Order Placed - Expecting early Oct. Delivery

Some of these ship dates still seem ludicrous to me. I just can't believe it will take around a month after being built to get to the dealership. So, what, does it just sits at the factory for 3+ weeks? lol

 

Factory --> Distributorship --> Dealer

Gulf States likes to create Texas Edition SR5s, for example, and slap horribly noisy tires on them.

 

To get from TX to the LA area by rail is one day. Then It should take another day or two to get down here to SD by truck. Now I don't know where the TC lives, but a month is absurdly slow any way you slice it. lol

 

You also have trucks coming from Baja, so consider all they have to go through.

 

That's a very fair point.

 

Less than 2 weeks from build date to our dealer in Mass from Texas. Havent checked from Mexico but that's where the first batch of new ones are coming from. 16 Tundras came in last week from Texas.

 

Good, hopefully the the US made ones just take far less time. haha

 

depending on the region ...

trucks are delivered to a regional port (IE: for the Western region the port is Kansas city) from the plant, either texas or Baja.

so the process will be based on my region :

1. build
2. final QC at plant (after your build date)
3. processing at plant to transport to a regional port (Kansas city)
4. deliver to region port
5. process at port
6. send to dealer
7. arrive at dealer
8. PDQ/PDI
9. sell

 

I'll be placing my 'official' order today but my salesman said for the build I want it would be Mid October (best case) or Mid to late November (worst case) until I see my truck on the lot. Maybe he'll get more information once it's in the system.

 

here is one of the SET inland ports for distribution to dealer.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/S...0x88f6053e897eacb3:0xb35961831c57e786!6m1!1e1

 

Mine has a build date of 9/16 and I am really hoping to have it by the end of the month or the first week of October. The wait sucks. haha

 

I just met with the vendor (Classic Soft Trim) of the aftermarket leather. Holy crap, what they do is better than factory. I'm planning for charcoal leather with blazing blue stitching.

They are waiting until they can color-match the 2016s before they create patterns and publish, but the cars they've already done are nice.

 

Just put in my deposit/order (directly with the Inventory Manager). TRD OR, DCLB, AT, Tow, JBL. Apparently the NW region isn’t allocated a single OR LB with JBL, so I don’t have a build or delivery date yet. The inventory manager put in my special order and will get back to me next week with a VIN and estimated build date once she hears back from Toyota. The custom build may take an additional month to deliver... thankfully I’m not in a huge hurry (just anxious).

I know it’s not much, but I got $347 off MSRP.

 

Probably going to be a super popular model.

 

Did you have them check and see if there was one you wanted that was going somewhere else? Mine was originally going like 2400 miles away and we had to redirected here for me. Might be quicker still than waiting for a custom build.

 

I believe the inventory manager checked the entire west coast allocation orders. The SoCal region had exactly what I wanted except in Quicksand (not Mag. Gray). That’s the closest she found. I’m not in a (big) hurry, so I don’t mind waiting a bit longer. Thanks for the suggestion!

As a side note/fun fact: I saw a list of all the VINs to the entire NW region allocations. The San Antonio vs. Mexico builds seemed to be split down the middle (3 vs. 5). I asked her about what determines which factory builds what. She said Access Cabs are generally built in San Antonio whereas Double Cabs are usually built in Baja. (I believe this is what she said, at least.)

 

My inventory manager explained it as anything with a short bed comes from Baja and anything with a long bed comes from San Antonio.

 

Glad I got an access cab and a 5-vin! haha.

 

DCLB in the USA!

Of course, watch Toyota totally change it up...

 

Seems the easiest way to tell is just by the starting vin number.