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February 29th.
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My exact order July 14th reservation I’m hoping to get mine earlier than that.I reserved a baseaquatch 2.7, 2 door, myself in Sept of 2020. I'm hoping I can get mine by Sept 2022... so 2 years?
This is beautiful! About sums it up.Yep, you got a lot of silly answers. As someone else said, at this point, all we have is humor until our rigs show up.
Well, pull up a seat kiddo, grandpa's gunna tell you a little story...
Back in 2017, Ford said they were going to release the Ford Bronco in 2020. In mid 2019, we were seeing bad ass camouflaged test mules and all sorts of concept art flying around. Ford had committed to a 2020 release date and the hype was growing huge.
I heard that Ford was going to release info in January (2020), so in October of 2019, I even called my dealer to "get on a list" so I can be one of the first to order when Ford revealed the Bronco in Jan (so much for that). I almost lost my $#it when all they released was a teaser video.
Ford said they'd reveal everything in the Spring (March of 2020).
[Insert COVID]
Ford sent apology emails in March (we're used to those now) and they moved the reveal to the Detroit auto show on June 9th (2020).
[Insert more COVID]
Late March, Detroit Auto Show Cancelled (#uck).
Also March, everyone goes home, COVID scorches the earth, people die, US Politics goes into hyperdrive, bronco fans spiral into depression, and then finally... Ford said they'd debut virtually July 9th (2020). But guess what, that's the OJ Simpson Ford Bronco anniversary, so now it's gunna be July 13, 2020.
I called my dealer to see if they were going to host a Bronco Reveal Party- they thought I was crazy.
Finally, July 13 @ 8PM EST, it happens! I was a giddy little school girl and could barely hold my excitement.
[Insert Ford Reservation Website Crash] (#uck!)
I get a call after Bronco Reveal from my dealer salesmen, he says he can reserve me one, so I give him my CC and he says he did it. (AWESOME)
Finally, get into website at 11pm EST and make my own reservation #. (Email dated 7/14 but Timestamp 7/13) -2 Door Badlands, Towing, Lux, Sasquach, etc.
I called salesmen next day to get my reservation # he got for me and I learn that he couldn't get in either but he just didn't call to tell me. Well, at least I got my own res # & timestamp dated 7/14 and within hours of the reveal.
Let me tell you how this ended... Although I reserved a Bronco the day it was revealed, converted my order the day the banks opened, was # 1 in line based on timestamp at my dealer...
[Insert Ford VIP BS]
... I mean, #2 at my dealer...
[Insert commodity limitations]
... I mean # 3 or maybe 4 at my dealer...
[Insert Deadly Sins List]
... I mean... who the hell knows at this point... Ford ships a lot of 4drs.
[Insert Hardtop Manufacturing Fiasco]
Ford ships almost exclusive 4dr w/ soft tops.
[Insert Dealer Mannequin production]
... okay Ford, really?...
[Insert MIC 1.0 issues and recall]
...shit, are all the 2021's already committed?!... Apology email from Ford saying I'm prolly gunna get a 22... but Ford made up for it with a hammock and a 11x17 hype poster (sarcasm).
[Insert Ford's new magical Allotment algorithm]
I converted to a 2022 the day 22 Banks opened in October. Staying with by Badlands 2Dr.
I FINALLY get a production date email purportedly for Dec 2021. But it's early Nov, and I've seen Ford change things and pull the rug out from under literally thousands of orders because of [Insert random Ford Issue].
So here I am, been waiting since 2017, have been actively chasing since mid-Oct 2019, actually gave Ford $ in July 2020, gave dealer more money January 2021, am almost to 2022 and I still don't have my 2 Door bronco.
If I were to use this True Story for estimating purposes, I'd put the current wait time from ordering a 2Dr to delivery at precisely 18-24 Months. Factor in the impending trucker shortage, shipping and port issues, vaccine mandates, employee retirements, Christmas holiday season, almost entirely 100% online shopping, increased international tensions with China, resurgence of new COVID variants, and diminished vaccine effectiveness, and you're looking at probably 24-36 months. If you get a 4dr Softtop you're probably looking at 6-8 weeks (assuming you have a reservation # already).
Then again, maybe all this history is irrelevant and you'll magically have a 2dr in a matter of weeks. Your guess is as good as mine.
Gunna go back to drinking copious amounts of whisky, watching every Bronco video I can find, and reading every Bronco Forum while hitting Refresh on the Ford Order Tracking site. Come hit me up in 2022 and I'll let you know how this story turns out.
I’m with galpin too!Seriously though, I was a first minute reservation at a huge LA dealer, and placed my 2 door WT order on March 3, 2021. It was built on 7/23 and new roof 10/23. It was loaded on a train and shipped 10/24. It's about 30 miles from my house now on its final way to Galpin. So mine took a while.