jnh13 Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Ordered Augut 8th, Built November 8th, ship date???????? Vin 2FMDK49C97BA27589. Cannot believe a ZM, RM or any M cannot reply to my dealer with info as to where my 'retro fit' might be. Worst customer relations nightmare ever. They lost 12B $, hard to believe isn't it. Driving a rental the last two months at about 1K a month as I sold my suv expecting it to be close to stated deliver time of first November 1st, then December 1st and now who knows??? Own two other Fords. So much for treating loyal customers decent, not even a letter, email or call. Beyond frustrated in Edmonton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otpisdead Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Ordered Augut 8th, Built November 8th, ship date????????Vin 2FMDK49C97BA27589. Where did you get that VIN? Why do you have the VIN? I just ran it and it never existed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnh13 Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Where did you get that VIN? Why do you have the VIN? I just ran it and it never existed! I cannot type well. It is 2FMDK49C97BA27590 Someone was nice enough to run it about a month ago and no ship date. My dealer has had the vin number assigned to them for my Edge right from the start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadasvt Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Looks like it is ready and you should get it soon. VIN 2FMDK49C97BA27590 Receipt Date: 8/19/2006 Serialize Date: 8/21/2006 Segment Date: 8/24/2006 Sequence Date: 10/25/2006 Blend Date: 10/25/2006 Produced Date: 11/8/2006 Gate Release Date: 1/23/2007 Ship Date: Arrival Date: Sold Date: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroyl Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Maybe someone from Oakville could answer these questions and thus help me understand why it takes so long for my dealer to get the VIN for my MKX..now six weeks and counting. 1. How many Edge's and MKX's are produced per week? 2. Are the two models manufactured simultaneously? 3. Do you manufacture different paint colors and options at the same time or do you wait until, say you have x number of orders for copper Edge's and then manufacture them? 4. Are the refits complete? 5. Is the dealer inventory build complete? 6. Are there factory tours?? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsap Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Maybe someone from Oakville could answer these questions and thus help me understand why it takes so long for my dealer to get the VIN for my MKX..now six weeks and counting. 1. How many Edge's and MKX's are produced per week? 2. Are the two models manufactured simultaneously? 3. Do you manufacture different paint colors and options at the same time or do you wait until, say you have x number of orders for copper Edge's and then manufacture them? 4. Are the refits complete? 5. Is the dealer inventory build complete? 6. Are there factory tours?? Thanks. I'd like to hear the answers to those as well.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charly Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Maybe someone from Oakville could answer these questions and thus help me understand why it takes so long for my dealer to get the VIN for my MKX..now six weeks and counting. 1. How many Edge's and MKX's are produced per week? 2. Are the two models manufactured simultaneously? 3. Do you manufacture different paint colors and options at the same time or do you wait until, say you have x number of orders for copper Edge's and then manufacture them? 4. Are the refits complete? 5. Is the dealer inventory build complete? 6. Are there factory tours?? Thanks. 1) About 4000 2)Yes 3)Yes............no 4)One week left 5)Dunno....doubt it 6)No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroyl Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Charly... thanks very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charly Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Charly... thanks very much. My pleasure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsap Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 1) About 40002)Yes 3)Yes............no 4)One week left 5)Dunno....doubt it 6)No Thanks! I'm curious...Are they even building any vehicles that have been ordered within the last month (you may not know that...but thought I'd ask)? The MKX was a priority 10 X-Plan order, ordered from a small dealership (which I hear allocation does not apply to the small ones)...so I would think that if they were building recent orders it would be one of them, or it would at least be serialized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_derksen Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Allocation is a problem for small dealers too. We are a smaller dealer, our first Edge (retail order) is a retrofit unit still in storage. Our second and third units are also retail but are sitting in the order bank unscheduled. Our stock orders are also unscheduled. Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charly Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Thanks! I'm curious...Are they even building any vehicles that have been ordered within the last month (you may not know that...but thought I'd ask)? The MKX was a priority 10 X-Plan order, ordered from a small dealership (which I hear allocation does not apply to the small ones)...so I would think that if they were building recent orders it would be one of them, or it would at least be serialized. Do you have a VIN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsap Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Do you have a VIN? No. It hasn't even been serialized for a VIN yet...and its been on order for over 3-wks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroyl Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 My arithmetic may be suspect but I cannot understand why there are such long delays for Edge's and MKX's. Here's my presumed logic. There are about 4600 Ford/Lincoln dealers in USA/Canada. Assume 4 vehicles per dealer for inventory this is 18,400. Ford sold and delivered to retail 3060 Edge/MKX's in December 2006, none in Oct or Nov. to speak of. Oakville starting building about Oct 9 2006. They have been building for 16 weeks and theoretically they can build 4000 per week or 64000 vehicles. In the real world as they ramp up, production is less than optimal and I'd say they could produce at an average of 65% or about 42,000 vehicles. So they have 42,000 vehicles to allocate. 20,000 were retail preorders and I put the 3000 sold in December in this amount. 18,400 for dealer inventory. This totals 38,400 vehicles or 3600 less than what I think were produced. So by my logic right about now they are ahead of the game, Ford says they estimate to sell about 100,000 Edges and 30,000 MKX's in 2007. This is about 11,000 per month, well below what Oakville can produce. Again they should be ahead of the sales demand or are retail sales orders are far out stripping estimates??? I know this could be all nonsense but maybe someone can help. Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charly Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 My arithmetic may be suspect but I cannot understand why there are such long delays for Edge's and MKX's. Here's my presumed logic. There are about 4600 Ford/Lincoln dealers in USA/Canada. Assume 4 vehicles per dealer for inventory this is 18,400. Ford sold and delivered to retail 3060 Edge/MKX's in December 2006, none in Oct or Nov. to speak of. Oakville starting building about Oct 9 2006. They have been building for 16 weeks and theoretically they can build 4000 per week or 64000 vehicles. In the real world as they ramp up, production is less than optimal and I'd say they could produce at an average of 65% or about 42,000 vehicles. So they have 42,000 vehicles to allocate. 20,000 were retail preorders and I put the 3000 sold in December in this amount. 18,400 for dealer inventory. This totals 38,400 vehicles or 3600 less than what I think were produced. So by my logic right about now they are ahead of the game, Ford says they estimate to sell about 100,000 Edges and 30,000 MKX's in 2007. This is about 11,000 per month, well below what Oakville can produce. Again they should be ahead of the sales demand or are retail sales orders are far out stripping estimates??? I know this could be all nonsense but maybe someone can help. Thx. We have not been building 4000 a week for 16 weeks, the 4000 a week figure was only recently achieved. All vehicles that were retro-fitted still must go through the rolls test, and I believe that can only be done on weekends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wadeg7 Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Can someone please check on the status of this VIN # 2FMDK49C77BA72477 Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otpisdead Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 VIN 2FMDK49C77BA72477 Receipt Date: 1/15/2007 Serialize Date: 1/19/2007 Segment Date: 1/22/2007 Sequence Date: 1/24/2007 Blend Date: 1/24/2007 Produced Date: Gate Release Date: Ship Date: Arrival Date: Sold Date: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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