PUNK'N Gladiator JT Club

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I believe that's referred to as being fashionably late.

Cheers!

Got this text tonight!! Forgot I even signed up for text alerts the day after ordering. Tracker still just shows “Scheduled”, but figure it will update in a day or two.

also saw this gem in downtown Boston tonight:

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Tracker is updated!!

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[Pedal Metal]

Got this text tonight!! Forgot I even signed up for text alerts the day after ordering. Tracker still just shows “Scheduled”, but figure it will update in a day or two.

also saw this gem in downtown Boston tonight:

Holy Moly, 1/6/24! Wow, that's seems a bit punishing to have to wait until then, but you will have a pretty uncommon Punk'n in the end.

So, something to consider given you ETA of 1/6/24, rebates tend to be best towards the end of the month.

In fact, I've kinda been in those late first week of the month shoes before. Now, I realize that you're likely chomping at the bit, but just consider this. You have 15'ish days to take delivery and be protected in your price lock. Now, grant it, you might have been locked on super great rebates, so buoy for you. Still, financing rebates couldn't be locked in the past, so that might get better. So, if rebates roll back that first week, and they may until the marketing reps, determine how much they want to fund discount to unload remaining '23's. Thus, you might see rebates fall off the first few days of January to only come back to less than, the same or more than what they were at the end of December. For instance, my past '22 Mojave came in on an order and I took possession on 6/4 - 6/7/22 and the rebates in my area didn't pop up until about 6/14/22. In fact, I asked the sales manager to ask his rep if they would be rebating in June and he said they were holding back for a while. Then, boom, it might have been $1K - $1.5K that I popped in the end of week 2 and I missed out on. So, just saying that buying at the beginning of the month doesn't usually give you the most favorable spread of rebates.

Best of luck and cheers!

 

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Holy Moly, 1/6/24! Wow, that's seems a bit punishing to have to wait until then, but you will have a pretty uncommon Punk'n in the end.

So, something to consider given you ETA of 1/6/24, rebates tend to be best towards the end of the month.

In fact, I've kinda been in those late first week of the month shoes before. Now, I realize that you're likely chomping at the bit, but just consider this. You have 15'ish days to take delivery and be protected in your price lock. Now, grant it, you might have been locked on super great rebates, so buoy for you. Still, financing rebates couldn't be locked in the past, so that might get better. So, if rebates roll back that first week, and they may until the marketing reps, determine how much they want to fund discount to unload remaining '23's. Thus, you might see rebates fall off the first few days of January to only come back to less than, the same or more than what they were at the end of December. For instance, my past '22 Mojave came in on an order and I took possession on 6/4 - 6/7/22 and the rebates in my area didn't pop up until about 6/14/22. In fact, I asked the sales manager to ask his rep if they would be rebating in June and he said they were holding back for a while. Then, boom, it might have been $1K - $1.5K that I popped in the end of week 2 and I missed out on. So, just saying that buying at the beginning of the month doesn't usually give you the most favorable spread of rebates.

Best of luck and cheers!

Thanks for the advice! Yeah, not the optimal timing, but it is what it is. I locked in the friends and family 10%off msrp back in August. Not the absolute best deal, but it’s something. I almost went to Tri City to save more, but logistically it just wasn’t worth it to me. I’ll be happy paying what I agreed to back then, anything extra will be icing on the cake, but I’m not expecting to get that lucky.

 

[gwl421]

Thanks for the advice! Yeah, not the optimal timing, but it is what it is. I locked in the friends and family 10%off msrp back in August. Not the absolute best deal, but it’s something. I almost went to Tri City to save more, but logistically it just wasn’t worth it to me. I’ll be happy paying what I agreed to back then, anything extra will be icing on the cake, but I’m not expecting to get that lucky.

Congratulations. Are you officially the last one of us in the 2023 Punk'n Great Wait? It's worth it. Loving mine so far.

 

[flycast209]

Congratulations. Are you officially the last one of us in the 2023 Punk'n Great Wait? It's worth it. Loving mine so far.

Mine is sitting in a rail yard 4 hours away. Uggh.

 

[Chucker23]

I got this Friday. I’m excited and nervous. Quality generally goes down this time of year because people just aren’t focused on the task at hand with the holidays going on. At least that’s what i see in my business.

 

[ErylFlynn]

I got this Friday. I’m excited and nervous. Quality generally goes down this time of year because people just aren’t focused on the task at hand with the holidays going on. At least that’s what i see in my business.

Dam are the 24s not going to show until summer? Sounds like they will be rolling 23s for a while to come.

 

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I got this Friday. I’m excited and nervous. Quality generally goes down this time of year because people just aren’t focused on the task at hand with the holidays going on. At least that’s what i see in my business.

My thoughts exactly, having lived in manufacturing for the better part of 20 years... and I dreaded having a truck built starting on any day other than Tues, Wed, or Thurs. Oh well, it is what it is! Thats what we have a warranty for I suppose.

Funny, we had the same exact scheduled and production dates. The hold up must have been something Mojave related... Crazy that your delivery date is at the end of January, that seems odd. Seems like they always estimate ~3 weeks from when production starts and generally for most it seems that its quicker than that. Wonder what gives...

 

[kauffmj1]

My thoughts exactly, having lived in manufacturing for the better part of 20 years... and I dreaded having a truck built starting on any day other than Tues, Wed, or Thurs. Oh well, it is what it is! Thats what we have a warranty for I suppose.

Funny, we had the same exact scheduled and production dates. The hold up must have been something Mojave related... Crazy that your delivery date is at the end of January, that seems odd. Seems like they always estimate ~3 weeks from when production starts and generally for most it seems that its quicker than that. Wonder what gives...

