Bob, Did that correct your email issue? Working now? I have given my email address to customer care every time I have spoken to them and still no emails from Ford from my 2022 order or my new 2023 order.
Completely agree, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ford is almost breaking even on the XL as a “Loss Leader” to bring people to the door, but recognizing they got what they wanted, now it’s time to ramp up profits. Many here on the forum have echoed this sentiment.
Yep - I fully understand the information you've repeated in your post. It's all over this forum. My order is a priority 10, as are ALL of the orders ahead of mine in the dealer's order list.
Thank you, we're surviving! Hope all is well for you!
Sounds like Tim and LM were making assumptions and you know what that gets you.
Completely agree. There is absolutely NO foreseeable route where Long McArthur builds all their order and I do feel that maybe Tim kinda put his foot in his mouth, inviting all other unbuilt 22 orders over to their dealership. Even though some customers will be disappointed, I feel he was doing it with good intentions, so I don’t fault him.
Who knows but I am thinking that some of the allocations are possibly reserved until they figure out exactly which dealer will get the 2022 reorders as 2023' then Ford can place that allocation.
Plausible, for sure. I selfishly hope this is a priority of Ford Corp. but who knows. They have a track record of building orders based on several factors and profit is the name of the game.
I think the problem is they didn't exactly create an avenue to clearly identify those orders unless the 2022 credit is tied to a specific order from a dealer and Ford has a way to filter down to those. While the 22 rollovers were encouraged to be put at the highest priority, there is no way to enforce it and the dealers who had no rollovers are just going to put all their orders at the highest priority.
Agreed and what really gets ugly is if you ordered more than one 22 build. Do you get a rebate credit for all your orders or just one per person? Really strange manner of handling an issue that Ford Corp. handled very differently in the Branco rollovers.
The highest priority is meaningless outside of the dealership. The dealership could put them all at 10 or all at 19 and it makes zero difference to Ford. Ford will offer an allocation to the dealer and the highest priority order will get that vehicle. At least that is how it is been explained to me. Putting all the orders in at 10 will not make it more likely for ford to allocate vehicles to that dealer.
Yes, I'm aware. But if Ford drew a line and said "don't put anything but 22 rollovers as a 10" then they could set up their allocations to fill the tens from everyone first. But since they didn't, there is no way to truly identify the MY22 rollover overs.
He was miffed because they are basing allocations off of past sales and many of the 22's have not been received yet. I forget the number, but quite a few in production, in shipping, and on hold.
yes, I have no idea how ford knows, although if there is a rebate involved there must be tracking on that. Tim definitely said that the 63 orders they had coming in next month were for 22 rollovers. I don't exactly know how that was determined. Even he said they errored and set some customers to 10 that were not rollovers.
I wouldn't say I am optimistic or cynical. I posted because most everything I have read shows crazy low allocations. I am hopeful the allocations are not as bad as has been reported and just to provide a perspective on what I was told. Allocations are only 1 piece of the puzzle as constraints also have to figure into equation if my vehicle will get built.
