⏱ No Maverick Scheduling Next Week (3/7)

[Imlooney]

Maybe they will be running around sticking chips in the ones that need them. Chill out kids, Christmas will be here.

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[FakeCowboy]

This came straight from the dealer's mouth in Encinitas, California. She had just gotten off the line with Ford headquarters and was passing the information on to me.

Talk to Ford yourself, don't believe your dealer for a second.

 

[ITSATRUCK]

We are in uncharted territory with supply constraints. Hold onto your beer its going to get bumpy. . .Please please please can they build my Maverick?

 

[Old Ranchero]

I just want to know if/when my November Maverick is going to be built so that I can plan ahead.

Am I going to get it before my 8 year old car needs major repairs? If I'm not going to get it, should I plan on renting a car or getting a beater for a month or two? Should I cancel my order and order something that will arrive in a reasonable amount of time (I was quoted 4-6 months for a Kia before I ordered my Maverick).

The lack of information is driving my anxiety through the roof as I need a vehicle to get to work. I gave my dealer a $1k/4+ month interest-free loan. Least Ford can do is give me a rough timeline.

They have given you rough timelines, but it's a moving target they have no control over. Would you rather they gave you a 12 month delivery date, never updated it and then surprise you when it shows up earlier? Or tell you every week "it won't be much longer" ? Or it's out of our hands since we don't run the factory? The only obligation Ford has is to make a good faith effort to fill your order as efficently as they can. All the rest of your laundry list is on you to figure out. De-couple the Maverick buying and waiting process from all those other factors and solve the stuff you have control over right now.

 

[Lone Star Proud]

Well, Tim @fordvideoguy did say that they won't have their March allocations figured out until the end of the week. So this is pretty much expected.

Allocation numbers are delayed because Ms. Moore's kindergarten class (who usually figured this out for Ford) is on spring break and the back up dart throwing monkeys are not available.

 

[Zookeepr]

Your Dealer is lying. Simple as that. I am not even going to entertain that the dealer was "confused" by whatever Ford actually told them. If there even was a call with Ford Corporate at all.

Ford headquarters has no way of knowing when your specific Maverick will be produced, unless it has been selected for production. It is the complex scheduling process they run weekly (unless it is a break week like this coming week), that determines which orders can be built based on the commodities they have available for that build week. Even then, even after Ford HAS told a customer which week theirs will be built, there are dozens and dozens of people on this forum that have seen their build week move up a week, move back a week, delay 2 weeks, advance 2 weeks, move either direction and then move back to the original, etc.. With that movement happening on scheduled production orders, you beleive Ford called your dealer and said..... "Hey dealer, give Zookeepr a call and let them know we are going to build theirs in December.....maybe January. Thanks for the help local dealer, we couldn't do it without you!".

Ford does not know what commodities they will have in December. Absolutely no way they know that here in early March. If Ford was able to know their commodities this far in advance, they would have already told all the pending production orders for the 2022 model year when theirs would be built, down to the week (or at least down to the month), 8 months in advance. They would be scheduling into December and January, for a model year that does't even exist yet. We would all know if our order was going to be rolled over to 2023, etc...

I will say it again. Your Dealer is lying. Simple as that. They are trying to get you to abandon your order so they can sell it at a markup when it most likely arrives sometime late this summer. Their reasoning when Ford asks why you did not buy it will be "Customer could not wait that long, went another direction".

Is there a chance you get rolled to 2023 model year? Yes. Of course. Ford HAS said this MIGHT happen to SOME people. Notice the "might happen". Ford does not know yet. They will not know until they schedule production for the last week of production in the model year, which will be 4 MONTHS from now.

There is a chance that any of us who do not have a production date yet will be rolled to 2023, but it is nowhere near a certainty, and there is no dealer on the planet who has gotten that level of detail from Ford corporate and been asked to make some calls to customers. Simply did not happen. If you were told otherwise, you were lied to.

Believe me or not. I honestly do not care. But I have to try to combat these ridiculous things being said when I see them.

 

[Paulyz]

I just found out that my 2022 Maverick lariat fully loaded with every gizmo. You can get on. It was supposed to be starting its build in April, now I found out that it won't get built until December, probably January of 2023. My lease for my 2019 Ford fusion energy ends in April. I am trying to figure out what I'm going to do or if I should wait for it. I really want this truck but I'm in kind of a pickle.

