XLT Luxury Package Discrimination!

[Haha48]

I have a 2.0 xlt with 4k tow fx4 lux package and 360 copilot and the moon roof and a split window. Had every option.

Was only 4k away from the lariat but I don't want push button I like the key with the consle safe I can just lock it inside use a code on the door and use a code on the safe

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[2022EOW]

Forever
Order
Rigged
Delivery

Oh it’s third grade all over again.

 

[DeeZee]

I would argue that it is very different. Ford doesn't get your deposit the dealership does. So in your situation you didn't pay for the pizza beforehand which I haven't experienced other than one mom and pop pizza place I know.

I think the part that people forget is that for Ford to keep the price competitive on the maverick they need to do just in time inventory and such. There are many chips and other components they could definitely buy right now but not at prices that would allow them to sell the maverick at the prices they advertised.

Ford definitely struggled with customer communication, and they need to figure that out if they look to become a majority direct order company. But the supply constraints are not something they can just magically fix. Expecting Ford to have all the parts for your maverick in reserve when you order would mean you would probably have to pay for the vehicle in full up front and would substantially increase the cost to produce the vehicle.

I get your point but the consumer deals directly with the FORD dealership. So the dealership/ FORD is

Oh it’s third grade all over again.

The

Oh it’s third grade all over again.

It was a joke

Not all people get jokes unless it starts with “Knock Knock”

 

[Meintc]

Who's there?

 

[Maverick_Grabber]

Orange

 

[Barracuda340]

XLT, EB, AWD, 4K, with FS spare, and in cab power inverter. Was ordered december 28th. Finally getting built august 15th. Nothing I ordered was on constraint, and I still waited.

The question is why pay extra for a spray in liner? Have your local bed liner place do it. Is it that effing hard to install your own mudflaps, window vent shades, and trifold bed covers? Hell a bed cover takes longer to remove it from the box and read the instructions than to install it. Lux packages? More shit with buttons to break, ditto for CP360 more shit to break. Some of you must have never owned a truck before and act like your buying a king ranch edition pickup

I make no excuses for what it is. It's a car based SUV platform made into a cheap disposable unibody pickup truck. It's cool and useful, but it ain't no king ranch. I have a bed cover in a box waiting for this thing to show up along with a bunch of other goodies to doll it up. Out here in west Texas it will probably last 15-18 years with decent maintenance before the driveline is shot since nothing rusts out here. Rust belt states, I give it 10-12 before it falls apart from road salt.

Theres issues getting a lot of these parts. Do any of you honestly think Ford is trying to shaft the customer? Especially when stuff like CP360 is a $700 option, and the lux packs add what , like $2500 to a vehicle for heated seats, dual zone climate control and a heated steering wheel. I mean really you can tart up one of these things to $40k or more in which case you might as well look at a full size F150 with some serious options.

Honestly, if they could build em all with all the options and no constraints, they would. Companies like Ford Motor are in business to make money, and gain customers. Not the other way around. Even then, if they could build em all, some of y'all still wouldent be happy.

 

[Sirjohn]

You are basing your whole argument on what you have seen being posted by owners that are participating in all the forums and communities. Unless you have documents showing the production numbers on all the different configurations, you are just speculating.

There are currently 16,268 registered members of this forum, and about the same number of subscribers on the FordMaverickTruck subreddit(currently 16,482). I'm sure there is a pretty large overlap of people that are members of both communities, but for the sake of the argument, let's say they are all unique members. That is roughly 32k people, and to further my point, even if you were to say that each one of those people had a produced truck, according to recent posts, that leaves about 50k produced trucks since the beginning of production unaccounted for.

So you saying that Ford is discriminating against XLT luxury packages, is a baseless claim.

I think the more accurate conclusion from your observations would be that the lariat luxury package is the most popular configuration among users of forums and communities like this one.

Finally someone with some intelligence. I was wondering if anyone ever had the intelligence to realize this forum and others like it represent a very very tiny segment of the actual/potential customer base. It seems like the maverick is the first new vehicle many have bought in a long time. What makes it obvious is the ranting, the open letter posts, the discrimination posts.

