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I don't know if I should believe this or not.
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It's coming from multiple sources inside and or associated with the plant. Ford has taken some pretty aggressive action to resolve, but there are you going to go right now as an alternative?40 MIC a day is ridiculous. No way that can be right. For any mass production vehicles that isn't enough to meet demand. And how can the manufacturer stay in business, cover over head and pay it's employees only making 40 a day. That can't be right.
Jeep, haha.... but there are you going to go right now as an alternative?
I think we have a couple of folks from the plant. They can't report or publicly comment on those things that are confidential, but they occasionally comment or clarify on the rumors. To be fair to Webasto, I don't think anyone is able to hire or ramp much right now. They are offering $17+$3 Covid pay right now and can't hire to fill spots.So do we have a Webasto insider on this forum? I'm more curious about their situation and production than I am about Ford at this point. That seems to be a lot of the issue. Is Ford exploring another hard top vendor or are they locked into a contract with Webasto? I look at contracts a lot in my job and there's usually a way to get out of that if the vendor can't deliver on time. Either that or pay hefty liquidated damages fines. There are a couple Webasto specific threads but they haven't been updated in a while. Who's got the scoop on this place and can give us a dedicated thread on updates for this company?
40 ?????????? Really ??????????????Unfortunately the bottleneck is going to be Webasto producing MIC tops. Currently they can only produce up to 40 in a day and that’s only on a good day .
Then there would be a similar issue of not enough soft tops available. Ford, all makers for that matter need to start producing more of their own "parts", parts from USA companies AND, have more parts stock on hand....running a factory as a tight oiled machine can no longer be done. Time to warehouse parts as much as possible.Agreed, at this point I would consider this a force majeure situation. I think Ford would be well off to offer people that ordered MIC tops a soft-top and a discount towards accessories or something.
That's because the Gov is paying people so much to sit home no one wants to work, we have the same issue out here. Hundreds of jobs paying $17-21 an hour going unfilled because people are making that much at home.I think we have a couple of folks from the plant. They can't report or publicly comment on those things that are confidential, but they occasionally comment or clarify on the rumors. To be fair to Webasto, I don't think anyone is able to hire or ramp much right now. They are offering $17+$3 Covid pay right now and can't hire to fill spots.
Exactly, but the last time I brought that fact up, it was deleted. Why can't we address one of the many elephants in the room?That's because the Gov is paying people so much to sit home no one wants to work, we have the same issue out here. Hundreds of jobs paying $17-21 an hour going unfilled because people are making that much at home.