I agree with what you are saying as how it "should" work, but based on my experience with the dealer I used to call "my dealer" and also reading a few stories on these forums, there is a lot of manipulation going on with the X plan due to the shortage of vehicles these days. Things like "we'll honor X-plan, however you must also purchase... or, we just order the vehicle with what you want and honor the X-plan when it arrives, or we can't order X-plan anymore as it's been discontinued by Ford" are absolute BS.I've always been curious, were you not at the dealer, sitting with the general sales manager (you would need a print out of your Ford PLAN pin) when they logged in to the "PLAN" quoting site on Fords server? Did you not get a printout of that quote, and subsequent order? When it comes to plan orders (A,Z,X), the dealer is just a vessel that inputs what you want, takes a deposit, and then awaits the delivery, where they can then offer you the "upsale" speech with the F&I manager. The printout has, in this case, all three plan prices at the bottom. This, is what you are paying with the plan you are entitled to. Seems to me you did not do any of what I posted at the start, but perhaps made a call, or sent an email, and did not sit down face to face. For me, I tried with the first dealer, closer to home, and someone who has serviced my Fords in the past, the sales force declined to take the X-Plan order, even though it is an easy 8% to them, and does not affect their number of order slots that they can place. 2nd dealership, I was in and out from the time I walked in, to the time the order was placed in the system, and a deposit taken in the back office, in under an hour. I did call the next day to modify with the addition of the 50T "Special Edition" package, which added a few more items for SWMBO, but even that, over the phone, took all of 5 minutes to accomplish.
Mine delivered 2 days shy of 5 months (ordered less than a week earlier than you) from my initial order, I now rolled over 600 miles this AM, and I am quite pleased.
Bill
I knew how it should work when I arrived at the dealer as I've used X-plan a couple of times over the years and it is same as you describe above. I knew within 5 minutes of talking to a sales guy, that they were up to no good and it took a few calls and visits to get them to provide the x-plan order print out and even then they pushed back until I said I'd talked to Ford corporate.
After all that, trying to modify the order to drop the constrained items was another horrible experience. I'd purchased 3 vehicles from that dealer in 9 years, but after all that hassle, I wont set foot in there again. It all worked out in the end as I got a better Expy Limited a few miles down the road and my former dealer can sell my x-plan order to somebody who will pay above sticker and buy additional add-ons.