Ford will start shipping new MIC hardtops, Broncos this week! 🚛

[Bronco4]

According to Tim Bartz, many FE's should get scheduled this week.

Who is Tim Bartz?

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[Bronc-O]

Who is Tim Bartz?

 

[MN_OuterBanks]

Hi all, newbie (lurker) here. A buddy of mine said his build week set for next week, got pushed out to October.
Does anyone know if this is because Ford now has hard tops to ship?
He was a soft top switch and definitely excited to get his build week, only to have it ripped away from him.

Anyways, thanks for the replies.

Perhaps. It’s the price you pay for doing anything to get your bronco sooner. I held fast to every single constraint that was on my build. It was built 8/5 and currently waiting at dirt mountain for a new top. But I’m not spending $55k for something that is not 100% what I wanted from the start.

 

[Bronco4]

Thanks

 

[phocion]

He was a soft top switch and definitely excited to get his build week, only to have it ripped away from him.

The launch has been chaotic. If he has a VIN and build date, that means he's MY21. Beyond that, dates are highly subject to change. I would just look at them as Ford's best guess at the moment.

Merely by having a VIN, he has more info than most of us about the status of our Broncos.

 

[2ndGenBroncoOwner]

What’s your build week? Did you already have a VIN or just get one?

Just got the VIN and Build Date of 11/8 in this email.

 

[BroncoOvrlndr]

Hi all, newbie (lurker) here. A buddy of mine said his build week set for next week, got pushed out to October.
Does anyone know if this is because Ford now has hard tops to ship?
He was a soft top switch and definitely excited to get his build week, only to have it ripped away from him.

Anyways, thanks for the replies.

Sorry I don’t mean to sound like I have no sympathy for him, but until he’s been rescheduled and had his build week “ripped away from him” up to 6 times, he can go fly a kite. Try having a VIN since May and your build week pushed 6 times before starting to whine.

Many of us will have empathy, but not sympathy!

By the way, welcome to the forum! We really are hospitable. Hope I didn’t sound like a jerk!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Holy Shit! It’s happening, it’s really happening. Let’s hope those are ‘old’ tops laying in the dirt.

In true 6G fashion of shitting on any and every thing that might be good news ......
Those aren't tops. That is the moldy carpets/sound dampening material they have to pull out and replace!!!
LOL

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Hi all, newbie (lurker) here. A buddy of mine said his build week set for next week, got pushed out to October.
Does anyone know if this is because Ford now has hard tops to ship?
He was a soft top switch and definitely excited to get his build week, only to have it ripped away from him.

Anyways, thanks for the replies.

Think of a thousand things that could cause his build to get bumped.
It could be any of those.... or ten thousnad more.

It would also help to narrow it down if you gave his DETAILED build information .... post up a window sticker if he has it .... etc etc

 

[Contact]

Holy Shit! It’s happening, it’s really happening. Let’s hope those are ‘old’ tops laying in the dirt.

Huh! Did the fat lady sing? I'll believe it when I see it. Too much if and/or buts. I'm a 6/29 build. Two plus months and counting. I hope it's true. Maybe I'll see it in another month.

 

[MoabRox]

Good weather to change tops outside!

Naw, they only pulled the front panels off to let the interiors dry out! LOL

 

[swooshdave]

The Finance Department refers to that kind of sabotage as "Value Engineering". Non-finance people understand it as simply taking a great product and whittling away at until no one wants it anymore.

I don' think that was a financial move. There has been talk about the overall weight of the Bronco and taking weight from the top is the best place to remove it. They did and it failed. It was probably a late change and it didn't get enough testing. It happens.

I'm also betting they had the original tooling still around so ramping back up was probably easier than we even know.

 

[Kmonty]

Has anybody recently talked to their dealer and their date has been pushed up? I’m apart of the run- around gang and my date as of last Saturday was 11/1, but with this announcement, I wonder if it will be pulled forward. I know it’s wishful thinking and thousands need to be cleared, but I would think swapping out tops shouldn’t take super long, right?

 

[HoosierDaddy]

There in lies the problem. Build week 9/13 but no window sticker.

Base Squatch w/ 2.7l and soft top. Nothing else.

VIN?
Mine was in my first email which assigned the build week.

 

[Rlack75]

There in lies the problem. Build week 9/13 but no window sticker.

Base Squatch w/ 2.7l and soft top. Nothing else.

Build week 9/13 includes dates up to 9/17.

If your blend date happens to be 9/17 then your Window Sticker would show up around Thursday or Friday this week.

You can also ask your dealer for a screen shot of his Vehicle Visibility report. I know that is how I found out about a couple of build date changes.

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