I just ordered my new F450 King Ranch the day after Thanksgiving. Can anyone advise when I should realistically expect a VIN to be available and how I find out what it is?

Thanks in advance for the info.

 

Don't hold your breath ....... you'll lose. We ordered out our '17 F250 XLT SuperCab 4x4 longbed gasser with a 4.3 rear end in mid-JUL, gotta VIN Halloween & was built 17 NOV. It's @ the dealer as of today, 5 DEC but still gotta get splash guards installed, spray-in bedliner, & Bakflip tonneau cover. Hope'n to bring'r home on FRI, 9 DEC.


Here's what it looked like sit'n on the transport this AM.

 

The date in the bottom center is the date the sticker was printed. Mine showed up with an 11/24 date, then reprinted to 12/01, then truck was built on 12/04.

If built, your truck should show up with a build date when you search under vehicles here: FordEtis home page

The date is in DD.MM.YYYY format. If the date is 11.30.0000 or something like that, it has not been built yet.

Good luck!

 

Update on my F450 Retail Order:


Ordered: 8/21
VIN: ~10/20
Window Sticker: 12/9
Build Date: 12/17
ETA: 1/1 (Fingers crossed)

 

Mine took about 8 weeks to get the VIN, and now looking at a 1/1 ETA. All in just about 18 weeks (if all goes as planned her on out). That's about right on based on a post I read a day or so ago that mentioned the weeks to delivery.

 

does any one know what priority numbers mean mine was 19.

I ordered a 17 f250 white gold/ caribou king ranch today getting excited hope its as good of a truck as my 12 was.

 

Cant you guys tell me how you get the VIN after you place the order? From the dealer? Thanks for the help fellas!

 

ETIS just populated with a build date this morning.

Build Date:
17.01.2017
Vehicle Line:
F-Series Super Duty
Engine:
6.7L 4V V8 T/C Diesel
Transmission:
6 Speed Auto Trans (6R140)

F350 Platinum Ultimate - White Platinum. Looks like I have a shot at February 12 delivery per Ford Chat.

Ordered Dec 2nd Priority 10.

 

Check cotus mine just switched today from scheduled to in production

 

Cotus? How did you get that to work? I havent heard of anyone getting anything to populate off of the Cotus site.

 

KYLONGRIFLE the regular cotus never worked for me either. But the site wwwqa.cotus.ford.com works sometime. It works randomly, some days I have to try several times during the day to get it to work, but at some time in the day it will work. Seems to work better in the evening. I just tried to use it and it didn't work but it worked last night. If you are as persistent as I am you will get your answer. In the top left corner it will give you a delivery date. Then in the middle it will give you a status bar. Good luck remember persistence is the answer. Also I used the vin# not the dealer and order# not to say they won't I just always the vin.