Oil change disaster advice needed

No doubt.

 

Or better, if your name WASN'T on the title (yet).

 

you might want to inform your insurance company of the situation and verify insurance status on the loner.
they need to know where it is being garaged etc.

 

most state laws prohibit removing insurance from a registered vehicle. if financed, the lean holder won't permit it either.

 

Ok, I wasn’t sure how that worked, good to know. I was thinking back to when I was overseas for a year and I suspended all my insurance except for Fire/Theft on my vehicles and it did save me a ton of money...

 

Did that today, all is good.

 

but... it DID just broke!

 

If your dealer doesn't get a truck soon, maybe they could go ahead and buy your truck and that would allow you to look for one at other dealers. You might as well have the money. But that would probably knock you out of the loaner.

 

Having a loaner has certainly lessened the sting of this situation. I know they’re looking which is about all I can hope for at this point. I’ve been looking around myself online and trucks are scarce indeed.

 

I think you are in a good place, putting miles on their vehicle while they look.

 

It is odd how Toyota has been deciding who gets their allocation. It doesn't seem to be based on orders with deposits, or past dealer sales volume. Some dealers are getting heavy allocation and have more trucks than they can sell, while others have orders they can't fill. I contacted Toyota Customer Service when I was looking and they don't seem to know how it works either. Pretty curious.

 

Let them keep looking. Free loaner forever! Imagine the savings.

 

Still gotta make payments on the truck loan (if there is a lein on it )

 

Obviously, but it’s not accumulating any miles.

 

Unless OP’s dealership has a vehicle that another dealer desperately needs, swaps have been extremely rare these days.

 

Yes . His insurance is required while he is in the loaner.

 

Would be quicker for dealer to get OP a need engine vs an all new truck - maybe they will realize this at some point

 

but that would cost them money. It's a safe bet they are going to sell the truck they have right now for over the cost of new to someone who doesn't know the history. They would rather take longer and come out ahead than pay for a long block.

 

I’m talking about a deadline

 

What deadline?