@@egx161 Reagan opened trade with China. Then every president started continuing tax incentives to take Bisbee there, but its mainly the slave labor. That's why both Bush and Obama ran on bringing jobs back. Obama even said at the end of his term, after fucking everything up even more, that you'd need a magic wand to bring everything back. Enter Trump, shows that was B.S., the establishment didn't like that, so they crucified him.
Absolutely. At my dealership we’re constantly having to push jobs out farther than expected due to parts. We’re consistently getting damaged parts as well, straight from our stock warehouses all over the country. Pure example, I ordered 12 oil filters for my truck. I like a specialty filter that is considerably more expensive but higher quality than the standard line of oil filters. It was in Memphis, and it took 4 weeks to ship to my dealership 🤦🏼♂️
I had a good experience on one site for a filter for the familys VW. Getting some MANN filters which are some good stuff, instead of the other crap (which goes up to like 20 dollars per basic filter...). Had 6 shipped in like 3 days (I'm in Canada, and normally parts are slow as balls). Also got a free magazine so. I've also had parts take 2 weeks on the regular. Sometimes i have to call all 4 5 parts stores locally.
I run a shop in Eagles Landing, ( GA ) called Eagles Landing Auto Spa. We primarily use Oreilly's, and your correct. It seems every single part, from rotors to radiators.. everything.. is "At the Warehouse" or has to be shipped in a couple day's time to arrive at the shop. We are feeling the pain of it as well! We have been using RockAuto alot more
I have an 18 Wrangler that needs front and rear brakes. The front rotors and the rear pads are not available from any of our usual suppliers or from any of our other suppliers. The dealer said maybe by the end of July.
It is terrible here too. We have bought out, at one point or another, from nearly every dealer in the Phoenix area. I, and the customer, waited 3 months for a transfer case. We got 3 in from other dealers in the nation, all damaged beyond repair. Cracked cases, bent fasteners, really bad.
Definitely a problem. I work at a cat dealer in Michigan in the truck shop and Cummins parts are really hard to get and cat engine parts are getting to be that way. A lot of after market parts are readily available but some are getting to be difficult to get.
Yes Profesional Technician in Missouri its getting tough. But customers have been more understanding then normal. Also seem to be investing more then normal in what they own Due to no inventory.
Yea speaking bad aftermarket got a stability bar kit and the bar was not quite right missing that little bend to fit just right but that caused it to bump up on the inner tie rods luckily kept the old one. 🤦🏾
Yep 👍 definitely. Heck it’s hard to even get oil filters anymore. We had to wait 4 hours for one to be brought from the next town. Everyone at my shop is hating it. Also had to wait about 1 month for a set of head gaskets talk about an unhappy customer because it was their only vehicle. I’m a dealer mechanic and sometimes the customers get irate because they come in to get an OEM part and we offer to order it but they don’t want to wait. At least my dealership is hourly so that is an advantage at times like this.
It took me almost 2 months to get a fender flare. The 3 places that listed them in stock online canceled the order same day because they did not actually have it. I even called every junkyard in my state and every surrounding state. I do some odd ball personal jobs on the weekends and im to the point i need to diag on Saturday and repair after work the next week or the next weekend. I stopped even telling people i can have things fixed in a weekend.
We do mostly Jeep truck lifts and off-road stuff. Some stuff has been up to 8 months waiting and we still don't have parts. And tires are brutal. Pick a size and just get the first thing in that size available
Same here in my world marine engine repairs parts on back order with no delivery date .I have four large honda outboards on order been told I will be lucky to see them by the end of August
Same problems here. Had a 08 Honda Pilot in needing a lot of work customer approved all repairs but I can’t get front struts from any of my suppliers. 2012 Honda Civic waited a week for a water pump. It’s crazy. The customers don’t understand it’s not my fault. I want to do the work it’s how I pay my bills but if I can’t get parts I can’t fix your car
The problem here in MI is that many of our parts suppliers don't sell what we need and the dealers can't get them. I mean stuff like brake pads and rotors for an 18 Wrangler is nothing special so why don't the aftermarket places sell them.
Funny you should mention condensers, Friday an aftermarket supplier told us they sold 20 GMC/Chevy truck condensers to the dealers in 1 day. The OEs are on backorder. Have a 2015 F250 6.2l been waiting on an engine since last month. Approximate release date sometime in August.
