Tacoma Production in San Diego?

I appreciate that. I don't think there is any production in San Diego. I do think it is complete mis-information. My son is an engineer. Lives in Sand Diego and is really trying to get into the automotive business. I asked my Aunt to ask around as she has some high level contacts from when she worked there and they have also said nothing in SD. He doesn't want to leave the area but when a few started posting this I got a little excited for a minute but I think it is all just some bad info from salesmen that usually know nothing.

 

Well, we can always confirm with the real source:
https://global.toyota/en/company/profile/facilities/manufacturing-worldwide/north_america.html

Of course, the idea that Toyota had a previously unknown manufacturing plant in San Diego is kinda crazy on the face of it....

Here are a few pix of the old incoming/outgoing rail yard for Tacomas just south of downtown San Diego. These images from late 2015 to late 2017.

 

Well there you have it. No production in San Diego. Another sales guy keeping us busy with wrong info.

 

i am shocked this thread is still going as the mystery was solved on page 1.

 

San Diego would likely be your port of entry. So you saw it listed as a stop/update point.

 

Mine temp string was 28C141
My vehicle was built in calendar week 31.

You can't search a specific VIN. But you can pull up a listing (or your old one if you have it bookmarked) and directly modify the URL to your intended one. When you're on the vehicle details page, the URL contains the VIN/tempVIN

 

What you probably saw was BAJA CALIF, MEXICO, and misinterpreted that for San Diego.

https://www.sheehytoyotalaurel.com/resrc/toyotawindowsticker/getByVIN/?vin=3TMLB5JN5SM112422

 

SM12B475 TEMP

3TMLB5JNXSM12B475


He sent both.

 

I could see them eventually shipping the body, engine, transmission, and seats to small light factory in San Diego for enough assembly to call it made in the USA.
Eventually... Not quick enough for anything in 2025.

 

Light, relatively speaking. There’s nothing light about the full automation required to assemble 250k Tacomas a year.

 

Definitely not as I am from California (now live on the East Coast)

 

I have to check with my SA if I've been assigned a final VIN. According to your temp VIN, your build should start the 12th week of the year (or week of March 16), where mine should have begun week 11 (or March 9). When is your delivery date, and which part of the country will your truck be delivered? I'm on the East Coast

 

Full Automation to Fully Assemble 250K a year is entirely different than the full automation required to stick a few large components together at what ever the minimum amount of assembly is to get out of the tariff.

If the tariff allowed for it they could arrive here fully assembled and just be badged in the US and called done. But I have a sneaky suspicion it has to hit some threshold of meaningful assembly to reach "Manufactured in Mexico and Assembled in the USA" criteria. Or does the tariff require ALL Manufacturing and Assembly to be done in the US? Engines, Chassis, Electrical, Interior? No idea.

 

I have no clue on delivery date, dealer said truck build this week. They also told me and I did see it on his screen that it was San Diego also for build. I knew that wasn't right but I figured Baja and ship to San Diego. I am in Tennessee so truck will go to Cincinnati and the 18 wheeler to dealer in Tennessee.

 

It's raining here.
Hey do you guys like guacamole?

 

Avocados from California or Mexico?

 

Aren't they the same place?

 

Only for the clueless and those trying to stir up politics in forums where it's not allowed.

 

you need a hug?

 

plenty of other places where your flirtation would be more appropriate.