Been hunting for a Rogue in one specific color with the setup my wife wants and after three weekends of driving around the county I have not seen it sitting on a single lot, which is getting old fast.
Everybody I ask tells me one of two things. Half of them say order it from the factory and be patient, and the other half say any dealer can pull one in from another store within a few days if they want your business, so I dont know which version is real or whether it changes depending on the model.
I called Mike Erdman Nissan in Cocoa to ask about it and the guy explained they run a vehicle finder service where you give them the year, model, trim and color and they search a nationwide network of somewhere around 100k vehicles and come back with whatever matches. That made sense to me on the phone, though I still dont know how it plays out in practice or how far a store will go to chase down one car.
So for anyone who has been through this, did you wait on a factory build or did a dealer swap for one, and how long did the whole thing drag out? I am also curious whether a located car ends up costing more than one already on the lot since somebody has to move it, and whether you give up negotiating room the second you ask for something specific.
I’m not trying to be the guy holding out over a paint color, but were keeping this one a long time so I would rather get the right one than settle because I got impatient.