Last Call for 2023 Bronco Order Conversions at Granger Ford!!

[Bifftws]

How do you know the mix of 2 vs 4 doors from the list?

Zach told me there were only a handful of 2 door reservations ahead of me on the list. I was talking to them about something else and it came up in the conversation. I am/was 36 on the list so it was easy to see how many were ahead of me. Don’t know what kind of builds any of those 2 door orders are though.

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[stonerdoom]

I am #21. 2DR Badlands, 2.7L, High, SAS.

 

[Bifftws]

I am #21. 2DR Badlands, 2.7L, High, SAS.

2 door base squatch with 2.7. Might squeeze ahead of you with the high package.

 

[stonerdoom]

2 door base squatch with 2.7. Might squeeze ahead of you with the high package.

Let me just take this moment to point out over 100K+ Broncos have squeezed ahead of me (and many others).

 

[mpeugeot]

2 door base squatch with 2.7. Might squeeze ahead of you with the high package.

Any Base model is harder to build than a Big Bend 2.3 with mid package apparently based on the anecdotal evidence.

 

[jmadsen]

Reading this Ford Authority article this caught my eye. Does this mean the allocation formula might be ignored to actually fulfill all the 22 orders /reservation holders first? I know we had heard something like this before but. ??

"Currently, 2023 Ford Bronco production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders, meaning prospective buyers are essentially out of luck. While that may improve in the future,"

IS ford authority really the Authority?
Here is the link , the quote is down near the bottom of the article.
https://fordauthority.com/2022/12/2023-ford-bronco-hvac-knobs-add-digital-temperature-display/

 

[mpeugeot]

Reading this Ford Authority article this caught my eye. Does this mean the allocation formula might be ignored to actually fulfill all the 22 orders /reservation holders first? I know we had heard something like this before but. ??

"Currently, 2023 Ford Bronco production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders, meaning prospective buyers are essentially out of luck. While that may improve in the future,"

IS ford authority really the Authority?
Here is the link , the quote is down near the bottom of the article.
https://fordauthority.com/2022/12/2023-ford-bronco-hvac-knobs-add-digital-temperature-display/

Key word, CURRENTLY. Subject to change once Granger orders are only remaining.

Also, I promise you that there are exceptions to the above, such as fleet orders.

 

[MJJ]

Just learned that my neighbor two houses down ordered the exact same bronco as I did from Granger. He just got a “build notification”. I am probably late spring.

It is the same trim (Badlands) with the same Sasquatch package and both in Oxford White. Now I need to decide if I change my color so we don’t have identical Broncos running around the hood.

 

[Karl_in_Chicago]

Just learned that my neighbor two houses down ordered the exact same bronco as I did from Granger. He just got a “build notification”. I am probably late spring.

It is the same trim (Badlands) with the same Sasquatch package and both in Oxford White. Now I need to decide if I change my color so we don’t have identical Broncos running around the hood.

OR . . . you do a 180 and you and your neighbor call each other every day before leaving the house so your clothes match as well as your Broncos.

 

[John Bronco_ I am here]

...... Subject to change once Granger orders are only remaining.....

Dang, that is harsh!


I thought there were 2 or 3 more dealers out there that had reasonable pricing and therefore took a lot of orders.

 

[BlueBronco]

Reading this Ford Authority article this caught my eye. Does this mean the allocation formula might be ignored to actually fulfill all the 22 orders /reservation holders first? I know we had heard something like this before but. ??

"Currently, 2023 Ford Bronco production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders, meaning prospective buyers are essentially out of luck. While that may improve in the future,"

It just means what we already knew, that only 2022 carryover orders and unconverted reservation holders can place an order, therefore, currently (as in, as of right this moment) 2023 production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders. Has nothing to do with the allocation formula and doesn't mean that the order banks won't eventually open up to public walk-ins.

 

[mmorgan]

We all just keep hoping that @Zach@Granger 's hint of good news will contain the answer to our Broncos arrival.

 

[John Bronco_ I am here]

It just means what we already knew, that only 2022 carryover orders and unconverted reservation holders can place an order, therefore, currently (as in, as of right this moment) 2023 production is solely being allocated for 2022 order holders. Has nothing to do with the allocation formula and doesn't mean that the order banks won't eventually open up to public walk-ins.

Agreed.

I'm glad Ford did it though, or else I'd probably be looking at end of '23 instead of being in transit now. Holding off orders and concentrating on the backlog was the right choice. Been through the entire process and decisions from Ford on how to proceed did feel like lies at the time, instead it may have been the most prudent way to deal with the constraints. The one part that I do not like is the bowing to the dealers instead of sticking to the promised reservation process; it seems like a lot of dealers have dug their own grave because the Ford CEO is doing whatever he can to get away from the current dealership model.

 

[AZ_Liberty]

Even if Ford solved all of their other parts constraints, they still don't have enough Hard Top production to build only customer orders. They have to mix in 20% soft-top dealer lot builds.

And at this point, almost everything left on the customer order side is 2-doors and 4-door hard tops.

 

[Slyder]

They're still struggling with the MiC hard top.

It was in one of the Ford video guy's videos that they can barely do 50% of the 80% of total orders that want/require a hard top. What's worse about that is, I bet they're still having a high turn over of defective top parts. This isn't good news for a lot of 2Dr people like me.

Why I say this is, I've been trying to catch as many Broncos as I can that are delivered to my local Dealer.
In the last 3 months I've seen 3 tops (one 2Dr & two 4Dr) and they've all had issues.
One already had snake-skin on the passenger's side above the rear side glass. The other 2 had edges that clearly weren't molded/rounded over properly and you could see some of the inner honeycomb like MiC 1.0 had.

Unless something drastically changes, I won't see a build in '23, so I've started the ball rolling on something else with Zach and my local Dealer.

The first vehicle built wins, at this point.

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