Ecoboost on backorder from Ford?

Whatever the case may be, it really sucks.  At this point, there isn't even an ETA on getting one, at least according to the 3 dealerships I've spoken with and a zone rep.  I understand supply and demand, though probably not to the degree that some of you do.  Even if they'd be able to tell me that they are 60 days out from being able to ship them, that would be acceptable.  I would at least be able to have a plan of action on what to do.  I guess I just don't understand.

On a side note, a customer of our's bought a 2012 Mustang GT with a hurt engine.  It had a lower end knock.  Upon teardown, he found it had spun a rod bearing.  He called Ford first to see about just ordering a new crank.  He was told they are on backorder with no ETA.  What gives?

I'm not blaming the ecoboost platform for being weak.  If it was, Ford probably wouldn't be putting it in basically everything.  But I would have to think that with as long as Ford has been around, they have collected years upon years of data.  And one of those data being the average warranty rate/replacement rate on an engine.  If their average warranty rate is, say, 1%, would it not make sense to produce an additional .5-.75%....or even 1%...over and above the engines just going into new cars?

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The challenge is ending up holding the bag on a bunch of inventory that you can't move, esp if you are using JIT to change things job to job and year to year like they seem to be heading too. Ford has done better than I think even they have expected, sure the pundits wrote some articles about slower sales last quarter but in comparison to the rest of american automakers a slow quarter for ford would be an amazing quarter for GM.


One of the biggest issues with JIT at this time is it does not handle large equilibrium shifts very well. It may take a few years but I expect they will scale with demand in time (further automation will help here IMO). It's just a pain for the time being. As for why you can't get any lead times on parts...I have not been using Ford stuff for long but I get the impression that communication could be a lot better between corporate both internally and between the regional and sales chain folks.
 
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