Are my odds of getting a 22/23 Lunar Rock TRD Off Road Premium as bad as it seems?

Yup I remember this all too well. I live close to the border to another state and they had an allocated TRDOR with the exact configuration I was looking for that no one had claimed yet. Once they found out I was out of state they immediately told me they couldn't sell it to me as I was outside there service zone. Found myself back to square one until I found one a few months later sitting on different dealers lot.

 

I got "on the list" back on July 10th. I wanted a Lunar Rock double cab with the long bed, predator steps and the typical floor mats / door sill protectors. I told her basically no second choices. Oct. 1st she sent me a build sheet of one with the exception of the steps, they were the oval ones and it had bed lights. I said I'll take it. Built last Saturday 5 Nov and will be on it's way to the east coast shortly. So it took 3 months to find a nearly exact match of an order coming to the plant. The truck was $500 more total ($280 more in options) and a newer year model!

 

Search dealer websites in your state, you want to find a high volume dealer that gets a lot of allocations. Local dealers pretty much told me "good luck" so I started looking further and further out. Finally I found a dealer that had 28 Tacoma's on their website so I called them. 5 months later they delivered the exact Tacoma I wanted.

Good luck and don't give up. I figured people were getting these damn trucks somehow, so I had to figure out how!



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Just got the truck you’re searching for sitting on the lot unspoken for. Region will depend on popularity.

 

AZ dealership I had a deposit with was predicting an 8 month wait and I had to give my top 3 color choices. I know what that means. A truck with the color and all of the options I wanted showed up in PA of all places. Soonest a car transport company could fit me in was 3 weeks. Pass.

4 day road trip back was grueling and I got a couple of rock ships but those are going to happen sooner or later anyway. Touch up paint does wonders. Not sure if the redesigned truck will have a manual transmission option so I pulled the trigger. If it does, I could always trade in Smurf (it's blue) once they have all the bugs worked out.

 

Well…I found the “unicorn” in Oregon. Supposed to pick him up within the next three weeks.

 

Well Done!

I was going to say; cast a wide net and do the leg-work. You are more likely to find it that way.

I also found mine in Oregon!

The wait was the worst part!

Enjoy!

 

Congrats, fly in and drive home makes ownership an adventure from day uno! Don't forget the post in our super exclusive Lunar Rock owners thread.

 

Brought him home today!

 

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for...s=500&transmissionCodes=MAN&clickType=listing

Check out this one!

 

Congrats! What a great looking truck

 

Congrats!

 

Lawn job. Nice!

 

Lol…that’s my brother’s parking spot.

 

very nice! now go have some fun with that thing.