We had been getting J11 thermo fans and they don’t suit OEM plugs only way is to charge customer OEM parts rang supplier and they said didn’t know thanks for update will sort it makes you wonder
Lol Chicago is bad too, we ordered pads and rotors for a C7 corvette, we got a used rotors and our main supplier is running super low on common parts for common cars
Here in Chicagoland it’s just starting… been getting a lot of bad parts too. Cars are piled up just waiting to get fixed. Not to mention can’t get any help it’s just me and a service writer in a busy 6 bay shop for 3 months now..
working at ford dealer in NYC , it’s been terrible for last 6 months gotten worse in last 2 , not even oil filters are in stock anymore . we r using ac delco now Lol
Ford tech in arkansas here. We have been feeling the parts shortage a while. It's really bad on some parts. Waited almost 2 months for a torque converter, 2 months for an instrument cluster that I ended up sending to get rebuilt to get it out of the shop.
I'm in construction these days, about month ago we couldn't get roofing nails anywhere. If you ordered a roof worth of shingles,they would sell you just enough boxes of coil nails to do it,can't get one extra.
I work at a ford dealer in iowa and Yes you can definitely tell that parts are getting hard to get. Even simple sensors are hard to find sometimes and don't get me started on trying to get a module right now
Yep, but on the customer side. Been waiting so far for a transmission control module to be shipped from overseas. Good news is, according to my contact at the shop, the part is on a ship in transit. The bad news is that the ship if 30 miles off the coast of LA in quarantine. So God only knows when my car will be repaired.
I just heard a new law is going to allow parts suppliers to discontinue carrying parts for vehicles more than 7 years old. And yes I just had to wait 2 days for a vvt solenoid for hyundai elantra.
I work at a jaguar Land Rover dealership in the uk and we are struggling with parts on back order tyre sealant for punchers that they give you instead of spear wheel is on back order and it hit us dubble hard cause of covid and the uk leavening the European Union
Mopar tech here in NJ. Napa and AAP are like useless. Mopar has 50% of everything back ordered. And at least 1 part EVERYDAY is either wrong or damaged
Funny no one from the news is talking about this. The trucking industry is definitely feeling it and soon every one who depends on anything that is motor freighted will feel it soon .SOOOOOOO can we classify this as COVID Related??? My cars that sit a lot have a solor panel to help keep that battery hot and marvel mystery oil in gas tank
@@baileyhatfield4273 they have different prices based on size and brand hmm I think you can get a small one for 25? The one I got is like 14X14 plugs into lighter I paid 59 for it years ago
Shoot I wish our parts was two days away, we wait for a week to week and half then get the wrong parts.. we’re hourly, last week was 50/50 we worked only 25hrs waited on parts 25hrs, most of the time we’re here all day and parts show up on the last hour, we say the heck with it do it tomorrow, some of our parts are 2 months out..the pay is good but boring, you can only clean your toolbox so many times 😎😎
Or when you could have work but the car truck is just in the air for like a couple hours...because somebody forgot something or didnt order this ect. Multiple bays would fix this issue, perfectly. Didn't happen where i worked though
Not as bad, but it's bad down here in Oklahoma. Can you rely on NAPA / ORAP? I ask because we're a Napa Autocare so we obviously get a lot of NAPA parts.
@@mt1885 Still confused though, Tesla from my knowledge is a PAIN to get parts for and it doesn't look like its changing anytime soon...Not like they're just trying to ban gas/diesel, looks like its just an all out attack on the whole system
@@baileyhatfield4273 It is a all out ban - shutdown the pipeline. Already said no more gas powered vehicles there will be new ink pen laws put in place just wait. Can't buy parts - how do you fix it? The whole deal is to put people on foot like 3rd world.
I’m in Gwinnett county, not having the same struggle. 1800radiator is Johnny-on-the-spot for cooling and hvac parts, no unusual delays with “normal” parts
Up here in Maine we haven't gotten that bad yet but we're getting pretty bad ourselves it's taking longer and longer to source parts seems like everyday our cars just keep building and building
Global shipping container shortage. Anything (and I mean anything) coming from anywhere overseas is having huge impacts on every retailer, supplier etc.
In Kalifornia they have rolling black outs - question how will they charge these 'battery powered shopping carts' when they cant' even keep the power on. Plus, no Silicon Chips how do they build the 'electric' climate scam autos?
