dan001978

Your van is done!!! It came through the trim dept. around 8:30 this morning. She's all done and sitting outside. Shouldn't be too long before you get her. Private message me an email addy. I have a few things for you.

 

The build a ford web site is now listing the 3 valve per cylinder V-10 as an option. I just spec'd one out. 2005 model, $800 option for the engine, I did not see a stability control. Ken

 

The stability thing has been run on 2006 15 passenger units, it's not available on a 2005. Where's the link to the 30 valve V-10 for a 2005 model E-Series. Maybe I'm blind I see 20 here:

http://www.fordvehicles.com/trucks/eseries/features/specs/

In a Super Duty it's listing 30:

http://www.fordvehicles.com/trucks/superduty/features/specs/

This is the only build your ford site I know of, aside from the commercial truck one.

 

must have been the tequila, I went back and tried to replicate my path, I could not get it to come up. Come to think of it I was on a yahoo site, now I remember, figures. My apologies, my bad, Ken

 

I'm in South Carolina.
I ordered an E-350 Passenger Van on 12/10/04. It's an XLT 15 passenger 5.4 with every option. It's still not in.
That's over 3 months...
Can anyone tell me why it takes so long, or is this normal?

 

Jeffnick,

Give me the last 6 spots in your VIN number and I can look tomorrow morning at work to see if it's been built or if it's at least arrived at Lorain for final assembly. We've for the past month been running the highest mix possible for the passenger models. (Every 4th vehicle) Also the mix of 15 passengers is way up so it may be close.

 

can you order a e-350 2005 that`t not a super duty?

 

polarbear thinks there may have been a huge fleet order holding things up. my dealer did not have an allocation when he took my deposit(didn't tell me either). finally got vin on 2-17(ordered 12-16), now sales mitt tells me 3-28 build date. do you have a vin yet?

 

supercrewdude, can you keep a look out for my e450 #B42592. it should be built this week and i also sent you an email.

 

Someday,

I will start looking for your vehicle Monday morning. VIN ending in B42592. I'll post here in this thread it's status when I locate it.

 

SuperCrewDude,
Thanks for the offer. What a trip -- to have a mole at the factory!
I don't have the vin. When I called to get it, they said my van would be delivered this week, but they'd get back to me w/ the vin. I've heard that before, but maybe this time they're playing it straight. We'll see.

Can anyone tell me what a normal lead time for an E-350 is?

 

supercrewdude, i dont know if there is anything special you could do (lumbar seat, cd player), but considering that you are in the trim dept can you make sure it gets vinyl flooring instead of carpet. the dealer says they had problems deleting the carpet, but they were able to get the vinyl order in. hopefully, it will show vinyl or it wont be a big deal to make the change yourself without getting in trouble. thanks for everything.

 

Someday,

Your van was built today. It came through the trim department around 7 a.m. this morning.

The flooring is done on the final chassis line, we're still crawling in and out of them in trim so it has to wait till the interior is all in. I'm sorry, I was not able to see for myself if they put in carpet or vinyl. It was long gone by the time my break came.

What I can do is see if my supervisor can look up the paperwork that travels with each van to see what option it had for the flooring. I'm pretty sure I can find someone that knows the code, provided I can look up it's work order. Can't promise this, but I will try.

 

Do you mean could I upgrade your options?

I wish I could upgrade for people, but I don't think management would be keeping me around long if I did.

I was actually installing the interiors today. I may have worked on yours, but there are 2 teams of 2 guys per team and it could have been the other one, my boss didn't run your VIN till lunch time. By then it was 4 hrs. past trim.

 

wow, thanks so much for everything
i was just kidding about the upgrades, i ordered it the way i wanted it anyways. even though leather seats would have been sweet.
the code for vinyl flooring is 162 if you have the time. either way, i will find out eventually.