New 60 Day Push...WTH?

[JonD]

I'm just glad I'm in a position to be able to responsibly purchase this. I'm on of the originals July 2020.....It is what it is but I do enjoy hearing all the different stories

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[Romano]

Those of us who are chip hold were given a resolution date of around 5/10 back in march or so. The system within Ford just added another 60+ days to the ETA. Mine is 7/29 now, produced 1/14

This is a bummer...sorry.

 

[Deleted member 21681]

Man, this is a gut shot. For those of us that don't even have a scheduling date, this pretty much feels like we wont get anything till 2023 since production stops in October. I'm starting to believe I'll never see my Bronco.

Don’t get too down over the notion just yet. I have just about every reported constraint but 2-door and I got a surprise schedule email on Friday (scheduled week of may 30). I don’t really understand how/why (other than that I had just finished pre-approval for a mortgage and the universe is trying to screw me) and I’m sure I’ll be bumped back a few dozen times, but the point is there’s always hope. It’s either a very complex or purely chaotic system, but either way predictions are pretty tough.
Condolences to those bumped. I’m sure I’ll be right behind you soon.

 

[Romano]

We are up to page 4. I’m not counting.

Might end up in the 600's like the January build weeks.. Total shit show.... Ill keep reading fo sho!

 

[JD18]

All of the chips on all of the broncos need to be programmed, I’m talking about clearing out the holding lots. The work needs to be done either way, why would you not be doing it FIFO?

Per what I and my dealer have been told they are clearing the lot by convenience of the location of the truck, leaving older cars blocked into the back of the lot sitting longer.

From a friend that works at FOMOCO corp they was no logic or thought out into isolating blend weeks on the holding lots. I joked w them why don’t they just look for the dirtiest units out there and you will most likely find the Jan builds. Given what happened w the MIC tops, the F150 last year and chip impact on multiple model lines they are going to need a placement and tracking system for their secondary production hold process. At some point customers loyalty and excitement is spent when we are left to decipher too many times on our own wtf is going on.

 

[Raptor911]

Let’s be honest … you just want your damn bronco and you don’t give a poo about communication.

Read the room. Sensitive subject for those of us left on ice mtn purgatory. Told its chip hold yet no effort on Fords part to proactively communicate a

From a friend that works at FOMOCO corp they was no logic or thought out into isolating blend weeks on the holding lots. I joked w them why don’t they just look for the dirtiest units out there and you will most likely find the Jan builds. Given what happened w the MIC tops, the F150 last year and chip impact on multiple model lines they are going to need a placement and tracking system for their secondary production hold process. At some point customers loyalty and excitement is spent when we are left to decipher too many times on our own wtf is going on.

 

[JD18]

Let’s be honest … you just want your damn bronco and you don’t give a poo about communication.

Exactly. .

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Having survived the original mountain, I truly feel for all of you.

It was an unimaginably frustrating experience for me... while others were indifferent. I tried to copy them, I couldn't.
The Bronco is my Kryptonite.
LOL.

 

[WyoBronc]

You have to have parts for the "assembly line" to work. Ford doesn't control the entire supply chain. Why cant people understand this, do you not watch the news?

What you don’t seem to understand is that since mid January (when the chip hold began) in the year of our lord, 2022 ford has had enough of the exact same chips necessary to make the Ice Mountain Broncos whole but instead chose to build 10’s of thousands of new Broncos. So, Ford has had supply chain issues for roughly 4 out of the past 20 weeks, but instead of making the ice mountain broncos whole, they keep churning out new builds like chocolate covered cherries on a conveyor belt in an I Love Lucy episode that are delivered to dealerships and their giddy customers within weeks, while those built in January will sit for 8-13 months….that’s right, if you believe ford is giving good EDD’s of August (this time) then I have some ocean front property in Wyoming I’d like to sell you.
I will not be shocked when a considerable number of Broncos built in the first month of 2022 are not delivered until early 2023…..and those lot-rotting technological marvels will not be pristine by any sense of the word.
It has also been rumored, and evidenced to a degree with non-sensical changing module and build statuses that go backwards on the trackers that Ford is using the ice mountain Broncos as a boneyard to cannibalize what modules they do have in order to keep the line moving…..if true, then all the Ford apologist fanboys in the crowd will have your work cut out for you trying to justify that bit of callous creativity.
For context I received my ice mountain bronco a few weeks ago after nearly 4 months on the mountain and a first 10 minute day 1 reservation and I paid an ADM on an additional Bronco while waiting (yes @Rick Astley I’m a hoarder) for my 2dr WT. What Ford is doing isn’t right. And you holier than thou hypocrites that aren’t walking in the shoes of those being screwed over would be humming a different tune if it were you being treated this way…..and some self-righteous condescending prick would come along and explain manufacturing to you and tell you people are dying in the Ukraine, so STFU….and the rest of us would simply be amused.

