I am #21. 2DR Badlands, 2.7L, High, SAS.
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Last Call for 2023 Bronco Order Conversions at Granger Ford!!
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2 door base squatch with 2.7. Might squeeze ahead of you with the high package.
Let me just take this moment to point out over 100K+ Broncos have squeezed ahead of me (and many others).
Any Base model is harder to build than a Big Bend 2.3 with mid package apparently based on the anecdotal evidence.
Reading this Ford Authority article this caught my eye. Does this mean the allocation formula might be ignored to actually fulfill all the 22 orders /reservation holders first? I know we had heard something like this before but. ??
"Currently, 2023 Ford Bronco production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders, meaning prospective buyers are essentially out of luck. While that may improve in the future,"
IS ford authority really the Authority?
Here is the link , the quote is down near the bottom of the article.
https://fordauthority.com/2022/12/2023-ford-bronco-hvac-knobs-add-digital-temperature-display/
"Currently, 2023 Ford Bronco production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders, meaning prospective buyers are essentially out of luck. While that may improve in the future,"
IS ford authority really the Authority?
Here is the link , the quote is down near the bottom of the article.
https://fordauthority.com/2022/12/2023-ford-bronco-hvac-knobs-add-digital-temperature-display/
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Key word, CURRENTLY. Subject to change once Granger orders are only remaining.
Also, I promise you that there are exceptions to the above, such as fleet orders.
Just learned that my neighbor two houses down ordered the exact same bronco as I did from Granger. He just got a “build notification”. I am probably late spring.
It is the same trim (Badlands) with the same Sasquatch package and both in Oxford White. Now I need to decide if I change my color so we don’t have identical Broncos running around the hood.
It is the same trim (Badlands) with the same Sasquatch package and both in Oxford White. Now I need to decide if I change my color so we don’t have identical Broncos running around the hood.
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Dang, that is harsh!
I thought there were 2 or 3 more dealers out there that had reasonable pricing and therefore took a lot of orders.
It just means what we already knew, that only 2022 carryover orders and unconverted reservation holders can place an order, therefore, currently (as in, as of right this moment) 2023 production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders. Has nothing to do with the allocation formula and doesn't mean that the order banks won't eventually open up to public walk-ins.
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We all just keep hoping that @Zach@Granger 's hint of good news will contain the answer to our Broncos arrival.
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Agreed.
I'm glad Ford did it though, or else I'd probably be looking at end of '23 instead of being in transit now. Holding off orders and concentrating on the backlog was the right choice. Been through the entire process and decisions from Ford on how to proceed did feel like lies at the time, instead it may have been the most prudent way to deal with the constraints. The one part that I do not like is the bowing to the dealers instead of sticking to the promised reservation process; it seems like a lot of dealers have dug their own grave because the Ford CEO is doing whatever he can to get away from the current dealership model.
Even if Ford solved all of their other parts constraints, they still don't have enough Hard Top production to build only customer orders. They have to mix in 20% soft-top dealer lot builds.
And at this point, almost everything left on the customer order side is 2-doors and 4-door hard tops.
And at this point, almost everything left on the customer order side is 2-doors and 4-door hard tops.
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They're still struggling with the MiC hard top.
It was in one of the Ford video guy's videos that they can barely do 50% of the 80% of total orders that want/require a hard top. What's worse about that is, I bet they're still having a high turn over of defective top parts. This isn't good news for a lot of 2Dr people like me.
Why I say this is, I've been trying to catch as many Broncos as I can that are delivered to my local Dealer.
In the last 3 months I've seen 3 tops (one 2Dr & two 4Dr) and they've all had issues.
One already had snake-skin on the passenger's side above the rear side glass. The other 2 had edges that clearly weren't molded/rounded over properly and you could see some of the inner honeycomb like MiC 1.0 had.
Unless something drastically changes, I won't see a build in '23, so I've started the ball rolling on something else with Zach and my local Dealer.
The first vehicle built wins, at this point.
It was in one of the Ford video guy's videos that they can barely do 50% of the 80% of total orders that want/require a hard top. What's worse about that is, I bet they're still having a high turn over of defective top parts. This isn't good news for a lot of 2Dr people like me.
Why I say this is, I've been trying to catch as many Broncos as I can that are delivered to my local Dealer.
In the last 3 months I've seen 3 tops (one 2Dr & two 4Dr) and they've all had issues.
One already had snake-skin on the passenger's side above the rear side glass. The other 2 had edges that clearly weren't molded/rounded over properly and you could see some of the inner honeycomb like MiC 1.0 had.
Unless something drastically changes, I won't see a build in '23, so I've started the ball rolling on something else with Zach and my local Dealer.
The first vehicle built wins, at this point.
Not pointed at you, but I don't believe a word of this. If FORD were honestly going to clear the reservations, they would have made a clear and concise statement or announcement- leaving no debate. But that is not what has happened. And speaking as a quasi-psychologist, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. This spring, FORD lots will be filled with Broncos for walk-ons.
FORD has pulled some VINS for some of our early rez holders but at 876 days waiting myself as of 12/6, FORD has a long way to go. If FORD wanted to clear these reservations, they could easily do it. We've all seen the production numbers that were released. They could wipe out Granger in a week if they wanted to. But they don't. They are weirdly punishing customers with this stance towards these dealers. This is a bad faith move on their part and will make me reconsider ever buying a FORD product in the future.
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