I loved the pizza shop analogy. Is anyone here familiar with the manufacturing process? JIT (just in time) logistics? You realize a workforce ravaged by COVID, supply chains all but broken and all the tier suppliers that most likely don't mine the materials they use to build their parts, you do realize the huge trickle down effect.

This forum needs a ranting sub category and a speculation category.

Dealers- LOL they suck. Keep in mind though you aren't buying a Ford GT that you designed and got valet delivery and setup, you're buying an econbox with a bed. IF these trivial things bother you so much go buy something else. I think all the of the Karens husbands came here to "speak to someones manager"

 

[Sirjohn]

XLT, EB, AWD, 4K, with FS spare, and in cab power inverter. Was ordered december 28th. Finally getting built middle of august. Nothing I ordered was on constraint, and I still waited.

The question is why pay extra for a spray in liner? Have your local bed liner place do it. Is it that effing hard to install your own mudflaps, and trifold bed covers? Hell a bed cover takes longer to remove it from the box and read the instructions than to install it. Lux packages? More shit with buttons to break, ditto for CP360 more shit to break. Some of you must have never owned a truck before and act like your buying a king ranch edition pickup

I make no excuses for what it is. It's a car based SUV platform made into a chesp disposable unibody pickup truck. It's cool and useful, but it ain't no king ranch. I have a bed cover in a box waiting for this thing to show up along with a bunch of other goodies to doll it up. Out here in west Texas it will probably last 15-18 years with decent maintenance before the driveline is shot since nothing rusts out here. Rust belt states, I give it 10-12 before it falls apart from road salt.

Theres issues getting a lot of these parts. Do any of you honestly think Ford is trying to shaft the customer? Especially when stuff like CP360 is a $700 option, and the lux packs add what , like $2500 to a vehicle for heated seats, dual zone climate control and a heated steering wheel. I mean really you can tart up one of these things to $40k or more in which case you might as well look at a full size F150 with some serious options.

I mean honestly, if they could build em all with all the options and no constraints, they would. Even then, some of y'all still wouldn't be happy.

Love this post.... Sorry I didnt see it before I made my post- I didnt quite make it to the last page before I felt the urge to comment over the assanine comments I'd just read through....kind like watching a truck get hit by a train...just couldnt look away.

Seems like many forum members here are the type to go to IHOP or Olive Garden and act like its a Michelin starred joint the whole time giving the server a rough time. Once done they stomp out to their MAverick (if they've got their order yet) and proceed to put a blast on yelp. You know the ones that start like... "I wish I could give a less than one star" review because their french toast wasn't cut on a perfect bias.

 

[chuckles]

let me add fuel to this dumpster fire.

Whilst the build dates reported from June-now are unbelievably low, the earlier groups of numbers are a reasonable sampling. The reported entries are shown below.

as reported in MTC order tracker on Aug 1. Errant and duplicate entries removed.

Separately, reported Chapman/Horsham orders have been tracked in detail since May (here). There clearly was scheduling discrimination favoring Lariat Lux over XLT Lux up until the July scheduling. In July, as best we can tell, XLT Lux dominated resulting in a more even distribution.

 

[Sirjohn]

Separately, reported Chapman/Horsham orders have been tracked in detail since May (here). There clearly was scheduling discrimination favoring Lariat Lux over XLT Lux up until the July scheduling. In July, as best we can tell, XLT Lux dominated resulting in a more even distribution.

What did Ford say when you queried them about the discrimination?

 

[Barracuda340]

Love this post.... Sorry I didnt see it before I made my post- I didnt quite make it to the last page before I felt the urge to comment over the assanine comments I'd just read through....kind like watching a truck get hit by a train...just couldnt look away.

Seems like many forum members here are the type to go to IHOP or Olive Garden and act like its a Michelin starred joint the whole time giving the server a rough time. Once done they stomp out to their MAverick (if they've got their order yet) and proceed to put a blast on yelp. You know the ones that start like... "I wish I could give a less than one star" review because their french toast wasn't cut on a perfect bias.

