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Fellow Canadian's Who Ordered a Hellcat

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I was just wondering if anyone has an update on the status of their HC who got a VON when ordered? I ordered July 23 when my dealer call and said he was able to place an order. I called my dealer on Friday and he said no change in status still in B something status. Dealer has been family owned for over 55 years and has a Five Star Status (highest quality service rating awarded by Chrysler Canada), got an email from area rep and said they were going to build 3 HC per month for western Canada with first ones going to Vancouver and with the amount of orders for HC it might take 3 years to get one.I talked to the dealer in Ontario where I bought my Yellow Jacket and said they would get one HC but it would be about a month before they could option it, and he said they would build 50 HC for Ontario. If anyone would like to add to this, true or false, I would appreciate it.
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January is next allocation. Maybe it will be announced sooner but it will be for January cars.
Does anyone know how/where I can look up the status of my VON? Since I'm in Canada and ordered through a local dealership, the VOTS does not work and SRT customer service was not able to help me.

To add to my frustration, my salesmen has been promising an update for two months and all I am asking him for is the VON status code (want to know if it made it to BX and awaiting allocation) as well as the priority and scheduling build but he always finds a reason why these cannot be provided. Computer problems, person who has access out of the office, etc...

I checked with someone at another dealership who I used to do business with many years ago and he told me that my salesmen should be able to look this up on the Chrysler "DealerCONNECT" system but it is apparently not available for the general public to use for tracking purposes and since my salesmen can't/won't give me this, I looking for suggestions/options.
Since your salesman appears to be a Dick or incompetent :notallthere:, call your dealers Sales Manager or General Manager & tell him you want the status code & VON for your car. This is available. Mine emailed me this & my order sheet the day after my order was placed.
I email my dealers sales manager weekly for an update & get a reply the same day from him. :thumbsup:
Mine is still BX which it has been since August 8th.
Since your salesman appears to be a Dick or incompetent :notallthere:, call your dealers Sales Manager or General Manager & tell him you want the status code & VON for your car. This is available. Mine emailed me this & my order sheet the day after my order was placed.
I email my dealers sales manager weekly for an update & get a reply the same day from him. :thumbsup:
Mine is still BX which it has been since August 8th.
I 2nd this, if your salesman isn't willing to give you your VON or status code, then go above him. This literally takes like 10 seconds to pull up your order and let you know the code.
Has anyone in Canada had a VIN issued? Has anyone in Canada had their Hellcat built - received delivery?


The reason I am asking this, is that I have been informed that my car (ordered 1 day after the order banks opened), given a VON the next day and moved to "ready to build" status has had no progress.


I have been told by sources that no Canadian cars have been built.


Please respond if you have any information on this, as it is very important to me.
ResumeSpeed mentioned that 15+ Canadian ordered vehicles had been built by the last week in September.
Like Rayzazoo said, there are some that have been built, but they are very much sitting in quality control right now, along with all orders for the US as well. Zero have been shipped out, no customers have one yet, anywhere.

only time you'll read otherwise, a car sales pitch in auto trader etc.

car salesmen never lie though, so who knows. :/

when these bad boys start shipping, it'll be news, trust me, we'll all know. :D
Like Rayzazoo said, there are some that have been built, but they are very much sitting in quality control right now, along with all orders for the US as well. Zero have been shipped out, no customers have one yet, anywhere.

only time you'll read otherwise, a car sales pitch in auto trader etc.

car salesmen never lie though, so who knows. :/

when these bad boys start shipping, it'll be news, trust me, we'll all know. :D
I think one indication will be when the window sticker posts on the dodge website with the VIN (once it hits KZ or better status). So far, the only one to post is the #700001 car. Everyone else, including all JS status vehicles, don't have their window sticker posted yet.
Apparently 3 VIN's issued in NS, NB and NFLD, according to dealer, but as RS stated nothing shipped yet.
I know a few VIN's were also issued West of Quebec as well, the 15 number for Canada is also supposedly correct.
I spoke to my dealer in great length today and there is still no news coming out of Chrysler.
I also had a buddy call a couple of dealers he knows in Ont, and they have heard nothing either.

