Recent content by mattjrutter

The trip has been a success! The Bronco has been really great fun. Very excited to add to it and get it out on some trails soon. An absolute miracle happened to get this to us in time for this trip. From ordering on Dec 23rd and then it only taking 19 days from the build date to delivery!!! My...

It made it!!! The dealer was all talking about "getting it ready today is a bit of a stretch." Then text just couple of hours later, "it's ready." I barely had enough time to get the check from Navy Federal! Now I'm just waiting on a couple of additions: soft top struts, roll bar covers, rear...

Seeing some really great things today!!! 🍾 🎊 🎉 Dealer is thinking it might take a couple of days to get things prepared, but will definitely make it by the trip!!!

Yeah, really looking scary! I also saw those reports of those dealerships losing most of their inventory due to massive hail. It would just be devastating to go through this waiting and getting so close to delivery only to be smacked to square one. I do hope the dealerships prioritize their...

Thank goodness!!! Fresh month too for that credit score ;) I'll be fixing up my own financing soon. I put my chances of getting that text from my dealer this week at 80%. Really close now.

You can then use those tracks to see where it should pass through your city and see that it goes right next your work so that you can get a beautiful picture like this one: If the graffiti is unique enough, you could probably then pick it out in the rail yard. Lol, maybe I'm a bit intense...

Lol, me too. I was checking the status about every 15 minutes and got a good trace across the country. I used Google Earth browser edition to label the cities (color-coded by day) and then Google Earth desktop edition to better see the rail lines and measure out the paths. You can see the...

I did end up receiving a few more statuses: 3/29 4:02am Arrived in Kent, WA (mentioned above) 3/29 10:17am Placed at customer location (Kent) 3/30 9:22pm Emptied, Released by customer (Kent) I would interpret the last two as: train car placed inside the unloading yard, and then for the last...

I confirmed that none of the cars that I can see at the Kent yard were a part of the train. I took a video of the whole train and wrote down all of the numbers, so none of those numbers are at Kent. Today, I'm going to the Renton yard and seeing if I can find a car number there. I also got the...

Latest statuses: 3/29 4:02am Arrived in Kent, WA 3/29 10:17am Placed at customer location (Kent) 3/30 9:22pm Cleared, Released by customer (Kent) I would interpret the last two as: train car placed inside the unloading yard, and then the car has been unloaded and it is ready to be picked...

Just called the tracker and got a "placed at customer location" status (10:17 pm last night). Maybe now I can find it. I'll take another look today.

Yesterday I looked around both. The Kent one was looking pretty barren and no rail cars sitting in there. I also couldn't see any Ford vehicles still. At the Renton one, there were some rail cars, but I didn't see ours since I'm sure the graffiti is just on one side and the cars can be brought...

I'm working with Eric. It's been going along pretty smoothly.

Really, have you seen that work? I've seen dealers all over the forums vehemently deny that they have any power over the shipping of those trucks. I've also figured that they don't feel like pushing any harder for a single customer. I do wonder what some Benjamins could accomplish...

Fantastic! The yard is a bit more barren than the other so hoping for a faster turnaround.