[KCSpider]

it doesnt add anything new to what has been read already, but I add it mostly to keep the thread complete with all the cherokee reviews

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/suvs/1310_2014_jeep_cherokee_first_drive/

 

[CherokeeFanatic]

Read through the comments after and saw this...

Ric Foster
Sep 5, 2013
I wish all you folks that hate this thing so much would stop ordering them from the factory. It's taking me 6 to 8 weeks to get mine built and shipped to Houston.

waiting up to 2 months for a Cherokee... WOW. That's ridiculous. I swear they just finished the first shift of over 9000 Cherokee's? The wait shouldn't be that long.

 

[Fat Tony]

So lets think about it for a second. So after the production what other stages to the cherokees have to go through before they make it out to the dealerships?

 

[limey-g]

So lets think about it for a second. So after the production what other stages to the cherokees have to go through before they make it out to the dealerships?

Maybe if they are all stored somewhere you have to wait till they find yours in the middle of 9000 others.

 

[Hudsonhawk]

After production it is inspection, factory release, shipping and delivery.

inspection and factory release should not take long.
Shipping is the big unknown. If you are buying it in Toledo then it should be at the dealer the next day or two. For me it's about 10 days. On the west coast, who knows.

Lets look at how mine has progressed so far. 1 Month to the day after placing the order mine entered production. Seeing as how they are using "Just-in-time" inventory then that month was spent sending out the orders to the various suppliers and waiting to get the parts back. Then they schedule the actual production to match the parts arrival. It only spent 3 days in production before it was sent to Inspection. Without the shift issue and with shipping, it would have taken about 6 weeks from order to delivery of the one I ordered.

 

[Xphyle]

After production it is inspection, factory release, shipping and delivery.

inspection and factory release should not take long.
Shipping is the big unknown. If you are buying it in Toledo then it should be at the dealer the next day or two. For me it's about 10 days. On the west coast, who knows.

Lets look at how mine has progressed so far. 1 Month to the day after placing the order mine entered production. Seeing as how they are using "Just-in-time" inventory then that month was spent sending out the orders to the various suppliers and waiting to get the parts back. Then they schedule the actual production to match the parts arrival. It only spent 3 days in production before it was sent to Inspection. Without the shift issue and with shipping, it would have taken about 6 weeks from order to delivery of the one I ordered.

To compare, my order was keyed in on 8/22. It is now 9/25 and my vehicle is still "scheduled for production". The email I got stated that the estimated build date was 9/23, so I've missed that. I can only wonder how this latest fiasco and all the layoffs are going to delay my baby getting to me.

 

[Jeepster]

I decided to take the bull by the horns and I called the customer service line today
(877) IAM JEEP. I asked if the current layoffs would affect production of orders and the response was "what layoffs?". Really?

 

[UN4GTBL]

I decided to take the bull by the horns and I called the customer service line today
(877) IAM JEEP. I asked if the current layoffs would affect production of orders and the response was "what layoffs?". Really?

They (temporary) "layoffs" are just in response to the fact that they still need to re-flash the vehicles.

 

[develmann]

I decided to take the bull by the horns and I called the customer service line today
(877) IAM JEEP. I asked if the current layoffs would affect production of orders and the response was "what layoffs?". Really?

Those types of furloughs are not uncommon in the manufacturing industry. Plus, they never tell the people on the front lines anything. They don't want them saying something that could be misconstrued or get the company into trouble.

 

[jimmy]

I decided to take the bull by the horns and I called the customer service line today
(877) IAM JEEP. I asked if the current layoffs would affect production of orders and the response was "what layoffs?". Really?

im not totally surprised, sometimes a lot of the workers are clueless to whats going on, we actually know far more about whats going on than the front line employee's

 

[barnettd]

The production and shipping delays are not the norm of course, they are working through the technical issues of the tranny. Once it is in full swing the order-production-delivery times should normalize (in comparison with the other Jeep vehicles).