Is it a Hybrid? Hard to believe pushed from April to Dec./Jan.

 

[EdBlueMav]

Looking at all this news and the fact that driving my focus for the last 2 years is taking a toll on my left knee because how low the car is for me and getting out si a hassle, I am thinking of getting a Rav 4 while the Maverick is built.

 

[Meintc]

Looking at all this news and the fact that driving my focus for the last 2 years is taking a toll on my left knee because how low the car is for me and getting out si a hassle, I am thinking of getting a Rav 4 while the Maverick is built.

Go for it. I purchased my leased escape while I wait. Payments are lower too.

 

[Boomhauer1]

Since Ford is scheduling out about 6 weeks it really makes no difference, even if they do not schedule for the next 4 weeks.

The sad part is NO communication from Ford whatsoever. Next friday will mark 9 months for me. I WILL be sitting in front of my salesman again as I do on the 10th of every month to mark the anniversary of my order.

That's a chad way to be. I respect that.

 

[Delzona]

Your Dealer is lying. Simple as that. I am not even going to entertain that the dealer was "confused" by whatever Ford actually told them. If there even was a call with Ford Corporate at all.

Ford headquarters has no way of knowing when your specific Maverick will be produced, unless it has been selected for production. It is the complex scheduling process they run weekly (unless it is a break week like this coming week), that determines which orders can be built based on the commodities they have available for that build week. Even then, even after Ford HAS told a customer which week theirs will be built, there are dozens and dozens of people on this forum that have seen their build week move up a week, move back a week, delay 2 weeks, advance 2 weeks, move either direction and then move back to the original, etc.. With that movement happening on scheduled production orders, you beleive Ford called your dealer and said..... "Hey dealer, give Zookeepr a call and let them know we are going to build theirs in December.....maybe January. Thanks for the help local dealer, we couldn't do it without you!".

Ford does not know what commodities they will have in December. Absolutely no way they know that here in early March. If Ford was able to know their commodities this far in advance, they would have already told all the pending production orders for the 2022 model year when theirs would be built, down to the week (or at least down to the month), 8 months in advance. They would be scheduling into December and January, for a model year that does't even exist yet. We would all know if our order was going to be rolled over to 2023, etc...

I will say it again. Your Dealer is lying. Simple as that. They are trying to get you to abandon your order so they can sell it at a markup when it most likely arrives sometime late this summer. Their reasoning when Ford asks why you did not buy it will be "Customer could not wait that long, went another direction".

Is there a chance you get rolled to 2023 model year? Yes. Of course. Ford HAS said this MIGHT happen to SOME people. Notice the "might happen". Ford does not know yet. They will not know until they schedule production for the last week of production in the model year, which will be 4 MONTHS from now.

There is a chance that any of us who do not have a production date yet will be rolled to 2023, but it is nowhere near a certainty, and there is no dealer on the planet who has gotten that level of detail from Ford corporate and been asked to make some calls to customers. Simply did not happen. If you were told otherwise, you were lied to.

Believe me or not. I honestly do not care. But I have to try to combat these ridiculous things being said when I see them.

I'm laughing about your response because I totally agree with you! There's no way a dealer received or made a call to Ford HQ about a specific customer's order being scheduled in what will be MY23!! I do know that Ford HQ can make request to the factory about getting a specific customer's order scheduled ASAP because that's what happened in my case. I was scheduled during a non-scheduling week and my dealership had no allocations to boot!! So unless this particular customer really pissed off that dealer and the dealer knows a guy in Ford HQ and had that order put on double-secret probation, that original phone call was pure !

 

[Delzona]

Allocation numbers are delayed because Ms. Moore's kindergarten class (who usually figured this out for Ford) is on spring break and the back up dart throwing monkeys are not available.

Now that's the best description of how scheduling works that I've heard yet!!

 

[Powered-by-Ford]

The Chips shortage is OVER!

Build, Baby, Build!!

 

[2cafn8d]

The Chips shortage is OVER!

Build, Baby, Build!!

This is the picture I didn't know I needed today.

 

[MistiT]

Someone in my apartment complex has a Silver Maverick, passed by it today. Didn't stop to see if it was hybrid/ecoboost or its trim or anything. But saw it and said "What! I'm jealous!" and kept driving. And now they are not scheduling this week

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