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Ordered 9/21. Got my first build date on 11/16 for a build week just before xmas. Once that got bumped, it got bumped big because of the holiday plant downtime. It got bumped to 1/17, then 1/24, and got built on 1/25. Finally arrived at the dealer on 3/1 at 9am. By 2pm, it was completely prepped and ready to go. Here it is just as I arrived at the dealer: And here it is earlier this evening. Back Rack, Extang Trifecta, Weigh Safe hitch, and Weather Tech mud flaps (only two so far). More to be done.
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Do you think these mud flaps make my ass look big?
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2022 Super Duty Orders & Discussion
BigUnixGeek replied to mrmallerd's topic in F-Series SuperDuty Forum
The closed ONE of the portals for ordering -- the old mainframe-y way. The new web-based ordering (WBDO) is where dealers should be placing orders for 2022 Super Duties, but ordering is not closed. The actual announcement is published in these forums in multiple locations, along with explanations from @ice-capades -
2022 Super Duty Orders & Discussion
BigUnixGeek replied to mrmallerd's topic in F-Series SuperDuty Forum
Railroad route due west from Louisville, KY goes through the southern tip of Indiana, then southern Illinois, and across the Mississippi River at St. Louis. -
Glad to see a positive report. I have a truck that looks almost exactly like yours on the way -- on a train about halfway from Louisville to me right now -- and I'm looking forward to writing up a similar report. When it's all done, I'll be naming names. As you, I think it's important to know who the good guys are.
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Even better.
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What must one want in a truck that would make an XLT come to $83k? I'm buying a well-equipped (though not diesel) Lariat, and it didn't touch $70k on the sticker.
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Is this true?
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Welcome. Please spend some time here reading.
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That is ALMOST my truck right there... Add/change FX4, deployable running boards, clearance lights... And mine's ALMOST here! Edit: Also, which I missed previously... No diesel -- Godzilla!
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The Order Guide is the authority on such things, and the current one is always available in the "Production and Sales" forum on this very web site.
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Extra-glad I ordered factory deployables now.
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Car Wash? Bad Idea? Safe on the Paint?
BigUnixGeek replied to danielj's topic in F-Series SuperDuty Forum
I have no idea what this is, but definitely sounds like something you should do, and the sooner the better. Please post before & after photos! -
There's got to be an up side, or there wouldn't be so many, right? Car dealerships are not hard to come by (though honest ones maybe...).
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I'm sure it's just a conspiracy to hide the original conspiracy.
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You're missing my point.
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And that's what they want you to think, especially when they're the ones using the term to convince you how good a price it is. But when they say that, they're STRONGLY IMPLYING (because this is what an invoice is in any other industry) that it's the price they pay, which is shady if not downright dishonest. It's as meaningless a number as MSRP as it's just a number Ford picked out of thin air.
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2017-2022 New Super Duty paint process questions
BigUnixGeek replied to 787Toolman's topic in F-Series SuperDuty Forum
Linux, yes. Mostly, in fact. I know what g-code is, what it's used for, and I've seen some before, but I've never done anything with it. -
2022 Super Duty Orders & Discussion
BigUnixGeek replied to mrmallerd's topic in F-Series SuperDuty Forum
The doc you need is the retail price protection doc which has been posted numerous times. -
2017-2022 New Super Duty paint process questions
BigUnixGeek replied to 787Toolman's topic in F-Series SuperDuty Forum
Search Youtube for some Ford plant footage, and those will answer more than a few of your questions. -
Holdback is one of the things that makes invoice meaningless. Invoice is as arbitrary a number as MSRP. MSRP is what Ford thinks customers should think customers should pay. Invoice is what Ford thinks customers should think the dealers pay Ford. If all of it were transparent, that would be different, but then there wouldn't need to be the charade of holdback and all that. I don't expect my dealer to lose money on a sale. I'd be happier if the whole thing were more transparent. I don't know what my local supermarket pays for a box of Cheerios either, but I don't hear them bragging about selling at a price relative to "invoice" and assuming people will think that's what they pay, because that's what an invoice is, and most businesses don't have all this holdback and other crap. There's the lie. They're taking advantage of a poor assumption and an understandable ignorance of the overdone complexity of the auto industry.
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Ok, not fake. How about meaningless.