Toyota dealership not allowing orders.

You must pay your share to stealerships. Prob since covid.

Should be easy to do with the huge inventories they have right now.

You can if you find the right dealer.

Always. I had to fly to St Louis to buy my last Toyota. You can search which vehicles and specs are going to each dealership and you call them. If the buyer backs out they’ll call you. I paid $2250 over MSRP, but the vehicle is slick as duck shite.

I have never had any problems ordering from my local dealership

My ol lady ordered a 4Runner 3 weeks ago. It wasn’t difficult at all.

You aren’t ‘ordering’ a car. They get their same allotment no matter if you show up or not. If you ‘order’ a blue trd pro 4runner and give them a $500 deposit…you get the next blue trd pro.

If you’re really picky then they’ll just keep your $500 until you ask for it back…because they’re never getting that vehicle allotted. You search what is ‘in delivery’ or being manufactured now…that are allotted to every dealership in the country and you buy the exact spec you want from wherever.

I work for Gulf States Toyota, who distributes the Toyotas to all of the dealers in our region.

This is the correct answer. You cannot Special Order a Toyota, regardless of what any dealer will tell you.

Toyota doesn’t really do orders, but I wouldn’t worry too much. It would be cool to be order every detail like Porsche but that isn’t the Toyota business model. The dealer by me house around 65-70 tundras on the lot.

Last year when I was looking they had 5 or 6 any given day.

It has worked out well for me so far. I tell my favorite salesguy exactly what I want hand him a $500 check and he shops across other stealerships and finds one that meets my wants and makes a deal with them and he gets it delivered. Longest I’ve waited was about a month and that was in 2022 Covid times.