Toyota Parts being Substituted by force by sleazy parts software - The Sienna Air Filter Saga - 17801-0P051 vs 17801-YZZ11

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From a Toyota Dealership in Florida (Brandon). It seems a new parts distributor and their software has taken over for Toyota possibly for all TMNA dealerships. You will see this as all parts from all Toyota dealerships (around here at least) have URLS like https autoparts dot dealershipname dot com. This new software they have is garbage and lists parts as available as different prices. This means you can order a OEM non-MVP part like 17801-0P051 (or 17801-31131) and the system will replace your part with 17801-YZZ11 - the dealerships are nice sometimes and call you and tell you they are swapping, but the crap system wont let them adjust the price and they substitute in shoddy parts. This also means that work done at the dealership will now use shoddy MVP parts rather than OEM/OE spec parts...
So now the game is to make sure you don't get auto substituted parts and pay the OE/non-MVP part price. I just had to cancel an order. Tip on this, order replacement parts like this individually to keep the orders to one type of part to make cancelling the bad orders easier.
Thank goodness the cabin air filters (eg, 87139-50100) is still orderable. I will be switching to one of Denso ( 143-3012 ) / Wix ( 49430 ) / Fram ( FRAM Extra Guard CA10755 ), I ordered one of each and will see which I like best. The 17801-YZZ11 is a piece of garbage and I am very disappointed in TMNA with this parts fiasco they are causing.
Denso 143-3012 is now made in China, not pleased with that either.
The whole world is going into total grift mode where cheap parts like these are sold for 100-1000% markups everything is death by a thousand cuts.
If anyone know how to reliably get 17801-0P051 let me know. I know for all the dealerships I tried around Tampa you cant go to the dealerships and get the part, they get forced to order 17801-YZZ11 instead. For those that dont know the YZZ11 for a time had two versions of the same part, the older 0P051 and the newer junk half height YZZ11.
Not happy with TMNA.

Maybe someone can tell Scotty Kilmer about this and get him to complain on youtube to put some attention to this fiasco.

Toyota Sienna XLE 2013 2GR-FE V6 3.5L FWD 170,000 mi

MountainManJoe · Answer

parts supply can't keep up with the demand right now. It's just how it goes.

Kaizen · Answer

What is MVP? Is that a company? Or an acronym?

Kaizen · Answer

YZZ11:

I’d like to add, I had a similar experience, but I had no idea these were shoddy parts. I don’t trust dealers in general. I just thought at the very least, you could trust the quality of the parts coming from a Toyota dealer. Alas, you can’t even trust that!