The document I have from my Ford dealer appears to be a fax of an Order Summary that the dealership received from Ford. My Platinum is shown to be a "Stock" order with Priority Code 80.
I asked my sales guy about this. He talked with his general manager and was told that my order was submitted as "stock" (not "retail") with Priority Code 80 to ensure quickest delivery based on my dealership's allocation.
I'm buying from a small, well-established dealership with a superb reputation in this area. I have no reason to question that they are doing their best to get my Platinum built and delivered ASAP.
Hate to give you the bad news but the lower the number, the better. Priority 10 is the lowest (technically highest/quickest) you can have at dealership level. 10 gets built before 11, 11 gets built before 12, 12 gets built before 13 etc. Being an 80, I don't see how it will ever get beyond an unscheduled status.
My vehicles get entered as a 10 and I have some connections that bumped it to a 1 which gets scheduled almost immediately. I had my F350 ordered, built and delivered in 22 days, a buddy who went through my guy had his ordered, built and delivered in 18 days.
"Stock" orders are ok if it is a brand new model that hasn't even begun being built yet. The reason for this is Ford requires 5 days of builds without finding any issues before the "ok to buy" is given which means vehicles start to leave the plant and head to dealerships. Customer orders are not built until that 5 day requirement has been met so basically "sold" orders or "customer" orders are built once the bugs are all worked out (alignment issues with body parts, quality control all finalized etc).
100% of builds up till that 5 day mark are Stock orders so although some dealerships like to order stock orders for customers because they can possibly get it faster can also be stuck at the plant longer then a customer order because it is a FILO system (first in, last out) when it comes to being parked in the lot. Thinking of Explorer being built and then tucked in the back, then each Explorer after that gets parked in front of it.. Throw in 1,000s of them a week and you can get some big delays. Just ask us 2011 owners who went through this at the beginning.. people were waiting 3-4 months for theirs to show up because of shipping delays trying to get all the stock rotated and pushed out.
Also, once the "ok to buy" has been given which is already has, Customer orders are ALWAYS built before dealer stock.
Not trying to give you bad news but I can assure you everything I have just posted is 100% correct. You should NEVER get a Priority level over 20 if once wants their vehicle built. 10 is the best but up to 20 should be ok. 80????? I don't know WTF they are doing to you but it isn't good. Something that high (technically low) is something where a dealer would say, "lets get your order in the system so it is at least pending and then you tell me when you want the vehicle and I'll change it to a 15 so it gets picked for build."
I just emailed my contact for you to inquire about the Dealer Stock with a Priority 80...