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How long should a manufacturer being required to provide parts support? Building tons of parts and then warehousing them for decades has a very real cost.

• mschuster91 3y ago
  > Building tons of parts and then warehousing them for decades has a very real cost I wonder how the automotive industry has managed to do just that over decades. The answer is relatively obvious, laws require them to do so, which in turn limits the amount of "SKU churn" to keep the logistics reasonable. Your usual car design holds on for 3 years, after which it gets a tiny rebrush that fixes usability or other issues that cropped up during the first period, and it will not change too much between the lines internally. In contrast, we have many manufacturers that are as wasteful as to create "Black Friday" SKUs that are deceptively similarly named to "rest of the year" SKUs but built with slightly worse components. This is utter, utter madness. There is no reason for this to exist at all.
  • TylerE 3y ago
    They don’t tho The, not really. Very few of those parts are actually made by the automaker. They’re by Bosch, AC Delco, or any of the thousands of OEMs of brake pads, fuel injectors, and what have you. If actually try to buy a new exact OEM replacement for anything past about 10-15 years old, you probably aren’t. Instead you’ll be dealing with some 3rd tier anonymous vendor making clones.