In all my years dealing with Ford, I have yet to find a dealer that has any accurate idea about what Ford is doing. This sounds like speculation or even a subtle way to get people to walk on their orders… or possibly even a localized dealer allocation thing.
Figured this out on my own. For anyone looking to adjust the two front hard top mounts, you can get away with unscrewing just the two visor mounts and then the header can pull down enough to get a ratchet in without any issues. No need to disassemble all the surrounding trim.
You're all better off without it, and the bugs that it brings. Choppy, glitchy CarPlay, forgetting various settings, Speed limit weirdness - I wish we'd have turned updates off.
Trying to see if I can get a hard top to fit right on a soft top. Could someone post these instructions so I can make this adjustment:
Remove the windshield header trim panel. Refer to Workshop Manual (WSM), Section 501-05.
Starting to put the puzzle pieces together a bit now from anecdotal evidence in other threads. It's beginning to look like M2DB-X502G33-AV51MD was a newly manufactured "MIC 2.0" top, while M2DB-S502G33-AV51MD could have been the sticker applied to MIC 1.0 tops that were only re-primed and...
I'm not one to split hairs, but I felt the need to point out you used "@&$" which reads like 'piece of ass', which is not what I think you meant to convey, as it might mean something desirable... piece of '$h17' might be more contextually appropriate here.
That's what I'm saying; they have different service numbers (sorry, I used the word "production" here), but seem to have the same engineering numbers for 21 and 22.