Southern IL Bronco club

I’m finally seeing a few on the road around FVH/Ofallon area. Anyone order from Awfulberg? Every time I check in to make sure my salesman still works there they seem to be getting “cancelled” orders in.

I had my reservation with Auffenberg originally. Luckily I never converted it to an order and could move the reservation to another dealer during the window last fall.

Smart move. They had me secretly code 99 before I called ford and found out and called them out on it. Sales manager refused to undo it when I found out because we were so close to having to reorder in Oct. The day I ordered in Apr 21 there was a guy from SAFB there to pick up a $350 check because he was canceling and they were buying his order and reservation from him.

Man, that sucks. They probably would have gotten me to convert to an order if they wouldn't have lied quite so aggressively. The sales guy was pressuring my to convert it to an order this time last year. I had a pretty late reservation and he was telling me last summer that I needed to convert because based on what he was seeing I was only about 4 weeks away from being built. This was after they announced the MIC recall and production halt.

Too late for me to do anything now. The last two they got in are the 6th “canceled” orders that I know of. They got four in the day I went up there last year and found out my salesman had quit without them saying a word. If they had canceled these like they were supposed to, that’s six customer builds that could have been knocked out and not eaten up by allocations. I try not to stress too much about it because I haven’t seen many Wildtraks get pulled when people post on the scheduling threads. Looks like last time was a majority of Badlands.

Sooo, I'm boycotting Auffenburg along with Sunset and Dave Sinclair due to what they did when Lou Fusz tried to buy out the small dealership in Milstadt, IL.... now Mertz in Milstadt doesn't exist anymore - not even a dealership. Sooo, good luck with your order. <no offense>

I saw that you were able to get yours there before they closed. Congrats. I don’t know the whole story about what went down. I’ll research it when I get a chance. I’m not a big fan of where I ordered from but this whole ordering a vehicle was new to me and back then (before ford changed the rules). I figured they couldn’t fuck this up. I should have known better when throughout the whole ordeal that I knew more about the Bronco than the salespeople, I’m on my third one, and the sales manager. Oh well, it will get built one day.

@Briley

@Briley - sorry to year about your experience so far, I was actually lucky in that I moved my reservation from Sunset in Waterloo, where I live, to Mertz in Millstadt due to some rumors about Sunset and the way they were treating some of their employees, nothing actually about the ordering process. It actually seemed to work out for me. I had all the big no-no's, a 2 door, and 2nd day reservation holder and just barely squeaked out a 2021 Bronco (12/23/21 signed the papers).

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