Whats the normal timeline from production to delivery in california currently?

If you want to keep your sanity, don’t worry about the emails that you get from Ford and don’t worry about when the Bronco comes. It will show up when it shows up and then you can be excited. Otherwise you’ll drive yourself nuts. Good luck

Bronco 202?

If you want to keep your sanity, don’t worry about the emails that you get from Ford and don’t worry about when the Bronco comes. It will show up when it shows up and then you can be excited. Otherwise you’ll drive yourself nuts. Good luck

If you get a window sticker, you can see the blend date in the upper margins, middle of the page…. This is the day the body meets the engine on the line…. There are numerous threads on here for ideas on tracking your Bronco…. That being said, DON’T drive yourself crazy wondering… get your order number (four digits from dealer) and VIN (Ford will send just ahead of production) and you can follow the vehicle on ordertrack.app …. I’m waiting for a PHEV. Escape that has a blend date of 4/27/23, and what I”m waiting for are the modules to populate…. Once that happens the car is “alive” and moving toward the transport system…. Then it will be lost to me again for awhile…

Good Luck, Hang in!

I got mine in 10 months to the day.

keithward53

I got mine in 10 months to the day.

10 months from built until it was delivered?

Bluestreak57

If you get a window sticker, you can see the blend date in the upper margins, middle of the page…. This is the day the body meets the engine on the line…. There are numerous threads on here for ideas on tracking your Bronco…. That being said, DON’T drive yourself crazy wondering… get your order number (four digits from dealer) and VIN (Ford will send just ahead of production) and you can follow the vehicle on ordertrack.app …. I’m waiting for a PHEV. Escape that has a blend date of 4/27/23, and what I”m waiting for are the modules to populate…. Once that happens the car is “alive” and moving toward the transport system…. Then it will be lost to me again for awhile…

Good Luck, Hang in!

Yeah, I get it. After two and a half years, its hard to not be antsy XD
Ok, so above blend my sticker says 320230420
4/20 is what my build date says on the tracker, I dont get the rest of it.
I did the module thing today, and there are a whole bunch of numbers and stuff... but no idea what any of that means either. But my tracker still doesnt show built. but you are saying with the modules on... it is?

Alright.

So it takes roughly 18 hours for a Bronco to make it down the production line. BUT, just because it makes it down the assembly line doesn’t mean that Bronco is fully built. It could be waiting for parts, or it could be sent to the mod line for accessory installation, it could have encountered a QC issue, we really don’t know.

The modules you are seeing is the “As-Built” configuration. It is used so that a dealership can pull up the factory configuration of the vehicle in order to repair it should any of the computer modules die. People are using it as a sign that their vehicle is being produced, but it’s really not intended for that purpose and doesn’t really mean anything other than your vehicle has had their modules assigned.

I will say mine was “in production” for 3 weeks, and a good chunk of that was waiting for a roof rack to get installed. Other people that shared my same production week were built within 3-4 days. It all depends.

As far as shipping time, Ford standard shipping times is 6-8 weeks after the vehicle has been released for shipment, but it heavily depends on what area of the country it’s going to. A year ago Southern California had horrific shipping times since the port and rail networks down there were all backed up. It’s a lot better now, but it’s hard give a good estimate. Your best estimate would probably come from your dealer. If they’ve been paying attention to their orders they would likely know roughly how long it’s taken for them to get vehicles from the Michigan area as of late.

For me in southern New England shipping took 5 weeks, but vehicles shipped to the northeast don’t have to transfer rail companies—it stays with CSX the entire time, so shipping times are a lot faster up here for Michigan-produced vehicles. California-bound vehicles have to be transferred to BNSF at some point.

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So… if you add all of it together it’s best not to think about it. It’ll get there when it gets there.

But I know that’s easier said than done. I personally know a lot more info than the average person about Ford’s internal workings, I knew it would take awhile and I shouldn’t spend my time thinking about it. And yet I STILL drove myself crazy and obsessed over it. The last 2 months of waiting were by far the hardest.

Skybrono

10 months from built until it was delivered?

Yup, I guess I got lucky. I went to the dealership with the printout of my configuration, he sent me the order confirmation two days later. I pestered him once a month for status, he always advised my to remove the hard top and tow package to improve my chances. NOT……. I did change color to Carbonized Gray when it became available.

Otherwise, I knew this was going to be a wait. And wait.

My build date was 8/8/22 and it made it to my dealer on 9/27/22 (Northern CA)