Recent content by Gabriel__Shear

Do you happen to have the center caps? I'm interested.

Yeah, it was night and day compared to my GT500 order where I got emails and updates every step of the process. This was: July 20th, 2022: Order Submitted November 6th, 2023: The truck is on Lot, 15K ADM, what would you like to do? They don't want to make a trade offer on the 35 since I'm...

I placed an order via text with a dealer who I assumed was never going to get it, and just got an email that it's in and ready, 15K ADM. I'm not sure if I'm living in a dream where the dealer thinks they can go a year without any follow-up (letting me know the order was picked, or it's in...

Looking for forum price for a Backflip MX4 for a 23 Raptor.

Zone Reps grant allocations for FP cars by moving the Priority Code to 01-09, which signifies the allocation is being applied to a specific order. Not going to dox my Dealer or my Rep, but I was CC'd on every single scheduling email for my GT500, it's a casual chat between the zone rep and the...

Yes they do. I’m staring at my GT500 which used the same allocation system.

Until your priority code is set to anything less than 10, you do not have a confirmed allocation applied. Unscheduled Clean with a 10 or above is as meaningless as everything else, just means your order is in WBDO. The rep moving the order to the lower codes signifies the allocarion being...

Why would they give it standard treatment when they’re only building ~2500/year? This years allocations are already all already sold, the fact they’re doing any press is shocking.

The sticker indicates how it leaves the plant. Not how it’s shipped to your dealer. Usually it’s Rail -> Convoy but in some cases it’s Convoy -> Rail -> Convoy. Only to the dealers who are very close to the plants are it just straight “Convoy”. The only thing the sticker will tell you is...

Regional reps work for Ford and not the dealer they would never be on a dealers website. Also, with the restructuring a couple months ago, most of the regional reps don’t work at Ford anymore so there’s a much smaller ratio of reps to dealers.

It's 100% within the rules. If the name that gets put on the title does not match the name on the customer order, it's a name match validation failure. So the dealer is going to take the hit on their percentages. If they're taking the hit anyway, they're completely allowed to make 10k off...

It was teased at the dealer meeting, and there's plenty online about it, but don't take my advice. We'll see what MY24 looks like next year.

They’re not building that small number of raptors because there’s not demand or production capacity does not allow it. Ford Performance does this with all of their cars/trucks/suvs. It's supposed to be a "limited" run. You also need to factor all of the other stuff that they do for the...

Yeah, that makes perfect sense alongside the redesigned F150 coming in MY2024.

Nothing of substance to add, but: This would be a much easier conversation if the 37 was sold on equal footing (and didn't require a sub allocation to order). I just want to go to Starbucks, but the dealer told me "We're all out of sub allocations for 37s, if you want one of our six, you...