Dealer Allocations starting to get Delivered?

[greenne]

I agree, it appears that they allocated them to specific dealers and then had the dealers contact customer only on their list. If your reservation is at a dealer that didn't get a unit allocated, you didn't get offered one.

What Ford did for wave 7 is allocate the trucks to the dealers. My dealer..for example got 5 ER Lariats and 2 SR Lariats. The dealer then started calling people pinging if they were interested in these allocations. The dealer then submitted the names. This poses problems because it now appear as if the dealer did not(or could not) submit the names of interested parties, those allocations stayed at the dealer and were converted to dealer stock allocations. (Its just a theory based on what I'm seeing).

If true.. this is really a bad move. I'm almost betting some crappy dealers didn't call anyone..or didn't put forth any real effort....while there is someone in line who almost certainly would have taken the unit. The dealer can now get it as stock and mark it up price wise. This also does not address the fact that one dealer may have zero people interested in a SR Lariat while another dealer(whom the truck could have been reallocated) may have several people willing to take it.

What Ford should have done from the start is ask people to decide their preferred trim on the reservation from day 1. That way, dealers could be allocated units based on actual desires instead of random guessing(or just luck).

I don't think Ford can(or should) o to a straight custom order system because that would slow things to a crawl, but I do think they can do better in supplying trims numbers, allocations, and units to the correct location and correct customers(i.e. those who reserved first).

I hope Ford will learn from this experience. Their logistics chain needs to adapt to a post pandemic, high demand/low supply world.....

PS-- I do think they are taking positive steps with the Model E division and the EV certified dealer memo that came out last week

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[Regular150]

Yep, have to 'split' the company in two and all the costs that go with it to compete with non-legacy Corps. They will still have ICE thankfully. I can just imagine disaster protracted response undercover with a bunch of BEVs.
BEVs are a great solution for 80% of vehicles, but it's going to be awhile before the other 15% can be replaced just because of the use cases.

I hope the two separate companies don't duplicate overall overhead and costs.

 

[cjb]

I put a deposit on one of these dealer allocations last week. SR Lariat trim. Not what I was planning when I put in my D1 reservation but what I was likely going to end up getting with the price increases plus changes to the tax credit. Blend was 9/23 so it'll be a little while before it shows up yet.

 

[DetroitHustle]

I put a deposit on one of these dealer allocations last week. SR Lariat trim. Not what I was planning when I put in my D1 reservation but what I was likely going to end up getting with the price increases plus changes to the tax credit. Blend was 9/23 so it'll be a little while before it shows up yet.

What does "Blend date" refer to?

 

[cjb]

What does "Blend date" refer to?

Expected date of final assembly.

 

[FordLightningMan]

I put a deposit on one of these dealer allocations last week. SR Lariat trim. Not what I was planning when I put in my D1 reservation but what I was likely going to end up getting with the price increases plus changes to the tax credit. Blend was 9/23 so it'll be a little while before it shows up yet.

Are they honoring MSRP or will there be ADM?

With the price increase and lack of rebate on higher trims, dealers could offer a MY22 at a $5k ADM and look like saints.

 

[cjb]

Are they honoring MSRP or will there be ADM?

With the price increase and lack of rebate on higher trims, dealers could offer a MY22 at a $5k ADM and look like saints.

ADM is exactly what you describe.

 

[Pioneer74]

What does "Blend date" refer to?

Expected date of final assembly.

Blend date is the date the cab starts to be assembled.

 

[rdr854]

Blend date is the date the cab starts to be assembled.

So, how long between the time they start the cab and when it rolls off the assembly line as a ”completed” vehicle (assuming no chip or parts holds)?

 

[Pioneer74]

So, how long between the time they start the cab and when it rolls off the assembly line as a ”completed” vehicle (assuming no chip or parts holds)?

Mine was 2 days on my Lightning and 1 day on my ICE.

It takes approx 22 hours on an ICE truck to go through Body, Paint and Final. The Final building for the ICE trucks currently is running at a rate of a truck every 53 seconds. The REVC building is currently building a truck every 6 minutes.

 

[PV2EV]

Mine was 2 days on my Lightning and 1 day on my ICE.

It takes approx 22 hours on an ICE truck to go through Body, Paint and Final. The Final building for the ICE trucks currently is running at a rate of a truck every 53 seconds. The REVC building is currently building a truck every 6 minutes.

Why so much slower with the same body, and less parts?

 

[Pioneer74]

Why so much slower with the same body, and less parts?

They are still launching it. Hell, the plant isn't even completed yet.

 

[Trick]

Now im pissed, dealer by me has a dealer ordered Lariat Sr coming in SQM, my 2022 was pushed to 2023 because that color was no.longer available. Where they pre made sitting at the plant or did they save the paint.

 

[cjb]

Now im pissed, dealer by me has a dealer ordered Lariat Sr coming in SQM, my 2022 was pushed to 2023 because that color was no.longer available. Where they pre made sitting at the plant or did they save the paint.

You sure that's a new dealer ordered truck and not a mannequin? Can't really tell with how you've screen capped the sticker.

 

[Trick]

If I'm reading it correctly blend was 8/24. They have a bunch in all different colors

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