Are you certain your order was linked to your reservation? I'm betting your dealer is staffed by morons who just threw a new order into the system at some point without bothering to link it to your reservation.
I've read conflicting stories on this.
Some say you can't make any changes after you get a VIN.
Others say you can't make changes that would change the VIN (engine, # of doors, transfer case).
Messing up price protection seems to have been a thing for MY22 orders. It doesn't seem to be an...
You're completely ignoring the years of designing, testing, validating, planning, tooling, and contracting with supplers that was done BEFORE A PANDEMIC.
I believe I recall reading a post by @flip stating that their service department has had to replace a few of these pumps in F-150s.
The pump is there to maintain transmission pressure during engine shutdown by auto-start-stop.
By that logic, you should tell your dealer your Bronco is worth 6-7k less too.
Fact is, cars don't just magically lose value on their model year birthday.
Gorilla Glass is glass that is manufactured using specific ingredients and processes to improve durability and scratch resistance. Exoshield is just a film that's applied over a piece of glass.
I was just in Detroit to pick up Buck and the weather wasn't anything crazy. Unless a once-in-a-generation weather event hits the storage yard there's no reasonable basis for concern. They're cars. They're designed for, and tested in worse weather than Michigan.
That having been said, this...
I was 876/942 and came off chip hold 11/18 and it was at the dealer the next business day.
I'm sure there's a method by which Ford is sequencing units to install chips in, but based on the little information we can see we'll never figure out what that method is.
They told me that mine was on a chip hold and gave me the estimated delivery date range which turned out to be correct. I didn't ask for any other details.