According to preliminary data, a silica reactor exploded.
-WiscoDave
Stockpile of Unfinished Ford Super Duty Pickups Missing Chips Is Now Visible from Space
It's no secret that the global chip shortage is wreaking havoc on automakers; even chip-hoarding Toyota is starting to feel the heat. Stellantis, Ford, GM—pretty much everybody is getting a taste of a major supply-chain shortcoming, and needless to say, it's bad for business.
But just because vehicles need chips to be delivered doesn't mean you have to stop making 'em altogether. Case-in-point, Ford is still making trucks; it's just making them without the necessary bits, holding them until the chips finally come in, and then shipping them out to dealers. Ford is doing this with what looks like thousands of vehicles, and you can see the results from space.
-WiscoDave
I have a new special order truck on back order from Toyota. They are saying 6 to 10 weeks. We'll find out what happens.
ReplyDeleteThe being visible from space thing doesn’t mean much any more. They can see you drinking a beer out on you deck from space now.
ReplyDeleteYep, seen from space means with the naked eye. You can see anything here from space with optics.
DeleteLook at all those catalytic converters sitting out awaiting an entrepreneurial Louisville urban scrapper.
ReplyDeleteLike it's really a possibility that I'll be buying a new $80,000 pickup that has 45 chips in it that tell FedGuv where I am and when I sneeze and that you can't even see the engine to the point that you have to take it to the dealer to have them check the oil for you.
ReplyDeleteNo thanks, Ford. Choke on them.
Gee, too bad we offshored most of our computer chip manufacturing. So maybe all those Cassandra-class people back in the 80's and 90's maybe were rigth.
ReplyDeleteWell...
Of course they were!
$90,000 for a truck that relies on a $.12 computer chip. No thanks, not ever.
ReplyDeleteYet another critical component outsourced to China by our federal government in cahoots with the Chamber of Commerce.
ReplyDeleteNemo
I seem to recall a guy in the uppermost levels of our government, not that long ago, that wanted to do something about this obvious flaw in production.
DeleteThank the Gods I can make an older truck "new" again. OG
ReplyDeleteGo back to making real trucks with 60,s-80,s design with modernized engineering. One or two chips for engine efficiency. Cost 1/3 of current crap.
ReplyDeleteI have yet to hear an explanation for there being a chip shortage, they were making millions of them and now a shortage!!! grayman
ReplyDeleteThe better term would be manufactured chip shortage for obvious reasons. Shoot 'em or stab 'em? OG
DeleteI needed a F-350 with 300+ hp for towing. I placed a special order for a F-350 with the Godzilla 7.4L on Feb 1. I found an acceptable alternative in a 2005 F-350 with a V-10 last week that had 95k miles on it. I cancelled the special order and came out $30k ahead after $5k in ball joints, shocks, tie-rods, brakes/rotors, full service with new spark plugs and a cat back exhaust. It will get another $2k for new interior sometime in the near future as I have it going to Texas next Monday to return to GA with a load that should pay for the interior.
ReplyDeleteHmm. One big ship blocks the Suez Canal. One ship blocks the Bosporus. Trucks sit because of a shortage of sand-made chips. I do not want to see a big cloud of flies on the horizon.
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