Not to bad here in Cali , just trying to enjoy the +100 degrees weather Although rotors can be resurfaced or just Tell the customer u have to re-use the till the parts...
Up next: fuel shortage, power shortage, food shortage, and water shortage. If you have kids now, you are nothing more than a murderer. As we all know there is absolutely no future for those kids.
The backlog at the ports in California and having a couple of ships that have sank carrying parts out of Japan have definitely made it hard not just for car parts but for everything.
Totally agree and that's in Australia as well. I,m an exhaust guy and even 10mm mushroom headed steel rods to make mounts from , took 3 weeks to become available...1 1/4" tubing for little motors....6 weeks back order finally came...rubber mounts...forget the 10 packs but you CAN get individually plastic packed units at 3 times the price. Getting real inventive using wrong shaped universal muffler barrels to make assemblies and yet still upholding quality .This madness has to end.
Happens every time corporations sell out this country to our financial enemies.
yep I am in aviation and it has hit us too!!!
This is one reason why we need to bring manufacturing back to side of the water.
Amen
Tell that to all the people that voted for biden
@@wtf1231122 this has been going on for decades. Started with Reagan.
@@egx161
Reagan opened trade with China.
Then every president started continuing tax incentives to take Bisbee there, but its mainly the slave labor.
That's why both Bush and Obama ran on bringing jobs back.
Obama even said at the end of his term, after fucking everything up even more, that you'd need a magic wand to bring everything back.
Enter Trump, shows that was B.S., the establishment didn't like that, so they crucified him.
Same situation in Deep South Texas. It's not only automotive parts. 3 days to get bearings on a Kubota. 2 weeks for a stihl weed trimmer.
Kubota = Japan! Stihl = Sweden
Could not agree more. Same thing in fuel injection!
Absolutely. At my dealership we’re constantly having to push jobs out farther than expected due to parts. We’re consistently getting damaged parts as well, straight from our stock warehouses all over the country. Pure example, I ordered 12 oil filters for my truck. I like a specialty filter that is considerably more expensive but higher quality than the standard line of oil filters. It was in Memphis, and it took 4 weeks to ship to my dealership 🤦🏼♂️
I had a good experience on one site for a filter for the familys VW. Getting some MANN filters which are some good stuff, instead of the other crap (which goes up to like 20 dollars per basic filter...). Had 6 shipped in like 3 days (I'm in Canada, and normally parts are slow as balls). Also got a free magazine so. I've also had parts take 2 weeks on the regular. Sometimes i have to call all 4 5 parts stores locally.
I run a shop in Eagles Landing, ( GA ) called Eagles Landing Auto Spa. We primarily use Oreilly's, and your correct. It seems every single part, from rotors to radiators.. everything.. is "At the Warehouse" or has to be shipped in a couple day's time to arrive at the shop. We are feeling the pain of it as well! We have been using RockAuto alot more
I have an 18 Wrangler that needs front and rear brakes. The front rotors and the rear pads are not available from any of our usual suppliers or from any of our other suppliers. The dealer said maybe by the end of July.
Same thing In Montréal, Canada. What ever is your business, mechanic, construction,.... Same thing. Good luck.. 😉
Seems pretty good here in Alberta Canada sorry to hear about the struggles
Alot of stuff for Calgary has to come from Edmonton...or freaking Vancouver.
Chevrolet dealer tech here in GA. Dealing with the same issues.
Even tools. Ordered the matco USB rechargeable soldering iron. Back ordered til August
It is terrible here too. We have bought out, at one point or another, from nearly every dealer in the Phoenix area. I, and the customer, waited 3 months for a transfer case. We got 3 in from other dealers in the nation, all damaged beyond repair. Cracked cases, bent fasteners, really bad.
3 weeks for a condenser. Its really a hit in the pocket
Definitely a problem. I work at a cat dealer in Michigan in the truck shop and Cummins parts are really hard to get and cat engine parts are getting to be that way. A lot of after market parts are readily available but some are getting to be difficult to get.
Gm tech here in Chicagoland area. Parts have been a nightmare since the strike. And only getting worse as time has gone on.
Yes Profesional Technician in Missouri its getting tough. But customers have been more understanding then normal. Also seem to be investing more then normal in what they own Due to no inventory.
