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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.

Ford CEO Farley Talks EV Tax Credit, Chip Shortage Ford has committed $30 Billion to EVs by 2030 https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ford-ceo-on-white-house-mtg-ev-tax-credits "We have to catch up," he said, citing higher EV sales in China and Europe. "We’re going to do the investment in the product and capacity expansion and make vehicles as affordable as possible. We need the government’s help to make the switch to e-mobility through consumer incentives."

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

I have no knowledge, but I would think that Ford is proud of its relations with the UAW and closing Flat Rock would be very negative when Ford can't meet demand of many of its vehicles. Especially when GM is making huge investments in MI. Certainly puts pressure on Ford to give MI a bigger slice of the BEV pie I would think. I would think the UAW is already stressed out by pivot to BEV and how it will affect Ford blue collar jobs.

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.

Body Code = 5-7 positions of the VIN number. Example... VIN #1FT8X3BN1NED20513 Body Code = X3B 2018MY VIN Guide.pdf 2021MY_Ford Body Types.pdf

I agree. I mean lets be honest here. One of the reasons traditional automakers have been hesitant is if they start building electrics and nobody buys them. I predict the truck market will be the hardest nut to crack before a majority of buyers are ready for electric trucks. Probably 20% of that crowd is still V8 or death, scoffing at a V6TT or hybrid.

Yes. W2B

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.

Here's a link to a chart of 2021 MY codes. It's from the Canadian website, but presumably would be the same. Mine was at the top of my order summary.

Finally!!! This makes sense to me. I’ve actually wondered the same thing for quite a while. Thank you!

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

Wonderful! Thanks a bunch for volunteering your time to do this.

Get your "free" rapid rona test yet...? iHealth is a unit of the Chinese company Andon Health Co. Ltd., according to Reuters. It was awarded a $1.275 billion contract for COVID-19 rapid tests with the U.S. government on Jan. 13, according to the Defense.gov website. Got a company in Indiana and Florida that makes the rapid rona tests too. Slippin out......

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.

In Transit - Shipped Ocean - Voyage # S321571090 Ramp 9B, Valencia, ES Jan-14-2022, 08:52 ET.

If the hybrids are similar to Ford’s other RWD based hybrids, they probably replace the torque converter with a 44 hp /221 lb ft motor connected to a 1.4 Kwhr battery, the power and torque of the electric motor have different peak rpm’s to the ICE so combined power torque will probably boost the bottom torque and only slightly improve horsepower. Judging by some of the existing hybrids, I’d suspect the following is entirely possible: 2.3 Powerboost 300 hp @ 5,500 rpm / 380 lb ft @ 2,500 - 4,000 rpm 5.0 Powerboost 500 hp @ 7,500 rpm / 500 lb ft @ 3,000 - 4,500 rpm Maybe the final figures will be more conservative that the above but, I’m glad that Ford chose the 2.3 engine over the 3.3 hybrid in the Explorer and F150, that would have been an easy to do job done engine but an engine for another time….

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.

Because it’s a fleet order.

Ah, the ranking is probably percentage markup of MSRP. Duh, makes more sense haha.

Ok...44 inches from puck to Top Ridge of the bed, and then 46in from Puck to back of the actual bed wall.

Vehicles scheduled after Thursday, January 27th, will be built using the Job #2 specifications or whatever specifications are in effect when the order is scheduled.

Very jealous indeed. ?

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.

Here is the video of the truck above. Mine is the same spec/color. Im not sure the kid in the video is even old enough to have a drivers license but its a great video. They are all build on Fully loaded Lariott trucks with the 6.7L Turbo Diesel and Max Tow package so 1050 torque and around 500 hp. Tow Capacity is around 15,000-20,000 pending type of attachment. Interior is fully modified and looks as amazing as the exterior mods IMO. I can post a window sticker from Ford and Shelby if you like. Friday can’t come soon enough…..

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

@#$% #$! (Not directed at you

Thanks

The MEB Puma should be revealed this year because production is set to start in Cologne in 2023. The MEB Corsair (presumably that means Escape too) are supposed to start in Oakville in 2025 but it is entirely possible Escape/Kuga will start in Europe and China before Oakville. So I wouldn't rule out seeing them in 2023. Ford China is probably also planning on a bunch of EV we don't know about it. The current Territory BEV is mostly a compliance car but the next gen (due around 2023) is probably will be a serious EV. Explorer and Aviator EV production was delayed by 18 months but doesn't mean Ford won't reveal it at the end of 2022. More likely, they will save that for 2023 as well but just pointing out that the delay was production related, not design/engineering (as far as we know)

That does seem odd, thanks. I'll check back next week.

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

Picked up on Friday, love the truck. Getting another 1 1/2 mpg with the 7.3 traveling with the plow on compared to the 2019 6.2. Hate the rims and Goodyear Wranglers (junk) but will use them this winter. Had the turbine rims on a 71 Corvette back in the day for crying out loud! Already bought a set of take-off Platinum rims for summer. ?

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.

It is. I popped in the lighted door sills as soon as I got home.

This doesn't look good?