Angrey
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So I spoke with the vendor that I have a backorder through today. His last update from the supplier was 20 December and it was basically "missing component parts, no estimated ship date."
This is from one of the largest fleet suppliers in the nation with some ENORMOUS contracts. He said all across the industry they're seeing backorders and shortages on critical components, for everything from delivery trucks to transport trucks, etc.
He said one of the biggest was the DEF components for new gen diesels where the entire system was so backed up, a group of industry players had to petition the feds to actually relax the requirements and allow a bypass around the DEF. Otherwise entire fleets of trucks would just be sitting idle waiting on maintenance items.
Long story short, he said usually he'd see an update when something hits the water on it's way and the system would inform me as to the estimated ship date at that point. But he said across all sorts of parts and components, that could be next week, or it could be 10 months from now, there's just no way to tell (without someone in the know with motorcraft and who they're sourcing these filters from).
He said the same stuff is happening around things like water pumps for a particular line of diesel motors where a $900 pump is selling for $5k on ebay because they're like gold and people are paying it because if their trucks/businesses are sitting idle, they're losing that much money. The shortages have created all sorts of black market and aftermarket craziness.
If this shortage lasts into the late spring or even Summer, I'm afraid the only thing that's going to force Ford to declare an alternate is if someone threatens them with suit.
The problem isn't so much that Ford changed the spec or that there's a shortage, the problem is that without an approved alternate, the consumer is now faced with unreasonable circumstances where you have to decide to pay exorbitant costs through a dealer oil service (and then wonder if they actually used the 2087), run an unapproved filter (and violate the terms of the warranty) or just not operate their property as desired.
I imagine once Ford receives the first legit motion from an attorney, in a few weeks after that we'll see a published update as to suitable alternatives (that are acceptable for a limited time frame, like 3 months, and then they'll revisit it at expiry to see if the motorcraft filters are available).
This is from one of the largest fleet suppliers in the nation with some ENORMOUS contracts. He said all across the industry they're seeing backorders and shortages on critical components, for everything from delivery trucks to transport trucks, etc.
He said one of the biggest was the DEF components for new gen diesels where the entire system was so backed up, a group of industry players had to petition the feds to actually relax the requirements and allow a bypass around the DEF. Otherwise entire fleets of trucks would just be sitting idle waiting on maintenance items.
Long story short, he said usually he'd see an update when something hits the water on it's way and the system would inform me as to the estimated ship date at that point. But he said across all sorts of parts and components, that could be next week, or it could be 10 months from now, there's just no way to tell (without someone in the know with motorcraft and who they're sourcing these filters from).
He said the same stuff is happening around things like water pumps for a particular line of diesel motors where a $900 pump is selling for $5k on ebay because they're like gold and people are paying it because if their trucks/businesses are sitting idle, they're losing that much money. The shortages have created all sorts of black market and aftermarket craziness.
If this shortage lasts into the late spring or even Summer, I'm afraid the only thing that's going to force Ford to declare an alternate is if someone threatens them with suit.
The problem isn't so much that Ford changed the spec or that there's a shortage, the problem is that without an approved alternate, the consumer is now faced with unreasonable circumstances where you have to decide to pay exorbitant costs through a dealer oil service (and then wonder if they actually used the 2087), run an unapproved filter (and violate the terms of the warranty) or just not operate their property as desired.
I imagine once Ford receives the first legit motion from an attorney, in a few weeks after that we'll see a published update as to suitable alternatives (that are acceptable for a limited time frame, like 3 months, and then they'll revisit it at expiry to see if the motorcraft filters are available).
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