 

[ocbucks1]

Setting aside the obvious disappointment, I disagree on the statement that dealers, not the end user, should be deemed the “customer” of Ford. Legally, title to the manufactured good passes through the dealer- but that logic would indicate that P&G’s customers are its distrIbutors, not the parents buying the diapers. P&G’s and Ford’s relationships with the customers pull the orders through their distribution channel- they don’t rely on the distribution channel to have that relationship at all.


In my opinion the main yet-to-be-addressed-by-Ford-problem is: How can an assembly-line based company sell direct to the consumer (again-ignore distribution chain)? In our Bronco case (and I imagine Lightening)- each order is custom designed (bespoke in Rolls parlance).
Ford has shown that it cannot balance the two. Every day of a line is booked- with JIT inventory for a string of “one off” customized vehicles- mess that train up and you will need a custom manufacturing line just for completing “on wheels” inventory. I don’t think this has been or will be done. So, I don’t believe Ford is ready to fix the problem yet.

Bronco has been a cluster, but it was for a relaunch of a beloved badge. Imagine how heads will roll when the Lightening rollout is just as F’d up? Mess up the largest cash generator in the whole company? All because Ford started selling mass-customized products and is only good at making mass-produced ones.

That, my frustrated friends, is my piece. We can bitch about their incompetence- which after two years of the pandemic this is their failure not “beyond their control”- Ford cancelled purchase orders of the stuff they needed thinking they wouldn’t need it. It looks that Ford cancelled more of those than the rest. But if Ford has not figured a better way by Lightening, it would not be a stock to own long in your accounts.

Tesla!!! Vertical integration central processing no dealers. Ford is not set up for this. It’s not their culture. The dirty secrets of their manufacturing comes out now due social media but it’s always been like this.
Agree on the stock. They make small margins already on cars. There business is selling parts. Their balance sheet is awful with a lot of debt. Phasing out ICE vehicles while growing EV is going to be an even bigger cluster.

 

[mdk77]

Having survived the original mountain, I truly feel for all of you.

It was an unimaginably frustrating experience for me... while others were indifferent. I tried to copy them, I couldn't.
The Bronco is my Kryptonite.
LOL.

How long did you wait until you got off the mountain?

 

[markpilip]

Bronco has been a cluster, but it was for a relaunch of a beloved badge. Imagine how heads will roll when the Lightening rollout is just as F’d up? Mess up the largest cash generator in the whole company? All because Ford started selling mass-customized products and is only good at making mass-produced ones.

Given that Farley has been at the helm of this and other rollout disasters--the Explorer comes to mind--I feel confident in predicting that they are going to butcher the #F150Lightning rollout as well.

A good opportunity to remind all to jump on the #DirtMountainBronco Twitter campaign and do our best to tie that F150 hashtag to the Bronco disaster. If we can do that, when the inevitable happens, the narrative on Farley and his minions just might become one of "a history of failed rollouts" and might result in consequences.

The info on the Twitter campaign is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jeth79ouMM2bqtp_BNfc5KP-aZoj_qWYdme5TCMxaWQ/edit

 

[Skmac]

I imagine customers are pissed when they see trucks with the exact same trim and features gets delivered when it was built in May and theirs has sat since January.

I get supply chain, I run a business myself, but if I filled customer orders based on convenience on a last in/first out basis I would rightfully be crucified.

Or Seeing a exact build delivered even though they just reserved/ordered it before the cutoff, that drives me nuts

 

[Heffe66413]

I’m scheduled for build the week of May 30th. I’m optimistic , but also have a feeling that the build will get delayed and then delivery will get delayed. After everything with Ford, I just suspect they hung a carrot out to me and other 1st or 2nd day reservation holders and it will be late fall before I see my Bronco.

 

[flip]

Where are you getting the pushed date from? Ours is stuck in In Production with no dates other than the Blend date anywhere.

Vehicle Visibility. Going to have to ask dealer to look it up. Ford's messaging to the consumer was supposed to basically mirror what we see in VV but it's never worked like they said and I think they've intentionally stopped sending updates other than produced, in transit or delivered.

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