Has anyone in Canada had a VIN issued? Has anyone in Canada had their Hellcat built - received delivery?


The reason I am asking this, is that I have been informed that my car (ordered 1 day after the order banks opened), given a VON the next day and moved to "ready to build" status has had no progress.


I have been told by sources that no Canadian cars have been built.


Please respond if you have any information on this, as it is very important to me.
I spoke to my dealer for almost a half an hour on Thursday expressing my concerns about all of this.
A day later I received an email basically saying my order is going to be honoured by Chrysler but that's it :(
Expect spring delivery.......

I configured my car July 24th, placed the order July 31st, received a VON August 8th when I took in my trade.
That's all I have so far ....... A VON and my order is currently BX which it has been since day 1

Sublime, Laguna seats, navigation, summer tires, 6 spd, and satin blk hood.

A betting man would say the cars will be released from QC on Monday next week!!!!

WHY you ask??????? LOL

Every single ad I've seen for a hellcat for sale from dealers says they will be on the ground on the 22nd of October. Canadian and American ads!!!
Hopefully there is something to it and these cars can FINALLY get moving and allow the rest to be built!!
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It would appear that there are at least three Hellcats on the road in Canada. I've attached two pictures of two red and one black with plates mounted to the front bumper -- these have to be customer cars, and if not it would have to be an employee car (can't think of any other reason Canadian plates would be mounted if it was a pre-production or something).

Have faith. :D

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Those are VIP cars, as in, not public, done ahead of production for people with pull, they avoided the QC hold because the QV issues hadn't been seen that early (rear window issue). Five were done Canada wide, two are in BC (Vancouver), two in Ontario and one in Quebec. One of the guys in Van owns the second largest car rental company in Canada - they buy a *lot* of Chrysler product so he def. had some pull in getting his. (as an example)
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Those are VIP cars, as in, not public, done ahead of production for people with pull, they avoided the QC hold because the QV issues hadn't been seen that early (rear window issue). Five were done Canada wide, two are in BC (Vancouver), two in Ontario and one in Quebec. One of the guys in Van owns the second largest car rental company in Canada - they buy a *lot* of Chrysler product so he def. had some pull in getting his. (as an example)
Hadn't realized that was the case. Learn something new every day. :)
The photo of the cars shown.. was at a press event in Ontario showing the vehicles to Canadian press, these exact cars are not VIP cars, these are press promotional cars for Chrysler Canada.
Not aware of any VIN's being issued in canada yet. I am now at BX status, still aways to go yet :)

I have a confirmed VIN number in Canada.
I have a VIN issued as the only one at the time in NS I was told Hickmen Motors in NF has a VIN and confirmation as well.
Apparently 3 VIN's issued in NS, NB and NFLD, according to dealer, but as RS stated nothing shipped yet.
I know a few VIN's were also issued West of Quebec as well, the 15 number for Canada is also supposedly correct.
I spoke to my dealer in great length today and there is still no news coming out of Chrysler.
I also had a buddy call a couple of dealers he knows in Ont, and they have heard nothing either.
Every time I seen a Chrysler owned car being used as test car or by some of the media/exec it has been plated. So more than likely these are not sold cars.
It would appear that there are at least three Hellcats on the road in Canada. I've attached two pictures of two red and one black with plates mounted to the front bumper -- these have to be customer cars, and if not it would have to be an employee car (can't think of any other reason Canadian plates would be mounted if it was a pre-production or something).

Have faith. :D
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Has anyone in Canada had a VIN issued? Has anyone in Canada had their Hellcat built - received delivery?


The reason I am asking this, is that I have been informed that my car (ordered 1 day after the order banks opened), given a VON the next day and moved to "ready to build" status has had no progress.


I have been told by sources that no Canadian cars have been built.


