How does car part manufacturing/allocation work? What I mean is, say you own a 1980 P-car...
02-23-2006, 06:13 AM
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How does car part manufacturing/allocation work? What I mean is, say you own a 1980 P-car...
and you need some suspension piece. Did Porsche, back in 1980, determine using some complex statistics and forethought how many extra suspension pieces to make? If they undershot, what happens when you need that piece in 2006? Its not a one-off Bosch part that was used in 10 model years of Porsches, but rather some piece specific to a handful of cars still on the road today. Does your dealer/mechanic have to phone Zuffenhausen and some old german dude searches the basement paper archives for drawings of that piece and get to work? I'd guess not, but what does happen?
I guess I don't know enough about the outsourcing and manufacturing process to understand this...and I suppose this really isn't a question specific to just cars.
Audi Content: Are RS4 inlets always out of stock b/c some poor ba5tard has to make these things by hand since Audi didn't realize there'd be such a huge aftermarket for S4s? 8^p
I guess I don't know enough about the outsourcing and manufacturing process to understand this...and I suppose this really isn't a question specific to just cars.
Audi Content: Are RS4 inlets always out of stock b/c some poor ba5tard has to make these things by hand since Audi didn't realize there'd be such a huge aftermarket for S4s? 8^p
02-23-2006, 06:28 AM
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well, OEM's and suppliers definitely do account service into their volume productions
However, eventually parts will become unavailable...or at least very hard to find evne though service records are looked at fairly often to determine demand. However, oncee a line is shut down, its down. Now if its made on an FMS line and similar parts are still being made on the same line, an OEM can go to a manufacturer and get more parts made.
IT all depends on the original business agreemetns between the OEM's and teh manufacturer since Excess and obsolescence becomes an issue.
However, if the market demands it a 3rd party might end up producing replacement parts to "serve the market" (find a nice niche market for itself). I think you see this all the time in the domestic hot rod scene.
as to your question about RS4 inlets...thats a VERY nice opportunity for an aftermarket or OEM supplier to carve itself out a niche market. Those pieces are not that complex.
IT all depends on the original business agreemetns between the OEM's and teh manufacturer since Excess and obsolescence becomes an issue.
However, if the market demands it a 3rd party might end up producing replacement parts to "serve the market" (find a nice niche market for itself). I think you see this all the time in the domestic hot rod scene.
as to your question about RS4 inlets...thats a VERY nice opportunity for an aftermarket or OEM supplier to carve itself out a niche market. Those pieces are not that complex.
02-23-2006, 06:30 AM
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On some older Chevy cars, thrid parties would buy the tooling and make limited runs to meet demands.
So the parts are made from the exact same tooling as the original equipment, but now they are made by a different company.
02-23-2006, 06:32 AM
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hmm, maybe I need to buy an RS4 inlet pipe making machine ;-)
hah, I don't think Audi would let me since they're making a fvcking killing on all these parts. Well, at least the to0oners, are.
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02-23-2006, 06:36 AM
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not that much, i'm a mech eng. though and did do some
manufacturing engineering study and and process engineering study as an undergrad....i also work for a company that among other things makes parts for OEMs and 1st tier OEM suppliers