2% of the bed mats they need for the amount of orders that have it.
Same here. The only things i added to my order were 4k tow and fx4 which aren't on this constraint list.
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Sure and let a few large dealerships be all that's left to order from...and pay more for drop ship or delivery. Just like what happened to small bookshops when Amazon started mailing books cheap. A few big guys get rich and the locals go out of business.
Correct, there's nothing unfortunately prevent a supply issue once a Mav is already started down the line. Since they are still getting supplies as they are building, if there's hiccup in that supply showing up then build goes on hold. I suspect the chip monster has raised it's ugly head once again, which has caused all those hybrid delays and the sudden surge in Ecoboost orders last week and probably again this week.EXCEPT that some Vehicle Visibility Reports include the words "Chip Hold."
It's really the ratio of allocations to orders that matters. Not just the number of allocations.
I agree with you but I suspect that some of the people who have been sidelined here for a while have unfortunately fallen outside of your statistical analysis. I'm sure there are small anomaly dealers that have had far more orders than allocation and unfortunately a few people who ordered through them have "fallen through the cracks". Overall though, the system works.
I just wish I knew what the hold up is that's keeping our truck from being shipped. When the shift happened this week and folks' scheduled build dates got pushed out and some of you weren't scheduled at all, I began feeling some "survivor guilt" since ours is further along. Then I learned that ours is still just sitting there ~ nearly two weeks now, after a couple of long waits since produciton began, not even in line to be shipped ~ and that feeling was somewhat assuaged. I've never special ordered a vehicle before. The closest I came was when we told the Mini dealer what we were looking for and he found us that very thing inside of a week, just not in a colour we'd entertained. But as it was the only standard shift, four-door Mini Cooper in New England, we took the red one. LOL. Now I love it and we're getting another red Ford truck too. (Our Ranger was red.)
I did something similar back in 03 when I ordered a BMW 325i with the winter package after getting a promotion wheni was in th Air Force. I got it in metallic black with brown leather interior. Dealer said it had come from Germany because not a usual color combination, so he said. Ended up taking a month longer than normal because the container ship with it broke down by South African! Loved that car and never did see another like it. So waiting for the Maverick has pushed my limits on waiting! I'm hoping I'll have the same thrill as I did when I got my Bimmer!
Because you can add them on after you get the truck.
And the small ford car dealers will go out of business because they can't get cars to sell. Then where are you going to get repair work done?
Some of us see our exact same build which was ordered months after we did. Get built. That is what we are upset about.
And my Tri-fold bed cover 2.5%, that can't be good.
