10/6/22 Scheduling Canceled

[SuperDave71]

Nobody likes delays or waiting, I get it, but Ford is pretty upfront with info. We get emails now as the order moves through the stages of production and shipping. Like it or not, this is good customer service. They’re in business to build vehicles. These part availability problems are world wide, and in every part of their business. This is really beyond their control.

The people I feel for in this are those who have cars and trucks needing repaired or replaced due to breakdowns or accidents. That is hardship.

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[Hatonapug]

If I ever get my 22, I will let people who ordered 23s sit in it and smell the new car air freshener for $20 a pop until I earn back whatever I wind up having to pay over the original price I ordered it at.

 

[PaPaG]

My scheduled build week was 10/3. I did not receive email from Ford pushing it further out like 3 times before. Heard nothing Monday, Tuesday... so talked with my dealer yesterday and had him check Vehicle Visibility Report. He said it shows built and sent to body shop. No update on tracking site or email from Ford it's been built, but if it shows on VVR I'm satisfied it's true

Have you checked whether your mods have popped?

 

[commadorebob]

Well, I work in VIP IT setup, support and home automation. and if I designed a system for a customer, gave them a price and financing terms, and a lead time of 4-6 months (per my dealer), then months later proceeded to tell them that I have no idea when I will have the parts to build their system, that their price has gone up and the financing will now cost them thousands of dollars more over the term of the loan, I would not have a job anymore and the company I work for would probably be sued.

Meanwhile fanboys on this site continue to defend Ford when they just pulled a huge bait and switch on 22 holdovers. The pandemic was well underway when Ford started taking orders for the Maverick. The chip shortage was nothing new and analysts in 2021 were saying it would last well into 2023, and that was before the variants.

And this ignores their assanine allocation system that saw January orders getting scheduled while there are orders from June still waiting.

Ford shouldn't have taken orders for trucks they couldn't produce. Don't have the chips for luxury packages? Tell your dealers they can't order those packages.

If the Maverick was a Kickstarter campaign, I would expect this level of failure, not from a multi-billion dollar company.

I have two problems with this analogy:
1) Ford has delivered 70,000+ Mavericks to date. Obviously those waiting the longest are going to complain the loudest, but they are also the minority in terms of experience. Everyone had to wait and a dealer worth two cents warned their customers that would be the case.

2) I also work in contract IT as a project manager. Our contracts have written deadlines and penalties for failure to meet them. Ford doesn't have either of those things. What is the penalty for Ford? You buy another product and Ford sells the truck to someone else. Ford is ordering you a truck as a courtesy but until you sign the papers upon delivery, there is no contract dictating that truck belongs to you. You have the ability to walk away and Ford has the ability to absolutely not make it.

Ford manages a massive supply chain. If they waited until they had all the parts in stock to build anything, they would build nothing. Manufacturing has always relied on just-in-time delivery to ensure parts are not taking up space because space = money. Every day a part sits in a warehouse is a day that part isn't on a truck that has been sold. As such, any interruption in that supply chain will ripple throughout the company.

All vehicle manufactures plan their production on the promise of parts being available at the time they are needed, not just Ford. But when we shut down the global economy for two years over a glorified flu, it takes a while for those decades old supply chains to get back stable again.

 

[Bbot]

On a related note, anyone care to speculate on how long MY22 production will be extended?

Do I hear Dec. 1? Dec. 15? Christmas? Anyone for Christmas?

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[Old Ranchero]

Have you checked whether your mods have popped?

Nope. Not that into it. Not gonna try to follow rail cars or anything else. It gets here when it gets here. Got too much other stuff going on to track every little detail on my car order and delivery.

 

[bmwhitetx]

So how many of you just scroll on by the multi-paragraph capitalism essays on here? . Don't reply, just click Like if you do!

 

[XLTLUXRED]

This is a reality check for all you MY23 newbies still infected with initial excitement. It's gonna be a looooong wait and a bumpy ride.

Please remain in your seat with your belt securely fastened until FoMoCo has your Maverick parked safely at the gate (dealer)!

Actually, don't let down your guard until it's at least parked in your own driveway.

 

[PlantMan]

Well, I work in VIP IT setup, support and home automation.

So that's a lot different from working in a factory and producing 100K automobiles a year. I have 43+ years in engineering management. I feel sorry for the production planners in Mexico having to shuffle the final production planning. It's one thing to be sitting in Detroit looking weeks or months ahead, but it's a whole different situation to be looking day by day.

 

[Williamobrien720]

I ordered expecting not to get it for months and months. Actually I planned for it. Saving up money to slap a nice fat down payment on it or to downright pay it off. Then it will be my wife’s truck and then I’ll order a tremor

 

[Old Hickory Trojan]

Maverick scheduling has been canceled for today.


Not sure, I can't find my email from the Brand Manager but all of my orders are not longer previewing so I'd say not at all this week.

What else is new? This is Ford and their ability to plan is sadly lacking. We are not talking about actually manufacturing vehicles, we are talking about putting out a preliminary schedule to build vehicles over a month away. If they can't even do that why even bother to announce dates of this or that. They are useless and everyone knows whatever they say they are going to do gets changed, adjusted or repealed. Anyone that's been on this board awhile understands Ford hasn't been able to get a schedule right from the beginning so why delay the inevitable? Spit it out and they correct it as you go which has been the methodology from the beginning. Potential buyers understand suppl chain issues and have accepted the reality of change but is Ford so understaffed, so unable to collect the orders and not be able to release the first weeks build plan to potential buyers? They closed the books close to a month ago and missed again..no one should be surprised IMHO.

 

[Tone]

Ford schedulers read MTC and discover that many new MY23 buyers got scheduled with a priority of 10 and now they realize that their plan of getting MY22 buyers scheduled first has been FOILED! Back to the scheduling drawing board!

 

[mspmms]

Actually, don't let down your guard until it's at least parked in your own driveway.

Mmmmm, don't really stop....

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[dbaum23]

Michael Keaton made a movie in the mid 1980s about an automobile manufacturing plant that had to assemble a boat load of cars within a short deadline. The movie was Gung Ho.

Every car scheduled was produced, but many fell short of all the equipment that constitutes a driveable vehicle… like engines, etc.

I can see Ford on this same time frame crunch. For sure the Mavericks won’t be missing engines and such, but maybe lots of missing electronic constraints. Even more waiting.

I remember that, good movie. Coming down to the wire the cars were just shells...

 

[Paulyz]

Maverick scheduling has been canceled for today.


Not sure, I can't find my email from the Brand Manager but all of my orders are not longer previewing so I'd say not at all this week.

My production Week schedule was moved 4 times: Week of September 5th, then September 19th., then October 3rd. now October 10th. Ecoboost XLT AWD with towing package, no Lux or 360, no constraints.

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