Talked to my friend who works at AAI. He said body and paint line produces 72 cars an hour and then it goes to final assembly and they build at the rate of 68 cars per hour. The idea is to have plenty of cars in the pipe line for final. He also said I got the full IUP in my car today when it was built. He is not aware of parts shortages on mycolor. This tells me the folks at the plant saw it coming and changed the rate they could be sold to prevent stopage over this part. By not selling them on V6's they had enough parts and the line never saw any different.

 

That is good news for once.....almost stopped checking in here because of all the negative comments posted. B)

 

Did your friend say if they would have enough for all the GT orders? The IUP's I mean?

 

As far as he could tell there is no sign of a shortages with the dash pieces. No delays or hold ups.

 

Don't forget, however, that those numbers include mazda 6's. 2MustangJohn said they were building 3:1 Mustangs:M6s, and has said that the top the line can do is 67 cars/hr. So that means 50 stangs an hr.

edit: The line would never see any parts shortages on anything. If the parts aren't there when the car is pulled from the order bank, it wouldnt be scheduled, thus the line never seeing any of it.

Thanks for the heads up

 

No kidding,

Ford has been doing it this way for over 40 years.

Body on Fram cars have the drive train assembled in the frame and then the body is dropped on top of it (Crown Vic, etc)

Unibody cars have their drive trains assembled on a jig. The jig with the drive train is then raised up to the unibody and bolted in place. Ford has been doing it this way since the 1958 T-Bird was introduced.

 

some other good news at least from my view is i called my dealer today and said there was NO material hold or temp hold on my GT with IUP as of today...so hopefully this is a good sign

 

excuse my ignorance, but why would the line see any delay or shortages since all of the cars scheduled would already have the parts allocated for it? There is definitely a delay as alot of us can tell you our cars have been on temp delay status.