Good Luck.......

LBR · 07-13-2009, 05:39 AM

I have a family member who worked for one Ford dealership, and is currently working for another....he gets better information than most of us.

Anyhow, he was talking about how getting parts is getting harder and harder. Parts you used to be able to get overnight might take a week now. The reason being is there USED TO BE lots of smaller U.S. companies that made all the parts for all the U.S. vehichles. When GM went bankrupt, and didn't pay their bills, it permenantly bankrupted many of these small companies and they closed the doors. Reckon how many of the ones that managed to scrape by are going to be interested in making GM parts?

Chad

Fieldmouse · 07-13-2009, 05:44 AM

The truth is that Ford will have a trouble going forward when the one that sets the rules owns/is your competition.

Champlain Islander · 07-13-2009, 05:45 AM

Another reason why I probably won't get a new vehicle made by the "new Government motors." I had hoped Ford wouldn't get caught up with it but it looks like at least from the parts side they are in it. I am thinking of trading the Silverado in for a new F150. I haven't owned a Ford in 20 years but might give them a look. My 2007 Silverado is a POS and has been since i bought it. All the others were great trucks but the new style isn't even in the same class.

ipscshooter · 07-13-2009, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Champlain Islander

I am thinking of trading the Silverado in for a new F150. I haven't owned a Ford in 20 years but might give them a look. My 2007 Silverado is a POS and has been since i bought it. All the others were great trucks but the new style isn't even in the same class.

Love my new Ford...

Lemaitre · 07-13-2009, 08:01 AM

With the market for new cars and trucks going from over 16 million units per in 2007 to probably less than 10 million units this year there is now a lot of excess capacity in the auto parts industry. To bring supply back into line with demand it is unfortunately inevitable that a lot of parts suppliers will have to close their doors. The smaller firms with fewer financial resources and less access to credit will bear a disproportionate share of the suffering.

LBR · 07-13-2009, 08:43 AM

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With the market for new cars and trucks going from over 16 million units per in 2007 to probably less than 10 million units this year there is now a lot of excess capacity in the auto parts industry.

Why do dealers have to wait days or weeks on parts that used to come overnight if there is "excess capacity"?

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To bring supply back into line with demand it is unfortunately inevitable that a lot of parts suppliers will have to close their doors.

A lot of manufacturers have already closed the doors, because GM defaulted on payment and bho didn't bail them out.

My bet is, unless bho and the gov't in general gets their nose out from where it doesn't belong, GM will ultimately fail anyway, regardless of how many of our tax dollars are wasted on it. This is a group that couldn't even run their own cafeteria--how do they expect to run an automobile company?

Chad

Fieldmouse · 07-13-2009, 09:25 AM

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GM will ultimately fail anyway,

Yes it will, just look at what they are doing. Their focus is on cars Americans don't wants to buy. Who really wants to own a Volt at 40K+? I know a lot of folks love Caddy's but their selling that division. BHO put a young 31 year old in charge of GM without any business experience. The next move was to install the former AT&T CEO at the CEO position who first comment was, "I don't know anything about making cars".

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regardless of how many of our tax dollars are wasted on it.

Waste tax dollars is the liberal goalo. Government can't run anything right.

Lemaitre · 07-13-2009, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by LBR

A lot of manufacturers have already closed the doors, because GM defaulted on payment and bho didn't bail them out.

Chad

I thought you were against the government bailout of GM because it was an intrusion into the private market, and now you are complaining that the Administration did not engage in an even bigger intervention into the private sector by not bailing out all of the parts suppliers!

LBR · 07-13-2009, 09:16 PM

I was, and am still against the "bailout". I'm not complaining because the parts manufacturers weren't also bailed out, just highlighting some of the idiocy involved in the "plan". That, and simply stating a fact.

Chad