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

[JABronco87]

The back half of June and July will be scheduled next month.

Are you sure on that?

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[luvtofish]

Somebody several post pages back shared a dealer email which stated the remaining weeks in June/July are being scheduled next month. Assuming that's factual info, only 5-30, 6-6, & 6-13 are being scheduled this week.

 

[SASOBX]

I thought this weeks scheduling was for weeks all the way to July 25, at least that's what the title says.

My dealer sent me the information yesterday

• Since Bronco was a June/July wholesale, only part of your Bronco allocation will be eligible to schedule on Thursday, April 21st(we will only be scheduling through the build week of 6/13). The remaining allocation will be eligible to schedule next month when we schedule the rest of June & July production.

 

[NBales34]

So will there be more scheduling today orrrrrr?

 

[FLSTFI Dave]

Keep the Badlands and have the dealer pay you $10k+ for your Raptor reservation! The Raptor wouldn't fit in my garage, lol.

No room in my garage for either, 18 Grand Sport, 5 Harleys and 1 Honda in my garage plus fridge, and freezer and work bench.

I'll see Raptor in person today. Not a Golden ticket holder, but dealer said if I wanted a Raptor at MSRP he would do it, if he could have my reservation. Going to be a hard decision for me, very hard. 17K buys a lot of modifications to to the Badlands.

 

[BR0NCO]

No room in my garage for either, 18 Grand Sport, 5 Harleys and 1 Honda in my garage plus fridge, and freezer and work bench.

I'll see Raptor in person today. Not a Golden ticket holder, but dealer said if I wanted a Raptor at MSRP he would do it, if he could have my reservation. Going to be a hard decision for me, very hard. 17K buys a lot of modifications to to the Badlands.

$17k buys a lot but it also gets you a lot with the Raptor. Any mods you put into the Badlands will be worth 50% when you sell some day and has to meet that persons taste. All ugly fender jokes aside, get which other one feels right to you

 

[Compta38]

Are you sure on that?

@iBrad81 there have also been no build weeks scheduled after 6/13 so far either. Maybe Ford decided to backtrack on 2 months worth of builds at the last minute.

 

[KCHorse]

@iBrad81 there have also been no build weeks scheduled after 6/13 so far either. Maybe Ford decided to backtrack on 2 months worth of builds at the last minute.

Welp, I was previewing and told I was going to get scheduled for end of June, first week in July. Translation," We want to give the early res holders the appearance that their order is moving forward, but in reality, we do not have the parts at the moment." Anything can happen in a month, so obviously the folks without a VIN are in the same boat, even if your build is previewing. It's just a change in tactics to temper anger from the early res holders.

 

[KCHorse]

@iBrad81 there have also been no build weeks scheduled after 6/13 so far either. Maybe Ford decided to backtrack on 2 months worth of builds at the last minute.

I can confirm this statement as well. Fact check-True

 

[broncoToBe]

No room in my garage for either, 18 Grand Sport, 5 Harleys and 1 Honda in my garage plus fridge, and freezer and work bench.

I'll see Raptor in person today. Not a Golden ticket holder, but dealer said if I wanted a Raptor at MSRP he would do it, if he could have my reservation. Going to be a hard decision for me, very hard. 17K buys a lot of modifications to to the Badlands.

Lol I thought you meant you had 18 Grand Sports in your garage, not 1 single Grand Sport from 2018. I was like this guy is rich rich and OBSESSED with Grand Sports

 

[Johnny Mo]

Not scheduled, 8/6/2020 Resv.

Here's my take on what's happening with the schedule:
1) Clearly there are several thousand Bronc on the mountain that need to be finished and delivered
2) The introduction of Raptor builds have to be factored in to the line.
3) There was an unannounced scheduling of Raptors last week for the same build weeks (May and June) of other trim levels being scheduled now (in the announced week)
4) Dealer allocations seemed higher than the past for this run

The big question (formula) Ford is trying to answer right now is - how do we maximize delivery, while maintaining high production capacity and having net negative contribution to ice mountain (meaning lets finish/deliver more ice mountain vehicles than we add back coming off the line due to chip constraints)

To me - this says that Ford is trying to sort out the ice mountain completions and then fill in as many Raptor (still early resv holders) builds as possible and then scheduling a 3 week block of all other Bronco builds into that same set of weeks - I think they will assess their formula and see if they did in fact move more vehicles off ice mountain than add back off the line and then adjust the next few weeks of scheduling based on replenished parts to fulfill the next build weeks.

