New 2026 Order

[INTIMD8R]

I still check-in at HDrams forums. Some are posting that their 2025 HDs have been delayed and might get pushed to a 2026 model. Possibly 18K vehicles were damaged in a recent hailstorm. Maybe the factory that builds the Hurricanes was affected? Can't imagine how Saltillo would otherwise affect the builds on the 1500's. Possibly "Shane" is confused on who he was actually emailing.

Yeah, that does make sense and hope that is the case. I forwarded this email to my dealership, and asked for them to look into it.
Thanks for you feedback.

 

[SATX]

Hey guy just received this email from Ram today. Interesting as it notes a 2025 but obviously getting a 2026 has correct vin#.
Just received word from my dealer August 1st had an estimated ship date of Sept 10th, but now received this stating to be built 3rd week of September due to hail storm in Mexico. I googled of course and only found that their was damage to vehicles stored there only.
Anyone else get anything like this of is Ram that I'd up?

Dont get too excited. Just the latest version of the canned bot response they send you when you complain. Here is the 2024 version, and who could forget Althea (search the forum).

 

[AnthonyRI]

Hey guy just received this email from Ram today. Interesting as it notes a 2025 but obviously getting a 2026 has correct vin#.
Just received word from my dealer August 1st had an estimated ship date of Sept 10th, but now received this stating to be built 3rd week of September due to hail storm in Mexico. I googled of course and only found that their was damage to vehicles stored there only.
Anyone else get anything like this of is Ram that I'd up?

Look at who the email is from, if it doesn't have the person's actual name in the email address, you might as well ask my dog.

 

[rameed05]

I see some Delmonico red RHO's have hit some dealer lots

 

[MattH89]

I see some Delmonico red RHO's have hit some dealer lots View attachment 16476View attachment 16477View attachment 16478View attachment 16479

Obviously subjective but I think this is one of the worst looking colors I've seen on the RHO. Would look good on other vehicles though.

 

[Ramit]

I actually love that color!

 

[AirRyan]

I see some Delmonico red RHO's have hit some dealer lots View attachment 16476View attachment 16477View attachment 16478View attachment 16479

I didn't think they opened up the order bank for Delmonico Red long enough ago for one to arrive to the dealer this soon. It's a great color, IMO. So much so that I had my dealer order a 2nd RHO in that color just in case.

My forged blue RHO is still sitting at the Kirby rail yard (NE of San Antonio) waiting for a driver wanting to make some money on a sold RHO to truck it up to my dealer, a mere 90 miles away. Not sure why the issue is there, would have thought both RAM and my dealer would want to sell a truck, and a driver would want to get paid. When I ordered my wife's 22 Lincoln Navigator, it went on rail from Louisville to Kirby, and somebody had that truck at the dealer the very next morning, unloading it as the sales guy was just getting to work. Just saying, RAM.

Here's Delmonico Red on my MY23 Rebel HD.

 

[Wrinkled_Donut]

Obviously subjective but I think this is one of the worst looking colors I've seen on the RHO. Would look good on other vehicles though.

I totally agree. I feel like growing up in the 90's, every single shitbox car was some shade of that color .

I'd imagine the take rate won't be very high, it seems like a dated color mostly older guys would be into, and older guys generally don't buy trucks like the RHO.

No offense to anyone who likes it of course, these things are highly subjective.

 

[MattH89]

I totally agree. I feel like growing up in the 90's, every single shitbox car was some shade of that color .

I'd imagine the take rate won't be very high, it seems like a dated color mostly older guys would be into, and older guys generally don't buy trucks like the RHO.

No offense to anyone who likes it of course, these things are highly subjective.

For me it just comes down to contrast. The whole design of the RHO with the black rockers, mirrors, handles, and black hood and/or side decals is going to mean that lighter colors (white and silver) look best IMO

When it's too close it just looks muddy and off. Again just my opinion.

 

[Wrinkled_Donut]

Truck arrived to the port in Pearland, TX this morning. So excited.

Mark Dodge said 7-21 days average for the truck to get to their dealership, but I'm hoping for a miracle and more like 2-3 days

 

[AirRyan]

Truck arrived to the port in Pearland, TX this morning. So excited.

Mark Dodge said 7-21 days average for the truck to get to their dealership, but I'm hoping for a miracle and more like 2-3 days

I find it interesting on RAM delivers their vehicles, in this case just the TRX and RHO, for example. I went back and searched and found numerous threads on people talking about how their TRX (and some for people with an RHO), will have their vehicles sit for 10+ days before they ultimately get delivered to their respective dealers, so 7-21 days sounds about right. Keep in mind, Mark Dodge is only about a 150 miles to the east, maybe a 2.5 hour drive, from the Pearland railyard, which is literally on the West side of Houston's Hobby airport.

I read in some TRX forums where their truck wouldn't start at the railyard, and so it got delayed being delivered to their dealer until they could get it jumpstarted. That sounds nuts.

My RHO has been sitting at the Kirby railyard (NE os San Antonio) since at least last Monday; could have been there days sooner for all I know. What I do know is that plenty of MY26 RHO's have been getting delivered to local dealers, as evident by even a cursory search with just RAM.com's own inventory finder. Now I've ordered multiple vehicles before, from multiple manufacturers, and everyone has their own slightly different way of doing it. RAM (CDRJ), does things a little differently in that they will give you a VIN days after you submit your order; they don't go down the line in sequential order. Corvette is polar opposite in that once GM accepts the order from your dealer, you won't get a VIN until GM lines up all their supplies and materials at Bowling Green, and only once it is later accepted for production, are you given a VIN. They can only put so many convertibles together, so many wide bodies together, because they take a little longer to assemble and they don't want the line to come to a stop, so there are lot of variables in how they sequence their builds.

