Ford will sell & deliver Mavericks without chips controlling non-safety critical features

[projectvortex]

Wonder how my insurance company will price an incomplete vehicle? Cant wait to hear about the claim experience for a damaged/totaled partially built Maverick.

Go through the list of questions to be answered to generate a KBB value.

Does your vehicle have heated seats? Maybe.

Does your vehicle have power mirrors? Sort of.

Does your vehicle have power seats? Hopefully.

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[MLowe05]

Customer: cries and complains
Ford: offers fits kits
Customer: cries and complains
Ford: price protection
Customer: cries and complains
Ford: dealers will get reduced allocation
Customer: cries and complains
Ford: your trucks are coming now without all the chips.
Customer: threatens to buy a Santa Cruz
Ford: send us a PM with your VIN and we will look into the situation.

I think it is more like this:

Customer: I'll take a hybrid Lariat with the Lux package
Ford: Best we can do is a Ecoboost XL with no infotainment or AC for $10k over MSRP.
Customer: You've got yourself a deal, where do I sign?

 

[Twixel Jackson]

Just another observation with this concept....month after month Ford had SIBL on their constraint list. I as well as many other MTC forum members would have gladly skipped Ford installing their SIBL (which coverage area is way inferior to the Bullet Liner I have on my F150) to have an aftermarket one installed. I don't even want the Ford SIBL but it comes with my LUX package, which I am unwilling to drop due to Ford packaging so many options I need within it. So why given these facts, didn't Ford at that time make that an option like they are making delivery minus some chips an option? It would have sped up production/delivery of products at the time thus getting more Mavericks in the hands of more customers. It would have also reduced the number of trucks involved in the SIBL gas tank recall. Just another observation if the overall goal of Ford is to have more production and trucks pushed out....finished or not.

 

[baseballchamps]

Looks to me like a "Pandora's Box" for potential lawsuits. Missing an accessory is one thing but installation of a chip by an aftermarket company or dealer that is supposed to be done by Ford?

 

[MLowe05]

Looks to me like a "Pandora's Box" for potential lawsuits. Missing an accessory is one thing but installation of a chip by an aftermarket company or dealer that is supposed to be done by Ford?

If a Ford dealership can do warranty repairs, they can install these modules.

 

[Sk17kp36]

https://www-clickondetroit-com.cdn....-non-safety-related-chips-install-them-later/

 

[Rob Cactus Gray]

Looks to me like a "Pandora's Box" for potential lawsuits. Missing an accessory is one thing but installation of a chip by an aftermarket company or dealer that is supposed to be done by Ford?

Im sure the “chips” are end items that ford could easily install. Should be complete plug and play components. Dealers are not going to get a box of just microelectronic chips to install.

 

[Ford88]

A lot of panic on this but it will become the new norm just to get cars out the factory and get sales rolling. Like it’s been said GM has been doing this all year. The new 2022 GMC Sierras are starting to be delivered this month and will all require a Q4 dealer retrofit for rear park assist to function. Among other things, they’re pulling heated seats / heated steering that will receive a credit to be installed later.

They have to satisfy shareholders first, customers second. It’s more beneficial to sell a car and have to change 1 or 2 things later than to built something and leave it in a lot for months. This will be the new normal until supplies can be rebuilt / new manufacturers come online.
Something the customer will just need to accept if they want new unfortunately.

 

[MLowe05]

There's a 7-page thread on this trending right now already.. did you happen to see that?

 

[mamboman777]

So, what exactly would this include?

 

[Sk17kp36]

I did. There were several replies at the beginning about sources not being cited. This story cites their source.

 

[mamboman777]

Also when the chips do come in who get them??? The ones that are being built right at that time or the ones that are out on the road who gets them what would be right.

This is a great point. I bet they would install in the new ones before the ones already out because that makes the most economical and logistical sense.

 

[NJ Pinelands]

If the Lightning uses some of the same chips and the Russian war in Ukraine, it is good they are telling customers it could be a year after customers receive their Maverick.

 

[RR - All the way]

Only issue I see is for the service department of scheduling and getting the chip installed. What about dealers that are sell vehicles to customers outside of your market area. Will the dealer in that area install them? Hopefully Ford will reimburse those service departments for time spent(which they will just like they do for recalls now).

Perhaps those dealers that knowingly sell more vehicles than anticipated allocation to persons all over the country, for a profit I presume, should pay the local dealers to install the chips. It seems that if sell them for profit, they should take care of your customers.

 

[Sk17kp36]

Here's another article, with sources...

https://www-clickondetroit-com.cdn....-non-safety-related-chips-install-them-later/

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