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I suspect the PP will be built in the factory. Otherwise you'd have wheels, shocks and brakes being cast aside. Toyota/TRD treats their upgrades as accessories which are port installed.
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You are probably correct, I couldn't change my order and just add the PP. I had to re-order the car so they are not treating this as an accessory.
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I have worked in the Tier One auto parts manufacturing business for almost 30 years and laugh my ass off at some of the pure fiction that salesmen at dealerships have tried to tell me. I usually just smile and nod a lot when I deal with them since calling them out serves no benefit.
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I am not making this shit up! "At the opposite end of the shop, another set of workers unbolted the factory-installed wheels from a 4Runner and replaced them with alloy rims. In the next shop, teams installed wheel locks, bumper protectors, body moldings and a variety of exterior items, including a clear film that helps to prevent paint chips on front ends. Nearby, two workers used a metal fixture to determine where to drill holes before bolting a roof rack on an S.U.V." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/au...ches.html?_r=0 http://www.autonews.com/article/2000...ships-in-sight I know that the concept seems strange to those not in the business but there are many valid reasons why they use port installation. Fair explanation of why the port installed makes economic sense here: http://www.accessmagazine.org/wp-con...utomobiles.pdf
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Welcome to the wonderful world of auto manufacturing!
There is way more going on behind the scenes then most people would ever guess.
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Ahhhhh there we go.
RS 1.0s leaving Japan. No side skirts or spoilers, stock front bumper, and more importantly single tip stock exhausts and stock lower bumper and exhaust cut outs. All that and way more that isn't visible was changed at port in the US.
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The facility (ies since there are a few) is/are the size of good size plants. In the articles I linked (which are actually pretty old) they even speak to painting whole cars two tone. They could probably build a whole car from the ground up in those places. I think you may have been picturing a little two car bay or something when really they are the size of a couple of football fields.
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That shit cray!
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Spoilers and other exterior components I can understand. The ND Miata Club gets it's spoilers etc. added at port. If it has BBS/Brembos with Bilstein shocks that come from the factory already installed.
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Like I have already said there is some import regulation that they do this for. I don't get why everybody is so resistant to this very simple concept. It is an extremely common process. Everybody believe or disbelieve me as you wish but I am not talking out of my ass on this. You all just listen to your salesmen and their wonderful insight into the manufacturing end of things!
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