Yea speaking bad aftermarket got a stability bar kit and the bar was not quite right missing that little bend to fit just right but that caused it to bump up on the inner tie rods luckily kept the old one. 🤦🏾
It's been bad for John Deere parts for a while now. It's honestly a surprise now whenever they have something you need at this point.
I work at a Honda dealership. And literally everything is on back order. Condensers, compressors, fuel Pumps, etc.
Yep 👍 definitely. Heck it’s hard to even get oil filters anymore. We had to wait 4 hours for one to be brought from the next town. Everyone at my shop is hating it. Also had to wait about 1 month for a set of head gaskets talk about an unhappy customer because it was their only vehicle. I’m a dealer mechanic and sometimes the customers get irate because they come in to get an OEM part and we offer to order it but they don’t want to wait. At least my dealership is hourly so that is an advantage at times like this.
It took me almost 2 months to get a fender flare. The 3 places that listed them in stock online canceled the order same day because they did not actually have it. I even called every junkyard in my state and every surrounding state. I do some odd ball personal jobs on the weekends and im to the point i need to diag on Saturday and repair after work the next week or the next weekend. I stopped even telling people i can have things fixed in a weekend.
Yesss been like that here too in Philadelphia, contract with WorldPac in our shop and it’s always a few days out for even simple parts
Same boat here in Denver, Parts are getting hard to find.Talked the the windshield installer and same there with parts.
I work in semi trucks and for parts it has been really bad than even air filters, fuel filters and oil filters had been back order for weeks.
No so much part shortage but courier issues. They show up whenever they feel like. Sometimes skipping several days in a row. Hard to plan around that.
Valve seals didn't show up with the new valves... yay
We do mostly Jeep truck lifts and off-road stuff. Some stuff has been up to 8 months waiting and we still don't have parts. And tires are brutal. Pick a size and just get the first thing in that size available
Same here in my world marine engine repairs parts on back order with no delivery date .I have four large honda outboards on order been told I will be lucky to see them by the end of August
Same problems here. Had a 08 Honda Pilot in needing a lot of work customer approved all repairs but I can’t get front struts from any of my suppliers. 2012 Honda Civic waited a week for a water pump. It’s crazy. The customers don’t understand it’s not my fault. I want to do the work it’s how I pay my bills but if I can’t get parts I can’t fix your car
Yup exact same problem at my transmission shop.
Lots of dealer parts on backorder. No problems with aftermarket parts though. Im in AZ
The problem here in MI is that many of our parts suppliers don't sell what we need and the dealers can't get them. I mean stuff like brake pads and rotors for an 18 Wrangler is nothing special so why don't the aftermarket places sell them.
Funny you should mention condensers, Friday an aftermarket supplier told us they sold 20 GMC/Chevy truck condensers to the dealers in 1 day. The OEs are on backorder. Have a 2015 F250 6.2l been waiting on an engine since last month. Approximate release date sometime in August.
The best is waiting days for parts and then they are wrong
The best is when there the right parts but used in the box u just opened
@@magogomez7664 - I've had that happen with parts we got from another dealer.
Yup had to wait 1 week for brake pads for a Ford transit.
We had been getting J11 thermo fans and they don’t suit OEM plugs only way is to charge customer OEM parts rang supplier and they said didn’t know thanks for update will sort it makes you wonder
Lol Chicago is bad too, we ordered pads and rotors for a C7 corvette, we got a used rotors and our main supplier is running super low on common parts for common cars
Yeah parts are getting hard to get the biggest issue for me is the quality of this stuff is garbage
Here in Chicagoland it’s just starting… been getting a lot of bad parts too. Cars are piled up just waiting to get fixed. Not to mention can’t get any help it’s just me and a service writer in a busy 6 bay shop for 3 months now..
It can’t get worse until it does
working at ford dealer in NYC , it’s been terrible for last 6 months gotten worse in last 2 , not even oil filters are in stock anymore . we r using ac delco now Lol
Same on my end. Everything 2-5 days out
Over here in maryland we cant get any rotors for siennas highlanders and other various toyotas
Ford tech in arkansas here. We have been feeling the parts shortage a while. It's really bad on some parts. Waited almost 2 months for a torque converter, 2 months for an instrument cluster that I ended up sending to get rebuilt to get it out of the shop.
Mid Atlantic CDJR same problems back order, or says 2 days and turns into a week or more
Outdoor power equipment and heavy equipment repair here. You don't even want to know. A few days would be awesome. Try a few weeks to months out.
