✅ 11/07 Lightning Build Week Group (MY2023)

[bewbie]

Mannequin (demo) trucks are just ordinary dealer stock, but Ford has them flagged in their system as a mannequin and the dealership is not able to "floor" them, meaning they can't be sold. They are supposed to be placed in the showroom and accessible for customers to sit in and check out or they can be used for test drives.

I'm learning a lot about this with my current ordeal -- bought a mannequin yet dealership won't let me have it. They made an illegal sale according to state law. This could affect their dealership licensing and have other repercussions. I haven't updated my other thread, but we have a meeting with the dealership tomorrow and it looks like they're admitting they were at fault and are going to push to cancel the sale. We're going to push the other way and tell them they have to give us the truck. Ultimately it's a stalemate unless I want to spend tons of time and money dragging it to court, which I'll probably have the truck before I get a court date. Then I'd just be whining about a couple payments I had to make along the way. It's really up to Ford to save me here. They either tell the dealership to finish it up and give me my truck or they don't. Dealership would love to give me the truck and get me off their back, but if they do, it means $25K pre-sale penalty and possibly other things they don't want. So they're going to hope I just take my money back with an apology, but I'm not playing nice on this one.

If you're in a situation where your dealership hasn't finalized the purchase, so that means you might have the truck, but you're just on on an extended test drive in a vehicle you technically own. Without blue cruise, ford pass, whatever, then they're doing the same thing to you. Just they let you have the truck so you wouldn't make a bunch of noise about it. I'm learning through this and a couple talks with ford as well as a member of the state dealership board that this is a game a lot are playing right now, not just Ford dealers with Lightnings.

You should push to get it finalized. Do you have registration and all that? If you do, then at least you can get the tax credit. But if you have registration that also means Ford is aware of the sale and released the MSO for title work so I'm not sure why your dealership wouldn't finalize everything. What does Ford say about your situation?

And this is probably not the right thread for this discussion...

I have access to Ford Pass and the free 250kwh, but blue cruise says "activation pending"

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[Monkey]

I have access to Ford Pass and the free 250kwh, but blue cruise says "activation pending"

Have you talked to Ford about this? There are some fleet/delivery mode settings they're supposed to change or activate during PDI. Could just be a glitch in the system too. If you have your Ford Pass and free charging bonus, it seems that all your functions should be there.

 

[bewbie]

Have you talked to Ford about this? There are some fleet/delivery mode settings they're supposed to change or activate during PDI. Could just be a glitch in the system too. If you have your Ford Pass and free charging bonus, it seems that all your functions should be there.

After contacting Ford and the dealer, it was determined that the Purchase needs to be finalized to unlock these features and have the FCSP sent to me.

 

[Monkey]

I changed to shipped status today! No ETA... Convoy shipping to DesMoines.

 

[asudan]

I changed to shipped status today! No ETA... Convoy shipping to DesMoines.

Great to see! I bet it's on a train with all the 12/06 build trucks that are all shipping for some reason and have no chip holds.

 

[asudan]

Mine is BUILT status 12/15/22! Giddy up. I wonder if it can make it to Montana by the end of the year?

 

[bowdoinhammer]

Ours had a build date of 11/11/22 so we got through that pretty quick... but it still hasn't made it's way to Maine!

 

[bewbie]

Ship ETA 12/24-12/28

 

[Wsl346]

Morning 11/07

UserName	Location	Build Week	Blend Date	In Production Date	Built	Shipped	Estimated Arrival Date	Arrival Date	Trim	Battery
asudan	MT	11/7/2022	11/7/2022	11/7/2022	12/15/2022				Lariat	ER
bewbie	NY	11/7/2022	11/7/2022	11/7/2022		12/18/2022			Lariat	ER
mh82ai3	CO	11/7/2022	11/9/2022	11/9/2022	11/30/2022	12/8/2022			Lariat	ER

 

[Monkey]

One step closer! Looks like my truck may have been delivered to the dealership this evening... Have not heard from the sales staff, but the Ford tracker has shipped as checked off and I can now proceed to complete my purchase.

 

[Monkey]

Yep, truck has indeed arrived! Just trying to coordinate delivery in between holidays and a dealership that's a 10 hour drive away. Hahaha... That tax credit is mocking me right now.

 

[bowdoinhammer]

We received our Lightning last night! Great experience with our dealer!

 

[asudan]

Mine is still in Detroit. Been built 9 days now.

 

[Monkey]

...The problem with buying from an out of state dealer is it's a challenge getting there in the midst of holidays. Really incompatible delivery timing for me, as I think would be the case for many of us. I'm picking it up end of next week to make sure I'm in time for the tax credits.

 

[asudan]

...The problem with buying from an out of state dealer is it's a challenge getting there in the midst of holidays. Really incompatible delivery timing for me, as I think would be the case for many of us. I'm picking it up end of next week to make sure I'm in time for the tax credits.

Agreed. I have to travel from AZ to Montana to get mine.

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