2017-18 Wrangler (JK, JL, JT) Toledo Assembly Plant Schedule

Is there any updated info for this? A dealer just told me he can't (or maybe won't?) place a factory order.

 

According to the main compilation info thread order banks won't open until Oct-Nov at earliest. No dealer can place an order until order bank opens.

http://www.jlwranglerforums.com/for...l-jlu-and-2019-pickup-jt-info-compilation.21/

 

The 2018 JK Order Banks are open in Canada, opening in the US next week according to inside sources.

As mentioned by Joker, the JL/JLU order banks don't open until November.

The JT Order Banks won't open until mid 2018 at the earliest, and likely much later than that.

 

Why are other pages like road and track saying that the JT production will not be until late 2019? So who has the correct info

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a32822/jeep-wrangler-pickup-late-2019/

 

Likely R&T got it wrong, especially basing it on a 'Detroit' News article coming outta Texas, that's like a Salsa coming outta New York City !!

Better sources are the Detroit Free Press or better yet, the Toledo Blade, they actually have feet on the ground where the vehicles are made.

More likely JT released in Late 2018 as a 2019 model year truck.

Think it out.

The JT production line will start in the same plant as the current JK after re-tooling.

The JK ceases production by about May of next year (due to regulation changes they can't make a single North American one after April). So they might stay open for a month more or so for export vehicles, but that's highly unlikely (why delay a much anticipated JT to sell vehicles you have to pay thousands of dollar to get to market?).

So then they need to retool the plant for the JT, now a typical mild retooling takes about 3 months, the JL retooling is a little more since it needed a little more structural changes. However the JT could very well use some exisiting JK line, maybe not. So let be generous and give the JT retooling also 4 months.

That means, even if the plant closes at the end of May instead of end of April, then it takes June, July, August, September to retool the plant. Now even if there is an additional one month delay, let's throw in October as a buffer, then they start producing in November. Now even a delay of a month to 'build capacity' (which they don't really do, but let's pretend) then at the longest schedule, they are bringing out the JT in December of 2018, which is late 2018 and a long way away from late 2019.

Now even if you were to throw in an extra month to worship the Gods, at the latest you're into January, ie First thing 2019, not late 2019.

Things can still happen, and as el'Aurence said 'Nothing is Written!' but it would take about a year of delays, not just a few months, for the JT to start production in late 2019.