✅ 8/28/2023 Lightning Build Week Group (MY2023)

[bretthicks2]

https://www.motorcraftservice.com/AsBuilt @bretthicks2

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[Sneakypetie78]

I guess per the most recent email we received (or i did) the day after it was largely assembled, they are blaming it on "supply chain challenges continue to cause delays and uncertainty".

We'll all be made whole... eventually. We're by far not the first ones to have these issues or delays.

In TaxmanHog we trust, to bring us the most recent pertinent info...

 

[WildBlue]

NO, but the beauty of coming off the line would be to roll directly onto a rail car and not be stuck in a holding lot for 4 months. Of course that requires they release the general hold on "BUILT" status' and the rail cars in the staging lane are headed in your direction.

Customers with earlier weeks will have ordered earlier. And then someone comes in with a recent order and then their truck is built and delivered ahead of the previous orders? This seems terribly unfair to earlier waves built weeks prior. Why should those customers wait the longest? It should be FIFO and not LIFO. More inept management of customer orders IMHO.

 

[Sneakypetie78]

Customers with earlier weeks will have ordered earlier. And then someone comes in with a recent order and then their truck is built and delivered ahead of the previous orders? This seems terribly unfair to earlier waves built weeks prior. Why should those customers wait the longest? It should be FIFO and not LIFO. More inept management of customer orders IMHO.

They never said they'd be fair in the order documents. ...

I imagine as missing parts come in, they get integrated into the factory and direct into the new vehicles, which could go straight out to shipping... where MAYBE the older builds need disassembly, and attention to fix, repair etc. 10,000-15000 truck repairs, chips or whatever doesn't happen overnight.

 

[JRT]

Added my info to form, build week is 9/11, dealership said build is 9/15, day after UAW contract expires lol.

 

[WildBlue]

They never said they'd be fair in the order documents. ...

I imagine as missing parts come in, they get integrated into the factory and direct into the new vehicles, which could go straight out to shipping... where MAYBE the older builds need disassembly, and attention to fix, repair etc. 10,000-15000 truck repairs, chips or whatever doesn't happen overnight.

Except treating customers fairly is a basic business practice. Why should I, who has been waiting over 2 years for my truck, be kicked to the back of the line over someone who just placed an order 2 months ago? And I know there are people who've waited longer than me -- and they deserve their trucks ahead of me.

What reeks is SOMETHING is wrong with the trucks that have been built. Ford isn't being forthcoming with its customers. All we're asking Ford to do is communicate with its customers.

Your position is basically "Trust Ford to do the right thing". Trust is earned and in my opinion, Ford hasn't earned my trust yet.

 

[Sneakypetie78]

Except treating customers fairly is a basic business practice. Why should I, who has been waiting over 2 years for my truck, be kicked to the back of the line over someone who just placed an order 2 months ago? And I know there are people who've waited longer than me -- and they deserve their trucks ahead of me.

What reeks is SOMETHING is wrong with the trucks that have been built. Ford isn't being forthcoming with its customers. All we're asking Ford to do is communicate with its customers.

Your position is basically "Trust Ford to do the right thing". Trust is earned and in my opinion, Ford hasn't earned my trust yet.

"Supply chain challenges causing delays and uncertainty."

 

[WildBlue]

"Supply chain challenges causing delays and uncertainty."

When everything is due to supply chain shortages, then nothing is due to supply chain shortages.

 

[MickeyAO]

When everything is due to supply chain shortages, then nothing is due to supply chain shortages.

Until you understand supply chains and/or logistics.

 

[Sneakypetie78]

Until you understand supply chains and/or logistics.

There's a whole thread somwhere else on here or reddit, about supply chain and the Panma Canal bottlenecks right now also.

BTW... Lightning isn't the only truck affected. I believe I read ICE trucks haven't moved in weeks either, so that kind of quashes the factory expansion problem theory.

 

[uccbcc]

this site changed and not working for me now

I noticed if you are logged in to your acount dashboard/ford.com and try to access the motorcraft site - it might tell you you have no subscriptions. I had to log out of ford.com to see the modules.

 

[casanewt]

BCE Modules are populating on my 9-3-23 blend date VIN. No tear tag yet.

 

[TaxmanHog]

@rtk11226 your modules are popping also, tear tag tonight!?

@bretthicks2 tear tag posted

 

[bretthicks2]

Sweet! What does having a tear tag mean again? Haha

 

[TaxmanHog]

Sweet! What does having a tear tag mean again? Haha

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