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Originally Posted by GregW / Oregon
You must understand that BMW must guarantee a supplier a significant amount of business to entice them to make an investment to produce a product like that just for them. Can other manufacturers make the same wheel? Of course. But BMW contracts with one supplier for most sub assemblies. Changing suppliers would take months. Tires is the only supplied product I know of where BMW often has two suppliers (e.g., Michelin and Coninental), but tires are more universal in application.
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Sure, I agree that you can't simply walk down the street to any wheel manufacturer when something goes wrong and say I want you to build wheels for me because my contracted supplier is having difficulties at this time. It's not that simple. But I must assume you would want to have contingency plans and
actively manage your supplier to make sure things are going somewhat smoothly and look for trouble on the horizon.
Anyway, we are all pretty frustrated that after years of waiting it's come down to this. It's easy for you to say; your car is awaiting transport!
Congrats by the way.
