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Thanks Quigs! Sound like the SDs just look taller than they actually are when they are next to my current duramax. I appreciate the video and specs links as well! I’ll definitely be cutting the carriage arm below the bolt!

I haven't been able to find any specific information regarding the stock height of the 4x4 F-250 crew cab. The specs on the Ford website say 81.5" but from what I have seen on the road, that is not accurate. I have a King Ranch with FX4 with a build date of 8/10 coming and trying to figure out if I need to adjust my garage door opening height. I currently have 82.5" from the garage floor to the bottom of the door in open position. Should be able to get another 1.5"-2.5" without major surgery on the garage. Curious if anyone here can confirm what the minimum garage door clearance requirements are.

I have a question on order changes. I received a build week of 8/2 from my dealer on 6/17. I asked them if they could change the exterior color from Oxford white to Star white on 6/22 and they said no problem. I followed up and they said it had been changed. Since my dealer has been bulls*@!ing me since April Ive been skeptical. I checked the VIN tracking on Fords website Tuesday and it finally had my vehicle details on it and it as suspected... Oxford White. Called the dealer today and they said " I submitted the request to have the color changed but have now been told it was too far into the build to have the color changed." That may be true today, but was that the case 3 weeks ago when I made the request? Is there a general time frame prior to build date for when an order is locked in for production? I seem to remember seeing something from Ice-Capades on that but with all the discussion on this topic I could not find it...

We’ll that’s not very encouraging. Any suggestions on what I can do from here? Can I run this up the chain to Ford and complain? all I have is the mangers word that he’s trying to help me.

I’ve been following all of the great information on these threads for a long time and finally have a reason to join the discussion. I ordered a 22 f-250 on 4/10 and paid a $1k deposit. I called my dealer multiple times asking for an order confirmation and kept getting a “we’ll send it over” response. Per Ice-Capades wisdom I even told them they had to enter my email in the order form to so I could get a confirmation from Ford. They never did send me my order form or enter my email. Finally found out on Friday that they never put my order in. When I spoke to my salesman and told him Ford had not record of my order he tried to play it off like they just had not picked it up yet and said Ford still was not scheduling orders. Thanks to I-C I was able to let him know that Ford starting scheduling orders the day before and they just royally F’d up. They put my order in on 6/4 with a priority code of 19. They keep claiming they can’t change it even though I have told them they can manually change it to 10. The sales manager said he has to have his regional rep change it for him. On Friday he told me that the rep said all of their orders would be fulfilled at the same time so it doesn’t matter. They are one of the largest volume SD dealers in north Texas so there may be some validity to that? Either way, I am still pushing for a better priority code since there are 2 months of retail orders in front of me now. The sales manager also said the Ford rep was telling him that Ford is working on prioritizing retail orders over dealer stock orders and holding chips for the 2022s. He mentioned something about a CNI program that Ford was rolling out but did not seem to know what it was other than it was geared towards to fulfilling retail orders. Most of this sounds like BS from the dealer to try to convince me that they didn’t really screw up that bad. Unfortunately I think I’m stuck working with this dealer for duration since I now have a confirmed order and they will hopefully have a good amount of allocation. My question is there any truth to what they are saying regarding my order date and their allocation and the Ford Rep’s information?