Right there with you! It’s a balance between wanting all their employees to be safe vs it would be so nice to get our JTs and still have some summer left to enjoy with them! If it’s any good news for you I heard they’ve been in a soft re-open since 4/14. Meaning there’s employees there still processing orders and entering build info into all their systems which gathers the parts from the necessary locations around the complex and robotically gets them all setup to go down the line so when the FULL reopen comes May 1, they’re ready to start sending orders down the line, and all units that are already sold get build priority! And you got a VIN assigned, maybe there’s someone that knows more about it than I do on here but it’s my understanding they’re not randomly generated and assigned when the order is placed, they’re assigned AFTER the order has already been processed so the ball is rolling for you. Welcome to quarantine Jeep ordering with the rest of us. The wait is awful but I have a feeling delivery day will be even THAT much better!
Do you have any insight into this? I did see that since your post, FCA is now "targeting" May 18th to open so I'm assuming your June 1 date is off now. Curious if any plant employees or others with insider info can shed some light on order expectations once the plant opens. I have one dealer in Tampa telling me they think 4 week turn around because they will be doing primarily just special orders. Another tells me expect 8 weeks turn around.
I submitted mine on a Wednesday (4/22 at 630pm EST) and had the VIN 2 days later (Friday morning 4/24)... I wonder what took so long for you?
Mine is an auto, so I might be different than you. They have been accepting orders for autos for awhile. I originally submitted on 4/14 but the dealer held it back intentionally (I wasn’t aware). I did speak with a few others that submitted on the 14th too and had VINs on the 15th.
I have a hard time believing that anything earlier than 4 weeks won’t happen. The dealer I went through does a lot of special orders and they seem to think getting a car in 4 weeks is the absolute minimum at this point.
I would imagine they’d push the re-tooling date back to ensure worker safety and fulfill previously placed orders? There’s a Jeep Toledo plant facebook page that you can see publicly. It appears an employee posted they received a robo call stating the may 4th start date was canceled, new back to work date may be may 25th.
What’s the Facebook page?
Saw the post you’re referring too and the 25th date the person posted was before FCA announced that they were targeting the 18th. I’m holding out hope that mine gets rolling down the line that day!
Couldn’t tell ya on the pushing back of retool dates, I suppose it’s possible. With everything going on I think anything is possible now. I have heard there are employees that went back already and doing some work. Like I said earlier mine is already in D and the parts have already been staged and awaiting build. So Jeep is def doing something to get us ready for the day the plant opens.