I'd expect another set of Raptors scheduled and then another BIG bunch of Broncos from first 2-3 weeks of reservations.

Just my educated guess - as a process engineer - this is how I'd likely handle this (obviously there are way more unknowns than I have access to, but this seems reasonable in my head.)

 

[Chippewa-Pin]

A bunch of Badlands got scheduled too...SAC had a ton of us in the top 20 and most of us got scheduled. Lots of high level trims this time but I guess that's to be expected when the bulk of the last 9 months have been base, BB. Eventually you run out of those requests.

I think your last statement is what gives the rest of us with BL and up hope that we may get scheduled next month for build weeks in June or July . We've seen 2 examples in this thread alone of Base models ordered in March 2022 getting build weeks, so they must be pretty well caught up with Base & BB. At least we can only hope!

 

[SASOBX]

Welp, I was previewing and told I was going to get scheduled for end of June, first week in July. Translation," We want to give the early res holders the appearance that their order is moving forward, but in reality, we do not have the parts at the moment." Anything can happen in a month, so obviously the folks without a VIN are in the same boat, even if your build is previewing. It's just a change in tactics to temper anger from the early res holders.

Ford released they will be scheduling for 2 months when in reality they did the normal one month. I agree the optics of what they released is definitely questionable.

I am in the same boat as a lot of members on here. 7/20/2020 reservation. Fully loaded SAS OBX.

My dealer is very reputable and has been great as I wait for a build date. I have moved up to 2nd on the allocation list and have never previewed. The day will eventually come, when Is that day?My guess is as good as anyone's.

 

[BroncoBaugh]

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

Going through the vehicle tracking link, with VIN and order number, I'm unable to generate a window sticker. Anyone else having this issue?

 

[KCHorse]

Not scheduled, 8/6/2020 Resv.

Here's my take on what's happening with the schedule:
1) Clearly there are several thousand Bronc on the mountain that need to be finished and delivered
2) The introduction of Raptor builds have to be factored in to the line.
3) There was an unannounced scheduling of Raptors last week for the same build weeks (May and June) of other trim levels being scheduled now (in the announced week)
4) Dealer allocations seemed higher than the past for this run

The big question (formula) Ford is trying to answer right now is - how do we maximize delivery, while maintaining high production capacity and having net negative contribution to ice mountain (meaning lets finish/deliver more ice mountain vehicles than we add back coming off the line due to chip constraints)

To me - this says that Ford is trying to sort out the ice mountain completions and then fill in as many Raptor (still early resv holders) builds as possible and then scheduling a 3 week block of all other Bronco builds into that same set of weeks - I think they will assess their formula and see if they did in fact move more vehicles off ice mountain than add back off the line and then adjust the next few weeks of scheduling based on replenished parts to fulfill the next build weeks.

I'd expect another set of Raptors scheduled and then another BIG bunch of Broncos from first 2-3 weeks of reservations.

Just my educated guess - as a process engineer - this is how I'd likely handle this (obviously there are way more unknowns than I have access to, but this seems reasonable in my head.)

I am in the engineering field as well and it definitely sounds feasible. I am a glutton for punishment, so I would love to be in their planning sessions for build weeks. Reservation mess aside, their procurement and planning teams have a tremendous and complicated task planning builds based on almost a limitless amount of factors. Although, again, they shot themselves in the foot with the reservation process and launching 7 (Including First Edition) similar trims with interchangeable options such as Sasquatch. The KISS acronym always comes to mind. (Keep It Simple Stupid) Why not adopt the Jeep model with Sport, Sahara, and Rubicon. Then, build whatever "Special Edition" you like a few years after launch.

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