My build date just moved another month later.... anyone else?

[bewbie]

Still waiting for a build date for my wave 4 Lariat ER order

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[millim]

My Antimatter Blue Platinum that moved up from 6/6 to 5/30 seems to be holding strong for now.

 

[JLee]

I’ve already been checking every day for months.

Joe’s original post last night has caused me to re-check several times since then.

My XLT SR 311A withboth tow options and a spray in bed liner has been holding steady with a 5/30 build week.

It would be ironic if the spray in bed liner is what is causing the build date to stay the same. E.g. the offsite facility for bed liner’s has x capacity and they need to keep that steady.

Well, my Lariat ER has a spray-in bedliner and was pushed from 6/6 to 6/13 to 6/20, lol.

 

[Ken]

those of us without build dates are probably looking at July and August now. I don't think the delays would cause them to add anything, if they are delaying for parts then it just pushes everyone later

 

[Oneand0]

My Antimatter Blue Platinum that moved up from 6/6 to 5/30 seems to be holding strong for now.

That didn’t go well for Perkins!

 

[jazzmanmonty]

Seems like its getting to be a bit more random as to who's getting moved up/back. Would it be possible they adjusted to builds in more of a geographic order? Say they have a bunch of orders for the Midwest, they'd group them for a particular week.

The reasoning behind my theory (and I have no idea how delivery logistics ties in as a production variable), but with how tight things are right now with shipping industry, is it possible they could be trying to be more efficient with deliveries? idk.. just a thought.

 

[VTbuckeye]

Seems like its getting to be a bit more random as to who's getting moved up/back. Would it be possible they adjusted to builds in more of a geographic order? Say they have a bunch of orders for the Midwest, they'd group them for a particular week.

The reasoning behind my theory (and I have no idea how delivery logistics ties in as a production variable), but with how tight things are right now with shipping industry, is it possible they could be trying to be more efficient with deliveries? idk.. just a thought.

Without ALL of the data we are just making speculative guesses. We have a possible random sample of future owners/orders and do not know the actual numbers of the total build population (maybe it can be determined by VIN). Based on ford's history of building millions of cars we have to assume that they know what they are doing and the schedule adjustments are with purpose to optimize throughput, shipping efficiency, cost efficiency of building/shipping, parts constraints. At this point it is safe to assume that my as soon as 22 to 24 week is going to be well over. Would it be nice if we knew more? Yes. Would it change anything? No. Might it compromise ford's ability to function/long term stability/viability if it is revealed every reason for everything they do with build scheduling? Possibly. Therefore we are only left to speculate.

 

[GoGoGadgetTruck]

Without ALL of the data we are just making speculative guesses. We have a possible random sample of future owners/orders and do not know the actual numbers of the total build population (maybe it can be determined by VIN). Based on ford's history of building millions of cars we have to assume that they know what they are doing and the schedule adjustments are with purpose to optimize throughput, shipping efficiency, cost efficiency of building/shipping, parts constraints. At this point it is safe to assume that my as soon as 22 to 24 week is going to be well over. Would it be nice if we knew more? Yes. Would it change anything? No. Might it compromise ford's ability to function/long term stability/viability if it is revealed every reason for everything they do with build scheduling? Possibly. Therefore we are only left to speculate.

all of this.

In the Mach-E ramp-up, there was all kinds of speculation, tracking, efforts to "guess" the process, calculations being made before build weeks were announced, on and on, and it ended up being a lot of effort for little-to-negative benefit. While it's certainly interesting at some level to do it, ultimately it ends up just frustrating someone when the guess isn't right. Just ask anyone that ordered a "First Edition" and had it show up months after other deliveries...

If you really want, go to the sister site to this one, MachEforum - Ford Mustang Mach-E Forum, News, Owners, Discussions , and go back to some of the earliest threads on the site. You can validate what I'm telling you.

 

[LightningShow]

I’ve already been checking every day for months.

Joe’s original post last night has caused me to re-check several times since then.

My XLT SR 311A withboth tow options and a spray in bed liner has been holding steady with a 5/30 build week.

It would be ironic if the spray in bed liner is what is causing the build date to stay the same. E.g. the offsite facility for bed liner’s has x capacity and they need to keep that steady.

I've only been checking once a week, or so, but now that planned build is less than a month away I'm starting to get antsy!

 

[beatle]

I've only been checking once a week, or so, but now that planned build is less than a month away I'm starting to get antsy!

Same here. I'm just over a month away from my scheduled build week, and I check frequently. It would be nice if they could just tell us when Christmas is, but I don't think that's in the cards with so many variables in play.

I suspected they would prioritize these trucks' production and it looks like I am correct, so there's a bit of comfort in that.

 

[bg226]

My Antimatter blue Lariat ER with spray in liner is still at 5/9!

 

[LightningShow]

Same here. I'm just over a month away from my scheduled build week, and I check frequently. It would be nice if they could just tell us when Christmas is, but I don't think that's in the cards with so many variables in play.

I suspected they would prioritize these trucks' production and it looks like I am correct, so there's a bit of comfort in that.

I wasn't expecting the truck until Fall, so I'm not going to get to worked up if everything doesn't go perfectly. The only thing that's an issue with delays is that the auto loan rates are going to creep up throughout the year. The earlier I can lock in a loan, the better.

 

[jazzmanmonty]

I wasn't expecting the truck until Fall, so I'm not going to get to worked up if everything doesn't go perfectly. The only thing that's an issue with delays is that the auto loan rates are going to creep up throughout the year. The earlier I can lock in a loan, the better.

Ur rate will be locked in from the date u ordered. So whatever ford's interest rate was say 1/6/22, that'll be ur rate (of course if u waluty and your dealer doesn't try to screw u over with some b.s.)

 

[GDN]

Ur rate will be locked in from the date u ordered. So whatever ford's interest rate was say 1/6/22, that'll be ur rate (of course if u waluty and your dealer doesn't try to screw u over with some b.s.)

I've never seen a loan rate tied to an order date. What kind of program have you seen or do you think exists that locks in a loan rate?

The rates will be current and the dealers always get good kickbacks on the high rates if you finance through them.

The new(ish) Ford Options Program has details I'm not fully aware of yet, but I doubt they'll be locking anything in from an order date when it comes to financing.

 

[jazzmanmonty]

I've never seen a loan rate tied to an order date. What kind of program have you seen or do you think exists that locks in a loan rate?

The rates will be current and the dealers always get good kickbacks on the high rates if you finance through them.

The new(ish) Ford Options Program has details I'm not fully aware of yet, but I doubt they'll be locking anything in from an order date when it comes to financing.

It's been discussed on here before in many random threads. Ford locks your price, rate, and incentives of your order date. So when you go pick up ur car, you have the choice of using the numbers and incentives of purchase date (say rates went down and theres an incentive promotion) or order date (past promotion and higher rates now). It's in the dealers Smart Vincent system. Here's a link where it's discussed, and Tim has also talked about it before in many of his videos.


Only variable is if dealerships try to play with the interest rate number on the back end. Hopefully some of the first lightning customers will give us some feedback on their experiences in the next month so we can get a feel for if dealerships will be giving us a hard time.

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