Steve JLUR
Well-Known Member
The term “Ship Date” is highly misunderstood here. I am not an authority, but after much reading here, and my own experience, I believe that the “Ship Date” on the Priced Order Confirmation (POC) is the date Jeep is planning to be done BUILDING your Jeep. That only encompass the first three steps: framing, paint and trim. Then it goes to an assembly stage where vendor accessories are added/installed. Then it will have some level of inspection. Then it might go to an actual location for shipping. The actual shipping stage has a lot of components in it that are very opaque, because they aren’t, or can’t be explained by your dealer or Jeep Chat. And to make it even more maddening Jeep Chat will no longer give you the code for the status in which your Jeep currently resides. Then there is the whole mishegaas of the actual shipping process. That is a little better, actually, because your dealer can track that geographically. But you have to ask.Darn...Hopefully that doesn't happen. My dealer had a ship date and that was yesterday so I'm asking him now if it did ship. Hopefully he comes back with a yes. I think this part depends maybe on how far you are. I'm hoping since I'm only 2.5 hrs away, like 150 miles getting it here wont be hard. I think they may even use the trucks and not the rail.
And there you have my synopsis of the Jeep ordering, strike that, waiting process…