Delayed production

[UW2]

Mine was originally scheduled for production on "Week of 11/20". According to www.macheforum.com/site/pages/tracker it's been complete since 12/5, but my ford.com and shop.ford.com pages are both stuck at "scheduled for production". ?‍

This is not an official Ford stance, but the forum consensus is that even if the cars are finished and on the lot the status isn't going to flip to "built" until OKTB is reached.

The one thing that changed for me (scheduled Week of 11/28) is it now shows a Production Date of 2020-12-11

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[DaveRuns]

Mine had a build "day" of 12/7. It started on the line on 12/4 (but 12/5 & 6 were the weekend). The status never changed. I spoke to the dealer yesterday and he says they didn't update the production day (it still shows 12/7) but the car's status shows it "in body shop" (I think that's the area off to the side of the assembly line where they send cars for inspection and/or touch-up). But it's been there ever since. My guess it it may flip get a built status today but I honestly don't know. All we know is the dealer says it shows it went to body shop on 12/9.

Cool! My build week was this week as well (online it said 12/6). I've been checking www.macheforum.com/site/pages/tracker and my FordPass App to see if there's been any change, but none. Hopefully our cars will have the same "built" dates. Cheers!

 

[theblueone]

The one thing that changed for me (scheduled Week of 11/28) is it now shows a Production Date of 2020-12-11

If you are seeing a production date, that should represent the *completion* of production. Congratulations! You are now invited to join the my-mach-e-is-ready-but-I-can't-drive-it-yet forum.

 

[UW2]

If you are seeing a production date, that should represent the *completion* of production. Congratulations! You are now invited to join the my-mach-e-is-ready-but-I-can't-drive-it-yet forum.

I suspect a whole bunch of us will be there, root cause is probably they were waiting for ONE part for all these builds and that one appeared today.

 

[rplinpa]

So, did your build week change on My Ford? How did you find out yours is delayed?

First my dealer alerted me and then I checked on MyFord nd it was changed there as well.

 

[Badger_Prof]

Just got an email from Ford. My original production week was December 20. Then it changed to December 27. Today's email says it has now changed to week of January 4. So, every week for three weeks in a row they have added an incremental week. Hopefully, this latest estimate will be good. If it slips to March, I will either wait and order a 2022 Mach-E or go with an alternative EV. My Bolt is fine but I had been excited about the Mach-E. Now it looks like earliest arrival will probably be in February (i.e., 15 months after I reserved it). It seems like a long time....

 

[MattG]

Just got an email from Ford. My original production week was December 20. Then it changed to December 27. Today's email says it has now changed to week of January 4. So, every week for three weeks in a row they have added an incremental week. Hopefully, this latest estimate will be good. If it slips to March, I will either wait and order a 2022 Mach-E or go with an alternative EV. My Bolt is fine but I had been excited about the Mach-E. Now it looks like earliest arrival will probably be in February (i.e., 15 months after I reserved it). It seems like a long time....

Same here! Just got the same email, and was originally the week of 12/20.?

 

[dbsb3233]

Just got an email from Ford. My original production week was December 20. Then it changed to December 27. Today's email says it has now changed to week of January 4. So, every week for three weeks in a row they have added an incremental week. Hopefully, this latest estimate will be good. If it slips to March, I will either wait and order a 2022 Mach-E or go with an alternative EV. My Bolt is fine but I had been excited about the Mach-E. Now it looks like earliest arrival will probably be in February (i.e., 15 months after I reserved it). It seems like a long time....

It is a long time, but the first 12 months of that were all part of the pre-order deal to begin with. We knew that when we signed on.

For North America buyers, it's appearing we'll have had 2 months of initial COVID delay, and now perhaps an additional month in these nickel-and-dime production and shipping slides. Overall about 3 extra months. Frustrating, of course, and everyone's timing needs are different. But honestly, Ford is doing better than most that are trying to launch a new car deep into COVID year. I'm actually pretty impressed, considering.

 

[Badger_Prof]

It is a long time, but the first 12 months of that were all part of the pre-order deal to begin with. We knew that when we signed on.

