THE TELLURIDE IS MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S. -- WHY THE LONG WAITS?????

[mister ruggles]

Two leases are coming up shortly and I don't want another Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Mazda 3 GT. Looking around online I discovered the Telluride sx-P and it appears to be a good value. Yet reading this forum, it appears it will take months to get a Telluride, loaded, top of line. WTF? The damned thing is built right here in the good old USA. There's even a recent YouTube video showing the plant and that a thousand are turned out everyday. So why is there such an order backlog and why are KIA dealers demanding thousands over list?

 

[StephenCantrelle]

Two leases are coming up shortly and I don't want another Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Mazda 3 GT. Looking around online I discovered the Telluride sx-P and it appears to be a good value. Yet reading this forum, it appears it will take months to get a Telluride, loaded, top of line. WTF? The damned thing is built right here in the good old USA. There's even a recent YouTube video showing the plant and that a thousand are turned out everyday. So why is there such an order backlog and why are KIA dealers demanding thousands over list?

Okay.. so The Kia Telluride is a homerun and the demand is way more than was anticipated. Kia initially was going to make 40k Tellurides..

As of the lastest spreadsheet they are about to hit 70k units.

So in short they adjusted and tried to keep up with demand but with every month comes more exposer, more awards and more clients.

And second part of your question is because of greed and people are paying thousand of dollars over to have the car now. Can you find them at MSRP yes. Is it hard... yes as well..

Good news is this Forum has several dealers able to place orders at MSRP but then you run into the waiting game.

 

[blitt]

Two leases are coming up shortly and I don't want another Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Mazda 3 GT. Looking around online I discovered the Telluride sx-P and it appears to be a good value. Yet reading this forum, it appears it will take months to get a Telluride, loaded, top of line. WTF? The damned thing is built right here in the good old USA. There's even a recent YouTube video showing the plant and that a thousand are turned out everyday. So why is there such an order backlog and why are KIA dealers demanding thousands over list?

The plant in Georgia builds KIA models.....not just Tellurides....and the "1000" per day is accurate, BUT it is 1000 KIA models per day , not 1000 Tellurides.

 

[mister ruggles]

The plant in Georgia builds KIA models.....not just Tellurides....and the "1000" per day is accurate, BUT it is 1000 KIA models per day , not 1000 Tellurides.

Then the YouTube report is WRONG.

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[StephenCantrelle]

Then the YouTube report is WRONG.

Or it could be 1,000 but only 40% going to the state and 30% Canada and the other 30% out of the US... just a guess don’t know for sure

 

[blitt]

If you dig further into KIA and their US production.....they are indeed producing 1000 or so vehicles per day and running EACH of those vehicles through the "diagnostic" road test that appears in one of the Youtube videos on the Telluride.....when the driver says " 1000 per day" he does NOT mean 1000 Tellys....it is 1000 vehicles of different model designations.

 

[yinjiefu06]

Two leases are coming up shortly and I don't want another Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Mazda 3 GT. Looking around online I discovered the Telluride sx-P and it appears to be a good value. Yet reading this forum, it appears it will take months to get a Telluride, loaded, top of line. WTF? The damned thing is built right here in the good old USA. There's even a recent YouTube video showing the plant and that a thousand are turned out everyday. So why is there such an order backlog and why are KIA dealers demanding thousands over list?

While waiting for my SXP order our Grand Cherokee is our only car at this moment, I'd love the GC more if it doesn't have the f**king 8 sp transmission. Now I have constant fear of 8 speed trans and this is my only concern about the Telluride, hopefully the 8 sp shifts smoothly.

 

[Nemesis04]

While waiting for my SXP order our Grand Cherokee is our only car at this moment, I'd love the GC more if it doesn't have the f**king 8 sp transmission. Now I have constant fear of 8 speed trans and this is my only concern about the Telluride, hopefully the 8 sp shifts smoothly.

What is wrong with the ZF8? It’s one of the best longitudinal transmissions on the market. If there is an issue it’s computer programming from FCA. My wife is on her 3rd Grand Cherokee with the ZF and I have it on my Durango and never had any downshift issues or lunging.

The Telluride has a transverse 8 speed and seems to get good marks on performance. The only thing the two transmissions have in common is that they have 8 speeds.

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[yinjiefu06]

What is wrong with the ZF8? It’s one of the best longitudinal transmissions on the market. If there is an issue it’s computer programming from FCA. My wife is on her 3rd Grand Cherokee with the ZF and I have it on my Durango and never had any downshift issues or lunging.

