Eagleboy99

Lexus says it takes 19 hours to build an RX. Sounds impossible, but a lot of robotics.

Psbhappy

I was told my 2023 RX Luxury is being built tomorrow. I put a deposit down in late January. So excited and I check this forum several times per day. Thanks for all the tips. It's my first new car in years. Any idea what the average time is from production in Canada to me in the Midwest? Dealer didn't have an expected delivery date. Any chance it would be here within one month?

nyichiban

Where did you order your Lexus from? Will they accept custom builds?

Urlik

My dealer in the DFW area sent us a build sheet with a VIN on Tuesday for a car and we're going to take it. Not sure what day it will be built but she stated the expected delivery date is May 5th. One month might be possible for Missouri but lots of factors come into play for vehicle delivery time.

nyichiban: You can't custom order a vehicle. We told our dealer we wanted White/Macadamia, at least premium+ with LED triple beams and Mark Levinson. We were offered 3 vehicles earlier that were close (different exterior color/no ML) that we declined. Best thing to do is tell a dealer what your must haves are and wait for an allocation that hits the must haves. Some must haves could make it nearly impossible though. For instance if the must have is premium+ without the 21" wheels, you just don't see that on dealer sites so could be very tough to get.

Bo15

Our 350h went in transit around 2/15 and arrived at dealer 3/13. My dealer was able to look up and let me know when it was at the "port" and window dates for arrival at dealer. Dealer needed 2 days for their prep. Picked up 3/16.

Factory in Canada (Factory) to Regional "port" for port installed items and a lot of the PDI and then to dealer.

daryll40

Mine has a build date of “01/23” on the door. It arrived at the dealer on January 10th. Jan 1 and 2 were holidays. To be honest, I suspect it was actually built in December. But if the sticker on the door is right, it was about 8 days from assembly line to Pittsburgh dealer showroom.

JRey350hou

Ours was built on March 8th. Should arrive at the Dealership within the next 5-10 days based on all data. As has already been mentioned here previously, you can track vehicle if you have vin# through Toyota-Tracker.com
If already built will give you a window of expected Ground delivery. Ours is currently stating 3/20--3/25 but could easily be towards end of next week.

Psbhappy

Thanks for the response!

JRey350hou

As soon as it's built you should be able to go under your Dealership New Inventory n look under RX350 Prem+ , Luxury or whichever Trim your vehicle is see it in their Inventory list. If you know exactly how the vehicle is getting built to specified specs then you should be able to identify pretty easily n get VIN#.
Then you can go to www.Toyota-Tracker.com n it will give you the stage it's in and a window on expected delivery date.
Good luck!

MrTuckers

Mine was held at a Buffalo location after it had crossed the border from Ontario to US and was held there for more than 12 days in addition to the transit time so be on the lookout for that. I’m not sure if it will go there for you but if it goes directly to dealer then the better!

JRey350hou

Yep all kind of variables exist. Plus I'm in SE Texas--Houston suburbs so just hoping for the best at this point. My wife has never been as excited for a New vehicle. Sold her 10 yr old - RX350 2013 in late Jan.
I would like to have back my 2020 ES350 FSPORT that she has taken from me!! 😁😄

Psbhappy

Thanks so much. I have a VIN that's apparently going to be my car, but nothing shows up on the Tracker site. I'll check a few days after it's built. Appreciate the comments. I've held onto my Honda Accord for years and years. I'm spending way way more than I wanted to, but when you get to a certain price point, I didn't want to compromise on all the features I wanted. Had to end up getting Luxury with more stuff added on. Wasn't in a hurry when I was shopping. Now that it's allocated to me, I'm getting excited and anxious. Lol.

JRey350hou

Haha. Yes, as soon as it gets built the VIN# should be "Live" n you will see it in New Vehicle Inventory. Probably by Friday for you.
I'm older so I already had planned to get Luxury trim for her. There were some must haves for me that I had passed on in the past ML Stereo, Triple beam HLamps, but when she said the magic words-- "Load it Up"... it was over!!!.
I've brought it up only few times to her.. 😁
Ours will pretty much have everything you can put on the Luxury AWD.

MrTuckers

Yup- JR is right. The real VIN will be on the buyers order at the top and it won’t be the same as the Build order sheet. The tracker is damn accurate and seems to be updated regularly.

I too have a 2014 Honda Accord 9th Gen (V6) last of its kind. My other 3 are Hondas and my wife is excited as well since her 08 CRV was give to one of our college daughters, the other with our 06 Odyssey which leaves her to share the Accord with my son who is a Senior in HS. We’re a Honda family and those 4 cars have been rock solid VTEC power. First time to owning any thing on the Toyota/Lexus side ever.

It’s been a rough year for her and finally she can have her own car again. Too bad she can’t drive my R because it’s a manual. LOL

Eagleboy99

So two and a half months after deposit, and the dealer still is unable to say anything about delivery. Lexus lists it as "pending fulfillment" - and until it gets a "Vehicle Transit Number", they have no idea when it will be built. One would have thought that if it was the white paint shortage (we ordered Eminent Pearl) they could have told us. Oh well, I'm still waiting on a 2' hitch.