Re: Old IH dealerships

Posted by AG in IN on October 24, 2014 at 23:03:50 from (67.236.126.244):

In Reply to: Old IH dealerships posted by mkirsch on October 24, 2014 at 04:54:34:

mkirsch said: (quoted from post at 12:54:34 10/24/14) Pretty much anything you can still get through CaseIH will be in their computer, I'd imagine. Otherwise you'd never be able to order it. Have you tried looking at the online parts books at partstore.caseih.com?

Unless CIH has changed something recently, there most definately are parts currently available from CIH for machines that have never had their parts books digitized, and probably never will. Somebody has to dig out the books or fire up a fiche machine because they aren't in CIH's online catalogs, and again, unless something has changed, the dealer won't have access in their computer system to view parts catalogs for machine models above and beyond those models that the public can view.

There are many occasions where newer machines (who's catalogs were digitized) share parts with older machines (who's parts catalogs were never digitized) and those parts are still available. The possibility exists for a few part numbers or substitutions for those numbers still being available that were used before the McCormick and Deering lines were fully joined together because the parts were used on other equipment for several decades afterward.

There are parts sitting on dealers' shelves across the country that are NLA from CIH. Dealers have access to see what's in other dealers' inventories. CIH could probably care less if parts that they've already been paid for ever find a home, especially if they are non-returnable, but a customer in need of a part very well could put it to good use and a dealer that has one would sure like to sell it. As CIH kills off older dealers that have been around for decades, the opportunity to stumble upon a dealer that has a needed part that has been discontinued for an older machine becomes less and less so.

Pretty much any contract dealer can order from the Parts Depot or VPI. They'd sure like to blow the dust off of some of the parts on their shelves and put them to use.

Somebody, somewhere, somehow has to come up with a part number to at least look for the part, though.

Occasionally a superceded number is missing or other errors exist in the computer. Errors and omissions exist in books and on fiche, too. It isn't an error or omission until someone finds out it's an error or omission. It doesn't hurt to double-check with some additional or older reference material when something seems odd.

Not finding a part necessary to keep a machine in service will definately curtail any potential future sales of parts pertaining to that machine if it ends up in the fencerow or melted down to be turned into new Chinese junk disguised as useful items. A dealer that fails to make an effort to locate a part may cause a customer to look to another dealer or look at other colors in the equipment rainbow when the day comes to replace that machine or buy anything else.



AG

This post was edited by AG in IN at 21:11:13 10/25/14 2 times.

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