idealflaw said:
why do i get the feeling that when i order my car, it's just not coming?
i don't know why but i see cars on lots sometimes? how did they get those and not my own?
i've been waiting for what seems like eternity (probably early to mid august actually
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Simply put, if you were ordering a Ford product, you could walk into a dealer, sit down and in 10-30 minutes they would put together your vehicle with the various product and option codes and then transmit that order to Ford for manufacture, giving it a priority level higher than vehicles ordered for stock. That is a true vehicle order. Four to six weeks later the vehicle shows up at your dealer and you complete the transaction.
Every vehicle my parents have purchased has been a true custom order, and they have seen their vehicle parked inside the dealer’s garage with blue plastic on the hood and lots of dealer prep work to be done before they actually drove it home.
Since Toyota doesn't have the ability or chooses to not offer that kind of specificity in order processing, they have created an algorithm which creates cars of various packages and color combinations and then lists them for all dealers to see. There are basically 3 stages in this system. pre-manufacture, where the vehicle has been specified to be built, but hasn't been built, in transit, meaning on the ship coming over, and port, meaning that the vehicle is at the port awaiting final delivery to a dealer. And then of course there is dealer stock.
Your order isn't so much an order where your dealer is out scrubbing this active list of production vehicles looking for your specifications and then doing a dealer trade to get that car on his lot. No, he is just waiting until one shows up on his lot. In other words your dealer isn't working hard enough for you or your money.
Go back into that dealer and ask them to search the Toyota production list for all vehicles, either pre-manufacture, in transit or at port in addition to vehicles on dealer lots and ask them to secure one in exchange for one that is in their allocation. If they don't budge, take your business else ware on the condition that another dealer goes out there and finds your specific vehicle.
