My blend date is 11/4. My window sticker was available the evening of 10/27 and I think the tracker was showing in production several days before that.
Some people at Ford HQ might have a pretty good idea of when, but their lips are sealed.
The last official word from Ford HQ was something along the lines of: We'll see where things stand in Q4 2022.
Are you referring to the Maverick Hybrids that got a MY22 VIN assigned and are now being rolled over to MY23? Are they doing that with products beyond the Maverick?
Chat had me at 11/4 as of Tuesday. I also just switched to "In Production" and have been furiously refreshing sticker links in hopes of striking sticky goodness.
I can't contribute much to that beyond I saw mention of "sticker Tuesday" in another thread.
Thinking about this from a Ford business operations/systems point of view, having stickers viewable on the public internet the day the vehicle is produced would not be a top priority since the delay...
What do you mean by sticker generation? Are you trying to figure out how to see yours or are you wondering what the significance of a sticker being viewable is?
What's interesting is that the offical Ford tracker uses an entirely different window sticker URL that I've never seen before:
https://www.cxservices.ford.com/inventory/WindowStickerV2?vin=*********&hash=********
Look no further than Ford. HOSS 3.0 upgrades both the rack and the tie rods. If Ford could've gotten away with upgrading just the tie rods then they probably would've done so to save $$$ on steering racks.
What sort of testing/validation was done to ensure this product isn't going to put undue stress on the stock rack & pinion and cause a much more expensive failure?