Current 2022 Maverick Commodities / Constraints as of Aug 30

[grumpyunk]

Rats. Several of my options are at 0% but my order is at priority 2. Dealers says I can't change to drop bed liner/cover at this point.

Priority 2 means ... it is selected for production scheduling, or at least on the threshold of the door to the scheduling room. I would not do a thing to my order in your case as even with some 0%, you seem to have gotten the 'missing bits' already assigned. Or very close.

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[grumpyunk]

So, having to wait for your truck to be built is a customer service issue? Fall begins 22 Sep, right after the autumnal equinox. Ford has NEVER stated trucks would be delivered prior to FALL.

Cost overruns and mismanagement? A majority of the truck is made with existing Ford technology. This is not a "new from the ground up" truck, like the Bronco. There are may articles on the web that state that fact. I am sure you will have no problem finding them. So far, Ford has met their intent. I am sure Ford would have hoped for supply chain issues to be better resolved than they are at this point. Supply chain disruptions have been occurring since early 2020. Economists are saying supply chain issues will be an issue well into 2022.

"Thinking" something is occurring, and "knowing" that something is occurring, and two totally different thoughts, opinion vs fact.

My impression is the 'reservations' and essentially the 'early order' were being used by Ford to guesstimate the 'take rate' on the available option packages and stand-alone options.
Once they had a bit of a suggestion(i.e. hybrid double the expected) the information was likely used to change production scheduling, plant assignments(add/remove/move production) and to negotiate more detailed contracts with suppliers. Before that, all scheduling, plant assignment, and contracts were nothing but a GUESS.
Their best guess, but a SWAG in everything but name. Scientific Wild Axx Guess.
Add in the government paying people more to STAY HOME than work, and so on, and the mess they are in is more understandable. To me, anyway. tom

 

[Charles]

I do agree with that. A really in the know dealer and good dealer will tell you what is gonna hold it up or not. Mine did not, didnt know of any constraints of any kind even with rapid red, nothing. I found out all the info here. I bet they wont say it as well since they want that extra dough made on the options. No matter how small it may be. But I agree with you on a really good dealer will keep you in the know. Communication with mine has been like pulling teeth but i already have a confirmed order and the dealer is in town so im gonna have to just stick it out.

 

[Charles]

Yesterday morning I had my dealer delete the spray in bedliner.
Less than 24 hours later I received the following:

 

[hcforde]

Yesterday morning I had my dealer delete the spray in bedliner.
Less than 24 hours later I received the following:

Congrats!!!

When did you order?

 

[grumpyunk]

Ford has vendors and is NOT in control of all components in their final product. The same is true of their vendors, and their vendors. The final producer is at the mercy of a long line of vendors he has no knowledge of except the one he deals with directly.

The alternative is to control all means of production(down to the nuts and bolts) which can be daunting and actually slow the process of adding new technology to the final product.

ANY color you like, as long as it is black.

Henry tried to design his carburetor so that it could be assembled with one bolt. One.

He got the 'T' down to a science, lowered the price almost annually, but when the market moved, changed, he had a heck of a time translating the success of the 'T' to a follow-on model. His assembly plant was shut down for a couple years as I read things.

We have a brand-new model & market opportunity, lotsa stuff going on, and we have yet to see ONE on a dealer lot from regular production.
If you want a model T, you can control all the parts and process that make it happen, but you end up with a turgid product that becomes undesirable. Having flexibility of sourcing adds flexibility to product.
What do you really want? The first retail customers on a showroom floor have yet to step foot in that showroom. Orders placed in the last 3 months are pre-production or EARLY production. They will be built, but getting the suppliers lined up and shipping, and procedures refined takes time. I will wait. I would LIKE a build date, but I will live without it.

This site is a good place to blow off steam and reduce anxiety by realizing you are not the only one in the boat.. and we all don't have oars, either...
tom

 

[Charles]

Congrats!!!

When did you order?

I ordered Jun 22, 2022.

 

[grumpyunk]

I'm with you on this. I'm retired and golf at least twice a week. Without a lockable tonneau cover I would have no place to put my golf clubs.. Besides, if I removed that (no guarantee that it would move me up) then one of my other items might delay it. I also have the spray in Bed liner. It's also one of the reasons I went with the XLT so I would be able to lock and unlock the truck bed with my key fob instead of using a key.

