https://www.reddit.com/r/Shortages/comments/ps8vsn/potential_u_joint_shortage_an_addition_to_the/
I've been paying particularly close attention to shortages along these lines. The chips and special parts going into our logistics system are at the root of making everything it transports possible. We don't even have the fancy AI trucks yet and yet the US runs on a network of semis and fleet trucks that are rapidly running out of replacement parts. The breakdowns in repair/production capacity are so scattershot that there's no telling what the transport delay will impact next. Those chips compete for production space with every other kind of vehicular computer system, let alone other kinds of chips a micorprocessor plant could retool to make.
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We couldn’t find a new aftermarket radiator for our 1-ton anywhere. We may have been able to source it from the dealer for a small fortune, but we ended up patching it up and hoping for the best instead.
In bad country, people have had to resort to improvised repairs to their vehicles for years on end
We used steelstik.
In bad country they have no car dealerships and they would not have cars if their people weren't really good at making mechanical fixes with scrap materials