Unscheduled - Balanced Out

Cochese
Nov 19, 2021

Rank III

Nov 19, 2021

I have my dealer’s list of orders. There are a little over 100 orders for Broncos on it. I sit at 92 as I just placed my order 10.22.21. So, on the list any order on or after 10.8.21 has a status of “Unscheduled - Clean”. It looks like on it that day around 40 orders must’ve been converted to the 22’s because, well, there’s 40 orders on that day. And that was the day I heard the orders were switched over. I kind of assumed that the first say 35 orders on the list that are status “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” might have been the initial reservations prior to being converted on 10/8. So basically they were initial orders then they were converted to 22’s on 10.8.22. It all kind of made sense, in my head. All 35 had reservation dates dating back to 2020.

But, in October, eight of the 35 were scheduled to build and 5 of the 40 that were after 10.8 were scheduled to build. Then yesterday one of the early 40 were scheduled and 12 of the late 40 were scheduled. Some of the 8 were after my reservation were picked. Which both makes me hopefully and crushes my soul at the same time.

Anyways, does anyone know what these early “Unscheduled - Balance Out” reservations are?

Shouldn’t any 21’s have been converted to 22’s by 10/8, or have been scheduled in December with the last 21’s?
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Rank VI

Nov 19, 2021

#1
My 2021 has a build date of 12/16, so yes 2021 are being built in Dec.
2021 OBX 2 door High Package Cyber orange, second day reservation, ordered Jan 20, 2021, blend date of 18 Dec 2021, delivery date of Jan 12th and loving it.
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Road trip!!!

Nov 19, 2021

#2
My 2021 has a build date of 12/16, so yes 2021 are being built in Dec.
:oops: I thought 12/15 was the last day for MY21's to be built. Yours is the latest MY21 bronco I have heard scheduled.

What's your build?
2021 Badlands, 4 door, 2.7L, Auto, LUX, SAS, Tow Package, MIC, Velocity Blue.

Rank V

Nov 19, 2021

#3
Nobody knows what's going on there imo, nobody. From the top to the bottom, corporate to plant, big dealer to small dealer, nobody knows why what build gets picked when. Looking at some of the other 6g forums, 6g FB groups and Instagram yesterday you were 10x more likely to have gotten a build date email if you had NO reservation and just walked in during the last month to two months and ordered. And I'm talking every configuration except FE of course. 2D, 4D, Badlands, Wildtrak, MIC top 2D and 4D.....all of them. While responses poured in from folks with Day 1 and Day 2 reservations who got nothing....along with folks who had 99 their order and got build dates yesterday as well. Meanwhile those of us trying to transfer to a more reputable dealer are stuck in limbo and have been for weeks because Ford apparently has thousands of transfer requests to process because the vast majority of Ford dealers are not reputable it seems......this has been fun.
2D BL, Sas, 2.7l, High, Silver 10:22pm 7/13/20 Res, 1/31 2/7 2/14 2/28 3/7 build dates
built 3/11/22, delivered 4/16/22
Micahman, SilverHairedBronco

Rank III

Nov 19, 2021

#4
I have my dealer’s list of orders. There are a little over 100 orders for Broncos on it. I sit at 92 as I just placed my order 10.22.21. So, on the list any order on or after 10.8.21 has a status of “Unscheduled - Clean”. It looks like on it that day around 40 orders must’ve been converted to the 22’s because, well, there’s 40 orders on that day. And that was the day I heard the orders were switched over. I kind of assumed that the first say 35 orders on the list that are status “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” might have been the initial reservations prior to being converted on 10/8. So basically they were initial orders then they were converted to 22’s on 10.8.22. It all kind of made sense, in my head. All 35 had reservation dates dating back to 2020.

But, in October, eight of the 35 were scheduled to build and 5 of the 40 that were after 10.8 were scheduled to build. Then yesterday one of the early 40 were scheduled and 12 of the late 40 were scheduled. Some of the 8 were after my reservation were picked. Which both makes me hopefully and crushes my soul at the same time.

Anyways, does anyone know what these early “Unscheduled - Balance Out” reservations are?

Shouldn’t any 21’s have been converted to 22’s by 10/8, or have been scheduled in December with the last 21’s?

Correction to this. None of the “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” were scheduled this go around. It was only reservations that “appeared” to be converted on 10/8 and/or new reservations made after mid October. So maybe these “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” orders are not real orders anymore? Any insiders here that know about this?

