DANJENS
Well-known member
- First Name
- Dan
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2021
- Threads
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- Location
- MI, United States
- Vehicles
- Ford e350, Ford Fusion
I agree. My dealer continued to tell me that Ford didn't use the priority numbers on vehicles while they were on constraints and that trucks were being built in the order that that they were ordered. He didn't want to bump me up. Then when Ford rolled over to MY2022 they gave me priority 2. (10/5/21)Or he knows exactly but just plays dumb?
I continue to operate under a Sunk Cost fallacy. That is "I have waited so long for this I can't go somewhere else." If I had gone to Grainger (or other placers) 2 months after I had ordered I would very likely have a vehicle now instead of being stuck waiting 9 months.) But I thought "oh that will put me two months further back in line" cause my dealer kept insisting Ford was building 1st come 1st serve. Salesmen LIE!!!!!!!! They can't possibly be that ignorant when they have been in the business for years and have dozens of orders out there.
I was Priority 2 well before 90% of the people who got scheduled for build dates in January were even ordered. Look at the Jan build dates groups and many of them were initially ordered in November, December, and even January. (and that includes platinum builds just like mine.) Then mine didn't get scheduled till April and has been waiting to be built since.
In the end priority means more to your dealer than to Ford. If a dealer assigns 11 instead of 19 He/She is essentially saying, "Ford when you give us an allotment we want this one built first before the others." And Ford is saying, "If we give you allotment and we have the parts we will build that First." That said, Bigger dealers get more allotment and I am in a situation where I didn't figure that out till after I was 5 months into it. They weren't getting allotment at times that they had parts for my platinum.
I would suggest you find a dealer who 1) understands how this works and is willing to give you a better priority if he/she can (some dealerships understandably have ethics of 1st in 1st out and so won't bump back someone else in line just because you ask to jump in line), 2) reads the order constraints and follows them so they can adjust the order to get your vehicle sooner. (as was the case when Platinum trucks weren't being built without the adaptive steering so others got schedules cause the added adaptive steering) 3) commits to emailing weekly updates. If they won't do these things you may want to take your business elsewhere.
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