People can of course do whatever the want with their property. But ordering a truck just to sell it means someone else didn't get to buy it for MSRP like you did. Pat yourself on the back for making money off of someone else. You won!
OP, I hope you aren't taking legal advice from the posts in this thread. This sucks, but good luck getting anything out of it except feeling better dragging their sorry name through the mud. IANAL, but the truck was never yours. If anyone has a claim it's Ford since they ostensibly built the...
This saved Ford $15-20 on every Ecoboost. So that's why they do it. Lots of cars have remote releases, lots do not. I doubt the manufacturers who have it think "people won't like this" & I doubt people who do have them complain about having to hit a switch or pull a tab.
It seems to me that...
I suspect it isn't restricted from international shipping, the problem is that shipping international is just hard in general and even harder for haz items, so lots of warehouses just don't do it.
I have the soft rollup from Ford, used the Fordpass points to get a discount on it. I live in Louisiana where it rains all the freaking time, and it's fine. Has a nice Ford logo on it.
Thread summary: a few people do what they want and most everyone else runs what the manual says. At least here no one hurts the engine running more expensive gas.
My feedback is I'm glad you have $1600 to spend on this. This wouldn't be my 1st, 2nd, or 10,000th choice to spend $1600 on, but you do you. Protecting my paint might be worth $50 to me, that's about it.
Look! We found a few people doing something and wrote a story about it like it's an actual trend. The actual trend is people buying larger and larger trucks.
It's the dealer's fault. But what's done is done. I personally would order a new one this summer and trade in versus going to the effort and expense of adding this on myself.