Trucks made in STL again

[opjohnny]

I was at my local dealer and was looking at the window stickers. Low and behold it had an arch on it. They were 2500's but they were made in Missouri.

 

[TowPro]

I noticed the same thing. Everything that is coming into the dealer is from Missouri, nothing from mexico. Only problem is my new truck is sitting in mexico waiting to get shipped. Some times I think I should just order another one and hope it comes out of Missouri

 

[opjohnny]

I was wondering if the 1 tons are made in Missouri also.

 

[Jengle]

When I ordered my 04 in late 03, Tomeygun told me the 2500s were made in STL, the 3500s were Mexico. I guess that's still the case. Going to find out soon, since Dad is going to order one of his own, 3500. Another CTD in the family.

 

[CMullen]

my '05 2500 was made in santillo

 

[SThorud]

Here's a brief article in "Ward's Auto World" (Jan, '06 p. 9)



Market Drives DC's St. Louis Investment



Chrysler Group will spend $500 million next year on a new body shop and assembly line upgrades at its plants in St. Louis as part of a 4-year investment that could exceed $1 billion.



The largest share of Chrysler's investment will benefit St. Louis South Assembly, which currently builds variations of Chrysler and Dodge minivans, in the form of a new body shop capable of building products on three platforms simultaneously.



The investment coincides with the expected launch in 2007 of Chrysler's next-generation "RT" minivans, expected to be complete by the end of 2006. Frank Ewasyshyn, executive vice president-manufacturing, is mum on a Ward's report that Chrysler has a pending agreement to build minivans here for Volkswagen AG.



Ward's has learned the tooling destined for St. Louis South also will accommodate production of Chrysler minivans for the export market.



The remainder of Chrysler's investment, announced Dec. 12, will benefit St. Louis North Assembly in the form of tooling that will provide greater manufacturing flexibility and a accommodate production of an additional product, possibly a Class 4, 5 or 6 commercial truck.



St. Louis North builds Dodge Ram pickups. It will remain dedicated to production of body-on-frame vehicles Ewasyshyn says, while St. Louis South will focus on unibody designs.



Ultimately, market demand will determine how much money Chrysler spends at St. Louis after 2006, a Chrysler spokesman says.

 

[GWBourne]

umm... did i raed that right... "RT" minivans..... ?

Grant

 

[FLynes]

Jose made mine, and so far it's holding together. We'll see on Friday if mine has the dreaded ball joint disease.



Frederic

 

[Traveler]

Just a little note. In 1996 the TDR national event was held at the St. Louis assembly plant. During the plant tour they showed us a bunch of graphs and charts pretaining to initial Quality of new Dodge trucks from the (at that time) three assembly plants. St. Louis was TRYING to catch up with the Mexico plant which was way ahead of the other 2 plants.



I don't know about todays assembly plants.









Ron

 

[Edgemann55]

Your right Ron,My 2005 from Mexico is the most true truck I have ever owned new. Fit and finish were awsome. One year and 22,000 miles later not one rattle or problem.

 

[Donn]

Just a little note. In 1996 the TDR national event was held at the St. Louis assembly plant. During the plant tour they showed us a bunch of graphs and charts pretaining to initial Quality of new Dodge trucks from the (at that time) three assembly plants. St. Louis was TRYING to catch up with the Mexico plant which was way ahead of the other 2 plants.



I don't know about todays assembly plants.









Ron

I hire quite a few employees and I hate to say it, but in the construction trade, the mexican workers are hard to beat. If they understand what you want them to do most of them will work very hard and do a quality job. I just wished that they would learn to speak english.

 

[rjohnson916]

I noticed the same thing. Everything that is coming into the dealer is from Missouri, nothing from mexico. Only problem is my new truck is sitting in mexico waiting to get shipped. Some times I think I should just order another one and hope it comes out of Missouri

My 2005 2500 4x4 Q/C was made in Mexico. I've got 30K miles, never any death wobble, never any bad ball-joints, no 70 mph vibration, not one single problem with this truck at all, also I am happy with the fit & finish overall as well. Only a few parts under the truck are rusted like the driveline etc... but it's been really solid.





-Ryan

 

[opjohnny]

Mine was made in Mexico also. I was not complaining about stuff made there. I am just glad they are keeping them busy in STL. I figured once stuff was moved south it was staying. Just surprised they moved assembly back. I would like to have a MO made truck but not at the expense of quality.

 

[PWitteveen]

Afriend of mine had a house built recently. The roofing crew consisted of two white guys and 6 hispanics. The two white guys did half the garage in the time it took the 6 hispanics to do the rest of the garage and the house. House is large, over 3 thousand sq. ft.

My previous 99 Ram 1500 was built in Mexico, never had a problem with it. My 05 2500 was built there, also. I don't expect any problems with this one either.

 

[JTryles]

The '06 I just picked up is made in Mexico... .

 

[ilovetrains]

umm... did i raed that right... "RT" minivans..... ?

Grant

That is the platform designation, not a model.

 

[2Gen3Gen]

When I ordered my 04 in late 03, Tomeygun told me the 2500s were made in STL, the 3500s were Mexico. I guess that's still the case. Going to find out soon, since Dad is going to order one of his own, 3500. Another CTD in the family.

My 04 2500 4x4 and my 04. 5 3500 4x4 were both IMPORTS from Mexico.

 

[jwduke]

My 04. 5 was made at Salltillo, and no 70 mph vibrations, etc. as others have posted... ... .