Just who determines when a component/part/system becomes obsolete. Yesterday I was talking to my friend and owner of a CNH dealer here in central NY. CNH has made parts NLA for tractors and combines that are still being actively used by farmers in this region. Examples. MAXXUM Tractors and Flagship Combines, 1600-2000 series. The other thing CNH is doing is selectively not allowing dealers to order combine parts of any kind if they are not BIG combine dealers. It will be a sad day when an farmer/owner of a 2166 combine here in NY has to go to a dealer in Iowa to buy combine parts. THAT IS JUST BS!!!!!! Just to add to it, what happens if the needed part has to be dealer installed. That would be a really big service bill. Just to enhance on this point a bit more, at the annual CNH dealer meeting, the company was telling how their business plan would make dealers parts and service departments "Profit Centers" They made no mention that the dealer sales department would be a profit center also. They only want to see sales numbers, and could care less about their smaller dealers. My friend took on Kubota, as did many other Case-IH and Ford dealers back in the early 90s. Kubota, and some other major short lines keep these dealerships viable today. The other problem facing our local dealers here is service personal. There is no colleges teaching Ag mechanics any more, and as Jon has said the truck repair industry has the same problems. All any repair person knows today, is replace to repair no fix to repair, anything, and it will only get worse. Loren
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