False equivalence. No matter how big the local shop may be, they order the stuff by the drum, not by tank car loads.
Too, they're limited in how many vehicles they're willing to accommodate, not dealing with a waiting line of hundreds rolling off the assembly line awaiting application and curing.
XL comes standard with 6 tie-downs. If yours arrived with fewer than that, it's up to the dealer to make good by installing them (at no additional charge to you) as evidenced on the window sticker.
No discernible difference in obtaining a confirmed order from you going online to create a build reservation meeting your desires on the first day or shortly thereafter that I can fathom. Might as well be you collecting whatever interest there may be on what will be used as deposit money in your...
Pure speculation -
There's always gonna be some assist from electric propulsion so unless something is very, very, very wrong the ICE meter shouldn't top out.
First thing: Are the USB ports illuminated when they ought to be? Betting the answer is no.
Second thing: Don't waste time and energy trying various purported kludges. Make an appointment at your dealer to take it in for fixing. It's a flaw which, while not affecting operating the vehicle...
Order number is assigned by the dealership. Often but not always keyed to an initial identifying the sales person. But order number can start with any letter, or even a numeral.
To make things even more confusing, there are cases where the same order number is employed for more than a single...
I 'get it' about the whole horsey related motif (cough Pinto cough) but it would have been cool beans had they gone in another direction and resurrected the name Comet or Meteor from the Mercury line-up.
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If you go back and read the initial articles/reports of Ford vehicles shipping without non-crucial chips, it pointedly did not apply to Maverick, and did apply primarily to Expedition.
Since then such procedure purportedly has been expanded to certain other models. But again, ZERO reports as of...