9/19 week Build Group

[Atxsw]

Ok guys take this with a grain of salt because I'm mostly speculating. But I think the 1 month change in delivery date might be a glitch and it won't affect your delivery time by that much., at least not everyone of you. Here's why:

I have 2 Mach-E in order. A Premium ordered in Feb with build date of 09/19. The other one is a GT ordered in March with build date of 09/26. The Premium shipped on 09/27 (a whole 9 days before the GT which shipped 10/06). I contacted my dealer and both the GT and the Premium are currently in Florida. But my Premium just got the 1 month ETA bump now showing a 12/14/2022 - 12/20/2022 date range. Contacted my dealer again and he said the Premium is definitely in Jacksonville, FL and it should be in the dealership next week (which matches the original ETA of 10/29 to 11/04). The GT is sitting at Miami and should be in today or tomorrow, maybe Monday he said. The GT didn't get the 1 month bump in ETA though.

I dont know why the Premium got the bump on ETA but dealer says it will for sure be here next week. The glitch might have to do with Ford transitioning to the new tracking system VINVIew maybe? I dont know, just speculating. But I thought I would let all know to give you guys (and myself) a little bit of hope.

I wish that was the case, I think in your case it just got the pushout since it wasnt delivered yet (just like ours) but unless theres a huge glitch in the tracking they are all waiting in MO still.

I do have the new vinview tracking now and it shows the same spot so I am pretty sure at least mine is not getting delivered for at least 20 days.

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[csilvest]

Ford Chat and my dealer were both saying the location was Internati - no mention of 6R until this VinView report today. Just checked with Ford Chat and they are still saying Internati as they have said for over 2 weeks.

Decided to pay a visit to the dealer today to see if there were any updates and about getting subscribed to notifications on my car's location via VINView. The sales person (backup to my primary sales person) was very helpful and we walked through the VINView app together. The option to subscribe to alerts was under Actions and I think it said Alerts or Subscribe - didn't take a picture so not sure. Wasn't Share though, which only sends a one time update. After putting in my cell number (BTW, it wanted the 1 in front of the area code before it would accept the number), I got the following confirmation text:

You have successfully set up real-time VIN Event & Milestone alerts from VINView (by FreightVerify) for the VIN below:

VIN: 3FMTK4SE-NM------
Product Type: 2022 FORD Mustang Mach E SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE

Pretty cool - looking forward to the first update which may not be far off. While there we noticed that the car had been moved from Ramp 6R to 6U, which I think means it's being loaded onto the next train. Will post if I receive any updates.

 

[Atxsw]

Decided to pay a visit to the dealer today to see if there were any updates and about getting subscribed to notifications on my car's location via VINView. The sales person (backup to my primary sales person) was very helpful and we walked through the VINView app together. The option to subscribe to alerts was under Actions and I think it said Alerts or Subscribe - didn't take a picture so not sure. Wasn't Share though, which only sends a one time update. After putting in my cell number (BTW, it wanted the 1 in front of the area code before it would accept the number), I got the following confirmation text:

You have successfully set up real-time VIN Event & Milestone alerts from VINView (by FreightVerify) for the VIN below:

VIN: 3FMTK4SE-NM------
Product Type: 2022 FORD Mustang Mach E SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE

Pretty cool - looking forward to the first update which may not be far off. While there we noticed that the car had been moved from Ramp 6R to 6U, which I think means it's being loaded onto the next train. Will post if I receive any updates.

Great news that yours is being loaded up, yeah once it moves from 6R it almost always means its headed out

 

[Atxsw]

Decided to pay a visit to the dealer today to see if there were any updates and about getting subscribed to notifications on my car's location via VINView. The sales person (backup to my primary sales person) was very helpful and we walked through the VINView app together. The option to subscribe to alerts was under Actions and I think it said Alerts or Subscribe - didn't take a picture so not sure. Wasn't Share though, which only sends a one time update. After putting in my cell number (BTW, it wanted the 1 in front of the area code before it would accept the number), I got the following confirmation text:

You have successfully set up real-time VIN Event & Milestone alerts from VINView (by FreightVerify) for the VIN below:

VIN: 3FMTK4SE-NM------
Product Type: 2022 FORD Mustang Mach E SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE

Pretty cool - looking forward to the first update which may not be far off. While there we noticed that the car had been moved from Ramp 6R to 6U, which I think means it's being loaded onto the next train. Will post if I receive any updates.

Also if you can let us know when you get updates via the txting system, I was added but haven't received any updates yet since mine is still sitting at 6R in limbo

 

[csilvest]

Also if you can let us know when you get updates via the txting system, I was added but haven't received any updates yet since mine is still sitting at 6R in limbo

Will do.

 

[minders]

Finally got rid of my BMW X1 lease today. Got the semi-local BMW dealership to "buy" it off me at what was left on the lease plus the disposition fee. Didn't get to make money on it like I had hoped, but that's ok I'll take the win of getting out of the lease 5 months early without having to make the payments or pay the $350 disposition fee. Had to haggle a bit and stand my ground as expected. At least I did the research beforehand and saw they had my same exact spec X1 on the lot with 40,000+ miles on it while mine had about 8,400. I think being able to throw at them that they'd be able to make money off mine faster and having a competing offer from AutoNation helped a bit. The manager was very shocked to see a 2019 with super low mileage and in great condition. I'm gonna try to put more miles on the MME now that I can enjoy it without the extra car payment hanging over my head!! ? ?

