I am not a salesman, so do not quote me on this, but the dealer is able to assign a priority number to it and it goes into a ford system that calculates metrics of the dealership and takes this number into account, yet it doesn't mean yours goes next on the line. I also don't believe you can change that after the order has been submitted so im not sure.
Lane, it sounds like you've got everything thought out really well. BTW, I don't want to rain on your parade, but my Ranger (ordered 09/01/20) took 13 weeks to show up. And, there wasn't a chip shortage at the time. So hope for the best, but expect the worst.
We had a high end escape get nailed that bad a couple years ago. They fixed it with painless dent repair Fixed in 3 days time. When we sold it the dealer checked history but did not say anything to us. Hail damage is not as bad as crash damage in vehicle history I guess.
. Personally, I like being flexible and this is one of those situations where you can take advantage of an odd market and gain personal flexibility.
I can give you some real data for ordering one.
I could be wrong here, but my understanding of the priority codes is it only affects orders from your dealer. Codes can be from 10 - 19, lower being higher priority, but if you are the only order, it won't matter what priority you have. Likewise, if the dealer puts all of their special orders at a priority of 10, it won't matter. The only time it would come into play is if there are multiple orders, they will be processed in order of priority.
If it helps gauge how long to build - ordered 5/11 Priority 10, just got build date of 8/11 today.
I had priority 19, for reference.
I'm guessing, but don't know, that it impacts dealers that place multiple orders at same time. I also think there's something about retail vs allotment as well. The small dealership I ordered from likely didn't have many other orders they placed, especially since they had three Rangers on the lot, including one XLT Tremor.
Funny thing, before I was looking for a Ranger, I was looking for a Tacoma. The very highest price point I could do I just wasn’t satisfied with what I was going to get for the money. Reliability also being in question with the newer gen models, I was looking at 2nd gen tacomas and still couldn’t find anything 4wd for an even halfway decent price. As far as me worrying about being broke, I only work because I have time to do it being a “full-time” student and it’s better than any other use of the time I could come up with. I don’t worry about money often, just live within my means and I save when I’m motivated to buy something I want, like this Ranger. I know there’s better uses for the money, but I guess I’m just trying to tip toe around the fact that I’m young and dumb haha. Anyway, I’ve always been a Ford guy, and so is my dad. He bought a 7.3 f250 in 1999, the year I was born and it’s still on original power train to this day at 500k+. I’ve had 3 different Ford vehicles now and they’ve all been great regardless of mileage.If you were my son.....I have a son entering his second year of college so my advice comes from real time and experience. I would suggest you sell the truck to the dealership and walk away with the cash from both the insurance and dealer. While they would love to sell you a truck, they need inventory and will buy it. I would then suggest buying a beater truck to get you through your college years and stop worrying about being broke and focus on getting great grades.
Skipping Dad to Son and just talking dude to due. Sell it to the dealer and keep the money and here is why I suggest that again. I sold my boat a couple of months ago because it was a Deep V style and I wanted to move to a Mod V Bass style boat as I've turned into a Bass nut. After I sold the boat and went a couple of weeks without one, I really started to question what I actually wanted. Going without, opened my eyes. Don't get me wrong, I still bought a boat, just not the one I originally thought I wanted.
My point is that if you go without, you can always walk into the dealership in a month, 2 months, whatever from now and get the same selling price or you could change your mind totally and buy a Toyota! LOL
Similar situation for me. Was looking at a TRD Pro. The two things that stopped me were:
For me the highest I could go was under 30k, when I found out that Rangers were selling 5-7k under sticker price, I jumped on it. In my opinion, Toyota gives the US market some of its worst options. Like sell a solid axle diesel land cruiser over here and you’d have plenty of people lining up to put in orders day one. But corporate bs and US regulations would never let that happen.
I'm a full time student, but I work full time so I'm contributing to my 401k and they're paying for school. My next truck will be a 250 or maybe a f150 with the coyote but I kinda want a diesel to tow my ranger to races once it's fully caged.