I'd like to add to the stomping out thing with not leaving a tip because "they get payed to be there"

Sirjohn this is the first new vehicle for me in 14 years. I work in aviation, and restore old cars as a hobby. I am around mechanical things every day. I know what a feat it is to build a car or truck with just in time JIT manufacturing. It's a very complex machine that needs ALL the parts at the right time to be assembled to the specifications ordered by each customer.

Also keep in mind with 80,000 mavericks sold, thats about 6,500 of them being built in 1 month. Equating to about 200 per day, plus the bronco sport orders being built at the same factory. Now with 200 mavericks being built daily, they have to have all the right parts in the right quantities to build 200 trucks that 1 day to the specifications that 200 different customers asked for. EVERY DAY. I hope some of these armchair quarterbacks now get the idea.

I think some people on here think that it's like building a hot wheels car, a handful of parts and done lol. Well it's not. Plus the fact that NO mass production auto manufacturer makes every single part for the vehicle they are building. A lot of stuff is subcontracted to different parts suppliers. ALL of these items have to make it to the factory just in time for the vehicles they are going on. If parts for CP360, or a lux package are not going to make it in time that week, then vehicles getting that option dont get built. Ditto for any other options requiring hard to get parts.

The parts issue is not an ideal situation. Quite frankly it sucks. But it is what it is with a global economy. A coworker of mine custom ordered a Subaru AWD sedan 2 months ago. Her car is here now at the dealer. Why is that? Car is built in Japan, all the subcontractors making pieces for it are in Japan, not scattered all over the world.

 

[connathon]

I just got an email today (8/5/2022) that my XLT/co-pilot/4K package is set for production 8/22/2022

 

[Sirjohn]

I'd like to add to the stomping out thing with not leaving a tip because "they get payed to be there"

Sirjohn this is the first new vehicle for me in 14 years. I work in aviation, and restore old cars as a hobby. I am around mechanical things every day. I know what a feat it is to build a car or truck with just in time JIT manufacturing. It's a very complex machine that needs ALL the parts at the right time to be assembled to the specifications ordered by the customer.

Also keep in mind with 80,000 mavericks sold, thats about 6,500 of them being built in 1 month. Equating to about 200 per day, plus the bronco sport orders being built at the same factory. Now with 200 mavericks being built daily, they have to have all the right parts in the right quantities to build 200 trucks that 1 day to the specifications that 200 customers asked for. EVERY DAY. I hope some of these armchair quaretrbacks now get the idea

I think some people on here think that it's like building a hot wheels car, a handful of parts and done lol. Well it's not. Plus the fact that NO mass production auto manufacturer makes every single part for the vehicle they are building. A lot of stuff is subcontracted to parts suppliers. These items have to make it to the factory just in time for the vehicles they are going on. If parts for CP360, or a lux pacjage are not going to make it in time that week, then vehicles getting that option dont get built. Ditto for any other options requiring hard to get parts.

The parts issue is not an ideal situation. Quite frankly it sucks. But it is what it is with a global economy. A coworker of mine custom ordered a Subaru AWD sedan 2 months ago. Her car is here now at the dealer. Why is that? Car is built in Japan, all the subcontractors making pieces for it are in Japan, not scattered all over the world.

Agreed. I'm with ya!

 

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[Barracuda340]

Finally someone with some intelligence. I was wondering if anyone ever had the intelligence to realize this forum and others like it represent a very very tiny segment of the actual/potential customer base. It seems like the maverick is the first new vehicle many have bought in a long time. What makes it obvious is the ranting, the open letter posts, the discrimination posts.

I loved the pizza shop analogy. Is anyone here familiar with the manufacturing process? JIT (just in time) logistics? You realize a workforce ravaged by COVID, supply chains all but broken and all the tier suppliers that most likely don't mine the materials they use to build their parts, you do realize the huge trickle down effect.

This forum needs a ranting sub category and a speculation category.

Dealers- LOL they suck. Keep in mind though you aren't buying a Ford GT that you designed and got valet delivery and setup, you're buying an econbox with a bed. IF these trivial things bother you so much go buy something else. I think all the of the Karens husbands came here to "speak to someones manager"

Econobox with a bed I love it!!! That's pretty much what it is. But I'd like to add it's pretty cool cool looking econobox with a bed. And yep we got some Karen's, and Ken's on here

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