1/17/22 Build Week Chat

[MachMEIA]

Called my dealer today and they said it’s at the train yard in Mexico. Some sort of rail hold. It was supposed to be here last week now they are saying middle of April. He didn’t seem too confident on that date. I am going to bet I see it 1 year after the order was placed.

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[jimitoast]

I got what I think is good news this morning. When I checked the shop.ford.com site, it now says shipped. I have not received a ship email and the ford.com page does not indicate that it shipped. Some people on the 1/3 and 1/10 build week chats have the same scenario and at least one of them reverted back to built status at some point so I am trying to temper my enthusiasm. Anyway, I'll take what I can get at this point. Hopefully the rest of you will see some movement too!

 

[yngwenli]

I got what I think is good news this morning. When I checked the shop.ford.com site, it now says shipped. I have not received a ship email and the ford.com page does not indicate that it shipped. Some people on the 1/3 and 1/10 build week chats have the same scenario and at least one of them reverted back to built status at some point so I am trying to temper my enthusiasm. Anyway, I'll take what I can get at this point. Hopefully the rest of you will see some movement too!

Yeah, mine was Shipped for a few days, then reverted back to Built. I'm guessing what's happening is there are lots of cars just sitting waiting to be railroaded up to Kansas and initially, they marked some of us as shipped or prepared to be ship, then reverted back since it's just waiting now and not really shipped.

I got nothing on Palsapp and Built almost a month ago now. I'm sure my ETA will be pushed back by at least a month or more. At least I don't have to commute much, but that might be changing soon so not looking forward to have to buy a lot of gas at these CA prices ($6-$7/gallon).

 

[Jmh809]

Mine shows shipped now as well… we shall see.

 

[ponEpwr]

Are you guys still showing shipped? Just checked shop.ford.com and ford.com and both still on built stage. Have a feeling it's not really built. I don't see any reason why someone would expend the resources and materials to complete a product and then not ship it to be compensated. Accounting department would be in their ass.

 

[Jmh809]

Still showing “shipped”. It hasn’t changed since Monday.

 

[jimitoast]

Are you guys still showing shipped? Just checked shop.ford.com and ford.com and both still on built stage. Have a feeling it's not really built. I don't see any reason why someone would expend the resources and materials to complete a product and then not ship it to be compensated. Accounting department would be in their ass.

Still showing shipped on shop.ford.com. No shipped email yet. Lots of people in other earlier build weeks with the same situation. 1/3 and 1/10 build weeks seem to be slowly shipping. Of course, plenty of people in build weeks after ours are receiving shipped emails and deliveries...

My best guess is that they don't have adequate logistics capacity so they are shipping the cars that are:
(1) higher profit margin (eg orders AFTER the price increases)
(2) more readily accessible (eg the ones coming off the line complete vs ours that are probably in the back of a huge parking lot and parked-in by a bunch of newer ones)
(3) going to EV states (need to meet the state's EV quota to avoid fines?)
(4) ???not subject to some kind of quality problem that requires rework and that they don't want to tell us about??? The notorious LV battery issue on long-stored cars comes to mind but maybe there is something else that would warrant a recall if they shipped the cars???

The lack of transparency is astounding and has my mind inventing all kinds of root-causes that inspire concern and/or anger...

If waiting gets me a better quality car, I am ok with that but Ford has massively shat the bed on this...

 

[ponEpwr]

Another week of nothing

Estimated delivery window has come and gone with no movement from the "built" stage. I've about lost all hope, not even some fake dates to look forward to.

 

[BalsaDust]

Another week of nothing

Estimated delivery window has come and gone with no movement from the "built" stage. I've about lost all hope, not even some fake dates to look forward to.

Yep, still sitting at 'Built" myself but I have heard some stories about why this is happening, and no I will not share because it's just speculation on my dealers part and wrong news is not good news.
Personally I'll be happy if it shows up before the end of June when the Delaware $2500 rebate is supposed to end! ????

 

[Deleted member 4194]

Imagine my surprise when I just checked the Ford tracker and find that my car has shipped. I ordered this mach E on April 29 2021. Truthfully I don't put a lot of stock in getting it anytime soon. First email said the estimated arrival would be April 9-15. 2 days later I got one that said that estimated date had been updated to June 2-8. The ordertrack.app says it is pending so not much movement in my mind.

 

[Jmh809]

Well, I’ve been showing “shipped” since March 28th. I just got off the phone with my dealership and the VVR is still showing the vehicle is in Mexico with a status of “delayed delivery”. Maybe by May… I’d really like to stop paying for gas

 

[BalsaDust]

I have been using the "ordertrack.app" listed in the 1/10/22 build week thread and this afternoon it just changed from "in Production" to "awaiting Shipment"
Another glimmer of hope be it so slight!

Tony

 

[jimitoast]

Nothing new here. shop.ford.com shows "shipped" but ford.com shows "built" (since 2/25). No shipped email. Nothing new on palsapp (pending) or ordertrack.app (awaiting shipment). My dealer says the VVR indicates "in transit with a rail carrier delay". It feels like they are shipping as many completed cars from the line as possible and filling any remaining "seats" on the transport with our cars from the parking lot that are most readily accessible. My ETA still says 3/25-3/31 LOL.

 

[jimitoast]

Maybe I am mis-remembering my ordertrack.app result from yesterday or maybe I spoke too soon but it now says "In Transit". Everything else I just posted is accurate (not convinced it is actually in transit).

 

[jimitoast]

Seems to be a lot of shipping happening on the 1/3 and 1/10 build week chats so maybe we're next!

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