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She’s crowning @OldManJax Just a few more pushes and before you know it you’ll be a proud papa to your new girl. Just don’t forget the cigars

Yeet! Here we go! Finally shipped out.

Nope, bankruptcy is imminent. Liquidation begins at the end of July.

Oh for Pete’s sake stop your doom and gloom lies. Ford is selling a lot of vehicles and customers are willing to order and wait and per u it profit is at an all time high. Even losing 240k units they would still be in 2nd place well ahead of Chevy if the others stay the same.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another....

Your order is already submitted and you’re at priority 2 and if that’s the lowest of all your dealer’s orders then your truck will be the first selected if and when allocation is available AND your truck is buildable.

Yes, there will eventually be a date under "in production" once your build day comes. My truck went "in production" on 3/7 even though my build week wasn't until 3/14. I checked the tracker daily since I didn't know my actual build day. I checked the tracker yesterday morning and still nothing. Checked for BCE code, sure enough I had them. Went back to the tracker and then had a date of Sunday 3/20. I received my built email this morning and now have the date of 3/21 under built. I would keep checking for BCE codes as it seems to be quicker to update than the tracker.

Got email scheduled for 3-28. Then changed to 4-4 then another email stating 3-28 scheduled build date. I meant window sticker not VIN. I have a VIN

I normally have my wife to tell me I'm "getting too close to the guy in front of us, slow down". Hahaha, don't need something automated.

Ford is having issues with 37 different suppliers. They only publish the major items and it could be a different part every day or week.

Well what do you know, my truck showed up at the dealer this morning! Had to make a call on the tire size pretty quickly, settled on 295/65x20 after talking through it with the guy at the dealership. Guess I can always swap them out for a different size down the road if I want to.

That's great! Mine was built 2/8 and arrived at the dealer 2/22, so about 2-weeks if all goes well. Good luck.

The line is back working full shifts

Yeah....April, May, and June are the biggest sales months of the year excepting December, and not good that inventory is so dismal and not improving. Most people are used to seeing vehicle on lot they like and driving it off next day or so. Most don't have the patience to order and wait a year or more for it. Many will cancel and buy used or from another auto company. "Thank you for your patience" is a phrase that rings hollow to many.

According to ice, an email can only be entered on a retail order? So what it think happened, since I got a confirmation email, that they put in my retail order and sometime after changed my priority to a stock order that will never get built. I suspect the same happened to you.

The moonroof was also listed as a commodity restraint a few times, when they were posted. Plus they have numerous others that change daily that didn't get posted.

After waiting almost 8 months, an April Fools joke was my first thought with a build day of April 1st?

Thank you very much. There IS a light at the end of the tunnel. bob

Our TT has an approximate 900 pound tongue weight. With the trailer attached and camping stuff in the bed, it will squat a few inches. 20 pounds in the bags brings it all level.

I think I know what is holding up my Antimatter Blue King Ranch now, they can’t find the paint. Everyone knows Antimatter is invisible, lol…kind of like that truckload of unobtainium metal I’ve had on order for ever but still waiting.

same time

No problem at all. Just waiting and waiting. Hahaha Thanks again.

I know right! After all this time finally somewhere my actual truck is being built. Very exciting.

That's a good point I guess it didn't occur to me that someone would be asking THAT frequently haha. Thanks for the update! Hopefully I'll have pictures of the car to post soon.

Its done, both parties have agreed to binding arbitration. This is most likely the final outcome if things had progressed as they were. Nice to see cooler heads prevail.

I’m the 30th, hoping for mine by then as well ?

F450 Platinum with all the options including AS, Spray in liner, 5th prep, console vault and camper package. My dealer said when I ordered it that it should arrive near Easter which I was fine with. What's been frustrating is that when the order went in in Aug it was a Priority 10 and within less then a month it went to a 2 and all the dealer kept saying it should be in production soon due to it being a 2. As we can see that's a bunch of crap. No other options, so just gotta wait it out. Luckily I still have have my 12 F250.

LMAOOO seems like the system cant handle much

Finally the truck is finished. Carli 2.5 pintop, deaver leafs, fuel covert 18”, wheels, 37” ridge grappler (maxxis does not make a razor at 37x18), Baja designs lights, dual arb, bed liner, and bakflip tonneau. First trip was to north padre national seashore for spring break. 60 miles south to the Mansfield cut fuel covert 18x9 with 37x12.5x18 ridge grappler, did well in the sand @ 30 psi our campsite @ mile 8, perfect. No neighbors!

Here’s a couple pictures for you so you can get an idea. You’ll be ok with a 1.5” level. I am running 20x10 with -18 offset and nitto 35x12.5. From the pics you can see it sticks out but it’s not much more than 1” if even that. If you go 20x9 you’d be nearly flush.

It's built but you can't have it yet!!!!! It's driving me nuts lol.

how are you scheduled without a vin?

congrats on getting your BDE codes, that should be worth Fiddy Cent...I'm waiting on my codes, mine is scheduled to be built the week of 3/21, this week, I don't know the build day, I have not asked cyberdman to track it, figured I'd just wait since it will hopefully happen very soon.

