✅ 5/22/2023 Lightning Build Week Group (MY2023)

[KickingGas]

Well this stinks.

Uuuggg... I just got the same thing...

 

[LightingFast]

+1 for me as well. At least they managed to email the correct group of people it would seem.

Anyone have a guess as to what is happening? @TaxmanHog you always seem to know what is up.

I know I have my tear tag number and from this some or all of the rest of us do as well. How do they get to a tear tag but cannot finish? I am not familiar enough with the production process.

Thanks and sigh.... I sold my old 2003 F-150 this past weekend, now I do not have a truck. That was my choice and no one to blame but I thought with the tear tag and projected date of June 18 at dealership I would be ok.

 

[FordBookends]

+1 for me as well. At least they managed to email the correct group of people it would seem.

Anyone have a guess as to what is happening? @TaxmanHog you always seem to know what is up.

I know I have my tear tag number and from this some or all of the rest of us do as well. How do they get to a tear tag but cannot finish? I am not familiar enough with the production process.

Thanks and sigh.... I sold my old 2003 F-150 this past weekend, now I do not have a truck. That was my choice and no one to blame but I thought with the tear tag and projected date of June 18 at dealership I would be ok.

I got the same canned email. I don’t expect to see build complete until this weekend, but also have to go through the spray in bed liner process so don’t know if there is an as built state that would show that.

 

[LightingFast]

I got the same canned email. I don’t expect to see build complete until this weekend, but also have to go through the spray in bed liner process so don’t know if there is an as built state that would show that.

@FordBookends what is your sequence number?

Looks like I am 359/461 with the bed liner. You may have additional options not sure, but this pushed our group out to the mod shop. Curious if you are earlier in line and how how respective timings end up sequencing.

 

[FordBookends]

@FordBookends what is your sequence number?

Looks like I am 359/461 with the bed liner. You may have additional options not sure, but this pushed our group out to the mod shop. Curious if you are earlier in line and how how respective timings end up sequencing.

I am #336 of 461... WE are clustered pretty close to each other!

 

[Truckdriver1880]

I just got the same email on my Lariat order which had blend of 26 May. I have spray in bed liner (398 of 461). Hopefully it won’t be too long of a delay.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Anyone have a guess as to what is happening? @TaxmanHog you always seem to know what is up.

I know I have my tear tag number and from this some or all of the rest of us do as well. How do they get to a tear tag but cannot finish? I am not familiar enough with the production process.

The digital systems are all programmed and the tear tag indicates the coding is archived for technician use through the life of the vehicle.

There are many non-digital facets of the build that could be delinquent and the truck is not marked built in the production system until those parts are installed, could be days, weeks or months before that happens, hopefully it won't be long, the norm is 10-14 days after tear tag you would see built status date. YMMV

 

[TaxmanHog]

@Ragnar your truck was marked built on 6/3!
The rest of this build week should see progress soon (I'm tracking 5 others which are all still in production stage)

 

[LightingFast]

@Ragnar your truck was marked built on 6/3!
The rest of this build week should see progress soon (I'm tracking 5 others which are all still in production stage)

Congrats @Ragnar ! Glad to hear this cause nopefully mine is not far behind.

 

[Ragnar]

Taxman, Glad to know someone was watching this for me. It has been a long wait, so I am verry happy to know my Lightning is finally reaching the conclusion of this process. I am sure the delays to the 5/22 week build group were most probably due to parts shortages on the production line, so I am sure all the others who also got delayed won't be far behind. Best of Luck with your order.

 

[MotoGary]

I also received the email about the delay. But my biggest concern is that my sticker shows an MSRP increase of $2,500 over my order price which now puts my MSRP over $80k which put my tax credit in doubt. Maybe this has been covered in a thread somewhere else, but does anyone have any insights on this?

 

[TaxmanHog]

I also received the email about the delay. But my biggest concern is that my sticker shows an MSRP increase of $2,500 over my order price which now puts my MSRP over $80k which put my tax credit in doubt. Maybe this has been covered in a thread somewhere else, but does anyone have any insights on this?

This is an example of a truck that meets the standard, note that D&D is excluded from the qualifying value.

 

[MotoGary]

Yes, that's the way I understood it when I ordered. Base MSRP + Options = Total MSRP for tax credit calculation purposes. My original order is below. The Base MSRP at the time was $74,474. I added $3,140 in options for a total of $77,614. I pulled up my sticker last week and it showed Base MSRP of $76,974 which is $2,500 more than my original order.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works, it appears that I'm now at $80,114 MSRP which puts me $114 over the limit! I would post my sticker, but I didn't save it and now it doesn't pull up at all. So something weird is going on.

I called my dealer who said they'd look into it and get back with me in 10 minutes. Of course, you can guess what happened....crickets.

So now not only is my order delayed but apparently the new price is going to disqualify me for the tax credit. If that's the case, then I'm out. I'll wait and see what happens with the Chevy Silverado which I have a reservation for.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Yes, that's the way I understood it when I ordered. Base MSRP + Options = Total MSRP for tax credit calculation purposes. My original order is below. The Base MSRP at the time was $74,474. I added $3,140 in options for a total of $77,614. I pulled up my sticker last week and it showed Base MSRP of $76,974 which is $2,500 more than my original order.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how it works, it appears that I'm now at $80,114 MSRP which puts me $114 over the limit! I would post my sticker, but I didn't save it and now it doesn't pull up at all. So something weird is going on.

I called my dealer who said they'd look into it and get back with me in 10 minutes. Of course, you can guess what happened....crickets.

So now not only is my order delayed but apparently the new price is going to disqualify me for the tax credit. If that's the case, then I'm out. I'll wait and see what happens with the Chevy Silverado which I have a reservation for.

Try this direct link to the sticker database, it will fail, but paste your VIN to the right of the = sign in the URL after the failure screen appears then retransmit, it should pull your sticker.

Sticker

Also based on your snap shot of the WEB order screen, assuming the dealer and factory accepted the order based on these values, you have "Price Protection" for this amount.

 

[MotoGary]

Here's my order and the sticker showing the price increase. Assuming that I have "price protection", do you know what the IRS will require for proof? The screen shot of my order would be the only thing I have. I'd hate to buy it and then have a problem with the IRS over the tax credit due to a technicality.