CaptainKopper

Thanks to this thread I ended up ordering a Banks Pedal Monster having no idea what it would do or if I would actually like it. But the videos on YouTube and reviews seemed promising. Coming from a F150 for 7 years and 21 days (105,573mi) to this being my first 250 and Diesel truck I knew it would take some adjusting. For the first night and full day I couldn’t get the hang of accelerating especially out of turns. I felt like grandma driving a station wagon. I installed the pedal monster this morning and 2 stop signs, one light and two turns later just getting out of the neighborhood I can’t imagine driving without it now. It’s a total game changer on the throttle and easily the biggest and simplest improvement I’ve ever made to a vehicle. I would highly suggest everyone gets one, it’s well worth triple the price for the drive difference for me.

Thank you for all your help! Picked the truck up last night and I remember your rules of wanting to see the vehicles LOL, so here you go, Old and New together for the only time. Thank you for offering your services to everyone.

Picked up tonight, 3" to 2 1/2" reducer included. Dealer told me that Ford doesn't offer the 2 1/2" to 2" anymore.

After a pleasant surprise of shipping time from rail in Miami to Dealer in West Palm, another SD found a home tonight. Ill post more about timeline, dealer experience and all that jazz tomorrow. But figured id just drop this in here for now as its the only picture I have at the moment anyways.

Ive been curious of this as well. My order was built 2/18 and shipped via rail ~2/23. It arrived in Miami according to the dealer and @jhaber who tracked the train with his truck on it as well. Both going to the same dealer in West Palm. Dealer today told me its 10-14 days to come up from there ?

Same stations $3.99 unleaded yesterday, $4.19 today. Diesel $4.99. West Palm Beach, and those are the "hood stations", generally cheapest with a side of panhandling.

Just called Line X of Palm beach for 6.75’ 250. $700 standard, $800 premium. Called Line X of Fort Lauderdale next, $600 for standard and $700 for premium. I’ll make a 40 mile drive to save $100. Try to schedule the ARE bedcover install the same day as they are down the street from each other.

But the colored hair, tolerant, alphabet people might get their feelings hurt if we don't embrace everyone in the world. Except those evil people who want to see America succeed.

When did your truck get built/shipped? Dealer hasn’t given me anything more then the “Eta 3/5-3/11, don’t know more then that”.

At least I won’t have to stop every week? Yea it won’t be fun at all. But I’d rather not stop every 300 miles if I can avoid it. Even though this is a daily driver truck and practically won’t be on any real road trips.

Still fueling the 150, hopefully this was the last tank, but it was $3.999 for regular 87. I ordered a 60 gallon S&B this afternoon for the 250, that’ll be fun to fill once it get here and installed.

As if waiting and knowing its on its way any day isn't enough anticipation, the dealers sponsored ads keep popping up on my feeds... of MY TRUCK. I can't not think about it, its completely encompassed every aspect of my life the past week ?

In your photo of "proof", there is a SUV ahead of the SD too. Now we all know those aren't built on the same lines. Just because you post some random picture from some random website of some random building doesn't prove anything. But sure, live your dream.

Let’s think for a second. How much sense would it make to send a 450 DRW down the line, with different leaf springs, rear axle length, extra wheels… after a basic 250, followed by a 350 with again, different axels, leaf springs, engines, gears, etc. It completely defies logic to be efficient and have the right parts ready to go.

Apparently numbers aren’t your strong suit. Let’s try again… 250, 450, 350. But sure, let’s share the 150 videos ?

But unlike a grocery store, 30,000 orders are for same truck with roughly minor details. That change moment to moment based upon what can be built. Not to mention build schedules such as trim/model/color. They aren’t going to be sending a 250 XL trim down the line followed by a 450 Platinum, followed by a 350 Tremor. That would be terribly inefficient. And then you add in dealer allocations, orders ahead of yours at your dealer, priority codes and everything else. It’s not as simple as we have 5 gallons of skim milk left. What it is that is holding up your order from day to day changes. It’s not one item across the board and it may not be items you can drop or do anything about. Maybe you ordered a 250 but they ran out of the “2” in the emblem. Guess what, you don’t get scheduled. If it’s easier, I’ll write you the email now; Dear Ford customer, due to commodities constraints we don’t have enough… ok we have that… wait now we are out of… wait, no we don’t have the… parts. We don’t have enough parts at the moment. As soon as we get enough, and your the next in order at your dealer and your the next priority code and your the next model and the next trim we schedule and the next color and the next in order of time since your order, we will build… wait sorry parts changed again.

Do you all who think Ford should email everyone individually about your orders and what's holding that up really think it through? Minute to minute things change, one day they have enough fairy dust for your order, but they don't have enough rainbow sprinkles. Next hour they used up all the fairy dust building the orders with unicorn horns and now they are out. But wait, now there are rainbow sprinkles again but now out the fairy dust so yours still won't get built. Do you have any idea how many emails you would be getting daily and how confused you would be? In two days you would be complaining you're getting too many emails and too much information.

It seems like anything the dealerships send out as "information" is basically just panic/scare tactics to get people to order. No real solid information at all about what is going on.

So I decided to call Ford marketing just now to check about the effectiveness of my "Exclusive Cash Offer" They stated its up to the dealer if they will accept any or all of it. Has anyone had a dealer flat out refuse to accept it? I thought it was from Ford and the dealers didn't have a choice.

I think that was in reference to if Ford built trucks in order based upon highest price/profit margin. Im assuming Sh6l9by has a very expensive truck on order with a lot of options.

From the way Ice explained it to me months ago, when your truck is finally at a point for it to be selected for scheduling, literally every commodity must be available. I know it seems like Ford builds trucks in the craziest orders but thing about this for a second; Your truck, with a few of the commodities restraints (that we know of) that was ordered 6 months ago is ready to be selected for scheduling, but they don't have enough metallic flake paint, your order doesn't get scheduled. Because they literally don't have everything they need at once. Rando guy ordered the same truck, some options as you, 1 month age, but doesn't need that metallic paint get selected because they have everything they need for that truck. We don't know what individual part may or may not be holding up your build, its a lot more then just the commodities we are fortunate enough to know about that are limited.

"Your larger tires caused more load on the engine and drive train and thats why the piston decided it wanted to come out and get some fresh air". Im always worried even with the Magnuson-Moss Act, the stealerships will find a way to blame the customers modifications.

Sounds like your dealer just tells you what he thinks you want to hear. My dealer told me on many occasions, my order had no commodities restraints. Fortunetly this forum was able to educate me otherwise which lead me to drop the spray in liner and finally get built.

5th wheel prep seems to be the biggest hold up of all the commodities from what I've noticed in the 4+ months of watching this forum.

I called the general sales line later on in the day and enquired. Its not on the lot, but they would love to order one for me. Even offered to "reach out to the customer and see if they still want it, or if it is available".