 

[Donnieboy]

Thank you to all my 9/19 build group . You guys are extremely helpful and I think I would've went crazy from lack updates from ford in anticipation waiting for my pick up date. it's definitely worth the wait

 

[Bigfeets]

For those interested in such details: Internati Missouri and Ford ID ramp number 6R and Richards-Gebaur waypoint are all the same location.
KCS International Freight Gateway, MO – Mid-America Freight Coalition (midamericafreight.org)
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/9-12-22-build-week-chat.20634/post-533444
In my experience, the first leg of Ford's delivery system works well, (Cuautitlan/Lecheria to Kansas City, Kansas City Southern RR, about 1600 miles in 10 days). However, as many of you have seen, something has gone wrong with the next leg for the western MME deliveries. (My MME order destined for California, built 9/13, has been in "shipped" status for 45 days, so far, but last update was 9/27 at ramp 6M. Dealer is unresponsive. The second delivery ETA window opens 4 days from now.)

autoracks moving through the Santa Fe RR crossing on MO/KS border.

 

[csilvest]

Decided to pay a visit to the dealer today to see if there were any updates and about getting subscribed to notifications on my car's location via VINView. The sales person (backup to my primary sales person) was very helpful and we walked through the VINView app together. The option to subscribe to alerts was under Actions and I think it said Alerts or Subscribe - didn't take a picture so not sure. Wasn't Share though, which only sends a one time update. After putting in my cell number (BTW, it wanted the 1 in front of the area code before it would accept the number), I got the following confirmation text:

You have successfully set up real-time VIN Event & Milestone alerts from VINView (by FreightVerify) for the VIN below:

VIN: 3FMTK4SE-NM------
Product Type: 2022 FORD Mustang Mach E SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE

Pretty cool - looking forward to the first update which may not be far off. While there we noticed that the car had been moved from Ramp 6R to 6U, which I think means it's being loaded onto the next train. Will post if I receive any updates.

Got my first update from VIN View - it basically confirms what the salesperson and I saw yesterday (that it had been moved over to 6U from 6R). Here's most of the text of the update:

You have a real-time update from VINView (by FreightVerify) on a VIN you set up alerts for. Please see the update below:

VIN: 3FMTK4SE-NM------
Product Type: 2022 FORD Mustang Mach E SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE
Intelligent ETA to Dealer: 11/26/2022 05:00 AM
Update: Vehicle Received (CRD)
Location: Muncie - 6U 721 S 68th St Kansas City KS US 66106
Event Time: 10/30/2022 07:34 AM

So it does look like the updates are working. We'll see what kind of updates I get when it starts moving west. There also appears to be some kind of data processing happening between the GPS location and the VINView system as we saw the car at 6U yesterday, well before 7:34am today as this update indicates - in other words, VINView doesn't seem to just send raw location data from the cellular GPS when it moves, rather it takes the raw GPS data and does some extra processing before packing it up into an update.

 

[atacama]

I wonder who will be the first to test this experiment ?

Order a Mach E and have it sent to Bob Sight Ford, less than 5 miles from Internati Missouri. Then drive it home from there, however many miles that is. No doubt loads faster than status quo right? ?

 

[Atxsw]

I wonder who will be the first to test this experiment ?

Order a Mach E and have it sent to Bob Sight Ford, less than 5 miles from Internati Missouri. Then drive it home from there, however many miles that is. No doubt loads faster than status quo right? ?

Seems like a good plan if these shipping issues continue, if I would have thought this would have been this big of an issue I probably would have done that when I ordered

 

[Atxsw]

Got my first update from VIN View - it basically confirms what the salesperson and I saw yesterday (that it had been moved over to 6U from 6R). Here's most of the text of the update:

You have a real-time update from VINView (by FreightVerify) on a VIN you set up alerts for. Please see the update below:

VIN: 3FMTK4SE-NM------
Product Type: 2022 FORD Mustang Mach E SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE
Intelligent ETA to Dealer: 11/26/2022 05:00 AM
Update: Vehicle Received (CRD)
Location: Muncie - 6U 721 S 68th St Kansas City KS US 66106
Event Time: 10/30/2022 07:34 AM

So it does look like the updates are working. We'll see what kind of updates I get when it starts moving west. There also appears to be some kind of data processing happening between the GPS location and the VINView system as we saw the car at 6U yesterday, well before 7:34am today as this update indicates - in other words, VINView doesn't seem to just send raw location data from the cellular GPS when it moves, rather it takes the raw GPS data and does some extra processing before packing it up into an update.

Thanks for sending this, I guess it means that the updates are delayed slightly, its also nice that it includes some adjusted ETA each time

 

[minders]

I wonder who will be the first to test this experiment ?

Order a Mach E and have it sent to Bob Sight Ford, less than 5 miles from Internati Missouri. Then drive it home from there, however many miles that is. No doubt loads faster than status quo right? ?

You buy it for me and I'll drive it back to Georgia. I can fly out there pretty easily. Make sure it's a GTPE and not red, tho. HAHAHA

 

[atacama]

You buy it for me and I'll drive it back to Georgia. I can fly out there pretty easily. Make sure it's a GTPE and not red, tho. HAHAHA

You know, I would, but I’d be too concerned it would still get stuck in 6R for weeks, and then poor Bob would just have *weeks worth of trouble* figuring out Georgia registration and taxes. And, in a strange factory error, it would be red.

 

[jeffvick2005]

I wonder who will be the first to test this experiment ?

Order a Mach E and have it sent to Bob Sight Ford, less than 5 miles from Internati Missouri. Then drive it home from there, however many miles that is. No doubt loads faster than status quo right? ?

They’d still find a way to have it take 6 weeks to go the 5 miles!

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