Economics
Cars Get Stuck at U.S. Garages for Weeks in Spare-Parts Shortage
With no relief in sight, repair shop owners plead for patience with customers: “We lovingly refer to it as intergalactic backorder.”
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The world’s supply chain woes are bearing down on U.S. auto garages.
The challenge of finding spare parts as mundane as oil filters or carpeting has forced repair shops to hoard inventory, find workarounds and plead with customers for patience until a shipment comes in. Typical delays of a day or two have stretched into weeks in some cases, shop owners say.