Multi-month delay for February 2022 deliveries - Why?

[Chris_G]

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[Automate]

Exactly, what does someone in southern TX, NM, or AZ do with their car all summer?

Hopefully keep it in a garage. Garage kept vehicles do stay looking good longer.

Same reason many people put windshield reflectors in their vehicles when parked.

 

[flyfishmich]

Hopefully keep it in a garage. Garage kept vehicles do stay looking good longer.

Sure, at night when the sun isn't out. But for the most part they are going to sit in a parking lot 40 hours a week in the sun when someone is at work. I understand the concern but putting it in perspective makes me sleep better at night while my built vehicle sits out on the elements for 3 months.

 

[Red Ryder]

I live in Florida and park outside. Until a couple of weeks ago I had a 2005 Prius still functioning just fine (46-52 mpg) on its original hybrid battery. The so-called shelf according to a dealer mechanic is 8 years, which mine. Is at twice that. In other words, don’t worry too much about the fragility and lifespan of the small hybrid battery pack.

Right, I indicated that the effects may be negligible, but I wouldn't completely dismiss it as "so-called".
Calendar aging is a real thing, and there are plenty of studies of how it varies depending on charge-state of the batteries during long-term storage. Your Prius may not have sat six months without a charge cycle, maybe so. My curiosity was not total life of the batteries, rather environmental conditions and charge state, and any detrimental effects.
This lab has written about it some, but that's what they do: (https://www.ornl.gov/facility/ntrc)

As for desert storage, it is a good place to park aircraft for preservation. I do recall reading about the aircraft parked during Covid. They covered the windows to minimize UV damage.
I suppose snakes could be a concern too: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mechanics-battle-rattlesnakes-off-parked-planes/story?id=78088517

 

[Red Ryder]

Exactly, what does someone in southern TX, NM, or AZ do with their car all summer?

Ever seen the tint on those Florida cars?!

 

[flyfishmich]

Ever seen the tint on those Florida cars?!

Grew up there, never had tint

 

[Spiffster]

This whole thing is making me crazy. Looking up weather in Hermosillo now FML lol. Next week it’s already high 80s there — in February.

Can’t wait for my batteries to sit in the high heat in the coming months, never being run. Paint getting blasted by UV rays. Interior plastics being heated up so high it could probably cause cracking since it’s cheap material. Prob not good for the rubber on tires either.

Wonder how much bird they get down there that could end up eating away the clear coat.

I want my truck. But I don’t want it. But I do.

Reminds me of my wife's Audi e-tron sitting in the service lot for 2 months waiting on a part from Germany. I was getting pretty stressed out as the temperatures for weeks on end were touching 100. When I mentioned my concern to the service guy he looked at me like I was crazy and said "they are designed for that". Was thinking Fuck you dude, where is your car parked right now?

Her car is just fine, but im not buying that sitting in temperatures like that does nothing. I had a 2003 BMW 3 series that would sit at the airport lot just about every week during the summer and it was a grab bag of random strange quirks when I would return from my business trips in hot summer weather.

 

[Red Ryder]

Grew up there, never had tint

...bet you certainly saw alot of it.

 

[Red Ryder]

....the service guy he looked at me like I was crazy and said "they are designed for that". Was thinking Fuck you dude, where is your car parked right now?

Her car is just fine, but im not buying that sitting in temperatures like that does nothing.

No doubt a boat, airplane, car, motorcycle ages much less out of sunlight and weather.
I've left some inside and some out, and the difference is apparent, even within a year.

 

[Whitenight]

If the pushback date is due to a chip shortage, what chip or chips are the issue? Are the chips needed for safe operation of the vehicle? If they aren't, are they for some non-essential items? I would be happy to take delivery of my Maverick to have reliable transportation until the chip arrives and bring it back to the dealer to install it. That short term solution would probably satisfy many of us while Ford would show their customers that they WANT to work with us.

According to Tim Bartz, a Ford Maverick Team rep stated that the chip involved is across all trim lines and models and isn't related to any one particular option. So that probably means that it is a chip required for the basic operation of the vehicles.

 

[Whitenight]

Sure, at night when the sun isn't out. But for the most part they are going to sit in a parking lot 40 hours a week in the sun when someone is at work. I understand the concern but putting it in perspective makes me sleep better at night while my built vehicle sits out on the elements for 3 months.

The paint on the car will be better than everyone else's since it has had time to properly cure and bake on.

 

[Rickus]

The paint on the car will be better than everyone else's since it has had time to properly cure and bake on.

Very funny, very funny. SO DAMN TRUE, but very funny!

 

[flyfishmich]

The paint on the car will be better than everyone else's since it has had time to properly cure and bake on.

Hahaha, not much I can do about it. I can walk away and spend $10k more for one off a dealer lot that isn't going to have the options I built or order something that is $15k more from Toyota or Nissan. And the Santa Cruz isn't even on my radar.

As long as the new car smell hasn't baked out of the passenger compartment I'm good.

 

[DryHeat]

Exactly, what does someone in southern TX, NM, or AZ do with their car all summer?

My cars sit outside 24 hours a day, every day, in the southern Arizona sun.

Looking at other cars on the road here, it seems to me there were some particular paints (anecdotally, usually a darker blue or red) on older cars that faded pretty badly in just a few years. But maybe the paints are better now, as I seldom see that with cars built in the last 20 years or so.

 

[Slammer]

Whenever I hear about cars parked in the desert all I can think about is Walter White and Tuco

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