Whats the longest you've waited for parts?

[themechanic]

I finally received the seat bracket I ordered November 2024. I ordered two Scat Rally 1000 seats and brackets for my Coronet from Summit Racing. The first 3 parts arrived within a week or so. Apparently, Scat has been having issues with their US based supplier.

How long have you waited for your parts?

 

[Sam69sat]

Waited over 6 months for Legendary seat covers. Might have been more like 8 months but it's a longgggggggg time. Good quality though.

 

[440 4 speed]

I waited about 6 years to get a lot of parts, fortunately they were altogether and we drove it home. Maybe this doesn’t count.

 

[hunt2elk]

Waited several months for a couple of rear sway bars from Firm Feel, and that was after they charged my credit card immediately upon ordering. Not cool in my mind.

 

[dadsbee]

14 months to get a jack instruction trunk lid sticker...

 

[68BabyBlue]

In 1978, i waited three months for a set of exhaust tips, and a trunk lip molding for my ‘70 GTX. The good old days.

 

[Chatt69chgr1]

I ordered a fender bolt kit for 68-69 B-bodies July 4, 2024 from Jegs. Had pretty much given up on it. Well, it showed up in the mail a few days ago. Had threatened to cancel the order but never got around to do it and the pretty much forgot that I ordered the kit. Obviously, I was not in any hurry to get it but sure was glad I finally did. I bought this car around 2005 and have been buying parts to restore it ever since. Probably never finish it but what the heck.

 

[Richard Cranium]

A year for my Dakota gauge cluster.

 

[copper67sat]

I bought a pair of Satellite fender scripts from Year One several years ago. I don't remember the total wait time, but it was well over a year, probably 18 months or so. I'd forget about them and then they'd send me a postcard about every 6 months telling me they were still backordered and giving me the chance to cancel, but I wasn't in a hurry since my original ones aren't terrible. I'm guessing they waited until they had enough orders to order a run from their supplier. Still haven't put them on lol.

 

[JackR]

I think 6 or 7 months for my interior upholstery from Legendary.

 

[guy gadbois]

Still waiting for a couple of small parts for a Corvette since 1979...

 

[WileE]

I waited two years for a set of wheels from summit. When they finally became available they were charging me more than double. I told them to stick the wheels up their ***.

 

[Ray70Chrg]

waited 3 1/2 months for a condenser from Classic Industries.

 

[451Mopar]

Does the Passion performance A-855 count?​

 

[Mopar Hunter]

A year for my Dakota gauge cluster.

I waited two months when they first came out, I would’ve sold you mine. There wouldn’t have been a warranty though.

RTX?

Mine is still sitting in the box, I don’t wanna get it stolen. I’m too far from my car.

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

I waited a year to get an Edelbrock AMC intake before I cancelled the order and got a refund.

Also I used to order billet AMC crankshafts from China and those took 13-months to get.

Tom

 

[33 IMP]

Ordered a topend kit for a bbc from speedmaster's black friday sake (late November, obviously).
It arrived late March.
I think they may have been hoping I would cancel my order.... but the stuff was SOOOOO cheap, there was no way that was gonna happen.
A couple years later, I ordered a custom 9" center from black friday.... and it arrived a full month earlier than I expected.

 

[Don Frelier]

It seemed like these would NEVER come.

581 days.

 

[themechanic]

It seemed like these would NEVER come.

581 days.

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RockAuto can't be beaten when it comes to molded carpet sets.

 

[KozmicKuda]

I ordered a used item from a FABO member in NY state and it took almost 4 weeks to arrive. It was promptly shipped USPS (post office) and they routed it to Massachusetts, then I think Connecticut, then Missouri, then to Indianapolis where it sat for 2 weeks. Finally it arrived in Ohio, only 2 states away from origination.


I also ordered a simple $10 item from Amazon for my grandson's birthday that shipped from the east coast to Ohio. Inexplicably it was routed through Indianapolis again and got lost. It was ordered 2 weeks in advance of and finally after 4 weeks I requested a refund. I guess the small business had to eat the cost. Funny that while these things sat in Indy I was getting almost daily status updates from USPS.

I googled Indianapolis post office and there were so many complaints the state of Indiana had to investigate. They had built a very expensive state-of-the-art facility but the workers were completely demoralized due to administrative problems. So many employees quit that most things just sat around forever because they were under-staffed. A deep bureaucratic black hole.

Please DOGE, look at the USPS!