grovep
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I must confess to being very frustrated still waiting for my MME to be delivered.
It is a company lease vehicle was ordered in March 21. Arval, the lease company plased an order on TrustFord in the second half of March. TrustFord only ordered the manufacture of the vehicle in the end of May. Why such a 2 month delay - not sure.
The vehicle was manufactured at the end of June and Sync 4 was updated on 1st July - so Ford, once the manufacturing order was placed, produced the vehicle fairly promptly. However it sat at Veracruz untill it was loaded on the MSC Cristiana mid August and then for the next 1.5 months did a tour of the east coast of Mexico and USA. It was finally unloaded in Antwerp end of September and worked its way through customs and quality checks for the next 2 weeks and then sent to Flushing waiting to be sent over to the UK for about 2 weeks. Its now been in Dagenham for over 2 weeks with no sign of progress. I am assuming it is just outside of the window for the recall (excuse the pun) so why so long? Have others in the UK got their vehicles that were on MSC Cristiana?
I do realise this is me venting my frustration and others who ordered their vehicles earlier had even longer waits but how can a business survive which such a long cycle?
Interesting the only time that the chip shortage was blamed for the delay was after it had been manufactured!
It is a company lease vehicle was ordered in March 21. Arval, the lease company plased an order on TrustFord in the second half of March. TrustFord only ordered the manufacture of the vehicle in the end of May. Why such a 2 month delay - not sure.
The vehicle was manufactured at the end of June and Sync 4 was updated on 1st July - so Ford, once the manufacturing order was placed, produced the vehicle fairly promptly. However it sat at Veracruz untill it was loaded on the MSC Cristiana mid August and then for the next 1.5 months did a tour of the east coast of Mexico and USA. It was finally unloaded in Antwerp end of September and worked its way through customs and quality checks for the next 2 weeks and then sent to Flushing waiting to be sent over to the UK for about 2 weeks. Its now been in Dagenham for over 2 weeks with no sign of progress. I am assuming it is just outside of the window for the recall (excuse the pun) so why so long? Have others in the UK got their vehicles that were on MSC Cristiana?
I do realise this is me venting my frustration and others who ordered their vehicles earlier had even longer waits but how can a business survive which such a long cycle?
Interesting the only time that the chip shortage was blamed for the delay was after it had been manufactured!
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