💰 Official: $2500 Order Modification Offer to Wildtrak Customers (switch trims) and Non-Wildtrak Customers (modify order to remove constraints)

[Mcb345]

I’m still waiting to even get my order placed with a dealer from last summer. This officially confirms I will put my Badlands, lux, manual, SAS, hardtop dreams on hold for another time in the future. It’s insanely silly Ford still has supply chain problems this bad on a vehicle that could net them SO much if they got their act together.

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[stonerdoom]

Just love how some with more of actual intel just say “wait till next week for more info”. I’d rather get all the bad news at once, definitely wouldn’t want a slow and painful death.

This is just par for the course. No info when FORD knows EXACTLY what is going on.

I am putting it out there and calling BS on FORD. When they purge our early, unfulfilled orders they will reopen the order banks, price will be raised, and you will be able to order AND GET your truck. It will be a mid-MY price increase and production will flow. Mark my words. IF you choose to do nothing and leave your order as is, FORD will simply not build it and you will lose. We know this because it's what they've done from the start.

Truck builds that you want will be available at the dealerships. No question. Your order will simply not be built. It is what has happened since launch and that behavior will continue. As pointed out here in this thread, this is about money and profit. This is calculated behavior from FORD. Commodity constraints are just a cover.

Also watch, when we get public, official word of this, the wording will be "due to unprecedented demand..." Except they act like we are not watching. Our nicely appointed early reservation builds have all been built already 100s of times over and sold as dealer stock for $10's of thousands over MSRP since launch. That model is working for them very well. They just need to get rid of the rest of us.

 

[stonerdoom]

I'm wondering if it'd be possible to combine the $2500 cert with the price protection private offer on an off-the-lot purchase from another dealer. So you update order to get the cert and then go find what you want off the lot. I'd have $4900 in discounts if that works and I could find a WT MIC/LUX at decent price.

Had the same idea. My nearly exact build is on a lot 50 miles from my house. Yet they couldn't build mine after 917 days. It's all BS. Do not believe FORD. This is war. They want us gone. We served our purpose to hype their truck.

 

[Haelous]

Well, that's actually fairly easy.

Option 1.
Order a non-sasquatch Badlands High Package with Leather and Tow.

Upgrade the stereo, order a set of 35" wheels and tires you like, order the heavy duty steering rack, and buy a set of shocks and springs you find acceptable. Install and drive.

Option 2.

Order a non-sasquatch Outer Banks High Package with the advanced 4x4 transfer case and rear locker.

Upgrade the stereo, order a set of 35" wheels and tires you like, order the heavy duty steering rack, and buy a set of shocks and springs you find acceptable. Install and drive. If you want the front locker, get the Ford Performance FDU and a set of 4.7 gears for the rear axle.

Option 3.

Order a Jeep Wrangler 392 Recon package

People should either do Option 1 or start hunting for exactly what they want on lots. The reality is that there are some loaded configs sitting on lots from people's cancelled order. Tons of Broncos for sale out there with the green window sticker.

There's no more 392 recons unless you buy off the lot. It's either constrained or done for MY23.

 

[rshaffer20]

I have wildtrak, lux, hardtop with a build date if someone wants to take it off of my hands

Might be interested.

 

[Compta38]

Feels like we be in a airport.....



I feel like you don't have a grasp of the state of the world today. Living in times of plenty are over, and it is not just for one reason but several epic reasons, each one by itself would be a S-storm. My advice to everyone is to look around and pay attention to current events.

yet, you can order essentially any other vehicle and there not be an issue...playing the blame game might have worked a year ago but it's now 2023, come on. Jeep was sweating when this thing got revealed and now they're laughing and thanking Ford for the sales.

I hate it for you guys that's been strung along. By midyear I bet those Badlands everybody will have to swap to will be a constraint.

 

[Brownmule247]

Am wondering if there’s enough for a class action lawsuit against Ford for claiming to be able to produce something it can’t, bait and switch, and fraudulently providing a form of price protection if you switch to what they can produce (and backing out if you insist on waiting for what you ordered)

I would definitely join in on a class action lawsuit.

 

[John Auer]

I haven’t tried it in a bronco
But did in a Volkswagen, Chrysler and Honda

I don’t care for it

I've had ACC in my last 6 Fords. It works great!

 

[rshaffer20]

Might be interested.

Message me.

 

[Juventus]

Where are you viewing that "priority code" info? The only way I know to lookup anything about my order with Ford, is using this link, but it doesn't show much other than the vehicle and options ordered: https://www.ford.com/buy/manage.html?reservationId=xxxxxxxx

My dealer told me in December when I called I was priority code 2. Call your dealer I don't think we can look it up.

 

[tater_70]

I have wildtrak, lux, hardtop with a build date if someone wants to take it off of my hands

2D/4D?

 

[patientB]

Ford never took bailout money...

Depends how one defines the $15.9 billion federal loan Ford accepted in Q1 2009.

 

[Beach_Bum]

...
By midyear I bet those Badlands everybody will have to swap to will be a constraint.

That seems obvious to me. Ford can't build the current Badlands demand. Having thousands outstanding orders transition to the Badlands isn't going to allow Ford to build more. There is no way Ford will have a parade of Badlands on the line at MAP.

The transition offer will be the enticement. Then later this summer (after mid-year price increases on other Ford vehicles takes effect), Ford will inform those waiting for the Badlands that their order is being cancelled and the transition offer can be applied to a new Ford.

 

[Blown331]

Another twist in the "Ford Fuc%up".

All I can say is I'm hopeful they retro this to last month and allow me the $2500 rebate on a Bronco I took from dealer stock on 12/11/22. I got tired of this game and jump on a 2 door, 2.7L, OBX with leather, mic, tow. 5k over MSRP. I have a 4 door OBX...same specs...on order now for over a year. LOVE the new Bronco...and I'll be even more glad I did this if this news becomes "truth" because they obviously can't fulfill the orders they have - which means a long, long wait for those still in line.

I bought one out of dealer stock as well. One month ago to the day actually. 7/14/20 reservation. I ordered an eruption green 2 door Badlands, manual transmission, no Sasquatch, no interior package. I ended up with the exact same but it has Sasquatch and 12 inch screen. Absolutely love it. And now my order also got scheduled for production. Lol. If this offer came about a month ago, I could have gotten the $2500. I'd say there's zero chance they retro it. I paid $2000 over, I just got a $171 refund from the dealer as well.

 

[Blown331]

Depends how one defines the $15.9 billion federal loan Ford accepted in Q1 2009.

That was a loan, just like any of us would take a loan. They had the collateral. GM and Chrysler didn't have collateral and went bankrupt! My cousin lost all the money he had in GM stock.

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