Yep. I run the parts department at a Kenworth dealer... absolute nightmare
Yep, HD field technician here and it is getting pretty rough out there. I hope for hydraulic leaks and problems. I can get that stuff easy.
@@jondellapenna9789 i waited 3 months for a rebuild kit for a final drive motor for a cat excavator.
Danfoss stuff is getting harder for us to get.
Anything aftertreatment is getting hard to get your hands on. Especially cummins. Cummins parts are virtually impossible to get.
Yeah I'm working at chrysler and ford dealership and it bad. So many parts are on back order and I'm in PA
I ordered a engine from LKQ I have ban waiting for 3 weeks still haven’t showed up 🤬
I don't like LKQ now days. They use to be the go to for "recycled" parts but now they are very much less than stellar.
I'm in construction these days, about month ago we couldn't get roofing nails anywhere.
If you ordered a roof worth of shingles,they would sell you just enough boxes of coil nails to do it,can't get one extra.
I work at a ford dealer in iowa and Yes you can definitely tell that parts are getting hard to get. Even simple sensors are hard to find sometimes and don't get me started on trying to get a module right now
Yep, but on the customer side. Been waiting so far for a transmission control module to be shipped from overseas. Good news is, according to my contact at the shop, the part is on a ship in transit. The bad news is that the ship if 30 miles off the coast of LA in quarantine. So God only knows when my car will be repaired.
I dropped my car off mid May, around May 18. Been about a month and still waiting.
I just heard a new law is going to allow parts suppliers to discontinue carrying parts for vehicles more than 7 years old. And yes I just had to wait 2 days for a vvt solenoid for hyundai elantra.
I use to work at a Hyundai dealer. A two to three day wait on OEM parts was common even back then.
This is a big problem nationwide, my shop is in Washington and we’re 329th on the waiting list for a rebuild kit for any Cummins motor.
I work at a jaguar Land Rover dealership in the uk and we are struggling with parts on back order tyre sealant for punchers that they give you instead of spear wheel is on back order and it hit us dubble hard cause of covid and the uk leavening the European Union
Mopar tech here in NJ. Napa and AAP are like useless. Mopar has 50% of everything back ordered. And at least 1 part EVERYDAY is either wrong or damaged
PCM, 15 accord...has been 3 weeks so far....
Funny no one from the news is talking about this. The trucking industry is definitely feeling it and soon every one who depends on anything that is motor freighted will feel it soon .SOOOOOOO can we classify this as COVID Related??? My cars that sit a lot have a solor panel to help keep that battery hot and marvel mystery oil in gas tank
I like that idea for keeping he batterys topped up, what did you pay for them? They just pads that sit or stick inside the car i'm guessing?
@@baileyhatfield4273 they have different prices based on size and brand hmm I think you can get a small one for 25? The one I got is like 14X14 plugs into lighter I paid 59 for it years ago
Not seeing this in SoCal
Shoot I wish our parts was two days away, we wait for a week to week and half then get the wrong parts.. we’re hourly, last week was 50/50 we worked only 25hrs waited on parts 25hrs, most of the time we’re here all day and parts show up on the last hour, we say the heck with it do it tomorrow, some of our parts are 2 months out..the pay is good but boring, you can only clean your toolbox so many times 😎😎
Or when you could have work but the car truck is just in the air for like a couple hours...because somebody forgot something or didnt order this ect. Multiple bays would fix this issue, perfectly. Didn't happen where i worked though
I feel this so hard right now
Been waiting on an A/C discharge line for a Kia. Local dealer says they'll have it for me by the 28th of July. Getting ridiculous.
It is brutal in Rhode Island.
I work for Hyundai amd oem parts are hard for us to get
Yes bad in northeast florida also and no tech’s to hire.
Been this way for a while. Around Wichita KS
Yup. My shop is Wichita, KS too. Same issue today for a Compressor and last week same past for a 7.3 Ford
Yep here in Texas we having all kinds of national back ordered parts
I work at a dealer. what kind of workshop manual do independent shops use?
I do a lot of used car recon at a dealer. We have Alldata and Mitchell. Both are somewhat limited on the info it has.
