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Originally Posted by mav1178
If you worked in OEM then you know that after the first 10 years or so (after a car stops production), vendors often renegotiate contracts to produce replacement items.
The Nismo cost reflects the price of ordering ONE tension rod set. It might take an hour of labor for the factory to produce it but the cost to run the tooling is high. I can do an inventory check of Nismo items and 9 out of 10 times parts are always "15-45 days to produce"...
Genuine parts offered by Nissan differ significantly because it's ordered in batches, to keep costs at a pre-negotiated level between Nissan and the vendor that still makes it for them. This "batch" concept is also why Nissan PDC will have leftover inventory of an item after it's flagged as stop production or NLA. "New old stock" is just those large batches ordered that is now dead stock, waiting for enthusiasts to buy.
That's why. I can spend an hour of my time doing a single thing for you but I will charge you $50-100 an hour to do that single job. Hire me full time and it's suddenly much cheaper to pay for my time.
Also, none of what I wrote is talking about aftermarket parts. I'm only talking about Nismo vs OEM Nissan, which is what your post was about.
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It sounds like you're believing some total bullshit.
That's not even a long time to order parts and move them around. That's not a guy with a huge factory of tooling and a list of single parts for dudes cars, that's a part moving through a dealership logistics network.
I've read about some things being made one at a time, and I believe it, if it's something stupid and someone calls in a favor. But they've got a bin of every arm you want, or whatever. It'd be moronic to only make one, even if the reason for that order was being out, you still re-up your stock. If it's not even made yet, they don'e expect to sell that part ever again.