Dealer pulling a fast one???

If they can't answer your questions (before you take delivery) or there is anything whatsoever wrong with the car, you should walk away IMO. You're anxious to get your car, but you're going to live with it (presumably) for many years so you should be completely satisfied going in. Good luck.

 

I would go to the dealership and talk to them. They can give you the whole story. Regional is the one that assignes cars to various dealerships. It could have been easy to get another one. My guess is that they do not have the parts to fix whatever is wrong with it so they ordered another one from the regional office.

You just give the car a careful going over and if it looks fresh off the ship, buy it.

 

PM me the original vin.
Dianne

 

The dealer can block out what is coming into their inventory so no other dealer sees what is coming in. Just as an FYI I took delivery last Friday of my Silver Prius 3. I would check with the dealer when they say 'it is arriving July 8. My dealer said my car was going to arrive June 19, but he didn't say it was arriving in LA off the boat. I wanted a Sandy Beach color but my dealer couldn't get one in a short period of time, so I was looking at other dealers in another city. The other dealer found me a Sandy Beach and told me, in certain terms, my dealer was not getting a Silver Prius 3; they told me there was no Silver Prius 3 coming into the Western Region. The reason they said that was because my dealer block it out of the Western Region inventory system. Nevertheless to say my dealer did receive the Silver and now I am driving it and love it. I wrote a letter to Toyota USA and the BBB complaining about the ethics of the other dealer. By the way, I am glad I didn't get the Sandy Beach because with Bisque interior because the trim color on the Bisque are Silver (dash, roof trim and interior side trim) and the rest is Bisque. To me it looks cheap without matching colors. Hope this helps. Go to the dealer and talk face to face, don't call. It is harder to lie to someone's face.

 

It's not "blocking" your car.
It's putting it in reserve.
I do it too.
The reason I do it is when I pre-sell a car and have a deposit, and know it's sold, I put it in reserve to both mark it, alert the rest of the store that the car is not available, and block the rest of the dealerships from seeing it ... that's not bad ethics at all.
If I did not block it, someone doing a dealer trade MIGHT accidentally trade the car away. Or, worse: sell it.
And, if it's blocked, no one knows I have it to call me to trade it away, thus also ensuring me less calls for cars that are already spoken for, and less risk it might be traded away or sold accidentally.
I'd say your dealer did what he wanted with HIS inventory. It is his, of course, till you get out your checkbook and take it away from him!

 

Dianne responding and checking on another dealerships order for someone is crazy good cust service. Kudos to you

 

I pre-ordered mine about 4 weeks ago, after reading what cgrigel wrote, I asked my dealer if I could get a vehicle inquiry report with a VIN. She says that she can't find out until she receives the car. I asked her if she is trying to find a car from an allocation, but she says she actually put in an formal order. She said it would be about 6 - 8 weeks initially, but now she says 2 - 3 months. I'm not sure what to think. Should I start looking for another dealer?

 

As long as you have a refundable deposit (or none), there is no reason you have to stay married to a particular dealer, especially if the model you want is not one of the rare ones. I would e-mail several dealers for quotes and availability, and check build a toyota for your zipcode, and also the different dealers websitesw for inventory.

 

I just ordered the same package. My dealer told me there were only 2 of them in the Southeast region where I'm located and it could take 7-8 weeks because the availability was not there yet. I think we just have to be patient.

 

reginaever, I got my vehicle inquiry report about two weeks before I took delivery. It had all the details about the car, boat name, and expected delivery date, but no VIN #.

It arrived on the exact day the report stated. It arrived at the dealership around 9am and I picked it up at 6pm.

 

I'm also curious if the dealer might be pulling a fast one on me. I got the vin number and was told the car would be expected on the 4th of July. Which of course being a holiday and a Saturday, and Sunday being a manditory closed day in Jersey. I call on monday, and I get told that the delivery has been pushed back to the following Saturday but on their website the car is listed in stock with the vin number listed.