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Thank you! I'm fortunate enough to have some very well placed sources and longstanding relationships with people who know things.You the MVP. Just curious how do you know all this?
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Thank you! I'm fortunate enough to have some very well placed sources and longstanding relationships with people who know things.You the MVP. Just curious how do you know all this?
Thank you! I'm fortunate enough to have some very well placed sources and longstanding relationships with people who know things.
So you know a guy who … is the guy!Thank you! I'm fortunate enough to have some very well placed sources and longstanding relationships with people who know things.
With all due respect, if it is, lol,....that's just a BS excuse for not doing anything. Committee hideout, attorney fear, anything other than just doing what should be done. Ford would have a much happier customer base if they'd just friggin' communicated!!!! They did not. Bad on them. Glad the production folks are good at what they do.Because he's not bound by risk, or having to slander the name of the company if he's wrong even in the slightest.
Ford has a ton of liability with every communication it makes to it's customers. Every wrong step can cost billions or enrage a customer base.
OEM's have used outside people to "leak" internal information for nearly a century when they aren't able to for a variety of reasons.
Sad but true. I still feel like the communication throughout this whole process from corporate could have been better though. :/Because he's not bound by risk, or having to slander the name of the company if he's wrong even in the slightest.
Ford has a ton of liability with every communication it makes to it's customers. Every wrong step can cost billions or enrage a customer base.
OEM's have used outside people to "leak" internal information for nearly a century when they aren't able to for a variety of reasons.
But the tooling will have been different, in a year where the staffing was torpedoed by work restrictions. You would have to be high to come up with a contingency plan that accounted for the pandemic. Given the constraints with tooling and staffing, I would have been pumping out as many Jeep parts as they would pay for, to keep what staff I could, working.Except the tops are made by the same company using the same parts, same machines, same compound just in different dimensions, which they've have known for over a year.
Ford has a ton of liability with every communication it makes to it's customers. Every wrong step can cost billions or enrage a customer base.
My point is that Ford has done a shitty job of communicating and has in fact multiple times enraged the customer base.Ford has already outlaid at least $3 billion in bringing Bronco to market. Likely closer to $5B at minimum.
So what's your point? The billions already spent were just to stay warm at night, and it's all a ruse?
My first kit was an Olympic (made by Premier) Question on the 2 door tops. Around March, a Webasto Quality Engineer said the 2 door tops were fine, the 4 door have issues. I know that once they hit full production, things change, but is there any info on the 2 door top issues, or is it just a matter of needing to focus on the 4 door tops large issue, leaving the fine tuning of the 2 door behind? Also, I did have a Ford CSR hit that I'd have an email coming with build date info, so lets hope these are true signs.Not a Ford employee and certainly not acting in any official capacity. I spent a lot of years working in journalism and did a great deal of freelance writing for auto industry publications. Lots of good sources, a lifelong driver of Fords, and a personal investment with a 7/13 9:45pm Bronco 4 door reservation brought me here to share what I'm able to.
I have a '64 Olympic mahogany snare with beech re-reings in Gold Sparkle lacquer I use quite a bit, especially for recording. They're *great* drums.My first kit was an Olympic (made by Premier) Question on the 2 door tops. Around March, a Webasto Quality Engineer said the 2 door tops were fine, the 4 door have issues. I know that once they hit full production, things change, but is there any info on the 2 door top issues, or is it just a matter of needing to focus on the 4 door tops large issue, leaving the fine tuning of the 2 door behind? Also, I did have a Ford CSR hit that I'd have an email coming with build date info, so lets hope these are true signs.
Obviously Webasto has not had any time to figure that out in the 14 years making Jeeps top.I bet the first time you ever had your parents put shoes on you, you just tied them right up.
First time on a bike you were challenging Lance for race wins and ball count.
Your first time water skiing was in the X-games
A miracle child if ever there was one! Engineers from around the world should be throwing billions at you for this sort of amazing insight into perfection and to solve all problems.
I'm clearly not a pragmatic man, but i'd bet that getting tooling and materials sorted wasn't sorted out to perfection the first time they whipped out a roll of duct tape and saran wrap.
What? There are 7/13, 7/14, 7/15 orders that are not scheduled yet, meaning they won't be showing up until September at the earliest. If you have a first 2/3 day reservation you are looking at October or November.I got a mid Aug reservation but I got a feeling I won't see mine tell about June or later of 2021 because Ford well change its mine about feeling out orders first and start feeling dealers lots first .
The staffing has been normal for almost a year. How is the tooling different for the exact same top in different dimensions? I like all the excuses everyone is coming up with for Ford.But the tooling will have been different, in a year where the staffing was torpedoed by work restrictions. You would have to be high to come up with a contingency plan that accounted for the pandemic. Given the constraints with tooling and staffing, I would have been pumping out as many Jeep parts as they would pay for, to keep what staff I could, working.
We're all disappointed and human nature want to make sense of these things but I just decided to recognize I have zero control over the situation and try give a little grace to people who probably want us to have Broncos as much as we want them.
I've been in production for a several days now, so if you want to see a 4 door in Miamisburg, it should be built any day now!Thanks for the update. Very much appreciated! If you happen to get to Dayton please let me know and Ill buy you a beer! And you can drive my bronco if I get mine before yours. Currently June 7th pushed to Aug 16th. 2 dr, BB, 2.7, Mid, LSD.
If my 2 year old spent billions and sent out national marketing materials saying he could tie his shoes by a certain date, I would hold him to it.I bet the first time you ever had your parents put shoes on you, you just tied them right up.
Being married to a musician... I'm getting a 2-door so it will be too small for him to borrow.I went with a 4 door... any of the 4 kits I use for gigging will fit as perfectly as they do in my Flex.
(For any fellow musicians, those would be an Elite Maple 12/16/26, a Genista Birch 13/16/18/24, a Genista Maple 12/14/16/22, and an Exotic Rainbow Wood Genista Birch in 12/14/20).
You literally could not be any more wrong about this. The Bronco top shares absolutely nothing in common with the Jeep top, its like Ford set out to design something even better, weird.Except the tops are made by the same company using the same parts, same machines, same compound just in different dimensions, which they've have known for over a year.