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Picked up my truck today. Love it! 10 months since it was ordered and definitely worth the wait.

Seems silly to get mad over a computer generated email.

Glad to finally have it. Love it! I've put 120 miles on it already and just got it today. Ordered 3/31/2021 Scheduled 12/18 Delivered 1/14 Picked up 1/25 (I was out of town when it was delivered)

Houston, we have lift-off Sticker posted today ...

Many of these commodity restrictions are installed by the 3rd party vendor across the street from the plant. This vendor is limited in the number of trucks they can handle each week. When dealer stock orders were greater than retail orders, probably few trucks were ordered with 5th wheel prep, spray-in bed liner, covers, etc as dealers didn't want the additional cost on stock trucks. With the huge increase in retail orders, many of which include these options, the vendor across the street doesn't have the capacity for the increased work load. Therefore, in addition to material shortages, you also have a 3rd party vendor working at capacity.

You obviously don’t have a clue about the business environment right now.

Most likely because a lot current buyers are so against a BEV Mustang...it will happen by the end of the decade, but it still has an audience for the next 5-7 being ICE/Hybrid powered.

If the 3rd party vendor can't handle it I guess Ford needs to get another vendor. Chrysler plant in my area I have done work at. If you were responsible for holding up production for any reason they would fine you.

It's not really the bed but the frame. The *Narrow Chassis applies to any Super Duty body code that ends in E, F, G, H, K, L and is sometimes a commodity issue. The regular Super Duty pickups are Wide Frames. There is no notice that I've seen this week regarding the frames being a commodity issue but one of the reports I review still hasn't been made available.

Window sticker posted this morning.

Moved to “In Production” today and got my window sticker.

I always order my vehicles and normally don't get the stickers, but I forgot to tell them. First time from this dealer. I removed it as soon as I got home though.

Here's your fix until the season opens. Jan 11 testing at Daytona. I especially like how the new cars sound with the exhaust coming out both sides of the car as opposed to driver side only on the old car. Sounds just like a 427 AC Cobra with side exhaust idling through the pits.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone on the forum that helped provide information about my build during these strange times. Here’s my build summary after 10 months and 11 days of waiting. Don’t worry, they will build it. ordered 3/18 accepted 3/19 vin generated 6/4 build scheduled and was rescheduled 6x window sticker generated 12/6 Order sent to plant 12/9 accepted by plant and scheduled 12/13 truck built 12/21 loaded on rail car 12/22 shipped from plant by rail 12/23 arrived at rail transfer yard 12/25 unloaded from rail car 12/27-12/28 picked up by truck carrier 12/29 delivered to dealership 12/29 Overall very impressive truck. Minor quality issues dealership is fixing today and I’ll pick it up tonight. This truck was a big deal for me since my previous F350 was stolen while I was away from home working, right before Christmas, and I’ve been without my heavy work truck over a year now. The wait for it was difficult because I had to turn away work opportunities. I wanted the options I selected and would not compromise since it’s replacement for what I had. The big hold up was adaptive steering, 5th wheel prep and any number of other issues, but it’s over now and I can focus on setting this beauty up to get new work done. Happy new year!

Today in my email I received the following message from Ford about my F-350. Right now I'm just seeing red because I'm so pissed off. Really, to ensure my complete satisfaction it's being delayed from being delivered until March? How F'ing insulting that is. I know exactly why my truck is being delayed: "In Transit - Delay- Conveyance Mechanical Failure (Burlington Northern Railroad ) Minot, ND Jan-09-2022, 16:07 CT." This is from the VVR for my truck. If Ford really wanted to "ensure my complete satisfaction", they would get off their ass and find out why my truck has been sitting in Minot over the last two weeks or so instead of sending me condescending emails like that for gods sake. They really need some better people in customer relations because to send out something like that is just inexcusable. I'm still pissed, but at least I got it off my chest.

You are the owner of the spray in bed liner installer for Ford. You have had orders for 50,000 trucks every year for the past 10 years and built your factory across the street from Ford and designed your equipment and processes to efficiently run at close to 95% capacity. This year the demand doubles due to "special market forces" that most likely won't be there in two years. Do you borrow, invest and spend a bunch of money to double your capacity now? If so, will you be running at 50% capacity in two years when the special market forces stop and retail orders drop? (BTW, running at 50% will bankrupt most any business). Do you try to partner with Ford for a short term boost in production or long term production? Does Ford try to bring in a bunch of short term businesses to do this extra work? How does Ford ensure quality of work with these short-timers? Even something as simple as spray in bed liners is not so simple at the scale that Ford is dealing with. And yes, I am waiting and waiting and waiting for my truck to be scheduled and I have not dropped the Blackout package with bed liner or 5th wheel prep because I want the quality job that the factory will give me. With more people dropping their spray-in bedliner to be done locally, this frees up production for my truck

Dealer just called to tell me my window sticker was up and my truck should be there by mid feb.

It would have been fun if the GT and the C8 had existed at the same time, bringing the Ford vs Chevy debate to a whole 'nother series. HRG

10-19 is retail

I can’t believe that Ford didn’t give you personalized individual service. After all they only sell and deliver 2 million vehicles every year which is roughly 5500 every single day.

