Colorado, Canyon to get Updated Tachometers

Chevrolet plans to quietly fix a mistake it made in the mid-size Colorado and Canyon.

General Motors advertises that models equipped with the 3.6-liter direct injection V6 make 305 hp at 6,800 RPM, but the tachometer those trucks are equipped with shows a redline at 6,500 RPM. James Bearing sent an e-mail to several automotive outlets after noticing that the Colorado he recently bought seemed to advertise the ability to make more power than it actually does. In the message, he said Chevrolet hadn’t responded to his inquiries.

Today General Motors truck spokesman Tom Wilkinson said in an e-mail that “the graphics on the cluster of the trucks are slightly off. The redline is 6800, which is where the rev limiter is set. We are updating the graphics on future trucks.”

Wilkinson also included a copy of the power curves from the SAE certification that the Colorado underwent, but didn’t say exactly when GM will implement the correction.

Stephen Elmer contributed to this report