I expect with a $30k ADM to a vehicle that already costs $20k more than for a similarly optioned ICE F-150 will have them losing most every customer.
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Yep, they can certainly wait for a whale to come in and pay $20k or $30k for no good reason on a truck the dealer ordered. Good for them, grab those margins, forget the volume. Whatever.
Trying to get my dealer's $30k ADM escalated to Ford before switching to another. I want to see them lose allocation. Dealer put no ADM in writing twice and still had the gall to pull this stunt. I don't really believe Ford cares at all and anything could come of it, but I'll happily take a whacking from a windmill either way.
This is exactly why I have an R1T and Silverado EV reservation. If I go to the dealership and they try to slap ADM on at the last minute, I'll tell them to go fuck themselves and just wait for one of those.
I have reservations for a R1T, Ioniq 5, and second VW ID.4. As soon as I was pretty certain our dealer was playing games I also put in an order for a Mach-E with a competing dealer (no ADM, we're through the PO). Something will replace my car, even if its not the Lightning. I sure hope it is, but I don't trust @Ford Motor Company to make sure the allocation moves dealers and I want that damn tax credit and a second EV.
Ford should restrict dealer stock orders for any Ford vehicle, starting of course with their best selling vehicles, not just blindly limiting allocations on orders. Of course they should cancel orders where the customer has a verifiable complaint and transfer the customer to another dealer. That way the dealer gets slapped twice. They don't get to convert an "abandoned" order to dealer stock and they get shafted with reduce dealer stock allocations.The messed up thing is how do you know if the dealer you're using is going to have their supply restricted, no way of knowing unless Ford publishes a list of restricted dealers.
Might be the reason why your minutes-after-presentation reservation isn't usable till wave 5, because your dealer sucks.
That is not possible. In fact, it is impossible with the way the Lightning ordering system works. It is interactive with the dealer, THROUGH the Ford reservations system, and the dealer sets the deposit amount and the final price INSIDE the Ford reservation system at the time you finalize your order. I had to make a second $500 deposit when finalizing my Platinum last week, no ADM. The final FIXED price amount that I will pay for the truck, plus taxes and tags, was disclosed prior to my finalization and making the second deposit (after the initial $100 made at the time of reservation).
All that is true. However, during the early days of MME deliveries, a handful of dealer attempted to add ADM even though it wasn't part of the initial order. When customers complained to Ford, Ford put a kibosh on that. My dealer attempted to charge me for unrequested add-ons (nitrogen tires, wheel locks, etc), but they cave on that fairly quickly. My dealer also attempted to charge me for $1,000 VLT instead of $40 that EVs were entitled to at that time. They also tried to charge me $499 doc fee instead of $100 max on X-plan.
Right. It’s an easy workaround in the form of doc or dealer fees. ADM by a different name.
