Posted on 10/20/2021 2:00:56 PM PDT by Pilsner
A critical element in everything from engines to bodies is in short supply
... Essentially, you can’t make cars without aluminum. You can’t work with aluminum without using magnesium. And as of December, you may not be able to work with magnesium much — if at all.
85% of the world’s supply comes from ... China, ... (which) just ordered 35 of its 50 production facilities to shut down. The remaining 15 have been told to scale back operations by half, leaving production drastically reduced.
(Excerpt) Read more at jalopnik.com ...
Amazing...that was about 2 grand worth of iron a couple years ago.
The local Carvana is trying to sell a 10 yr old 2wd Ford Ranger with 65,000 miles for 17 grand. The world is truly nuts.
My first car had no steel....100% rust.
Be careful what you wish for as I have near 10,000.00 in my 18* street cylinder heads, these are on my 399ci. Chevy small block on a Dart foundation.
I just ordered a brand new vehicle...
A 2018 one was 31k..
Brand new 2022...36k..
Could have deleted some options and got it for 32k..
Prices for used vehicles are stupid high..
Great summary of everything.
Two of my five daughters have Crosstreks with a clutch.
That’s driving instead of just steering.
“ Why are real estate and the stock market rolling along?”
Usury.
Always been a sin. Used to be a crime.
NOw it’s the basis of the economy.
Plus you avoid the failure prone and expensive to repair CVT transmission. Double win. Now all you gotta do is get good at replacing head gaskets.
Sue will show ya how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ERVniqZEHc
“ The USA is completely governed by short-sighted idiots.”
Four years in Congress at $174K and you’re a multi-millionaire.
Six years in the Senate @ same pay, almost a billionaire.
How’s that short-sighted OR idiotic? Looks pretty smart to me.
“ Then the bottom dropped out.”
IOW, then the usurers cashed in.
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin.
Hmmmmm. The whole “pandemic” was/is to usher in the green new deal.
Plus you avoid the failure prone and expensive to repair CVT transmission.
I have no idea what makes these things so expensive to repair, when the sheaves took a dump in my snowmobile the wanted to sell me replacements for 449.00 for the same junk that just failed at 3500 miles. What I did was have a machinist cut the aluminum hub off one sheave and had the engineered bushing cut out of the other sheave and had them replaced with a steel hub on one side and a bronze oil light bushing on the other sheave and it works absolutely flawlessly with next to 0 wear.
They look a lot better, but every summer a caravan of those comes through town:)
If there is no new car inventory to sell, how is the GDP growth positive? It can’t all be inflated food and building material sales.
Chevrolet has been putting aluminum drive shafts in their pickups.
For a long time.
My 99 has one.
Best looking part on the underside of a 22 yr old clunker LOL.
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