12/20/2021 Build Club

[Txm]

My PB hasn’t disappointed in the fuel economy department. My trip summaries keep showing a consistent 23-25 on average, my best so far was 29 after 18 miles. I’m in Cypress, a suburb on the NW side of Houston so lots of mixed driving for me. One trip might be 20 miles on the highway and the next might be 20 miles of stoplight to stoplight driving. Fuel economy has been a very welcomed change from my 19 3.5 that was tuned and on 34s.

My wife accused me of driving like a grandpa today so I slapped her into sport and pinned her to the seat only then to be criticized over State Farm’s “drive safe to save” Bluetooth thingy in my center console.

I’m at 2142 miles as of now and I really don’t have any regrets. If I could change one thing, I’d just make it a plug in hybrid. I’ll definitely continue enjoying my PB until I get either a Lightning or Silverado EV. This has been a nice little experience of dipping my toe in the EV waters.

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[bwm1116s]

@#$% - I was hoping you'd get an update to an earlier date.

@bwm1116s, @BoostedKWs , and @Mcbos1991 any updates on your Jan/Feb ETAs?

@TN Rotty I received an e-mail from Ford the other day saying my new delivery eta is 3/15. I'm not holding my breath on that.

 

[BoostedKWs]

Wednesday will be two weeks past your last ETA. Your dealer should be able to get you a copy of the VVR if you ask. (Of course that depends on how helpful they want to be.)

Some have said the Mach E tracker was working for them - have you tried that along with the Ford tracker or calling Ford Marketing?

? ? ? ? Hope you get some good news this week.

VVR from this morning. The "pending update" in the ETA section is new. Not sure what that's about.

 

[TN Rotty]

@TN Rotty I received an e-mail from Ford the other day saying my new delivery eta is 3/15. I'm not holding my breath on that.

Understood - I'll still take it as a good sign to be two weeks out rather than 2 months out. (Says the guy playing the slot machine...)

VVR from this morning. The "pending update" in the ETA section is new. Not sure what that's about.

Looks like the VVR shows your new ETA as between 3/7 and 3/13, but the status shows that ETA from January??? So I don't know if that means this is an old VVR capture, or Ford hasn't updated the status since January...

 

[BoostedKWs]

Understood - I'll still take it as a good sign to be two weeks out rather than 2 months out. (Says the guy playing the slot machine...)

Looks like the VVR shows your new ETA as between 3/7 and 3/13, but the status shows that ETA from January??? So I don't know if that means this is an old VVR capture, or Ford hasn't updated the status since January...

They must be when it got to the awaiting shipment status. That date hasn't changed but the ETA dates keep bumping to the right. First time I've seen it 2 weeks out though. When the tracker was working, it kept moving it to the right about 5 days from the current date. Who knows anymore.

 

[StoneGray22]

Fuel economy has been a very welcomed change from my 19 3.5 that was tuned and on 34s.

Out of curiosity, what sort of mileage were you getting out of your previous?

I've driven Civics for the past 19 years, so the '22 3.5 EB is a huge adjustment for me! Haha. But definitely glad to be back in a truck; it's been too long.

 

[Atlee]

I got a big surprise yesterday in the mail. Ford sent me an additional $1,000 for a program called "Built For Growth AXZD-Plan Cus"[tomer].

Don't know why, was never told about it, but I'm definitely not going to send it back. Will come in handy paying for decent shocks and the Weather Tech & Husky floor mats.

 

[Erickson85]

Bad about remembering to take pics lol

 

[TN Rotty]

Bad about remembering to take pics lol

Thanks! Looks great!

Is that AMB and Stone Grey lowers?

 

[TN Rotty]

Are any of your guys with Powerboost engines having issues with coolant leak at center of vehicle? There is a heat exchanger on top of the exhaust where coolant flows that is leaking on my Powerboost XLT with 500 miles and 12/20 week build date.. Others on forum have had same issue. I just dropped off mine at dealer who says he has 2 other guys with same issue locally. All are brand new with low miles. Seems like they got a bad batch of those exchangers. The problem is part to fix it is on backorder with no ETA!

No coolant leak on mine (and sorry to hear about it sidelining the truck waiting for parts).

Change that - I got the same leak now. Just showed up in the last two days.

Some others with the same issue are posting about it here (link to last post):

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/powerboost-cel-p237c.8634/post-177200

 

[Erickson85]

Thanks! Looks great!

Is that AMB and Stone Grey lowers?

Yes it is. My 21 was AMB and carbonized gray. The stone gray makes the blue pop a little more that the carbonized gray did. That combo the AMB looked more black at times

 

[bwm1116s]

KNOCK KNOCK!!!! Is anyone in here??? it's rather lonely in here now that so many people receive their trucks. If anyone's still here I'll be sitting on the swing in the pool.

 

[BoostedKWs]

KNOCK KNOCK!!!! Is anyone in here??? it's rather lonely in here now that so many people receive their trucks. If anyone's still here I'll be sitting on the swing in the pool.

Sadly you're not alone. My truck is still sitting in Dearborn.

 

[snopro31]

Mines still waiting for the carrier to find a drive who wants to work.

 

[snopro31]

Delivery pushed again.
Thank you Ford and Jack cooper for terrible service.

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