Given that we know RAM doesn't produce vehicles in sequence by VIN, it's a little more difficult to track when a vehicle is actually produced, where as in the Corvette forums, you can narrow down to the day when a Corvette is built, just by it's VIN. And of course, Corvette's are not put on rail any longer; they are shipped from Bowling Green, on their own truck, straight to a dealer. A truck might have more than one dealer's worth of Corvettes, but that's okay. If they are multiple dealers, the trucks are sent out with some sort of efficient plan so they aren't wasting time and miles.

So once I heard from my dealer last Monday that my RHO was actually already sitting at the railyard, in Kirby at that, just 90 miles away, I thought it could be at the dealer any time last week. Turns out, the dealers have zero idea of when they will receive their shipments, and from what I gathered in TRX forums on the subject, even if they wanted to know on a specific vehicle every now and then for a "discerning" customer, the process is not setup so that they can even inquire.

All the dealers can apparently see are the status codes, which KC X means ultimately delivered to the dealer, but prior to that, they might see KZ M for "first rail departure, in transit on rail car," KZ N for "in transit first rail arrival" (Pearland for me,) and then KZ U "Second rail car arrival" (here at Kirby.) Apparently, the dealers won't see KC X until they see the vehicle on their lot, which blows my mind. I asked the dealer if he could turn on the vehicle tracker since the dealer was already invoiced for the vehicle at KZ before it ever even got onto the railcar, but they said they did not have the ability to do that. There uesed to be folks with C8's they ordered from their dealers, who got their dealers to turn on the trackers before they even left the Bowling Green plant, and some would start their cars or honk the horns, and so I beleive GM shut down that ability. If you were doing a Corvette Museuem delivery, you would pay your dealer when it was invoiced to them, and so by the time it got across the street from the plant to the museum, you could now track your own vehicle unitl you ultimaely took delivery of it.

What also has blown my mind is that I have seen some of these other MY26 RHO's that have already been delivered to local dealers, with VIN's and VON's that came after mine. Why would RAM send unsold units to dealers, further away from my own dealer, who were ordered later than my vehicle? That doesn't make any sense. Not sure if that is a RAM thing or the 3rd party trucking companies doing the deliveries, but they should be delivering SOLD units first, and unallocated units after that. That's all I can say.

I'm sure my truck will be in this week and it's really not a big deal at all, until you learn the vehicle you ordered is just a 90 minute drive away, sitting in a railyard, waiting for some unmotivated, lacidaisal process to make the final connection in the entire complex shipping process, a task that the ultimate end-user is the one paying 100% of the cost. A more logical process and a little more transparency would go a long way.

 

[JP1]

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Truck is estimated to arrive at Pearland TX on 8/16. Does anyone know approximately how long it takes to arrive at Mark Dodge once it hits Pearland?

Mine took 4 days

 

[AirRyan]

Mine took 4 days

4 days... that's sweet. Today marks a week that I know of, that the RHO has been sitting 90 miles away at the railyard.

Logged into my tracker this morning, and the "estimated delivery" has actually moved back a week to September 5th. It must have took a dump at the railyard and got damaged; what else am I to assume? 1.5 hours away.

Not sure about this one.

 

[Wrinkled_Donut]

4 days... that's sweet. Today marks a week that I know of, that the RHO has been sitting 90 miles away at the railyard.

Logged into my tracker this morning, and the "estimated delivery" has actually moved back a week to September 5th. It must have took a dump at the railyard and got damaged; what else am I to assume? 1.5 hours away.

Not sure about this one.

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That's very interesting, I wonder what happened. Hopefully just a delay and nothing serious. Mine is still showing August 28th, which would be 12 days from arrival at the port which is pretty much right in line with what Mark Dodge said. Still hoping I'll get lucky like @JP1 and get a call the middle of this week that my truck has arrived.

 

[Bmcwhorter14]

my level 0 arrived at Koons on the 11th, picked it up Saturday. In production Jul 1, built Jul 16, and shipped on Jul 19.

 

[Mikey Swift]

Obviously subjective but I think this is one of the worst looking colors I've seen on the RHO. Would look good on other vehicles though.

Agree...this is the 'headed to the bingo hall' color.

 

[Mikey Swift]

my level 0 arrived at Koons on the 11th, picked it up Saturday. In production Jul 1, built Jul 16, and shipped on Jul 19.

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The only thing we all want to know is........are you running 87 or 91!?????

 

[Bmcwhorter14]

The only thing we all want to know is........are you running 87 or 91!?????

Don't worry, I was bullied into running 93.

 

[Wrinkled_Donut]

Has anyone tried to add their vehicle to the Ram app to try and follow it on the map during delivery? I tried to add the vehicle by vin, and it says to call an agent to finish adding the vehicle.

 

[RAM-Ranch-MT]

Has anyone tried to add their vehicle to the Ram app to try and follow it on the map during delivery? I tried to add the vehicle by vin, and it says to call an agent to finish adding the vehicle.

Last year, Some of us were lucky enough to get the truck added to the app before it was delivered to dealer. I had mine on the app for 3 months while it sat at the factory and finally was delivered. After me and a few others had success, ram cracked down on it and wouldnt let their reps add the truck to the app unless it had been delivered to dealership.

It was kind of cool to track my truck through the factory and delivery but also painful. doubt you will have any luck now.