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Originally Posted by kgb4187
How many maintenance things are made in the US? And what sort of things are you talking about? My Legacy turbo is one of less than 2000 in the US, yet I have no problem ordering parts from regular auto stores.
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1. I didn't say anything about parts being made in the US.
2. Any kind of maintenance parts. Things that break or wear out on a car that you might need to replace.
3. Sure there may have been less than 2000 Legacy turbo's produced but there were many Legacys produced and many of the parts may be interchangeable. I mean think about it. There are more than 2000 auto parts stores in this country. You are not going to be able to walk in to every parts store and request a unique part that was made for your specific model Legacy and walk out of those stores with part in hand. In other words, if you take a car that is 100% unique and only 2000 made, it would be a pain to get aftermarket stuff for it. The average store is not going to want to take up inventory space with it and hope that someone with that rare car strolls in one day and buys it. Not to mention there would be very little profit for a manufacturer to make it without charging a higher than average price for it.
4. That being said, I have no clue at all if parts that are made for the Jazz are compatible with the cars here in North America. But thats why I said it is just a concern of mine. If they are compatible, maybe that will help out, but once again, I dont see why your local parts store would want to fill up the shelves with stuff for a car that only had 32,000 potentiol customers when you could load the shelves up with stuff for chevy s10's instead.
I have a 2001 Volvo S60 and I have to tell you it is a pain to get parts for and everything costs a lot more.