Train ride to NorCal

[gorwell]

Are going through the online checkout? I didn’t have that as an option because mine said “shipped” until two days after the purchase.

No, I'll go in and check with them just in case they can come close to my interest rate. You said they offered a good rate, we'll see what they have.

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[MapleMan650]

Just saw an Anti-Matter Blue in Novato on Grant. Was that anyone here?

 

[Sea Ranch]

Just saw an Anti-Matter Blue in Novato on Grant. Was that anyone here?

It will make someone very happy. I had high expectations for my Lightning Lariat and it has surpassed all of my expectations. It is an excellent truck!

 

[gorwell]

Going in tomorrow at 1pm to pick the truck up.

Have financing at 2.65%, we'll see what they offer just to make things more seamless (would need to bring contract back to credit union to get payment reviewed and processed). CoyoteJim said their rates were good and they said they get better rate than ford offers publicly due to their sales volume.

 

[DiveMan911]

Question for you all that have taken delivery: did your dealer refund your reservation and deposit or did they just subtract it from the purchase price? Mine refunded me, which I thought was weird…but just wanted to see how others did it?

 

[DroopyHippo]

Question for you all that have taken delivery: did your dealer refund your reservation and deposit or did they just subtract it from the purchase price? Mine refunded me, which I thought was weird…but just wanted to see how others did it?

They refunded my deposit.

 

[frautumn]

Question for you all that have taken delivery: did your dealer refund your reservation and deposit or did they just subtract it from the purchase price?

They refunded my reservation deposit ($100) when I switched dealers, then they took $500 for order deposit, but forgot to credit that back to me until I pointed it out at purchase, at which point they deducted it from the amount I owed, along with $100 for the overcharge on destination/delivery.

 

[metroshot]

.... along with $100 for the overcharge on destination/delivery.

You got the Destination & Delivery price protected and got the $100 ?

I had an argument with mine and ended up not getting it back.

 

[gorwell]

Report back from dealer:

Fairly straightforward purchase.

Longer than I wanted to be there. Took a solid 3 hours and a half hours. Slower compared to my Ioniq 5, they had everything more prepared and it was all digital. My 4 y/old insisted on coming, and that was a bad decision to let her. Said she'd be good and listen, didn't last long and got bored.

Only two annoying dealer components:

1. Pushed ford financing, story about needing to do it to make money. Seemed to suggest 5% was their best rate up front. I declined and stayed with my 2.6% financing. But later when I got to the actual financing guy, he had a local random credit union waiting for me with 2.4%, I used them to make it more seamless (mine was going to require more work to get a check). Rate was low because of how much I was paying down.

2. Financing guy pushed extended warranty hard. I got tired of arguing with him and after $1500 off, and saying I could remove and get a refund in 30 days if I wanted to, I agreed. Didn't come in with a strong yes or no, but knew I could get it somewhere else after purchase for basically cost. Will look into it another day as I need hours, maybe days, of research to make decisions of this nature.


Got the $750 CA rebate, and $500 off for deposit without issue. Was already refunded intial $100 deposit when I changed dealers early on. I wasn't even going to bother with the $100 delivery fee adjustment, but since financing guy annoyed me, I said take it off... After some internal conv. , they couldn't figure it out and just took off $100, b/c it was just $100 dollars off a 57k truck...

 

[TheRealDlo]

Report back from dealer:

Fairly straightforward purchase.

Longer than I wanted to be there. Took a solid 3 hours and a half hours. Slower compared to my Ioniq 5, they had everything more prepared and it was all digital. My 4 y/old insisted on coming, and that was a bad decision to let her. Said she'd be good and listen, didn't last long and got bored.

Only two annoying dealer components:

1. Pushed ford financing, story about needing to do it to make money. Seemed to suggest 5% was their best rate up front. I declined and stayed with my 2.6% financing. But later when I got to the actual financing guy, he had a local random credit union waiting for me with 2.4%, I used them to make it more seamless (mine was going to require more work to get a check). Rate was low because of how much I was paying down.

2. Financing guy pushed extended warranty hard. I got tired of arguing with him and after $1500 off, and saying I could remove and get a refund in 30 days if I wanted to, I agreed. Didn't come in with a strong yes or no, but knew I could get it somewhere else after purchase for basically cost. Will look into it another day as I need hours, maybe days, of research to make decisions of this nature.


Got the $750 CA rebate, and $500 off for deposit without issue. Was already refunded intial $100 deposit when I changed dealers early on. I wasn't even going to bother with the $100 delivery fee adjustment, but since financing guy annoyed me, I said take it off... After some internal conv. , they couldn't figure it out and just took off $100, b/c it was just $100 dollars off a 57k truck...

Why aren't people getting $2000 rebate? My dealer said the lightning qualifies for $2000

 

[CoyoteJim]

Why aren't people getting $2000 rebate? My dealer said the lightning qualifies for $2000

They lowered the income cap in February. So even though the vehicle qualifies a lot of people buying them won’t.

 

[Lightninorian]

Maybe tomorrow I'll get mine. Probably not. I guess someone has to be last. Taking orders for 2023 pro's, how bout you deliver the ones ordered on Jan 6th. At least your setting up the 2023's with a realistic delivery window of over a year. Dammit Ford!

 

[gorwell]

Why aren't people getting $2000 rebate? My dealer said the lightning qualifies for $2000

The 2k cvrp rebate is something you mail in, it's not at the dealer.

Like others said, they did recently adjust it to 200k income limit (combined). Wife and I where barely under for last text year and will exceed it this year. So we can claim it.

 

[TheRealDlo]

Maybe tomorrow I'll get mine. Probably not. I guess someone has to be last. Taking orders for 2023 pro's, how bout you deliver the ones ordered on Jan 6th. At least your setting up the 2023's with a realistic delivery window of over a year. Dammit Ford!

Well Sir, it's you or I.

If mine isn't here today I'm in a pickle

Yours really should be before mine but man... I'm still kinda shocked my Truck has been on Vegas for 25 days already... feels long... feels

 

[gorwell]

Picture time:

Baby blu and big blu.

Child seat setup in the bed; don't want to dirty my interior.

Thought my charging cable would reach, but it doesn't It's just around the corner by the brick. Have 2 feet to spare with both cars in driveway together (my garage is in the back of my house, so it's not used for cars). don't like parking on streets b/c powerlines are overhead and birds hang out there and shit on my cars all day.

Now that I got a chance to review the Truck in daylight at multiple angles, there are a few imperfections (along w/ the one already Id'ed at the deaer). Scuffs on the passenger B pillar that needs just the right light to see, a dust nib in the paint on the tailgate; and previously noted @ dealer was seemingly some paint overspray on some rubber under the windshield.

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