Yes, I randomly got an email a few days later. Still don't know why there was a delay.
The priority code is listed on your buyers order or order preview sheet. If you don't have either of those (you really should), your dealer can look up your priority code. For customer orders, the dealer can set the priority code from 10 to 19, with 10 being the highest priority within that dealership, although that's just one small factor in the broader picture of when your order may get built.
My dealer sure did change mine from 19 to 10 when I asked him back in June. He texted me a picture of his computer screen to show it was changed. LOL.
I just got to the bottom of this: "These priority codes are how dealers prioritize their ordered vehicles. When Ford picks up orders from dealers on Thursdays, the system will pick up the dealer's higher priorities first. Having a priority code of 10 at one dealer doesn't mean your vehicle will be built before another dealer's priority 15. Example: 1st week in July someone places an order with priority code #19 at Joe's Dealership. 1st week in August someone places the same order at Ted's dealership with a priority code of #10. This does not move the order placed at Ted's goes ahead in the schedule of the order placed at Joe's"
Yes, this has been discussed many times over here in this forum. But what does that have to do with your dealer telling you that he could not change your priority from 19?
The #11 has very little to do as to when your vehicle will be picked at the Ford plant. It just means that on the Thursday when Ford took the the orders from your dealer, you were placed in a priority number for all the cars your dealer ordered that past week. If your dealer ordered 50 cars (of all different models) from Ford you may be 40th in priority for your dealer. This has only a slight effect as to when Ford selects your vehicle. Your dealer may have ordered only 4 Mavericks that week so you really are not 40th (in this example) for the week. When Ford chooses to select your vehicle has far more to do with many other issues, least of which is what your dealer designated you for the week you placed your order.
Interesting tale!When I placed and signed my order on 8/23 I asked for a Priority Code of 10 from the Fleet manager I was working with. He obliged.
I asked before I left about how many Maverick orders they had outstanding. He stated that there were 29 Maverick orders ahead of me. So I was expecting a very long wait for my Maverick XLT Hybrid to be built.
On August 30th I had the order changed to drop the "hard drop-in bedliner" and the "splash guards" as those were late availability and would delay my order. I then added the "bed mat" to protect the bed without a bedliner.
And then 8/31 happened with the "bed mat" having 0% nationally availability so I then had the "bed mat" removed on September 3rd.
After reading more posts here on this site over the weekend of September 4th & 5th I decided I wanted the "manual rear sliding window" and the 110V/400W outlet in the Cab so I asked to have those added on September 6th. The Fleet manager was off that day so he tried later in the week but was unable to make changes because Ford was looking at my order to possibly schedule for production. It was not selected on Thursday September 9th so on the 10th the additions were added.
That Ford was actually looking to possible schedule my order was fantastic news and that I even was considered I believe was because my Priority Code was 10 and that the default 19 was used on those other orders at the dealership by other sales personal. So those 29 orders that were ahead of me were actually behind me.
The following Thursday September 16th I got the email from Ford that my Maverick XLT Hybrid was scheduled for production the week of November 8th.
I strongly recommend that when ordering that you ask to be assigned a Priority Code of 10 as that may actually push you up in line at that dealership.
Check my signature for all my order details. You will see my build date(s) of
Responding to myself to add that I reached out to my dealer, and they said all orders are submitted as 'Stock', then when Ford verifies it is for an actual waiting customer they change to 'Retail' and up the priority. We'll see.. It's been 6 days. The pain is real.
