Some good surprises including Ford Options (financing option) for Mach-E

jccoleman said:

Now for the Ford Options.

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jccoleman said:

I picked my Mach-E up on 2/2 and my dealer, Encinitas Ford, has been terrific. There was a $2500 credit from Ford (still not sure why) and $1500 from California Clean Air so that knocked $4,000 off the top right away.

They really encouraged the service contract, which I laughed at thinking just how many oil changes would I need and Discount Tire rotates tires for free. But they took the time to explain it and I think what Ford's doing is making the contract attractive so they can keep tabs on its status and performance for their own data and records. Net result, the service contract covers everything including tire rotation, wiper blades, cabin air filters, and brakes. A full set of brakes can run $1,000! The contract was for 70,000 miles and the price was only $800. That was a bargain.

Now for the Ford Options. Since mine was the first one the dealer struggled with Ford and the programming to get it all done. The contract I signed Tuesday had to be cancelled and re-done Wednesday with the new numbers. Here's how it works: They take the total selling price of the car - sales price off the sticker, add sales tax (because the Options is actually a purchase tax is up front on the total rather than on each payment with a lease), license, add service contract and any other fees for documents, etc.. From that number, subtract the Ford credit and Clean Air credit if you're eligible, and any money you want to put down. That's the starting number. I took a 3-year Options plan so they set the "balloon payment" for 36 months from now. The difference is the amount financed. In my area the interest rate for a standard purchase finance is currently 4.75%. The rate under Options from Ford is now 2.15%. Huge savings. It's all worked out even better than I anticipated from what's been available to read about it.

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jccoleman said:

A full set of brakes can run $1,000! The contract was for 70,000 miles and the price was only $800. That was a bargain.

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RyZt said:

For an EV, PHEV, or Hybrid, you wouldn’t need brake change in 70k miles though. Regen, not the brakes, does most of deceleration.

That being said, $800 for 7 inspections + 7 tire rotation + 2 brake fluid change + 3 cabin filter change sound pretty reasonable to me. What do other people think?

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RyZt said:

For an EV, PHEV, or Hybrid, you wouldn’t need brake change in 70k miles though. Regen, not the brakes, does most of deceleration.

That being said, $800 for 7 inspections + 7 tire rotation + 2 brake fluid change + 3 cabin filter change sound pretty reasonable to me. What do other people think?

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Jako607 said:

I probably wouldn't have opted for that cuz you won't need new brakes within 36 months, but we're not here to make anyone feel bad about buying a service contract. After all it's how dealerships make money, so hey just use up as much of those services as you can. I'm just jealous they got one! I'm in San Diego but never ordered a MME. We actually ordered an XC40 Recharge and just backed out of the delivery so now we've turned our heads to the MME. At this point I don't wanna order one and wait 6 months so I'm just gonna hope the local dealers here have 1 or 2 pre orders that fall through or maybe have an extra on the lot. I've seen a few people on these forums get lucky with a pre-order unit that gets turned down by the original person. I'm talking with Mossy Ford who said they should have a unit to test drive in a week or two. They're teasing me by listing all of their spoken-for pre-order units on their site which is annoying but I guess I can't blame em, they want to drum up interest. I'll just hope that one of those will fall through....except for the base model Standard Range RWD Select model someone seems to have ordered... I'll pass on that one ?

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ARK said:

Thanks for sharing, is there a time limitation for how long that service contract will remain in effect or just the 70,000 miles?

Sounds like the only thing you would pay out of pocket for are the tires, am I missing anything?

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RyZt said:

For an EV, PHEV, or Hybrid, you wouldn’t need brake change in 70k miles though. Regen, not the brakes, does most of deceleration.

That being said, $800 for 7 inspections + 7 tire rotation + 2 brake fluid change + 3 cabin filter change sound pretty reasonable to me. What do other people think?

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BDC said:

Congrats and thanks for training them on Ford options - my Premium is supposed to be showing up at Encinitas Ford in March (fingers crossed). Were you ever able to get a test drive before buying?

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Jako607 said:

I probably wouldn't have opted for that cuz you won't need new brakes within 36 months, but we're not here to make anyone feel bad about buying a service contract. After all it's how dealerships make money, so hey just use up as much of those services as you can. I'm just jealous @jccoleman got one! I'm in San Diego but never ordered a MME. We actually ordered an XC40 Recharge and just backed out of the delivery so now we've turned our heads to the MME. At this point I don't wanna order one and wait 6 months so I'm just gonna hope the local dealers here have 1 or 2 pre orders that fall through or maybe have an extra on the lot. I've seen a few people on these forums get lucky with a pre-order unit that gets turned down by the original person. I'm talking with Mossy Ford who said they should have a unit to test drive in a week or two. They're teasing me by listing all of their spoken-for pre-order units on their site which is annoying but I guess I can't blame em, they want to drum up interest. I'll just hope that one of those will fall through....except for the base model Standard Range RWD Select model someone seems to have ordered... I'll pass on that one ?

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