Ya can't fit the clubs into the back seat, on the floor? OR, are you in fear that someone will see that glam bag and want it more than you do?
Some golfers use only a couple clubs. Caddying 5X years ago for duffers that drove to either side of the fairway, carrying double, with huge leather bags... filled with ALL kinds of golfer toys, turned me off from golf. As one golfer said to the other as we walked towards the green: "I play golf as well as old people ____" He was right though he didn't know it. Poor tipper too, and I remember that from a LONG time ago.
I think the remote tailgate lock will make the tailgate openable, and then you gain access to the tonneau release?
AFAIK, from web sites, the cover and the spray in are both obstacles to scheduling.
tom

 

[hcforde]

I ordered Jun 22, 2022.

Lucky you! I was not even aware of the Maverick until July 19th, I ordered/reserved the next day. I have a wait ahead of me.

 

[hcforde]

Where are you getting those "let's say" numbers? Do any of them have any verifiable basis?

hcforde said:
So what is the conversion going to be? There will also be people that DO reserve and will not pick up when the car arrives. They are already making a list of people that want one but have not ordered/reserved a Maverick. Lets say they get a 60% conversion rate. If they can do 800(max capacity) cars a day (after the production line is tweaked). That is 75 days or 15 work weeks, that puts us at the end of the year. BUT, that plant is not dedicated to producing Mavericks, AND we have a supply issue.

NewBernWolf said:
Where are you getting those "let's say" numbers? Do any of them have any verifiable basis?

hcforde said:
The term "Let's say" is clearly setting up an example. It is a teaching method. No where did I say something like "Since there is a conversion rate of ##%". True teaching methods give the opportunity to learn how to think rather than relying on others to tell them what to think.

NewBernWolf said:
So making stuff up is a teaching moment. Lol.

You don't actually have any idea what any of those numbers are, so you just made some up to support whatever point you were trying to make.

Well, okay then. I feel schooled.

SO NEWBERNWOLF:
What was made up that was material to the context of the INITIAL conversation. Cleary, you do not understand concepts and theory and give a greater reliance on being told what to think rather than knowing how to think. The only saving grace would be that you did not read the post to which I was answering. That person, PORTCQB, understood it and in his follow-up post took it a step further.

 

[CharlieR]

Priority 2 means ... it is selected for production scheduling, or at least on the threshold of the door to the scheduling room. I would not do a thing to my order in your case as even with some 0%, you seem to have gotten the 'missing bits' already assigned. Or very close.

Well, I've been at 02 since July 12th. No build scheduled yet. 6/11 order.

 

[Charles]

Lucky you! I was not even aware of the Maverick until July 19th, I ordered/reserved the next day. I have a wait ahead of me.

maybe not

 

[Griffdock]

After these latest constraints, I am guessing that my June order will delivered after January 1st.

 

[Mach E Leo]

Well, I've been at 02 since July 12th. No build scheduled yet. 6/11 order.

I got a tentative build date of 10/12 and a vin # but I go on ford site to track it and it says system error

 

[rognus]

Ya can't fit the clubs into the back seat, on the floor? OR, are you in fear that someone will see that glam bag and want it more than you do?
Some golfers use only a couple clubs. Caddying 5X years ago for duffers that drove to either side of the fairway, carrying double, with huge leather bags... filled with ALL kinds of golfer toys, turned me off from golf. As one golfer said to the other as we walked towards the green: "I play golf as well as old people ____" He was right though he didn't know it. Poor tipper too, and I remember that from a LONG time ago.
I think the remote tailgate lock will make the tailgate openable, and then you gain access to the tonneau release?
AFAIK, from web sites, the cover and the spray in are both obstacles to scheduling.
tom

I don't want to mess up the back seat with the bags. Usually there's 2 or 3 of us that go. I know my wife and I were watching golfers at Pebble Beach from down below the 10th green and I told her that they didn't hit it any better than I do, just have a lot more money than me
A friend who has a Chevy Colorado just opens the tailgate loads his clubs and doesn't even lift the tonneau cover.

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