For North America buyers, it's appearing we'll have had 2 months of initial COVID delay, and now perhaps an additional month in these nickel-and-dime production and shipping slides. Overall about 3 extra months. Frustrating, of course, and everyone's timing needs are different. But honestly, Ford is doing better than most that are trying to launch a new car deep into COVID year. I'm actually pretty impressed, considering.

I fully agree with everything you said. What would make me feel much better about the situation and about Ford would be some measure of transparency. It would be nice if, when they tell us they are delaying beyond what they previously told us, they told us why e.g., "Cars are being built successfully but we are having shipping issues," or "Part supply chains have been disrupted," or "We are having staffing issues due to Covid," or "We are waiting on government approvals," or "all of the above." Any of those things would be reasonable things to know. Since they have chosen not to share any of that information, one might (hopefully mistakenly) start to wonder if they actually have this under control at all.

 

[MachE2021]

Same here! Just got the same email, and was originally the week of 12/20.?

Same here.

I also have a FE via Mach drop previously scheduled for 1/4. Unfortunately since we don’t get updated except from our dealer, it’s unclear if that date also got pushed 3 weeks too. Hopefully not but who knows.

 

[S.B.]

Just got an email from Ford. My original production week was December 20. Then it changed to December 27. Today's email says it has now changed to week of January 4. So, every week for three weeks in a row they have added an incremental week. Hopefully, this latest estimate will be good. If it slips to March, I will either wait and order a 2022 Mach-E or go with an alternative EV. My Bolt is fine but I had been excited about the Mach-E. Now it looks like earliest arrival will probably be in February (i.e., 15 months after I reserved it). It seems like a long time....

Same here! Just got the same email, and was originally the week of 12/20.?

Same date changes for me as well. I’m not even going to call my dealer again for the exact build date as it may change again. Eventually it will be built.....

 

[dbsb3233]

I fully agree with everything you said. What would make me feel much better about the situation and about Ford would be some measure of transparency. It would be nice if, when they tell us they are delaying beyond what they previously told us, they told us why e.g., "Cars are being built successfully but we are having shipping issues," or "Part supply chains have been disrupted," or "We are having staffing issues due to Covid," or "We are waiting on government approvals," or "all of the above." Any of those things would be reasonable things to know. Since they have chosen not to share any of that information, one might (hopefully mistakenly) start to wonder if they actually have this under control at all.

Totally agree there. We're fortunate to have some in-the-know posters here that are telling us much of the real story, but Ford should be getting that word out to customers more directly with status updates. As much as I just praised them on the production front, I'll criticize them on the communications front. I'll cut them a bit of COVID slack there too, but not as much since communications issues should be much easier to coordinate and handle remotely from home as needed. It's literally remote communications.

 

[Rocky29670]

Yes, mine too. My build week went from Dec 20th to Dec 27th.

I also was scheduled for the 20th then the 27th and now I got an email today delaying production until January 4th. Hope that's the last delay.

 

[dbsb3233]

Same here.

I also have a FE via Mach drop previously scheduled for 1/4. Unfortunately since we don’t get updated except from our dealer, it’s unclear if that date also got pushed 3 weeks too. Hopefully not but who knows.

So far it looks like the Machdrops are holding steady for the 1/4 build week. But slipping into the next week wouldn't surprise me.

OTOH, since they appear to be the final batch of FEs (for NA at least, not sure about Europe), they might want to sticky those to that week, to get all the FEs finished. (Which could push some non-FEs that were initially scheduled prior to being after instead.) But that's just my guess.

 

[SONEWBE]

Just got an email from Ford. My original production week was December 20. Then it changed to December 27. Today's email says it has now changed to week of January 4. So, every week for three weeks in a row they have added an incremental week. Hopefully, this latest estimate will be good. If it slips to March, I will either wait and order a 2022 Mach-E or go with an alternative EV. My Bolt is fine but I had been excited about the Mach-E. Now it looks like earliest arrival will probably be in February (i.e., 15 months after I reserved it). It seems like a long time....

Didn't get an email, but when I checked Ford.com I noticed my build date has moved up a week to 1/10/21. Ford must be doing some re-scheduling due to inventory and shipping constraints.

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