That is great news that GM is investing $7 billion in MI after Ford invested $6 billion in other states. Kudos to GM. Now Ford has pressure to do something with Flat Rock plant.

Took the tour of that plant in 2014 and was very impressed. Sad to see the Passat go, but VW just had too many similar car platforms. Production of VW Group IC SUVs VW Atlas and a Skoda version called the Kodiaq or something like that will continue.

If social media is anything to take a measurement of, there are a lot of "knuckle draggers" that don't want no golf cart LOL There is a lot of convincing that needs to be done with many people and electric vehicles.

The Fox Business article highlighted one of Farley's best strategies as Ford transitions to 100% electric vehicles.

Brad K in-car at speed in the #6.

Well,,, you are the boss. I will try to think of something else to get some excitement going amongst all these sleepy Gator owners...

22MY Super Duty Option Availability: For the remainder of 2022MY, the following options will only be available to schedule on retail orders. Stock orders with these options will not be selected for scheduling: Spray in Bedliner (85S) 5th Wheel/Gooseneck Hitch Prep Package (53W) Tonneau Cover (21D,21E,21J) Active Steering (60A) (optional on Lariat, King Ranch & Platinum; standard on Limited) 19.5 Forged Polished Aluminum Wheel (64D) (standard on all F450 series and included on STX Pkg—17S) Black Appearance Package (17L) on Lariat

It looks great, but to me, the 7.3 stock exhaust is plenty loud when pulling a load. Had the GM performance exhaust on my 6.2 GMC and it was quite annoying when towing.

Husband and wife new Broncos? Damn. If only...

Scheduled to Week (Week -of Feb-28-2022 )

I have no idea what a tracking number is - it is meaningless. You need to provide your vehicle info in your thread bump.

The situation in Europe is interesting because even now, PHEVs are coming under fire for being insufficient. Europe and UK have ZEV zones in certain cities where vehicles must operate in electric mode, the catch is that PHEVs must travel in charge sustain to get to these locations and as a result, many governments are rating their emissions in charge sustain mode. These vehicles may need bigger batteries and more electric range to survive…..

There's plenty of press articles and videos on the sequoia, have you not seen any? https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a38857490/2023-toyota-sequoia-revealed-hybrid/

Did toyota benchmark the last gen gms for their new suvs? It's like they regressed. Shorter, solid rear axle, tighter third row, less space behind rear seat? Outside of the engine, which ford needs to add to expy/nav like yesterday, it's not very compelling.

Until your build date changes you’re good to go.

Congrats on your F450 Blue beauty Boarslayer, I'm not sure I could wait 10 months, but I guess if you want something bad enough, time passes more quickly. Frog_Legs, I forgot I provided that link, ha-ha and I hope to see your red beauty when you find it.

Hybrid Mustang uses elements borrowed from CD6, I’ve heard rumours that the battery tucks under the floor pan like Escape.

Excellent! That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

Looks great, that’s a long wait, but you can now enjoy! Dealer had too much time to slap their logo sticker on the tailgate.

I do not plow but I added the snow plow package to the front because I have fabricated my own winch bumpers on different trucks in the past and if I plan on the bumper weighing 150 lb ends up at 300 lb or something stupid ridiculous so I figured a snow plow package may not be a bad thing for this truck.... then I don't have to worry about how heavy I make a bumper???. She doesn't ride like a Cadillac she rides like a really good comfortable heavy duty truck

Uhhhh…….no. Quiet is good.

Fixed and updated

Thank you, fine sir!

Ordered June 25th and still waiting. Just begging Ford to take $100k from me but no luck.

First post but I've been reading through the forum for a couple of months now. I'm trying to figure out how allocations/scheduling is done. I'm aware there's been a variety of posts/topics that speak to this issue. Given I ordered on 10/4 (F-250, 7.3, BAP, Priority 2) and still without a build date I'm somewhat frustrated. I've had zero communication with the Dealer and every time I ask for information there is zero to little comms. So I figured I would dig a little deeper. When running an inventory search on ford.com you can obviously filter by truck and package. Which allows one to filter by BAP which is a known commodity restriction. As such, I've seen various dealers in my area and across the US securing F-250 BAPs with upcoming build dates given population of window sticker. When looking at the window sticker their invoice was well after mine. This does include the dealer in which I ordered from. This does not make sense to me other than it could be an allocation problem with my dealer but at the same time if the dealer is receiving these trucks and invoices after mine I cannot find a reason for it. As much as I want to believe there is a methodology to scheduling, I'm somewhat doubtful of it.

SCHEDULING TOOLBOX - SCHEDULING PLAN This is the tentative scheduling plan for the production period. This is just a guide for scheduling. This information is tentative and may change at any time. THIS INFORMATION APPLIES TO UNSCHEDULED ORDERS ONLY. Blue Oval Forums_Production Week Scheduling_2022-01-24.pdf

Same here. The transit is already limited in GVWR. Adding an 86kwh battery isn’t going to leave much payload. A powerboost hybrid would be a better choice. Less impact to GVWR, long range, and plenty of electric power for accessories.

Find this kinda interesting-when I think RV, I think long distance road trips for vacation or retirees living on the road driving around the country. Not a 2-3 hour drive.

This doesn't look good?