Manufacture date way different than MDH on door jamb

[Groovy]

I just bought a 2024 RAM 1500. I was looking at the manufacturing date on drivers door jamb and it states: 6-24, however, the MDH (month, date, hour) states: 092615, which according to my research is September 26 at 3 PM which has to be 2023 because I bought this 9/17/24. My question is why the big gap in time between MDH and manufacturing date?? why would there be a 9 month gap in time on the jamb sticker? Was this truck started in September and not final assembly until June, 2024. How strange ! Also, it was missing from the factory (as stated on sticker): Spray in bed liner, bump step, cargo rails, and the Limited chrome strips on the sides. Dealer is fixing all the missing things. I'm scratching my head here . . . Any thoughts???

 

[Groovy]

Here is a picture of my door sticker. I still can't get an answer as to why my MDH is 9/26 of 2023 with a Manufacture date of 6/24, such a lag in time. My window sticker date is 6/30. Its been 6 weeks and the dealer still hasn't received or installed my missing cargo utility rails, center bump step, and chrome Limited body side moldings. Really frustrating . .. .

 

[Groovy]

I was able to speak with a Sterling Heights employee that shed some light on what most likely occurred to my truck. The MDH on the door sticker is the date of final assembly - that's date the vehicle goes down the assembly line, which everyone knows about. However, the Manufacture date on the sticker may be later, it is assigned when the vehicle is COMPLETE, which may be a different month and in my case, was 9 months later (June 2024) My vehicle was released on June 30, 2024 which is the date the window sticker is produced and dated. What happens is that as a vehicle goes down the assembly line, if any parts are not available, such as a wiring harness, trim piece, etc., the vehicle continues assembly missing those items. When is comes to the end of the line, the vehicle is sent to a repair area until the part is acquired or whatever the issue is, is corrected. In my case, my truck was assembled during a time period when there were strikes by certain vendors and certain parts were not available. Some parts were delayed months. I'm not sure what was missing that caused a 9 month delay, but that is what happened. Then the other twist, when a truck comes off the line, the Sterling Heights employee told me that for spray in bed liner and other Mopar accessories (bed step, bed utility rails, tonneau cover), the truck is sent across the street to another area (third party vendor?) to complete those items. In my case, my truck never went across the street to receive this items (because it immediately went to the repair area) - that is why it was missing the spray in liner, bed step, cargo utility rails and tonneau cover. Sterling Heights shut down 7/1/24 for two weeks for changeover to 2025 and then had an additional two week layoff period. The Sterling Heights employee told me it was a chaotic time. Basically, before the shut down July 1, 2024, there was a rush to get out of the repair area, all the 2024 models that were sitting there. Mine went out missing the chrome side strips and the bed stuff, they might have just made sure it was operating fine and sent it out. That is how is came to be, the just released it for delivery. Flash forward to now, I just got it back from the dealer yesterday and all my missing things were installed. My truck is complete, finally! I do like my truck very much, more now that it is complete!