Or, you can withdraw your order, and wait until they make those options available again to reorder (probably in MY23, assuming the supply chains straighten themselves out by then). If you don't need the vehicle by a certain date, that might be a viable option. However, I suspect that won't work for most people.
I don't think any company wants to take that approach and I don't think they are here either. On a serious note, if you were head of Ford - how would you handle this manufacturing crisis, while maintaining sales figures, keeping shareholders happy (and the other hundred things that need to be balanced).While we in the forum can certainly dismiss each other, as a Ford shareholder it seems to be a weak business practice for Ford to say, "Bye Felecia" to to many of it's current customers. While they aren't saying it outright it appears their actions speak louder than words.
Angry customers damage reputations faster than happy ones improve it.
As a share holder I hope Ford gets it's act together and gets everyone who got confirmation what they ordered. Then again as a child I always wanted to see a Unicorn. I refuse to grow up.
If I were head of Ford, I would honor orders confirmed/acknowledged by Ford. Pure and simple. Customer first.
Well you have to consider, manufacturing doesn't stop cold turkey. Yes there is supply chain issues, some are more painful than others. But manufacturing and shipping continues at a rate regardless. If Ford was really running into that much constraints they could have pulled the plug on allowing orders with these features as part of Job #2 earlier this year. They could have even rolled out something later, without impacting existing orders. I think everyone would have preferred this approach as we are all already expecting it to take a long time to get our orders because of the environment.
Hmmm, sounds like there may be value to buyers to know what is currently reflected on the commodities list once it's shared by Ford to authorized parties. At least that way folks in the queue will know if they have an ice cube's chance in Hades of being scheduled during the subsequent scheduling week.
Ha - I just (similarly) throw money toward some aggressive growth portfolio of sorts and enjoy life. I just like healthy discussions.
Ford aint maiking leather.
This is the other process that seems to be designed to keep customers in the dark. It is my understanding that a dealer may be allotted say 20 stock build slot per cycle. On top of those they also receive an allotment for their customer orders that may get scheduled or remain unscheduled per cycle.
As you point out it may affect only 10% of the vehicles but that is about 70,000 units based on last years sales or almost half of the projected Lightning production for 2022.
Ive talked to at least 15 different dealers. All said customer orders have nothing to due with their allotment of vehicles. Only dealer ordered vehicles.
