Blueballin'
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It's a customer order that's been shipped actually.. they might not be as crazy on status checking as the rest of us whoever the owner is.
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5th Wheeling
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Cargo Master
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They sell a LOT of Lariats, most popular ordered trim on this site by a decent margin if I recall. The bed liner 5th wheel, yes, those caused enough delays on my ordered XL/STX that I cancelled after 4 months last summer. Lots of Lariat trucks were built ahead of mine. Dealer changed the color to white, deleted a bunch of options and it was built a month later. It remains a total crapshoot, there is no rhyme or reason and I have not seen any evidence that ordering a lower trim level ensures your truck gets built sooner.
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Anybody that thinks this might work, actually give it a try, I did, it was a real eye opener for me.
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More production of higher trims generally means a larger pool of parts. Unique XL parts might not be easier to come by as the more common high end parts. Tail lights would be one example. Every trim above XL has BLIS in the tail lights. Probably makes the XL ones the more rare part, which often means it is harder, not easier to get. Tie that with rumors Ford was pushing production of higher priced units to hold stockholders at bay plus my experience ordering an XL and my take is, an XL will take as long or longer than anything other than maybe a Limited or maybe Platinum. It isn't just chips anyway, lots of parts are backordered.
Anybody that thinks this might work, actually give it a try, I did, it was a real eye opener for me.
Anybody that thinks this might work, actually give it a try, I did, it was a real eye opener for me.
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From: Western, Oregon
More production of higher trims generally means a larger pool of parts. Unique XL parts might not be easier to come by as the more common high end parts. Tail lights would be one example. Every trim above XL has BLIS in the tail lights. Probably makes the XL ones the more rare part, which often means it is harder, not easier to get. Tie that with rumors Ford was pushing production of higher priced units to hold stockholders at bay plus my experience ordering an XL and my take is, an XL will take as long or longer than anything other than maybe a Limited or maybe Platinum. It isn't just chips anyway, lots of parts are backordered.
Anybody that thinks this might work, actually give it a try, I did, it was a real eye opener for me.
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