unsubscribed ... thread got stupid

 

Thanks for letting everyone know, as if anyone would care. Good luck trying to wrangle the internet.....

 

Likewise. Good luck in the shallow end of the pool.

 

i peed in the pool

 

This morning the tracker I use showed "In production" for the first time. This evening, Phoenixfla's spreadsheet changed to In Production as well. Hopefully these are good signs.

 

johnnyjoe21 your vin was missing a digit, please resubmit.

 

Submitted. Glad to see there are others with an early order like mine from 3/30 (2022 F-450) that still haven't changed from "order confirmed".

 

Let's hope some of you that haven't been scheduled get their scheduled to week this week.

Courtesy of Blue Oval Forums:

 

So if they leave it blank on the super duty does that mean they will schedule or they don't know yet what they will do?

 

2022 F-Series Super Duty clearly states 8/23/2021. This coming week, 7/12/2021, they will be scheduling for the week of 8/23/2021. It’s good news!

 

This is the part of the process I don't understand I guess. I received a vin and build date when Ford first started scheduling for 7/26 and read over on BO that if a truck receives a vin and build date then the parts are available to build that truck, well fast forward over a month and now my build date gets moved twice and now is 9/20. How can trucks be scheduled and build dates be issued for August if trucks that have already bin scheduled keep getting moved back and the parts were available to build them back then but not now? Or is it all smoke and mirrors to keep us from moving on to something else.

 

They schedule trucks based on their expectation that they will have the parts for the build date. They don't necessarily have the parts in the factory the day they schedule.. If a commodity, which was expected to be available on the build date gets delayed,, so must the date of the build.

The dates above are just for unscheduled orders.

 

I should add that the good news, I think, is Ford won't start building a truck they can't finish like they did with the purgatory trucks. (That's my personal opinion,, nothing official) I was expecting my 21 in May, then June now its October 31st.

 

I agree with you Phoenixfla, I really believe Ford reacted to the "Perfect Storm" of commodity issues back in Mar/Apr/May by creating a "purgatory" of unfinished trucks because they got blindsided. In hindsight, given more notice, they may have reacted differently... who knows. A plant fire crippling a key supplier in a J.I.T business model just sucks!
I gotta believe moving forward, they'll just throttle production based on the supply chain. I would imagine continuing the piling of trucks in purgatory, is a compounding logistical nightmare that they'll want to avoid.
All speculation on my part of course...

 

I just wish that Ford would communicate with there dealers and if an order is missing a part/option that I could just eliminate and get the truck built. I add several options that are not needed but why not have them when ordering. I asked the dealer if there was a commodity issue that's pushing it back and they told me no it shows nothing on the VVR.