My son ordered himself an F-350 Lariat with the 7.3 on June 24th. It's now October 15th and he has not heard a thing. Looking at the order thread I see where some have ordered pretty much the same truck in early August and have just taken delivery. A couple of weeks ago he stopped in the dealer to inquire the status of his truck. He was told that he is at a priority 2. Is that good or bad. For the record he has purchased several vehicles from this dealer so he did not put down a deposit with the order. It has been 16 weeks since the order was placed.

The day he ordered the truck even before he left the dealership he received an acknowledgement that his order has been placed. Has anyone waited longer than 16 weeks for their truck. Just curious on my part.

 

Similar position for me. starting to wonder if its certain options. Black appearance, f350, 7.3/4.30, vinyl floors.


Just need it by year end.

 

I ordered a truck somewhat like that 7/3, it was just built 10/11 and shows about a month of shipping time to Colorado. I became impatient with the screwed up system employed by Ford, found a truck on the ground and bought it. I have 5000 miles on my new truck and the dealer will be selling the one I ordered to another customer. I see they changed the color and some options. Great to get what you ordered but we are already getting snow and the cabinets for my remodel are ready. Waiting any longer would have screwed up several of my plans. The communication from Ford is terrible. There is a tracker on this website he should enter his VIN into. It gives you at least some info on the status of your build.

 

My truck took almost that long back in 2018 when everything was booming. Order/delivery dates in my sig.

 

Does he have Adaptive Steering? There has been a big shortage of Adaptive Steering modules in Lariat, Platinum and Limited. It seems they may be starting to schedule some of them now however.

Priority code of 2 is the best you can get. Unless the dealer has several orders with a 2 priority code, his truck should be one of the next scheduled provided there are no commodity issues.

Dealers can set a retail priority code of 10-19 for a retail order. For it to have gone to 2, a Regional office was likely involved.

Some items that can hold up scheduling are the spray in bedliner and tonneau covers because they only have capacity to install a certain number each week. I would delete both and have them installed locally after the truck arrives (unless the bedliner is part of a package).

He wait to be scheduled should not be much longer.

 

He did order the spray in bedliner. I don't believe he ordered the adaptive steering. Did get the Lariat Ultimate Package, moonroof among other packages.

 

He does not have a VIN number yet.

 

I appreciate all the comments I will pass them on to him.

 

Having a VIN means nothing. Many of us ordered back in March and got VINs in May with an initial build week in July. Yet here we are waiting for our '22 trucks (no adaptive steering).

 

A few years ago when I ordered, I read through an incredibly long, detailed, and confusing post (at an F-150 forum) that described, in excruciating detail, how the Ford ordering, priority, and allocation system worked. There were all kinds of really interesting bits of information that stepped through how a given dealership could/should stack its orders, how a sub-optimal stack could leave that dealership in the cold for longer than so-called common sense would otherwise suggest, and what the various priority codes actually mean.

Things could have changed in the past 3 years and I may be mis-remembering, but my take-away was the priority codes were internal to a dealership. That is, Ford pulls orders from dealerships based on the dealerships' standings, allocations, etc. Once a dealership is next in the queue, then that dealership's order gets pulled in the order of that dealership's order priorities. The order priority didn't dictate which dealership is next in the queue. Rather, only after the dealership's turn came up did the order priorities come into play to decide which of that dealership's various vehicle orders would be pulled by Ford for build. There may be an exception to Priority 1, which is more of an emergency, got-to-have-it-for-the-President kind of thing. I don't recall if your Priority Code 2 is also a more global exception.

For example, I order a truck at Dealership X and I have a priority code of 15. You order a truck at Dealership Y and have a priority code of 10. You don't necessarily get your truck built before me.

• If Dealership X is next in the Ford queue and there are no Dealership X orders with a higher priority code than my code 15, then my truck gets pulled for build. You, meanwhile, are still waiting for Dealership Y's turn in the queue, even though your priority code was "better" than mine.
• If Dealership Y is next in the Ford queue but there are 8 other orders it has placed an all of them were placed with priority 7, then one of those will get pulled by Ford to build. You're still waiting. Meanwhile, Dealership X is next in the queue, it has no >15 priority codes, and so my truck gets pulled for build. Again, you wait as my truck gets built, even though you had a "better" code than me.

And, so on. So, at least some of this is relative to how a given dealership codes its priorities. Just because a dealership assigned priority code 10 to all of its orders doesn't mean that all of those will get built before some other dealership that assigned priority code 19 to all of its orders. It's not a strict walk-through of priority codes.

I'd recommend doing a google search on Ford priority codes, as others have researched this quite a bit and can give really good insight into how the system works. It's complicated. And, again, the best descriptions and write-ups I found were no actually here in these forums.

 

I ordered my truck June 6th. Finally got a vin Yesterday(friday) with a scheduled production week of Nov 15th(lets hope it holds). No AS. Bedliner was dropped and got a bump to 01 priority about 3 weeks ago.

And yes as mentioned above priority codes are only linked to your specific dealer. Their other orders and monthly allocations play a large role.

 

My spray in bed liner would have delayed my order according to my dealer. He told me that we would just take the truck down the street to line x.

 

Wow, that is pretty bad... I had a VIN 8/12 It still took two solid months after that for them to build this XL trim truck...

 

It means he can enter it into the tracker on this site and follow for whatever updates come along. I agree it doesn't suggest they will actually build the truck. I gave up on that process a month ago.

 

I ordered mine on March 23rd and still have nothing in the works. you're nothing to Ford they'll get around to you when they feel like it.

Sit back and wait or cancel the order those are your options.