Jeep Wrangler Production Halted Due To Parts Shortage

You can see shiny new vehicles waiting to meet customers in showrooms everyday. However, a long list of events has to occur in order for a vehicle to reach a dealership floor. The parts and components that are used to make it have to be built and shipped to the assembly plant(s) where the car comes to life. Then the vehicle is born and sent to the dealership. And this is just one version of the process.

As you can imagine, such a complex task can lead to various problems. One example that demonstrates this comes from the Chrysler Group, which has suspended production at the Toledo, Ohio plants that brings the Jeep Wrangler to the world on Thursday, as Reuters reports.

The production was halted due to a parts shortage that was caused by storms which struck Mexico shipments. Chrysler is currently evaluating the situation, watching the parts shipments. The American company is weighing different options and has not decided if production at the site will be resumed today.

However, the problem should not affect the SUV’s sales, as the company had built a large stock of Wranglers. This will allow it to keep sending vehicles to dealers so that the customers are not affected by the issue.

"We have an ample supply of Wranglers," a company spokesperson was quoted as saying by the aforementioned source.

The spokesperson also told Reuters that other Chrysler plants are temporally shut down for the regularly scheduled maintenance (this is a summer shutdown that lasts for two weeks) and therefore were not affected by the shipping issue.

autoevolution has tested the Jeep Wrangler. You can read the review here.