Latest new car racket to cause you to by a car.

[cyclops222]

All the auto repair shops are waiting YEARS for parts on older cars. Why ?
More profit in newer & certain models of vehicles.
Asian car parts ? And some American ? ..........Please put more tariffs On the millions of cars waiting at garages.
Auto parts chains are closing up.

 

[cyclops222]

Buy new or walk

 

[racerone]

Politicians often look after #1 only.----Themselves.

 

[guy48065]

I had a conversation 1 week ago with the manager of a local Husqvarna power equipment sales/service outlet. She had the same complaint about waiting over a year for service parts. So this is more universal & less political than tariffs & pushing new car sales.

Her claim was it's still due to backlogs going all the way back to COVID. The gift that keeps giving.

 

[dingbat]

Several of our customers are some of the largest automotive parts suppliers in the world. Let me know what part(s) you’re looking for and I'll see what I can do....lol

The truth is, car manufacturers are in the assembly business that outsources the vast majority of the parts and components to third party suppliers.

To add to the problem, a lot of the smaller suppliers have either closed their doors or have been bought up and consolidated with larger organizations. We lost two automotive customers in the past three years under these circumstances.

Then there is the money……….XXX Parts Supply receives a contract from Big Blow car company to make 150,000 ball joints for their 2026 model year cars. XXX Parts Supply is not interested in making 1,000 ball joints for 2005-2006 Ford Taurus for NAPA auto parts.

The real issue is that we don’t know how to make things anymore. The amount of manufacturing knowledge and skill we’ve lost in the past 40 years is staggering.

 

[Lou C]

the simpler your vehicle, the longer you can theoretically keep it going.
Modern vehicles, I think 10 years you can get parts, after that, it gets difficult.
Ironically certain parts are easier to find for my old '98 Jeep than for my '07 Jeep, maybe because the '98 has a lot of common parts with Cherokees and Wranglers which are popular for restoration. And there's just less tech in them. The '98 has maybe 4 modules vs the '07 which has a lot more. And working on a Jeep 4.0 six vs a 5.7 Hemi, well I love the Hemi but every job on that thing, is time consuming, vs the 4.0 six, very easy.
Personally, I think it's a conspiracy between the automakers and the regulators. Regulate strict regulations, that require all kinds of specialized technologies and expensive parts, then quit making those parts, and make vehicles un-repairable.
Whereas, you can always fix a '69 Chevy. Small block parts, Quadrajet parts they are everywhere and cheap. That's why I still have my old boat. Much easier than later models with similar engines but EFI. Many of those EFI parts for OMC, Volvo or Merc are NLA! Carbs, you can always fix, or replace, a points distributor, you can always pop in a new set of points, no worry about that dang module that is NLA!

 

[racerone]

Spare parts business for the car companies is very expensive.--Packaging , warehousing, retrieval and shipping of 1 part all costs money --They are more interested in assembling new stuff from bins with a 1000 parts each.

 

[alldodge]

Spare parts business for the car companies is very expensive.--Packaging , warehousing, retrieval and shipping of 1 part all costs money --They are more interested in assembling new stuff from bins with a 1000 parts each.

The Global supply chain for last many years has gone from a keep parts on hand just in case, to a Just in Time supply. Who knows what will change in the future

 

[Lou C]

Just for information, I perused some Toyota parts catalogs on line to see how much is available for older 4Runners. What I found was that it appears that a lot is available for ones as old as 15 years old, but their prices tend to be quite a bit higher than the domestics, perhaps that's the cost of maintaining all that inventory?

 

[Scott Danforth]

It's easier to get parts for a 1920 Ford than it is to get parts for a 2020.

Smart parts (such as tail lights with integrated sensors) are OEM only and the OEM doesn't make them.... See post #5

Social engineering has driven society to believing you need a new car every 3 years...... So the vehicles are made to last a shorter period and be replaced

The amount of manufacturing knowledge and skill we’ve lost in the past 40 years is staggering.

 

[alldodge]

Cars and trucks have a 10 yr 100K mile drive train warranty
The emission components must be available 8 yr 80K miles

The only thing that is in law is the Magnuson Moss Warranty, which in short says any parts needed to cover the warranty must be available during that period
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/b...nty-federal-trade-commission-improvements-act

 

[bajaman123]

My friend who lives in Japan has told me about the escalating taxes that Japan puts onto vehicles as they age, to the point that owners are forced to buy new after about 5 - 7 years. Now I know why there is such a huge number of JDM engines, transmissions, etc available from so many sites in the U.S.

 

[Lou C]

My friend who lives in Japan has told me about the escalating taxes that Japan puts onto vehicles as they age, to the point that owners are forced to buy new after about 5 - 7 years. Now I know why there is such a huge number of JDM engines, transmissions, etc available from so many sites in the U.S.

that's the Japanese government's little plan to make sure that their OEMs never go out of business! otherwise known as the Sha-Ken where you can fail for the most minor things imaginable. Ironic, isn't it? Japanese cars are generally the longest lived but Japanese can't enjoy it themselves!

 

[cyclops222]

Did you not KNOW ? The Japanese companies want the same greedy pile of money for doing nothing, like American companies.

 

[rolmops]

There are mountains of spare parts readily available in the car junk yards. Very often the junk yards sell parts to repair shops. The more organized yards have a nation wide inventory program, very often they just find a part from half way across the nation and have it at your door in 5 days. They have the more popular parts sitting on shelves. At least in NY State there are You Pick It yards where you walk in, explain your specific need , and you will be directed to a vehicle that has the required part, Just bring some serious tools (sawsall) to rip away everything around the part you need and you are in business.

 

[Scott Danforth]

LKQ pick a part yards are my favorite shopping centers

 

[cyclops222]

The Green People are forcing out all the NON electric car companies. You do not see that ?

 

[Jeff J]

Electric vehicles will become interesting to me the day they can haul a load 350-400 miles on a charge and do it again after a 5 minute break.

 

[rolmops]

Electric vehicles will become interesting to me the day they can haul a load 350-400 miles on a charge and do it again after a 5 minute break.

And that may be very soon unless political/big oil interest delays it.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

Only thing preventing it is technology, good ideas can not be stopped.