Is toyota corporate lying to dealers about delivery dates?

So i have an allocation i put a deposit on a 2023 tacoma two months ago, was supposed to be delivered 1 1/2 weeks after the deposit date. Its been two months and 6 delays, and just NOW finally got boarded on a ship from mexico and coming. ETA for me to get it is the start of August, almost a full four month delay after sitting at the port in mexico for over a month doing nothing. I tell the dealer with this new information that is far too long and if i knew it would take MONTHS i would not have done this , four months of delays is double the length than my allocation in 2021 took at the height of COVID and im pretty frustrated with Toyota corporate, NOT the dealer.

He goes let me see what i can do. He calls me back and says he has the exact same truck, color, drivetrain etc down to even the same one dealer add on(truck bed lights) coming in one week, he has no idea how its coming sooner but supposedly it is and surprised him even, and he can just switch me to that. I say perfect yes lets do that and send me the VIN please.

Well I just got the VIN and while its true its been built already(as it has no letters in the last few of the vin) the build date was a full two months after my previous allocation build date. How can this happen? I am afraid I just got put all the way to the back of the line unintentionally and have to do the whole wait all over again as obviously Toyota corporate is giving delivery dates they are not able to meet. Have you guys ever seen a truck that got built two months after a previous truck get delivered before the “older” truck?

No. But I expect that sort of things happens all the time. Prior-negotiated contractual obligations for example may require the manufacturer to deliver to one dealership before another when there is a backlog. To avoid further complications, suggest you just wait until August for the exact truck & VIN you ordered. Manufacturers probably prefer backlogs b/c it makes the manufacturing operation more cost-efficient. When there is a backlog, they just build the stuff as fast as they can. They know exactly how many workers they need at the plant to do the work, etc. .

Who knows now? Assembly line scheduling is complicated but I’ve always gotten Gm that I ordered within 4 to 6 weeks. My bil just got his maverick after a year and a half. My son found a car he wanted at a dealer about 600 miles away. Only one around so flew out to get it. Best now to take what is on the lot unless you can wait them out.

Yup!
Dealership allocation can be a complicated conundrum that can be difficult–or almost impossible–to parse.

Local dealerships gave me a 6-9 month delivery estimate for the model that I wanted to buy. When I went a bit further afield (70 miles away), I found a dealership that had 3 of that model (albeit two with a paint color that I didn’t want) in transit. The bottom line is that I got a “deal” that was thousands of dollars better–as well as being available almost immediately–by simply driving about one hour further from my home.

This delay sounds like the stories friends of my parents told waiting over a year for a car they ordered right after WW II. This situation persisted at least through 1949.

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What a fiasco, sorry to hear of your troubles. I would have the same fear- I left one line because the one next to it seemed to be moving faster only to have it stop and the original line starts moving…

Perhaps you could tell the dealer- if the original truck I ordered shows up before this one, we need to do the old switcheroo again. They did it once, why can’t they do it again? Assuming of course they do not promise it to someone else in the meantime…

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