2026 allocation

[shbox]

Plenty of resources out there that state this, particularly from the Corvette guys. Here's one. About a minute in he starts discussing order submission and plainly states that a lot of dealers don't believe in submitting orders until they have allocation.

In a common sense world you'd be correct but the GM ordering process is byzantine.

He actually backs up what I am saying. His wording may be a little confusing saying that DOSP is when they "submit" orders, but he also says this is the time they "enter" any orders (allocations) given to them by GM. Meaning they take their list of orders and apply allocations to them.

He also says when you send him your spec, he inputs them into GM Workbench and it enters status 1100 (which means order placed) and is what happens at a dealer if you sit down in front of them.

Dealers must send forecasts to GM for them to determine what the factory is looking at to supply. A dealer, based on their sales history, might include a forecast of potential customer orders, but I find it very unlikely that they would hold a customer's spec and not enter it into GM Workbench until the Thursday release of allocations. That would be taking a big chance and they might have to burn a stock order allocation to fulfill the order.

 

[AdamUCF]

He actually backs up what I am saying. His wording may be a little confusing saying that DOSP is when they "submit" orders, but he also says this is the time they "enter" any orders (allocations) given to them by GM. Meaning they take their list of orders and apply allocations to them.

He also says when you send him your spec, he inputs them into GM Workbench and it enters status 1100 (which means order placed) and is what happens at a dealer if you sit down in front of them.

Dealers must send forecasts to GM for them to determine what the factory is looking at to supply. A dealer, based on their sales history, might include a forecast of potential customer orders, but I find it very unlikely that they would hold a customer's spec and not enter it into GM Workbench until the Thursday release of allocations. That would be taking a big chance and they might have to burn a stock order allocation to fulfill the order.

Dealers have from Thursday til Saturday to submit orders. Then they can still swap or update them through til Tuesday. If Thursday rolls around and they don't have any orders in they still get allocation, they just need to have an order matched to the allocation by Saturday. Besides, they could have 20 orders in and none be buildable due to constraints.

The forecasts are independent of orders being put in and the DOSP process, that's all part of consensus.

Regardless of whether I'm right about allocation with no existing orders or not, dealers routinely do not submit orders to 1100 until they get allocation. I think the main reason (not that I agree with it) is they don't want to get customers hopes up, especially since constraints can make it somewhat meaningless. In addition to the video, I called over 20 dealers in Florida and I'm on several lists without an actual order submitted. There's no hard fast rule that says dealers must put in customer orders in advance. Someone on here found a dealer with an active allocation and got their order in on a Monday and accepted at the same time (I assume the dealer had a stock order in that they swapped out).

 

[shbox]

Whatever works. When cars were extremely hard to get years ago, people on this forum had orders sitting at 1100 at multiple dealers. They took the first one that was able to be fulfilled and canceled the others after. I did that myself with 2 dealers. I had the order number in hand from both places. Personally, I would not be confident if a dealer took my spec and did not input it as an order.

 

[RDATLTE]

I don't believe that is accurate. As I understand it, there has to be an order before an allocation can be given. Allocations are parsed based on the orders in the system at the time. It would make no sense to give a coveted allocation to a dealer that has no order waiting to get one.

I don't believe that is accurate. Allocations are based on previous sales not orders in the system. I doubt that dealer orders for inventory are built prior to receiving an allocation.

 

[ToniCipriani]

Sales guy texted me, said will have an update for me next week. I wonder if it was because I was playing with the chatbot too much and it somehow alerted him, lol.

 

[mrpaw]

My TPW is 7/28. Anyone know timelines or general estimates after that?

My's a 4BW with no carbon, but I was six weeks between build date and delivery to the dealer.

 

[shbox]

I don't believe that is accurate. Allocations are based on previous sales not orders in the system. I doubt that dealer orders for inventory are built prior to receiving an allocation.

I know this , but perhaps my wording on that was confusing or erroneous, now that I read it back, LOL. I will go back and remove the offending sentence.

 

[V-man]

My's a 4BW with no carbon, but I was six weeks between build date and delivery to the dealer.

I’ll take it.

 

[leres]

In my case I first talked to Dustin at Sewell in February 2024. I wanted CF and at that point he had "50-60" waiting for CF. In June, 2024, I got word that I was #26 on the wait list. In December, 2024 I got word that I was in the "top 5" on the list.

In March, 2025 (a Tuesday) Dustin called saying he had an allocation for me. My order status went to 3000 that day. That day I had him make one change (while it was still possible -- CA emissions, perhaps an unnecessary change given the 50 state emissions status).

There were different TPWs projected over the next month, the last was for late May. The car ended up being produced the week before that TPW (perhaps a side effect of how late it was in the MY25 production cycle).

It shipped about two weeks later. Instead of rail, it went via truck (which saved transport time over rail.

The order that ended up being mine was entered into GM workbench in August of 2024. It was "retail stock" (status 1100) order. The day my allocation came up, the order was changed from "retail stock" to "sold order" and the options were changed to match what I wanted. So I think the Sewell approach to ordering is to enter stock orders and change any of them they can to sold orders but in the end they always have have orders in the system to match up with any allocations they get. (High volume dealers never let allocations go unused!)