My Silver FJC has arrived (pics)

[sbechtold]

This morning my dealer called with good news and bad news. The good news is that my FJC arrived last night and is sitting in their holding lot. He asked if I wanted to come see it (silly question). Bad news is they need to prep it, swap the Dunlop GrandTreks out with the BFG's I dropped off yesterday and swap the running boards with rock rails. So, I don't get to take it home until tomorrow around 10am. I did get to drive it from the dealers holding lot back to the dealership (about 1/2 mile). The TRD sounds killer! Back at the dealership I fully inspected my new FJC, snapped a few photos then headed home.

Here are the specifications for my new FJC:

Silver, A/T, CQ, GY, RB, UR, 37, Z2, WL, V5, P7, C7
- RB's are being swapped with Rock Rails
- Dunlop tires are being swapped with BFG A/T KO's

My dealer received 6 FJC's last night 3 Silver, 1 Black, 1 Blue and 1 Yellow. 3 of the 6 were already sold and the others had people looking at them. I'm sure they will be gone a few days.

Driver side view: Note that it is still shrink wrapped.


Front: Note the little black XM antenna above the middle of the windsheild. Pretty small and non-obtrusive.


Driver side with doors open. Still wrapped in plastic.


Another front view:


The rear escape hatch: note the TRD cat-back tail pipe venting out to the passengers side.


This is a beautiful picture. Only 4 miles on my FJC:

[brianljohnson]

Congtas and great upgades. I picked up my Black MT6 with 4 miles on the ODO. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

[MichaelB]

Dude, how loud is the cat back system? Any chance you are going to post a clip of it once you get done driving around with the big smile on your face? Nice ride.

[sbechtold]

The TRD is noticeably louder than stock IMO, but I like it that way. It has a nice throaty sound. I'm sure it will get louder as the miles increase. My 2003 M3 has a BORLA cat-back and the sound continued to increase until I had about 5k miles. I will have to post an update after I get some miles on it. I will capture a sound clip in a few days.

[granger]

Nice FJ, congrats!!!

[Juliet]

Where are you in CA?? North? South? Just trying to guage when mine might show up....

[Pancho]

Julie T you are going to get yours this week or my name isn't Pancho.

[Juliet]

Pancho previously said:

Julie T you are going to get yours this week or my name isn't Pancho.

Thanks Pancho! I've gotta focus all my energy on bringing her in BEFORE I go to Mexico on Wednesday for biz.....

Otherwise I'm going to mandate that my hubby makes sure it's there daily so it doesn't get sold out from under me!!

[sbechtold]

Juliet previously said:

Where are you in CA?? North? South? Just trying to guage when mine might show up....

I'm in Northern CA in San Jose. If you are in the Bay Area then your FJ will go through the Benicia port. I was told that the Benicia port is about 14 days behind in delivering cars due to all the PIO's. Even my 2006 Land Cruiser is delayed at the port. Toyota sent out an email to the dealers stating that the ports were deleting all the dealer request options and were just going to ship the FJ's. This means the dealers would have to install the options once they arrived. Luckily my FJ got everything installed at the port. It went "F" status last Thursday and arrived 48 hours later.

I know that some of the dealers in the Bay Area are just now starting to recieve their FJ's. I hope that your FJ arrives soon!!!

[Juliet]

sbechtold previously said:

I'm in Northern CA in San Jose. If you are in the Bay Area then your FJ will go through the Benicia port. I was told that the Benicia port is about 14 days behind in delivering cars due to all the PIO's. Even my 2006 Land Cruiser is delayed at the port. Toyota sent out an email to the dealers stating that the ports were deleting all the dealer request options and were just going to ship the FJ's. This means the dealers would have to install the options once they arrived. Luckily my FJ got everything installed at the port. It went "F" status last Thursday and arrived 48 hours later.

I know that some of the dealers in the Bay Area are just now starting to recieve their FJ's. I hope that your FJ arrives soon!!!

Uh. yep, mine arrived at port on the 23rd and was supposed to be at the dealer "by the end of the month".... and yeah, I do have a bunch of PIO's...

Congrats on your FJ - I make A LOT of trips to SJ so I hope I see you.... If you see someone frantically waving at you from a white 87 4Runner - you'll know it's me!!