Rank V

Nov 19, 2021

#5
Correct me if I'm wrong but back when I used to work in a Ford Plant (2000's), "Balance Out" meant that they looked at all the pieces and parts from the current model year they had lying around in the plant and in supplier's pipeline and the schedulers figured out how many complete vehicles they could build out of them. They then match those vehicles with what's in the order pipeline. That would help explain why vehicles were being picked and chosen seemingly "at random". It's all to clean up "old stock" make way for the next model year vehicle. Again, it's been a minute since I worked in a plant so things may have changed but that's how I understood it when I was working on New Model Launches back in the day.
On Order, 11/15/21: MY22 Badlands 2-dr, Carb Gray, 2.3L, 7spd, SAS, Lux Reorder, 9/23/22: MY23, dropped tow.
Sche'd Production: 11/28/22, Modules Live: 11/30/22. Delivered 12/02/22.
TK1215, ResidualGenius

Libations MOD

Nov 19, 2021

#6
:oops: I thought 12/15 was the last day for MY21's to be built. Yours is the latest MY21 bronco I have heard scheduled.

What's your build?
Right, more changes coming? hummmm
WT HOSS 4dr 2.7 MIC Lux Tow
7/16/20 Res -- 1/22/21, 10/8/21 Order -- 3/24/22 VIN -- 5/9/22, 5/23/22, 5/16/22, 6/6/22, 6/17/22 Build 7/15/22 Delivered
Storm Factor - Never Stop Chasing! BrawnCo.Club 501c3 Pending
SlashRacer

Rank VI

Nov 19, 2021

#7
:oops: I thought 12/15 was the last day for MY21's to be built. Yours is the latest MY21 bronco I have heard scheduled.

What's your build?
Mine is a 2021 OBX 2 Door High Pac CO.
2021 OBX 2 door High Package Cyber orange, second day reservation, ordered Jan 20, 2021, blend date of 18 Dec 2021, delivery date of Jan 12th and loving it.
SlashRacer

Rank II

Nov 19, 2021

#8
I have my dealer’s list of orders. There are a little over 100 orders for Broncos on it. I sit at 92 as I just placed my order 10.22.21. So, on the list any order on or after 10.8.21 has a status of “Unscheduled - Clean”. It looks like on it that day around 40 orders must’ve been converted to the 22’s because, well, there’s 40 orders on that day. And that was the day I heard the orders were switched over. I kind of assumed that the first say 35 orders on the list that are status “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” might have been the initial reservations prior to being converted on 10/8. So basically they were initial orders then they were converted to 22’s on 10.8.22. It all kind of made sense, in my head. All 35 had reservation dates dating back to 2020.

But, in October, eight of the 35 were scheduled to build and 5 of the 40 that were after 10.8 were scheduled to build. Then yesterday one of the early 40 were scheduled and 12 of the late 40 were scheduled. Some of the 8 were after my reservation were picked. Which both makes me hopefully and crushes my soul at the same time.

Anyways, does anyone know what these early “Unscheduled - Balance Out” reservations are?

Shouldn’t any 21’s have been converted to 22’s by 10/8, or have been scheduled in December with the last 21’s?
My very unhappy suspicion is that dealers can play around with the order of scheduling. Why do I suspect this? Because my "dealer" slipped. We were talking and he blurted out how his girlfriend's father had *just* placed his order (a month after me) and how he was trying to get it scheduled. I called him out on it immediately and elicited a guilty giggle (not an attractive behavior from the dude has control over when people get their trucks!). Unfortunately, treading lightly is necessary here. If I blow up at him, how far out could he push my delivery????

Moral of the story? If you're willing to boink a dealer you may get to see your Bronco in early 2022?

Rank III

Nov 19, 2021

#9
I did some more research. I sorted the list by order numbers and found that all of the “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” were duplicated. They were all re-ordered around 10/8. So basically those 40 are not orders. So I just went from 70-ish to 40-ish. My dealer gets 13 a month. There’s only40 unscheduled. So I should be in the next three rounds of scheduling. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Deano Bronc, Barearav

Libations MOD

Nov 19, 2021

#10
I did some more research. I sorted the list by order numbers and found that all of the “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” were duplicated. They were all re-ordered around 10/8. So basically those 40 are not orders. So I just went from 70-ish to 40-ish. My dealer gets 13 a month. There’s only40 unscheduled. So I should be in the next three rounds of scheduling. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
How did you sort by order number? They are just random and not sequential from whats been said on here
WT HOSS 4dr 2.7 MIC Lux Tow
7/16/20 Res -- 1/22/21, 10/8/21 Order -- 3/24/22 VIN -- 5/9/22, 5/23/22, 5/16/22, 6/6/22, 6/17/22 Build 7/15/22 Delivered
Storm Factor - Never Stop Chasing! BrawnCo.Club 501c3 Pending

Rank III

Nov 19, 2021

#11
I did some more research. I sorted the list by order numbers and found that all of the “Unscheduled - Balanced Out” were duplicated. They were all re-ordered around 10/8. So basically those 40 are not orders. So I just went from 70-ish to 40-ish. My dealer gets 13 a month. There’s only40 unscheduled. So I should be in the next three rounds of scheduling. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
How did you sort by order number? They are just random and not sequential from whats been said on here

They are pretty random, but I just sort the list and they are in order.

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