Kansas City Assembly Plant, original ETA 3/17-3/23. As of today now 5/9 and it has been built for some time. Blend date 02/02/2024. I’m not in a hurry for the truck, I have a finance promotion through a local lender that ends 5/31. Thought I had time, but why is it sitting. They just delivered one 2024 to the dealer that wasn’t ordered by a customer. You think a special order green sticker would ship out with priority over a unit just sitting on a dealer lot. I don’t get it.Where is it sitting?
Mine left the plant and been sitting in Illinois since the 17th waiting to get on a rail
lolWhere is the company that build an F-150 every 53 seconds?
Sorry, just venting .
from my “expert” analysis (just following this thread) it seems anyone that ordered in sept-oct, maybe nov, with build dates from Jan-feb looks like the trucks are stuck in purgatory. Mine is a similar story ordered 10/13 (f150 xlt, PB, screw) blend 1/18 is still “in production “ but built/parked somewhere in MI.Doing some research I have not been able to find a higher trim truck that's been delivered anywhere with a blend date earlier than March 7th. A couple platinum's I've found have blend dates and delivery dates that are within 10 days of each other. Doesn't make any sense
My dealer had a platinum trim delivered the same day (23 March) as my Lariat trim. It was for a canceled order, and someone had already decided to buy it.Doing some research I have not been able to find a higher trim truck that's been delivered anywhere with a blend date earlier than March 7th. A couple platinum's I've found have blend dates and delivery dates that are within 10 days of each other. Doesn't make any sense
The interest rates have been mentioned. For incentives, I had two separate $1k incentives, at least one of which was from when I ordered (possibly both, I didn't bother to ask what the second one was, I was just happy to get it, but it wasn't mentioned when I ordered the truck back in October).I know I saw it someplace but cannot find it. For you guys that got your trucks, were there any incentives applied or deals on financing?
I think you’re spot on.Kinda sounds like ford was short something, ran the lines anyway, parked the trucks, got in the parts and kept the lines running when said part became available and are probably "ford'n" the parked trucks as they get around to it. Early orders waiting for a the part to be installed while more recent orders are building and shipping. I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear this is what's going on.
Yeah... I saw that one coming, cancelled my Job 1 order (hadn't been scheduled) and re-ordered the day the Job 2 order banks opened. That said, I'm scheduled for build the week of 4/29 (I added the PAT/BUP when I submitted the Job 2 order), so I'm not sure how much that helped my timeline, but at least it'll be "freshly built" now.. (hopefully).I think you’re spot on.
I’d like to know what component caused this pileup. Are early orders getting trucks that had something retrofitted to fix an issue?
It doesn’t help to speculate, but it’s making me think twice about taking delivery of my truck that has been sitting for almost two months :/
Well that would stink, I like to rotate my spare in during rotations. Not sure anything could be done if noticed before considering having waited so long for the truck.Seeing the 2023's made me focus on a new F150. I've been checking out the 2024s whenever I see them on the dealers' lots. Typically, the spare tire is exactly the same as the tires touching the road except it is on a steel rim instead of aluminum. I've seen two 24s where the spare tire is the same size but another brand. The one I saw today was not only a different brand and tread, but on a silver painted aluminum wheel. This XLT was blacked out with black-gloss rims. Maybe worth checking when you pick-up your new F150.