Posted by RLA on February 18, 2022 at 09:29:38 from (108.11.151.57):
In Reply to: Oil shortage posted by Schoolman on February 17, 2022 at 18:11:00:
I have worked for a New car dealer for 48 years in parts management, lived through UAW Strikes, trucker strikes it has never been this bad since WWII. It doesn't matter what year the part is for, or what model things are Short since covid. Part of the reason is if a person thinks like a computer it is more understandable. When you shut down 3/4 of the nation demand slowed. Electronic resupply is geared in daily demand. Past history of sales turned upside down thus restock didn't happen till way too late. Plus many didn't return to work. & like a big snowball it got much bigger as it went down hill. As for my store I could see things were not getting any better only worse. I drove close to 400 miles to buy 10w30 & 15w50 motorcraft diesel oil & had to buy in 55 gallon barrels But I had some to sell I didn't buy it all but bought more than I normally did picking up a extra drum of each. To my surprise We returned to that same warehouse & picked up 3 more barrels of each. I run a smaller Ford Store & we build a new building during Covid. The building still isn't done but we moved in in October of 21. Be for the moved I looked at my backorders & added them up to near 71K at dealer cost. I cancelled many of those parts because I didn't want to move them along with the rest of Inventory. Parts ordered for customers I kept on the list & shortened the list to 48 different parts. To this day 3 of those parts still haven't came, 2 were ordered May of 20. First part of January I couldn't take it anymore, told my owner I was retireing, a tad early , but tired of being held responsible for something that is out of control with no end in sight. Tired of being yelled at by customers, mechanics & owners, tired of trying to locate a part at another dealer only to find out they wouldn't sell it to me, because they too knew replacement part was impossible to find. Ford has parts with a monthly demand of 3000 & there are over 40K backordered. So ask yourself or do the math & figure out how many months manufacturing is behind? My neighboring GM & Mopar store's are in the same boat, all of us have had to use Aftermarket parts to have parts to sell.. Now I sleep better, but I don't think the winter is a good time to retire? LOL
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