Thanks, not surprised. I have a list on constraint items on this one. Will be lucky to get a 22!

I order Aug 24. I was told by my dealer in early Jan that they were contacted by the regional rep as to why I hadn't been scheduled and told me that I should consider deleting spray in bedliner, 5the wheel prep, & tonneau cover which were at that time 20-30 weeks before I would even be looked at to be scheduled. I deleted all of those options and was schedule in the next couple days and it was just built this past weekend awaiting shipping now. 250 Platinum CCLB

@CBears I’m right there with ya… checked the tracker and saw that a production date was populated. Then checked BCE codes and whatdya know… ?? a ton of codes that weren’t there last night! I’m beginning to get excited ?

Yeah, the 5.0 badge does seem to be missing. My '83 Convertible 5.0 was not a GT, but a GLX and still had most of the goodies like special Michelin tires with slot wheels, 5 sp. manual, and traction bars to reduce wheel hop. No air dam though.

Escape could use a decent upgrade. Compact CUV is the most intensely competitive segment of the new car market - every car company selling in the US has multiple entries in the segment. Ford needs to sprinkle some of that Bronco Sport and Maverick magic on the Escape.

I live close so I plan to visit with the kids the week of April 4th. That is when my truck will be built barring any more delays. I know the odds of me being able to identify my own build are slim. To many moving parts and trucks?. They only show parts of the production, but it is still awesome watching it all come together. You have to get timed tickets for entry. So reserve ahead after planning around build schedules, lunch times, and shift changes. It is mostly self guided and self paced. They still sell tickets for when the line is down due to shift cuts or lunch time. This is still interesting but clearly not nearly as cool as when everything is up and running. I took my father in law a few years before the covid and we spent 3 hours in there. The kids were going nuts and so we left but both of us could have spent twice as long. I too would love to see the lightning plant but bet that won't be part of the tour for several years if ever. Now forgive me for veering slightly off topic but someone else brought up the Henry Ford Museum and if you are coming you might want to make time to see this other stuff. I highly recommend the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. I know it is not everyone's thing but I could easily spend days in there. The museum is dedicated to the industrial revolution and has a huge collection of things from early 1760s steam engine to modern vehicles. Planes trains, lightbulb machines and all kinds of industrial stuff. They have huge coal locomotives and a great collection of automobiles. Pre-covid they used to disassemble and reassemble a model T every day. The kids could go and help put a light on or insert a bolt. It was really cool for them.( I don't know if they still do that.) They also have an IMAX theater. Greenfield village is also part of the Henry Ford Museum sight site and is a great educational place when it is open in the summer. I think it is a separate ticket if you don't have an annual pass. They are more focused on daily life of peoples in the 18th and 19th century. They have glass blowing furnaces and make projects while you watch. They have working historic farms being managed with historic techniques. If your a city person and don't have much exposure to animals they have a great petting zoo and stable. If you like crafts there is section where they do demonstrations of a more industrial pottery production as would have been done in the period. They also have blacksmiths. You can ride in a model T. You may be lucky enough to be the kid who gets to use a train turntable to spin a 64 ton locomotive engine by hand. They have historic houses that have been brought in from around the world like Thomas Edison's lab. The restaurants are pretty good too. They serve historic recipes and some standard American fare. The Eagle tavern can be hard to get a reservation for but is worth it. Finally look at the schedules online. They often have old time baseball games, car rallies, civil war era canon and cavalry drills and stuff like that. https://www.thehenryford.org/

Hopefully they get it resolved quickly. As broken as our supply chain is now we need everything running on all cylinders to keep things moving even as little as they are now.

Excellent! I am so glad it finally arrived. Good luck getting that thing home. Thanks for sharing, enjoy the new ride.

Supposed to pick up today.

Matthews-Currie Ford in Venice Florida will order X-Plan PLUS they will give you $150 cash to order. They send you $75 at time of order and $75 at delivery. No deposit and no commitment needed. I ordered a F450 King Ranch with them last week.

Ordered F350 King Ranch with 5th wheel prep package and other goodies, November. Production set for Monday and I now have the window sticker ? windowsticker.pdf

AWD Mustang is read deal

Thank you!

Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see someone looking at a Focus competitor (say Civic or Corolla) looking at Bronco or Ranger. Same with Fusion competitor customers and putting them into Maverick or Bronco Sport. I know of a number of people who have avoided Trucks and SUVs for one reason or another for decades. When they ask me what Ford offers and I explain the options, they say, "Oh, Ford doesn't have anything for me". Granted, this part of the market is smaller, and is shrinking, but the imports offer an alternate. Dodge still has Charger and Chevy still selling Malibu and Impala, albeit they are barely hanging on.

From someone at GMI, the guy in this video talked to a Ford rep, who said that the EPA/range rating was made with 1000 lbs. of cargo factored in. If that's true, that means the range is actually further than quoted.