Mk4 Orders

Jordie said:

Anyone know how long a car usually sits at “BODY OFFLINE” - mines been sitting in that state for a week with no movement, although I thought it would have been pretty quick from there to Compound/Gate release?

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Doesn't often happen but it doesn't always make it past that stage if it fails quality control. I expect yours is just waiting for it's turn on a transporter to the station now.

It's really hard to know since Covid. Cars often get held up for delayed parts now. It's a lot better than it was, but not like old times still.

Jordie said:

Anyone know how long a car usually sits at “BODY OFFLINE” - mines been sitting in that state for a week with no movement, although I thought it would have been pretty quick from there to Compound/Gate release?

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What tracker are you using?

djsubtronic said:

What tracker are you using?

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Sounds like the dealer's Vista system.

Jordie said:

Anyone know how long a car usually sits at “BODY OFFLINE” - mines been sitting in that state for a week with no movement, although I thought it would have been pretty quick from there to Compound/Gate release?

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you need paint offline and assy offline first. The body can sit around, but once painted it's usually finished in 1-2 days

Thanks all! Fingers crossed it gets moving soon, looking forward to being back in an ST!
The info is just from Vista, although I had a look on the Mach e tracker which shows the same info

alexp999 said:

Sounds like the dealer's Vista system.

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Probably, just wondering though if using something like the Where Is My Mach-E tracker site with VIN then sometimes it can lag behind and show as stuck for a while. I had ASSEMBLY OFFLINE for a week on that site although it had actually moved to GATE RELEASE after a couple of days.

Usually 'Body Offline' means its waiting for a part or something to be re-done. How long it sits there depends on how long it takes for the part or work to be done.

End of the day it takes as long as it takes, nothing you can do about it, so worrying about it is a waste of energy. My new car has just reached a status of 'Assembly complete', but I'm not expecting delivery until July.

Drive the deal have pushing £5k off a ST with everything apart from the sun roof and track pack, £34869 otr.

Is there any way we can track our orders and what spec is fitted now that Etis is no more?

jasonde1788 said:

you need to use VMACS, and you can see the order details and the build progress. You can enter either the VIN or order number. But you do need a Ford login. Any Ford employee can access this inside or outside the company. I've done this for a few users on here.
VMACS - Vehicle Details (ford.com)

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Unfortunately I no longer have my own Ford login as I left the company a couple years ago. If I pm you my VIN, could you kindly check for me and send me the details 🙏. Cheers

sparkymatt said:

Unfortunately I no longer have my own Ford login as I left the company a couple years ago. If I pm you my VIN, could you kindly check for me and send me the details 🙏. Cheers

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I can today, but tomorrow is my last day - roll on retirement!

I can do it, so if need be then PM me…although I didn’t know I could until today !

Enjoy retirement Jason.

jasonde1788 said:

I can today, but tomorrow is my last day - roll on retirement!

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Happy retirement. Wish I had stayed at Ford. I could retirement in 3 years but circumstances wouldn't allow. Also getting divorced and losing 33% of my pension to her means I meed to build it back up again. Still got 31 years tho.

pchilds1 said:

I can do it, so if need be then PM me…although I didn’t know I could until today !

Enjoy retirement Jason.

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PM sent. Cheers

pchilds1 said:

I can do it, so if need be then PM me…although I didn’t know I could until today !

Enjoy retirement Jason.

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Thaks! A lot of Fordies don't know it - we used to need to access a WERS-type thing that only a few had a login for. But VMACS is for all.

“VEHICLE” mainframe application gave a lot of info too, but I’ve not used that for ages.

Matt, pm sent.

i used to go on etis to check out car spec of any potential car i wanted to buy but its all changed now,is there anyway of doing this? theres nothing worse than seeing a car for sale and the lazy dealer cant be bothered with the spec so just copies and pastes a generic one