I ordered fully loaded GW3 in midnight blue with 2k deposit placed on 11/09/2021.
Got the VON and VIN from the dealer on 11/19.
Was told two weeks ago by WCS that it is in D1, but no build date or ship date. Dealer confirmed D1 last week and said they expected it at the beginning of Feb (which was hysterical because that convo was on 1/31).
I figure I’ll be lucky to have it in April and won’t be surprised if it’s late summer.
Last year, we ordered a JLU 392 in Nov and took delivery July 9 (after a two hour fight on a 30k addendum the dealer sprung on us). We won, but that stunt cost him the order on the GS3. Sad, because we’d bought 7 other cars from them in the last 10 yrs. I shopped around for 4 months until we settled on another tiny dealer 100 miles await that promised msrp. Sold my 2017 Audi Q7 to carvana rather than trade with the 392 dealer. Will be trading our 2017 JKU Rubicon Recon for the GW.
FWIW, my Q7 was in the shop all the time. A week after we got it home we discovered a huge paint bubble under the hood. That took a week at the body shop. Fuel rails were recalled and that took a week. I had a rock hit the windshield and they had to replace it 4 times - it kept leaking. The second replacement the scratched the hood, so back to body it went again. Then the electronics for heads-up display and ACC went haywire (pretty sure they got wet with one of the leaks). There was something wrong with the alignment. That car burned through drivers side front tires at an unbelievable pace. Always showed to spec and I rotated every 3k miles, but there was def a toe issue with that car. I kept it for the massage seats and the massage in the GW demo we looked at last year blew my Audi’s away.
Oh - and there is a 392 group where a guy tracks every Wrangler VIN, but particularly 392s. They were unable to find a pattern in production or sequencing with 3500 392 VINs tracked. Appears it’s all a crapshoot. Happy hunting everyone!