Natek
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Hello all!
After a week of looking on cars.com for a baseline of which dealerships had what inventory, and reaching out to dealerships from Vermont to Florida and as far west as Nevada, I secured a launch edition out in Virginia. I took delivery on Saturday and drove it 450 miles back to Cincinnati Ohio. I was not interested in paying these crazy markup prices and the first dealership that was somewhat close to MSRP ($5k or less was my limit) that responded had the business.
The only hang-up and something to be aware of for all you out there- When the car is shipped it is in "transport" mode where all the sensors are disabled to save the battery. Once delivered, the dealership performs a PID to activate all the sensors. The NAV is *not* activated at this time. They save the NAV activation for when the car is sold because it starts all the free trials: siriusxm, map updates, live traffic, safety connect, etc. The problem is that the dealership needs to submit for the code and download and this is specific to your VIN. When the dealership tried, (and after 4.5 hours of discussion with headquarters) it turns out that these codes are not processed on the weekends. As crazy as that sounds there is an activation that cannot be done during a dealership's most likely days to sell a car! In most cases I guess it is no big deal and people can come back on the weekday to take delivery, but when you fly from Cincinnati to Charlotte NC and then to middle VA and do not know exactly where you are the NAV becomes pretty important. Ultimately I made it back with the phone GPS duct taped to the dash but it took some time to verify that a different dealership *could* activate the NAV. I found all this out after the deal was finalized when I was preparing to leave and discovered the error message on the NAV screen. This was not the dealerships fault, I suspect this is BMW BS and I will be sending a letter to Toyota City regarding it.
Nevertheless car 1355 was relocated from VA to OH. I have a beater gen 4 Prius (which I believe I should not take any heat for now that I can offset it) and owned a gen3 and gen 2 Prius before that. Before the Prius days I had a '92 300zx TT.
So far so good except the car took some damage. I will post a new thread in the issues forum as I may be the first Supra with a broken windshield. Story\pics to follow.
Here are some current pictures:
After a week of looking on cars.com for a baseline of which dealerships had what inventory, and reaching out to dealerships from Vermont to Florida and as far west as Nevada, I secured a launch edition out in Virginia. I took delivery on Saturday and drove it 450 miles back to Cincinnati Ohio. I was not interested in paying these crazy markup prices and the first dealership that was somewhat close to MSRP ($5k or less was my limit) that responded had the business.
The only hang-up and something to be aware of for all you out there- When the car is shipped it is in "transport" mode where all the sensors are disabled to save the battery. Once delivered, the dealership performs a PID to activate all the sensors. The NAV is *not* activated at this time. They save the NAV activation for when the car is sold because it starts all the free trials: siriusxm, map updates, live traffic, safety connect, etc. The problem is that the dealership needs to submit for the code and download and this is specific to your VIN. When the dealership tried, (and after 4.5 hours of discussion with headquarters) it turns out that these codes are not processed on the weekends. As crazy as that sounds there is an activation that cannot be done during a dealership's most likely days to sell a car! In most cases I guess it is no big deal and people can come back on the weekday to take delivery, but when you fly from Cincinnati to Charlotte NC and then to middle VA and do not know exactly where you are the NAV becomes pretty important. Ultimately I made it back with the phone GPS duct taped to the dash but it took some time to verify that a different dealership *could* activate the NAV. I found all this out after the deal was finalized when I was preparing to leave and discovered the error message on the NAV screen. This was not the dealerships fault, I suspect this is BMW BS and I will be sending a letter to Toyota City regarding it.
Nevertheless car 1355 was relocated from VA to OH. I have a beater gen 4 Prius (which I believe I should not take any heat for now that I can offset it) and owned a gen3 and gen 2 Prius before that. Before the Prius days I had a '92 300zx TT.
So far so good except the car took some damage. I will post a new thread in the issues forum as I may be the first Supra with a broken windshield. Story\pics to follow.
Here are some current pictures:
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