The Telluride has a transverse 8 speed and seems to get good marks on performance. The only thing the two transmissions have in common is that they have 8 speeds.

In our case the upshifts are seamless but low gears downshifts are jerky, especially in traffic. I think the Telly 8 sp should be fine as I haven't seen complaint about shifting quality.

 

[markjenn]

As mentioned, the ZF 8-speed has an excellent reputation for both shift quality and reliability. I haven't heard of poor turning in the GC, but don't follow that model. If it is performing poorly, I'd certainly want to get confirmation of whether it is a general application problem or a specific vehicle problem. I'd love to have the ZF 8-speed in the Telluride but it is used in longitudinal engine applications only and the Telluride is transverse. There have been a few reviews that says the Telluride transmission is just so-so, but that's about it - most reviews say neither good nor bad things about it and there doesn't seem to be any infant mortality issues.

- Mark

 

[alexdrums]

I am thinking about opening a Telluride factory in my backyard, in order to address the production issues. Then I am going to rake in the money!!

 

[Tellmeride]

I am thinking about opening a Telluride factory in my backyard, in order to address the production issues. Then I am going to rake in the money!!

Let me be your EXCLUSIVE distributor

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[DanPorges]

I had a grand cherokee, a Durango and a Ram 1500 all with the 8-speed and all 3 were repeatedly in shop for transmission issues. FCA doesn’t know how to build a transmission. It’s not a ZF trans, it’s an FCA copy of the ZF that they build themselves and it’s awful.
By contrast, my Telluride is silky smooth and shifts perfectly every time, up and down.

 

[blitt]

I had a grand cherokee, a Durango and a Ram 1500 all with the 8-speed and all 3 were repeatedly in shop for transmission issues. FCA doesn’t know how to build a transmission. It’s not a ZF trans, it’s an FCA copy of the ZF that they build themselves and it’s awful.
By contrast, my Telluride is silky smooth and shifts perfectly every time, up and down.

Yeah....was a bit wary of the 8 speed because the last 8 speed I had ( Escalade) was "herky jerky" ......this one has been very smooth!

 

[yinjiefu06]

I had a grand cherokee, a Durango and a Ram 1500 all with the 8-speed and all 3 were repeatedly in shop for transmission issues. FCA doesn’t know how to build a transmission. It’s not a ZF trans, it’s an FCA copy of the ZF that they build themselves and it’s awful.
By contrast, my Telluride is silky smooth and shifts perfectly every time, up and down.

The FCA TCM program is also not good, my experience is that these FCA transmissions need inordinate time to adapt the clutchs, and the adaption is also very sensitive to road condition. Maybe after 10K miles the rough shifts will smooth out. I'm glad to hear that Telluride shifts well.

 

[NCBill]

Doesn't matter which country they are making Tellurides in, they underestimated demand by a lot so they just don't make enough of them. Remember all the waiting lists they used to have on USA MADE Harleys? When demand exceeds supply you get what we are seeing now. As a retired factory manager, ramping up from where they started to where they need to be is a lot of work, takes a lot of planning, recruiting, hiring, training, etc. And then you have coordination with all of their suppliers.

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[MsTMuggs]

I was told by a Kia salesman that they are only making 50k Tellurides total in 2020 and 75k next year. I bought mine yesterday after chasing it since Christmas. I drove 230 miles to get it.

 

[Owner]

I was told by a Kia salesman that they are only making 50k Tellurides total in 2020 and 75k next year. I bought mine yesterday after chasing it since Christmas. I drove 230 miles to get it.

I'm not sure what that salesman's angle was or if he is completely clueless about the product he is selling but this was recently announced....

Strong Telluride Demand Forces Kia To Boost Production To 100,000

Kia will increase Telluride production to 100,000 units after 11 months of strong sales in 2019 in the U.S.

www.motor1.com

 

[mrmac]

I was told by a Kia salesman that they are only making 50k Tellurides total in 2020 and 75k next year. I bought mine yesterday after chasing it since Christmas. I drove 230 miles to get it.

Car salesmen are the worst source of reliable information.

 

[raydog9379]

Car salesmen are the worst source of reliable information.

Exactly. Had one of them yesterday tell me all about the "Pristine" package, I kept correcting him to "Prestige". I'm like no man I don't care about each individual piece of the SX and the add ons of what the prestige package are (I already know all of that), do you actually have this car or will have it for sale? And give me the VIN so I can pull the window sticker.