themselves with less than stellar consequences including some damaged wiring, bent attaching clips, failure to re-attach all clips properly with sometimes later poor, consequent fascia to rear fender uniform appearance gaps, and other issues. Sometimes even a pair of experienced Techs did not together do it properly.
3) There is another major problem that was sometimes encountered. This issue was brought to light in a dealer video, and that is if one were removing the Z51’s standard spoiler, sometimes the paint on the top of the fascia peeled off at and beyond the standard attachment points.
For all these reasons, GM will be shipping attached all Z07 high wings and all high wings part of the Z06’s aero package, after their first being within BGA and wrapped as shown above.
Surpirse to me and perhaps to you too, if one looks closely you can see the dive planes present and also already mounted on the car. I therefore expect but I did not confirm that the dive planes and perhaps as is shown in at least one of the pictures below, the extended splitter might also be BGA installed.
Let’s put aside the “it is wrapped because GM is trying to hide something” that was recently suggested, for I asked a GM rep and that is not the reason, but instead there are very positive reasons for why this picture will also not be a one-off but be future de riquere for what we will be seeing starting with every customer shipped Z07 and every standard Z06 with the aero package.
While this car is a Z07, these pictures are also a precursor of transporting the standard Z06 with a high wing aero package. But why are they doing that if, as we know it costs money to re-design a wrapper, taking two employees to put it on and should involve two more when it comes off, e.g., expenses that would not be incurred if the Z07’s high wing were shipped off the car? But the ovbiovus next question is, since there is no way to transport high wings off the car, nor inside the car, nor on the transporter itself, would there not be considerable shipping costs USPS, FedEx, or similar?
Yes there sure are. I have no idea of comparative costs for any of thoses method but I know that shipping and wrapping costs in the last paragraph is not the reason for why the Z06’s high wings (both versions) are going to be assembled onto the car within BGA, wrapped, and shipped as shown here.
This of course is a major departure from past GM practice of shipping high wings not mounted to the car while in transport. But again why are they changing what they have done for a while?
Digressing and saying thank you first… Let’s start with what I was able to learn at the Bash from a super knowledgeable BGA Manager who was a gem in his explaining how the standard Z06’s two “corner duckbill spoilers” are adjustable — and also thank this wonderful GM rep for explaining some of the answer to this thread’s second question, e.g., why are the Z06’s high wings going to be all be installed within BGA — something I just learned separately. [Had I been smarter I would have asked him that part of the question too.]
In talking with this BGA Manager, we discussed what we all know, that for the standard C8 which has the optional high wing, it was shipped off the car and then added onto it during the PDI process, though first requiring the complete removal of the rear fascia. What I learned that was new to me, but candidly not a surprise, was that in the PDI process and even more so for owners or aftermarket installed high wings, let us to be gentle say that that all of the following become more that isolated problems.
1) Not every Technician (dealership, private nor every owner) was placing the bottom edge of the rear fascia onto a piece or carpet or cardboard —with thankfully consequent, usually-unseen lower fascia paint damage (or occasionally worse). Did one ever get leaned against something and fall over at a body shop while they were doing an aftermarket install of the high wing?
2) Removal of the rear fascia can be done perfectly but it was not always done to that standard. Sometimes one person without experience would remove it themselves with less than stellar consequences including some damaged wiring, bent attaching clips, failure to re-attach all clips properly with sometimes later poor, consequent fascia to rear fender uniform appearance gaps, and other issues. Sometimes even a pair of experienced Techs did not together do it properly.
3) There is another major problem that was sometimes encountered. This issue was brought to light in a dealer video, and that is if one were removing the Z51’s standard spoiler, sometimes the paint on the top of the fascia peeled off at and beyond the standard attachment points.
For all these reasons, GM will be shipping attached all Z07 high wings and all high wings part of the Z06’s aero package, after their first being within BGA and wrapped as shown above.
Surpirse to me and perhaps to you too, if one looks closely you can see the dive planes present and also already mounted on the car. I therefore expect but I did not confirm that the dive planes and perhaps as is shown in at least one of the pictures below, the extended splitter might also be BGA installed.
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