Been bad at gm seem to be getting a tiny bit better
I'm only an hour and a half from you flat rate master took me 3 days to get transmission cooler lines for an Impala
I’m at a Gm dealer in Nevada and am having the same issue, been waiting on a condenser for a few weeks and vlom for a lifter job for a week already
Not as bad, but it's bad down here in Oklahoma. Can you rely on NAPA / ORAP? I ask because we're a Napa Autocare so we obviously get a lot of NAPA parts.
Amen on all points
Oh yeah it’s bad to the point where half the shop really isn’t making money. Shoot my dealers lot is practically empty of cars for sale.
In case you missed the update - the new regime is going to tax it out of business and ban it. Impossible to drive it without parts and fuel.
@@mt1885 Still confused though, Tesla from my knowledge is a PAIN to get parts for and it doesn't look like its changing anytime soon...Not like they're just trying to ban gas/diesel, looks like its just an all out attack on the whole system
@@baileyhatfield4273 It is a all out ban - shutdown the pipeline. Already said no more gas powered vehicles there will be new ink pen laws put in place just wait. Can't buy parts - how do you fix it? The whole deal is to put people on foot like 3rd world.
@@baileyhatfield4273 You will own nothing and be happy - that says it all right there.
Las Vegas nv is the worst right now. Shops are weeks out because of it
I work for GM and most parts are on national backorder
I’m not used to waiting for tranny lines for trucks 😂
I’m in Gwinnett county, not having the same struggle. 1800radiator is Johnny-on-the-spot for cooling and hvac parts, no unusual delays with “normal” parts
Had the same prob with cam wheel on a jeep 3rd time a charm!
Yes, I’m looking at a week wait for an egr valve for my ‘88 Cadillac from a national chain parts store.
Same problem here in the boat business.
I work in HD and it’s the same. Availability went down when covid hit and it’s just been getting worse.
Same in Florida. Hard to make money with no parts
Keep voting Democrat! It'll get worse.
Up here in Maine we haven't gotten that bad yet but we're getting pretty bad ourselves it's taking longer and longer to source parts seems like everyday our cars just keep building and building
Global shipping container shortage. Anything (and I mean anything) coming from anywhere overseas is having huge impacts on every retailer, supplier etc.
Yes its bad everywhere and not to mention how bad the aftermarket parts have gotten quality wise!
In Kalifornia they have rolling black outs - question how will they charge these 'battery powered shopping carts' when they cant' even keep the power on. Plus, no Silicon Chips how do they build the 'electric' climate scam autos?
Welcome to Biden's America... enjoy.
Well the advance auto hub store burned down so it’s been heck they are my worldpac supplier too so it’s been awful
Seems like a ton of important things are burning, exploding or getting hacked into ect.
Not to bad here in Cali , just trying to enjoy the +100 degrees weather
Although rotors can be resurfaced or just
Tell the customer u have to re-use the till the parts...
You can’t build them either. Our plant in Louisville is struggling right now.
Up next: fuel shortage, power shortage, food shortage, and water shortage.
If you have kids now, you are nothing more than a murderer. As we all know there is absolutely no future for those kids.
Ford tech from Oklahoma, been a problem for the last 8 months. Had a transmission that parts where on backorder for 3 months.
yep bad in north east
SoCal ok
I've been waiting about 2 weeks for oem fuel injectors for a 16 Tahoe. Parts on national back order with no ETA.
We have 2 GMC trucks down for the same issue.
I’m in North Carolina and we are starting to see a parts issue
The backlog at the ports in California and having a couple of ships that have sank carrying parts out of Japan have definitely made it hard not just for car parts but for everything.
So they just won't work? Are there actual problems or?
Are you getting the Astro 498K?
How does that effect how you flat rate that service
Getting parts sucks here too, but that's mostly because our parts guy sucks.
I work for gm in ny and we have a lot of vehicles outside because everything is on backorder and they say it a few months to get
Then those people can't or it's harder for them to get to work, or work ect and on and on. Constant backlog.
Totally agree and that's in Australia as well. I,m an exhaust guy and even 10mm mushroom headed steel rods to make mounts from , took 3 weeks to become available...1 1/4" tubing for little motors....6 weeks back order finally came...rubber mounts...forget the 10 packs but you CAN get individually plastic packed units at 3 times the price. Getting real inventive using wrong shaped universal muffler barrels to make assemblies and yet still upholding quality .This madness has to end.
I’m an Ag mechanic and I’ve been going through the same thing, it’s gotten worse in just the last 4 months.