MAP Rumored to Add a Third Production Shift in Q4

[Dr.Detroit]

Unfortunately the bottleneck is going to be Webasto producing MIC tops. As of two weeks ago they could only produce up to 40 in a day and that’s only on a good day . Obviously everyone is working hard to ramp production up but finding quality employees remains a huge problem.

yeah, when you dropped the pay for 1st tier parts from 75 dollars all in to 22 all in, I guess employees feel the work does not equal the pay. fast food is way way easier to do for the money. I am told this all the time.

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[Lilj4425]

@Nite93 with that info just took everybody with a MIC top ordered out to the woodshed.

As a CNC machinist at a manufacturing plant I am not surprised by any of this. Our plant right now is having major issues getting steel supplies in to build our product. Demand is through the roof but we can’t build anything without the supplier network. We were working mandatory overtime a few weeks ago but that has been completely eliminated for the time being.

 

[Lilj4425]

We have 100+ between days and afternoons today. All are bad. Simply made for Ford to put cars out in their yards until good tops can replace the bad ones.

Sounds like Webasto has a MAJOR problem at hand if all of those tops are bad. Not sure what the solution is by them and Ford if they can’t get a handle on it. Cancel the MIC top completely?

 

[427Comet]

It would be nice, if some of these demos could make it to the auto media.. I would love to read a shakedown by Motor trend. Or some of the other media outlets with a fresh view of what’s coming..

 

[Nite93]

I'll be glad to give more details once my assignment is over here at Webasto.

 

[Chrism81]

Levines been tweeted on the webasto issue

He's the last person people should trust to get info from

 

[cclkramer]

Sounds like Webasto has a MAJOR problem at hand if all of those tops are bad. Not sure what the solution is by them and Ford if they can’t get a handle on it. Cancel the MIC top completely?

Ford should give everybody a soft top with all the hardware for the MIC top to be delivered at a later date! Free of charge!

 

[Nite93]

Ford should give everybody a soft top with all the hardware for the MIC top to be delivered at a later date! Free of charge!

I discussed that with someone in the know last week. Don't think that will happen for the 2dr anytime soon.

 

[Compta38]

Sounds like Webasto has a MAJOR problem at hand if all of those tops are bad. Not sure what the solution is by them and Ford if they can’t get a handle on it. Cancel the MIC top completely?

They cancel the hardtop and I would drop my order completely without thinking twice.

 

[Bronco4lyfe85]

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[North7]

I fully expect to see a photo of a parking lot full of thousands of topless Broncos waiting on their hardtops in a few months.

At least Ford is experienced at parking topless off-roaders.

 

[JesseS]

The government isn't paying people 21 a hour to stay at home, where do you guys come up with this nonsense?

You smoking some good shit if you got that out of my post, love how you just snatched that out of thin air.

 

[Mango&Moose]

I changed to soft today and dropped dual.

I live in GA, winter ain't that bad. My big concern was security.

 

[HotdogThud]

Ford should give everybody a soft top with all the hardware for the MIC top to be delivered at a later date! Free of charge!

Maybe not even necessarily that extreme, but if we're constrained that much on hard tops, just plumb every chassis with the works for the wiper and washer lines, ship them with a soft top and give people the option to buy a hard top (maybe even at a light discount) down the road.

Hell, I might even be satisfied with getting a soft top too, I just don't want to have that lockout of never being able to have any other top. Give me options to future proof things, and I'll sign up for a soft top right now.

Seems like a no-brainer from a PR perspective to me, but what do I know.

 

[WhiteMamba]

You smoking some good shit if you got that out of my post, love how you just snatched that out of thin air.

You literally put people were getting 17-21 to stay at home, Not hard to "snatch" that and come to that conclusion....

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