Rachel Wolfe
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900 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard May 2024
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happen again.
So in 2019, when GM was on strike, parts factories did temporarily lay off workers, which made certain repairs tricky.
Mechanics are bracing for the same this time around.
I spoke to a service manager at Colonial Catalog in Woburn, Massachusetts, where they ordered a three-month supply of all of their fastest-selling parts so that they could avoid delays on some necessary common repairs.
But
Repairs that rely on manufacturer-supplied parts, which again is not every repair, it's not every part, but people could see delays on car repairs in the case that the auto shop isn't able to get that part.
Totally, and potentially putting off unneeded repairs until after a strike were to be resolved.
You would think, but foreign brands are struggling too.
Certain foreign brands, including Honda and Toyota, haven't been able to recover from the pandemic in the same way that the Detroit automakers have.
So even though a significant chunk of consumers shopping, in this case, Car Resource Edmunds website in August,
Four models from Ford also looked at vehicles from Toyota and Honda.
They aren't necessarily going to find better deals there.
So Toyota and Honda had 24 and 25 days of unsold inventory at the end of August, respectively, according to Motor Intelligence.
And that's far below where the Detroit brands are now.
So you're not likely to see a deal there.
People are starting to feel a bit manipulated by what they see as a barrage of requests.
First, it was prompts to tip, now requests for charity.
But they're sick and tired of these multi-billion dollar companies asking them for money.
They are proliferating because they really work.
Roundup requests and other checkout donations raised over $749 million in 2022 for various charities.
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