Any Canadians taking delivery of their 2022 yet ?

Wow G3rdnut thats great. wish we all had such great news. But one day

 

As the old saying goes, "it ain't over until the fat lady sings"

 

True. While waiting on that Lunar Rock and loosing patience 9 weeks ago I've found another Limited TRD but black and jumped on it because it had ETA beginning of May. Well, it's been pushed to June already

 

oh noooooooo!

I’m gonna knock on wood same doesn’t happen for me. If you were after a platinum hybrid, I’d get suspicious we were double sold the same vehicle lol. Fingers crossed for you man. Let it be early June!

On my end, I meet with my dealer on May 9 about my trade in. I hope he has more info about delivery date by then. I don’t know much.

you get the VIN for yours already in-the-mud?

 

No, no VIN yet. ETA is June 3-13 now so I should get it this or next week....... if June is still on the table
Not gonna loose my mind over a truck so just laughing at it now. What a mess!
Keep us updated. for your delivery!

 

Similar rides and mental states. No VIN either.
Preordered gas model oct-2021. Switched deposit to hybrid early February-2022. It’s all been ‘laughable’ for some time now!

 

@Stegosaurus437
Any updates? Are you on track to get it this month? I am 3-4 weeks away and no changes to the schedule so far but no VIN yet too. We will see.

 

Still no VIN and my sales guy is out of town (long known, expected, no worries there). Nobody from the dealership has communicated any delays to me, and they did charge my deposit. I tried to “squeeze water out of the stone”, as I really wanted to get an idea how sure they would be about delivery. The sales guy made it sound like it’s in transport. He said something along the lines of it being on a train soon, and transport related delays should be the only thing that might happen. Of course, it still has to be PDI’d and who knows what will happen there. I’m going to be researching and doing my own pre-drive-away inspection.

I can’t help but suspect that the dealership sales manager has more info and hasnt shared it with my sales guy, or they have a policy that they know things like VIN and absolutely won’t share with the customer... which is odd. But how else could they have an imminent delivery pending transport targeting the end of May, and not have a VIN? It just seems off. But this is a real high-repute dealer and we bought an RX350 from their sister dealership, so I’m not worried.

 

@dogtruck
@in_the_mud
@Stegosaurus437

I sure hope all you guys get your new trucks as planned with no further delays. I just sold my 2013 Rav4 today and ordered new Falken AT3's for my truck so there is no turning back now.

 

Thanks man.

Any news for you, or still holding on for July?

 

Still July but don't know which day/week?

 

@Stegosaurus437 In my experience if it’s actually in transit then a VIN is available if the dealership chooses to access the system and obtain that information. Once you know the VIN ask @ryanwgregg nicely and he can look up your build date. I’m not sure if Toyota has more than one Canadian ‘depot’ but our truck was shipped from Texas to Toronto then transported by truck from Toronto to Cambridge. From build date to delivery the process took 3 weeks. In addition to many other things they install the mud flaps, floor mats, wheel centre caps and any customer ordered accessories during the PDI. Let me know if you’d like a copy of my PDI report and personal inspection/test drive checklist.

 

They do know more that they're willing to share but I don't believe they would keep the VIN for themselves. Doesn't make sense. Toyota Canada is a mess.
I was told that everything is on schedule. I don't believe it but of course I may be wrong. We will see.

 

Sure Matted. Be great to have those of you don’t mind


I’m just gonna give my dealership a random call tomorrow. See if they have any explicit knowledge of milestones such as, is it built, is it in transit, etc.

I don’t so much care... don’t care strongly... but I feel like for some reason they’re just playing it a little too safe and not indulging customers’ interest in knowing too much (as far as THEYRE concerned), until they are nearly sure they could call the arrival date at the dealership to within a week or two. Call me crazy. It makes no sense. But my gut tells me they know more, that they sort of gate information by acting like the dealership sales manager is the only person who could know (whether true or not). I haven’t pressed the issue. I don’t really care enough to haha—I’ve waited what nearly 18months? I can wait 2-4 extra weeks lol.

That said, knowing if they are sure of a milestone such as built, in transit, etc, will allow me to report back, and us to know (for shits n giggles).

 

@Stegosaurus437
Please report back tomorrow

 

Getting high school detention flashbacks haha.

 

@Stegosaurus437 Send me a pm

 

Called dealer. Sales guy on vacation as I knew. Asked reception to speak to sales manager or someone who can tell me about delivery update. She said she'd get me a call back. I never got a callback.

Well. Can't say I didn't try. :/

 

There's some nonsense in there. I guess they're still trying to figure out how to sell it to you

 

What you thinking by "figuring out how to sell it to you", like how to deliver bad news about it being delayed?

I certainly didn't ask with any kind of unruliness or pressure. I still have a feeling it's at least got a build date or built and they don't want to say diddly squat for their own stupid (likely inflexible, pointless dealership policy) reasons.

 

That’s exactly what I am thinking.

 

At least I'm already resigned to shrug such a thing off. I kinda "get it" that they must have had their fill of antsy/eager/impatient and all manner of customers who "want their truck yesterday".

That was me... 6 months ago! haha

 

I never call them. Always email. Leaves a ‘paper’ trail. No reply within 5 business days I resend the exact same email. No reply within a few business days and I climb the ‘food chain’.

 

Yeah, all good but we’re not winning here. Dealer will do and say anything just to keep us around.
@Mattedfred
I do email them too but same thing, there is no response from a manager

 

Research the internal food chain then work your way up. At the top is the ‘dealer principle’. At the end of the day you are the only person advocating for you.

 

So I got a little update. The ETA has changed from from June 3 - June 13 to May 30 - June 3
The truck is currently in transit to Calgary.
Getting closer.
What about yours @Stegosaurus437 ?

I reached out to @ryanwgregg to find out build date and @Mattedfred you won't believe this but it's April 1

 

LOL NO SHIT!!! That’s hilarious. Can’t wait to see some pictures!

 

June 17!

 

Very interesting. I sent my VIN to Ryan and my build date was also April 01, 2023. It would be interesting to know if there are build dates that aren't the 1st day of each month.

 

Now, this is interesting. What does the sticker show?