I got this Friday. I’m excited and nervous. Quality generally goes down this time of year because people just aren’t focused on the task at hand with the holidays going on. At least that’s what i see in my business.

I worried about the same thing since mine got shipped out just before the strike. Was mine put together with every UAW member half paying attention and dying to walk off the line? Who knows? So far the wheels haven't fallen off yet. LOL.

So what do we have? 3 guys left in here waiting for Punkn JTs to arrive? I can't wait for you guys to all have them. The Mojave is actually my wife's vehicle, but I love that thing. Its making it tough to pour money into the offroad JKU when I want to toss a 2in AEV lift and 35s on hers! I did at least buy the Rubicon metal front bumper and a Warn EVO10S winch along with some rear bed sliders for it. So its got some mods coming if it will stop snowing and warm up a little for a weekend install project.

 

[Pedal Metal]

I worried about the same thing since mine got shipped out just before the strike. Was mine put together with every UAW member half paying attention and dying to walk off the line? Who knows? So far the wheels haven't fallen off yet. LOL.

So what do we have? 3 guys left in here waiting for Punkn JTs to arrive? I can't wait for you guys to all have them. The Mojave is actually my wife's vehicle, but I love that thing. Its making it tough to pour money into the offroad JKU when I want to toss a 2in AEV lift and 35s on hers! I did at least buy the Rubicon metal front bumper and a Warn EVO10S winch along with some rear bed sliders for it. So its got some mods coming if it will stop snowing and warm up a little for a weekend install project.

I went to Detroit for the '23 North American Auto Int. Auto Show and struck up a conversation with a guy looking over body lines on a Ranger or Maverick. Anyways, he told me he was an auto worker at Ford, but he'd been at another mfgr. prior. Well, as we were talking I asked him as courteously as I could about his impression of the team morale and employee sentiment when it comes to quality. He explained something along the lines that employees have a lot of pride in what they do, but what's gotten hard for them is the lower level of quality in parts. I asked him what he meant by that and he offered an example from his area where he works to somehow package or ship parts to the line. Anyways, some of the body panels have gotten so thin that just picking up certain panels can damage them. So, they have to take great care with a great many things so much of the time or they may otherwise damage. So, many co-works feel like they're working with lower quality parts and believe they get blamed for problems in the design of the parts. In reflection of that, I'm both a little prouder and sadder in American Manufacturing. Still, it really was a good experience to listen to him and see the pride that he had in looking at something he had a hand in building.

So, I can't say that level of auto worker pride extend to all UAW's or plants, but I just couldn't help myself from sharing a glimpse into what I learned from him.

 

[kauffmj1]

I went to Detroit for the '23 North American Auto Int. Auto Show and struck up a conversation with a guy looking over body lines on a Ranger or Maverick. Anyways, he told me he was an auto worker at Ford, but he'd been at another mfgr. prior. Well, as we were talking I asked him as courteously as I could about his impression of the team morale and employee sentiment when it comes to quality. He explained something along the lines that employees have a lot of pride in what they do, but what's gotten hard for them is the lower level of quality in parts. I asked him what he meant by that and he offered an example from his area where he works to somehow package or ship parts to the line. Anyways, some of the body panels have gotten so thin that just picking up certain panels can damage them. So, they have to take great care with a great many things so much of the time or they may otherwise damage. So, many co-works feel like they're working with lower quality parts and believe they get blamed for problems in the design of the parts. In reflection of that, I'm both a little prouder and sadder in American Manufacturing. Still, it really was a good experience to listen to him and see the pride that he had in looking at something he had a hand in building.

So, I can't say that level of auto worker pride extend to all UAW's or plants, but I just couldn't help myself from sharing a glimpse into what I learned from him.

Interesting. Thanks for the share. I worked closely with GM and Ford back in the early 2000s and even back then suppliers were complaining how the OEMs keep pushing them to source cheaper and cheaper components. Sounds like things haven’t exactly improved in 25 years.

As for the UAW folks back then, it seemed to vary by plant. Some had a ton of pride in what they did while others seemed to do everything they could to not work and cause problems. I would agree there is blame to be shared on both sides of the aisle.

I hear from a lot of repair shops too that replacement parts are garbage now too. They get blamed for shoddy work when the water pump or electronic component was defective right out of the box.

 

[Beast71]

Ok, I think I see what it is now. If you try to extrapolate the distance that the front facing wheel is from the edge of the grass-line compared to where the rear facing wheel is to its relative grass-line you'll see the front wheel is further away compared to that of the rear wheel which is no doubt closer. However the Moja still sorta looks parallel, but it's really not. So, this is some kind of crazy parabolic effect or whatever the term is, but I think we can agree that there is some kind of camera voodoo at play.

Again, past experience of examing my own blackhole of photo anomalies has led me down this type of rabbit hole before. So, wade right in, the water is warm.

I hadn't even noticed that the hill behind it does make it appear really raked! Photos can be very deceiving sometimes.

 

[ErylFlynn]

Should have my Punkn Mojave delivered to me tomorrow, but while looking out of curiosity is around found there is a diesel punkn willys up in Vancouver Washington, or at least will be, shows in transit. If anyone is looking for one that might be ultra rare.

 

[ErylFlynn]

It is official, joined the club today.

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[Chucker23]

It is official, joined the club today.

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She is a beaut! I personally really like having the black fenders and top on the Punkin. It breaks up the brightness a little. That’s how I ordered mine but I also added the black grill and hood decal. Looks like your son has his eye on this already!

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