More pictures of Raptors sitting @ Dearborn

[Olsen Motorsports]

Fender flares have to be the plastic shortage. It is hitting my business hard, vendors are telling me it is from a resin shortage which is killing everyone. One of my customers owns fluidmaster. He usually has a 9 month supply and is currently rolling around a weeks supply.

Feel bad for these guys.

 

[Raptorial]

Fender flares have to be the plastic shortage. It is hitting my business hard, vendors are telling me it is from a resin shortage which is killing everyone. One of my customers owns fluidmaster. He usually has a 9 month supply and is currently rolling around a weeks supply.

Feel bad for these guys.

Just curious. Is what you're looking for sourced domestically ?

 

[Meat Eater]

Spoke to a buddy this past weekend who just got his 2021. He said they weren't shipping with the flares installed. Something about being too wide (whatever that means). Dealership had them installed in 3 days.

 

[Hemmy]

Fender flares have to be the plastic shortage. It is hitting my business hard, vendors are telling me it is from a resin shortage which is killing everyone. One of my customers owns fluidmaster. He usually has a 9 month supply and is currently rolling around a weeks supply.

Feel bad for these guys.

You are probably correct with this. We make plastic thermoformed parts for the RV industry. We do a lot of fender skirts for class C and A units, travel trailers and fifth wheels. We use to get plastic sheet from our vendors with about a 6 week lead time. One of our largest suppliers is now telling us about 26 weeks. Pricing and availability with plastic has been crazy, like most things this year. The resin situation has been the main contributor to this problem. Resin shortages caused plastic extruders and thermoformers to start substituting in more regrind material to help cut back on the resin needed in the extruding formula. Now there is a shortage of regrind meaning more resin needs to be used to make the sheet.

 

[Hemmy]

Just curious. Is what you're looking for sourced domestically ?

This is most likely sourced domestically. Most of the resin comes from the Texas area. There are sheet extruders and thermoformers or mold injectors all over the US.

 

[K223]

I was actually out golfing some months back and we were paired up with a nice couple. He owns a larger company that produces injection molded moving/storage bins and 100’s of other items. His problem he told me was staffing(had plenty of resin on hand). He couldn’t keep enough people in the factory to operate the injection mold machines to produce product.

 

[Broken Wrench]

I think Mine was 8th from the right in row 5...

 

[SemperParatus718]

Staffing issues most likely. When you don't hold an individual responsible for mortgage or their rent, etc all the while sending them stimmy checks, who's actually going to work? In-n-Out burger joints in Commiefornia are paying nearly $30 an hour to get people to come back to work. Then add the Covid mandates to all employers with over 100 employees and things get even worse. Covid isn't the problem. These ***hats dumb America vote for and elect into office are the issue.

Let's Go Brandon.

 

[Broken Wrench]

Have they tried calling Shahid Khan…???

Shad, I worked for him back when he was first starting out at Flex-N-Gate. He is the stereo typical entrepreneur, worked 80 hrs/week. But hey saw him on the cover of Forbes a couple of years ago as a Billionare. Not sure if I should have quit to go to college for that engineering degree or should have just become his right-hand servant...oh well. H loved American football even back then.

 

[DoKnowHarm]

So what if your 2021 Raptor isn’t delivered to you until 2022? Due to instant depreciation can you expect any concession from the dealer. I believe in a free market system and though I don’t like the mark up understand supply and demand. If in this “unprecedented” market situation this is what the consumer can expect shouldn’t it also be a contract breaker to receive your new 2021 in 2022.

In other words to me it would be consistent if buyers had the option to not purchase their ordered 2021 and be deferred a first run 2022 because the dealer and Ford could not deliver on their contract in a reasonable timeframe (the year of the manufacturer year).