I ordered my 2018 on 6/9 and have yet to be scheduled. My dealer (located in the mid west) told me I was the 2nd allocation (their first was scheduled in early July) and would sell at MSRP. Screw, 802A, LF, no beadlock, no CF. I gave them a small deposit and received a DORA.
I received the below after asking for an update. I have had no complaints so far and the dealer has been very responsive/helpful. I was referred to them by a forum member (I'm in SoCal, the land of $30k markups). However, I'm starting to get concerned I'm getting the run around. Does the below seem correct/accurate?
So from my conversation with our rep, I think I have a little better idea on how this works. Ford performs a wholesale allocation at the end of every month. This is when we as Dealer's sign up for all of our cars and trucks that we are committing to ordering for the following month. But it is also when Ford determines how many vehicles they can produce. Once they figure out what their capacity is, they then divide that up among all the countries in the Region. We are in the *** Region. Within each region are multiple zones, we are in Zone W.
So say Dearborn determines they have the capacity to build 1,000 orders for the month. *** region may receive 100 of those. Then it is split among the zones and our zone may get 5. These are all hypothetical numbers obviously.
But after visiting with my Rep, she stated that she has 30 Sold orders yet to be scheduled in our zone. The wholesale for this month will start sometime after the 25th. She said she would try to give us preference on one of the scheduling possibilities that she receives. Typically she gets 4 a month is what she said.
So hopefully, I can receive the okay to build this upcoming month and the truck will be built in September.
I was shocked at how many sold orders she still has to get through for our region. I kinda assumed a lot of dealers were starting to order them for stock and not retail orders.
Hope that sheds some light on it. the good news is that we are one of the top 5 dealers in our zone, so hopefully that means we can throw some of our weight around and convince her to choose our order over some of the other dealers!