⏱ Bronco Scheduling Next Week (4/18) For Build Weeks 5/30-6/27 and 7/11-7/25

[sirloco]

First off, congratulations to everyone that is getting scheduled, it’s obviously a long time coming. I do have a quick question for anyone in the know. I just called Ford and they said that my order is in processing. The other times that I have called I have just been told that my order was accepted. Unfortunately I could barely understand the lady on the phone and did not ask further questions. Can anyone shed some light on what order processing is?

I'm in the same boat it means that if you don't receive a build date by Friday evening you're going to have to wait for the next scheduling week at the end of may or June. No guarantees that you will get a build date then either.

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[CTBronco1980]

Day 2 reservation holder, finally got scheduled today. Now just hoping that it isn't delayed 10 times

 

[maestrosax]

so when should I stop refreshing the backdoor? LOL

 

[broncoToBe]

Yooo where is my email? I only ordered 2 months ago but gimme my VIN goddamnit

 

[BroncoBaugh]

Woot Woot!!

Including Res date 7-16-20 10:00 am Pacific, MIC, Lux, Modular bumper, towing package, tube step, Brush guard.

 

[SpringBreak98]

This is frustrating. I've been holding my reservation since July 21, 2020, ordered Feb 2, 2021 and reorder Oct 14, 2021.

I know someone at my dealership who did a walk in order in November of 2021 and is already driving their bronco as of March. They have a v6, with tow, Lux, softtop WildTrack and mine is a Badlands, High package, no tow, v6, Saquatch, softtop (recently changed to fast track my truck).

Given the strong similiarities in constraints I think this information proves without a doubt that reservation holders are being deprioritized for whatever reason and I'm beyond frustrated to not have gotten a builddate giving up that MIC.

Also what the hell does this even mean?

"It looks like your order is still processing and there is no ETA on when production will begin. However, it has been given the clear to start production when the next production week becomes available."

If they don't pull you this go round I say screw it and put that MIC back on. I was July 15th res that got pulled today with MIC, 2.7, and SAS on mine. Only thing I gave up this whole time was tow.

 

[Tbrownwyw]

It's the Sales code on your DORA

Thanks! Just checked, looks like I waiting for the next production schedule in June. Congrats or yours being scheduled

 

[maestrosax]

Any 2-Doors get pulled?

 

[phocion]

Looks like this was another dud scheduling week for me, but there are a couple silver linings:

• Glad to see so many similar (but earlier) builds to mine finally getting cleared out. I knew my odds were bad as long as those July '20 orders were still works in progress.
• Sounds like most June and July scheduling will happen next month, not all compressed into today like we thought. So we can't quite put a fork in summer off-roading yet.

 

[pjbinns]

I'm in the same boat it means that if you don't receive a build date by Friday evening you're going to have to wait for the next scheduling week at the end of may or June. No guarantees that you will get a build date then either.

Next scheduling is end of June now. So if you're not scheduled this week, you'll be looking at the soonest an August build dates, early September delivery. We are soon into the 2023 carousel with the 2023 order banks opening October, it will be here before ya know it. I hope it's as fun as 2021 and 2022 have been. Every year of bronco waiting has its own adventures, including interest rate increases, MSRP hikes, new unforseen constraints tacked onto the list, and maybe some new swag or trinkets for still playing the game waiting for your golden ticket. Good news is by the time your bronco is selected by the divine order at Ford, it will be worth WAY more than you pay because they just can't build them, so you have the option to sell and pay off your house? Student loans? Buy 2 other cars?

 

[luvtofish]

Yes Virginia there is a Santa Clause.......
After many, many, many weeks and several replaced F5 keys (lol), I've finally gotten a build date. While I'm ecstatic that it's happening, I'm also cynical enough to know it's not real until it finally arrives at the dealership. I've witnessed way to many people who were given a build date only to wait for months on end, some still waiting. All that aside, at least it is something positive after nearly 2 years of waiting since my reservation date.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Gloff]

So my best guess is that these old orders they leave unscheduled as a way to dangle the carrot in front of dealers. Their allocation formula is a way of pressuring dealers to sell less popular vehicles, and the reward is additional bronco allocations. I think the added bonus here is having frustrated res holders to come at the dealer as well pressuring them to sell these vehicles to get more allocations and get customers off their backs. For Ford this results in a spike in unpopular vehicle sales, while at the same time they build base broncos from walk in orders for raw production number value to also look good. Leaves res holders in a purgatory of sorts being used by ford in their strategy to motivate dealers and make executives look competent. All they have to sacrifice with this strategy is bad PR, but they are willing to concede that as they can hide behind global supply constraints as the oversimplified excuse.

I can't speak for all dealers, but the orders scheduled for our store today were overwhelmingly early timestamps. I looked through the later builds that did schedule, and they were lower trim soft tops primarily. We had 43 schedule, of those 43, only 4 were soft top (and three Raptor). Our allocation is 64 (including Raptor) for the two months of production, so we still have 18 more to schedule in the coming weeks for July production. My suspicion is that that second round will be soft top heavy.

As to why this is happening now: I suspect that the other supply chain issues (that caused ice mountain holds as well as pushed builds from March/April to April/May/June) allowed hard top production to more or less catch up resulting in a lot of early reservations being scheduled because of the increased availability.

Before everyone freaks out about how they changed to ST to get scheduled, like the poster you're quoting, the "early reservations" I quoted were 7/17 and earlier; So at least in our queue, a 7/21 Soft top would potentially be held up, especially if it was a high option build, as most of the earlier timestamps left are still hard tops with other high level options (High/Lux, BL/SAS/WT). I have very few timestamps before 7/20 that are on the basic side, like less than 5%. This early timestamp weighting resulted in many of the high option content parts being used up by early hard top builds. This means that the later timestamps and walk in orders that scheduled were basic builds (like I saw with our queue).

If the 7/21 poster had changed to a soft top before ice mountain, he likely would have gotten scheduled if you use the data from our queue as an example.

 

[WillRCTID]

I messaged my dealer. We'll see what they have to say.

Update. They said I'm Priority Code 10.

 

[mgp1]

Just got off of Ford Chat and I was able to get a VIN but when I went to check on the link provided, I see this. If I have a VIN, does that mean I'm scheduled for production, I didn't have the chance to ask. I don't have a reservation number, so the backdoor link doesn't work for me.

If you have a VIN, you're scheduled. Did they not give you a date? The tracker wont move to "in production" until your vehicle actually goes in to be built.

 

[Fonz54]

If you have a VIN, you're scheduled. Did they not give you a date? The tracker wont move to "in production" until your vehicle actually goes in to be built.

Conversely the back door link shows I just got a build date of 6/6. When will I get the VIN?

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