This is one of those, “well whatever”, scenarios. Whatever group at Ford decided that the cars have to be grounded by NHTSA mandate, and that since there is nothing that can be done until another team eventually cobbles together a fix, there is no solution other than to wait. Why look for updates, keep the proper stakeholders notified on progress, or inform your customers when there is nothing that you can do other than wait. It is easier for them to sit idle and not care, so long as a paycheque gets deposited on a regular basis.
Someone just slaps band aid dates around once in a while (ie. Telling everyone your car is slates for aug-sept delivery), and figures that if that does not work out, they can just amend the date later. I am due for a Sept 12-19th delivery with the dealer being told nothing else, and my car built on May 6th is still showing in production. Obviously, not happening soon.
This has caused an absolute personal disaster on our end now as we are short a car, rentals have gone insane in terms of availability and cost, and whether these douchebags will even be able to get something delivered by the end of the year is in question. I don’t know about maximal shipping throughput from CAP but given transportation shortages and otherwise, I am not expecting good news once they have to ship a bottleneck of Explorers out in bulk.
Sorry for the above, this forum has now become an anger outlet for me. Better than being grumpy around the wife, because that will become cataclysmic. If a manufacturer did this 10 years ago because of a stinking camera, they would have been smashed to bits scorched earth style, ditched and laughed at. Not an axle falling off, or a bolt missing in the differential causing it to collapse (like what I did there?), just a bloody camera not loading up sometimes. Ugh.