Please respond if you have any information on this, as it is very important to me.

Thanks for the feed-back to this point, guys. This is very helpful!
You sound like you need some time off the computer, damn, that was intense. Time for a beer. :)

Let's not forget this is just a car. A CAR. Nobody is dying here, nobody's life is at stake.

This is a FIRST GENERATION car at that given the changes. Will there be some misinformation? Sure, supply chains promise one thing but when things started they can't keep up etc. This *exact* same thing happens every time a new model is introduced, or a refresh that uses new parts etc. Same thing happened with my Jeep SRT, same thing is happening now.

Canadians aren't left in the dark in the least, car dealers know what they're told by their reps, who then get their info from their regional manager who gets their info from Windsor, who gets their info from Detroit. If you think US dealers are more knowledgeable, I'd ask you to check with some.

Yes, some Americans have VIN's already. That is based upon who they ordered through, their footprint sales wise/allocation etc. Reality is, Canada doesn't move anywhere near the Chargers/Challengers that the US does so no, Dodge isn't going to stop making money so they can tell you that a car is coming down the line for you. They're too busy filling orders placed from dealers five times larger than where you ordered yours, or that guy with a Timmy's in his hand ordered his. This is about money and if you were running the shoe and had stockholders and Fiat to answer to, you'd also be playing it this way.

I know it's hard, I know it sucks, but if you want to play with the big boys and have the bad ass muscle car before anyone else - why on earth did you think it'd be easy? You're not buying a v6 Mustang here, you're buying the baddest b*tch on the block. It's worth the wait.

If you don't want to wait, drop your order. It's been three months. If you were buying a luxury car like a first gen Ferrari or Lambo, you have a 2-3 year wait. Chrysler launched the details, got us excited and then there was the horsepower issue and what had been approved versus what it actually was etc and that had to be redone. In addition, some things weren't final/perfect in the fine tuning. The testers we all see images of (they say Supercharged on the side) - those drivers are told - THRASH THIS. BREAK THIS. HELP US. They do just that and report back - Chrysler fix things before models go to customers and your hint this is happening is because cars are still in QC, but last I heard they are being released shortly. For Canada? Yes, a handful... then they start trickling quicker.

Again, we can all sympathize with wanting this NOW. Look at it. heh. Thing is, you have to wait if you want the car, if you said forget the order, waited a day and tried to get back in line.. you get your car in April/May if lucky. This car will be difficult to get in year one, the same line that builds these builds the other Chally's and those are selling faster than they ever have. New records are coming for cars sold/built.

So yes, it's a process.

Sorry you're having a tough time man, but smile. Soon you'll have your car, even if another three months.. one week driving it and you'll be thankful you waited. :thumbsup:



So what your saying is even if someone has a sold order with a small dealer in SK with no allocation they will eventually get their hellcat? My sold order was entered and I had a VON within 2 hours after the order banks opened on July 23 and as of today nothing has changed. I don't care when I get a car I just want to know IF I'm getting one. Still in BA status from day one
Every time I seen a Chrysler owned car being used as test car or by some of the media/exec it has been plated. So more than likely these are not sold cars.
Thanks for the info. I did not realize that about Canada -- in the US they always seem to not mount the front plate on pre-production/media cars and stick to the M (Manufacturer) or normal Michigan plates (and Michigan doesn't require front plate).
So what your saying is even if someone has a sold order with a small dealer in SK with no allocation they will eventually get their hellcat? My sold order was entered and I had a VON within 2 hours after the order banks opened on July 23 and as of today nothing has changed. I don't care when I get a car I just want to know IF I'm getting one. Still in BA status from day one
I was told last week, if you order from a Mom and pop Shop ( which I did ) with low volume then expect a very Long wait. Had I known when I ordered that allocation was going to be based on dealer sales, I would have never tried to support my local small town dealer.
I have a couple of feelers out to larger dealers and will cancel my order and move to them if they get an allocation.
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