Toyota Europe parts shortage

johnos1984

To be announced later on tonight:

Toyota Europe is having to shut down and scale back its European manufacturing for the foreseeable future due to a shortage of key components which cannot be manufactured on site in Europe.

This could be a problem which is going to spread and is directly related to supply chain issues in Japan arising from the earthquake there a few weeks back. Suppliers and manufacturers have quiet literally disappeared.

Official announcement is to follow later on tonight/early tomorrow

Ali Babba

And at the rate new Toyotas are blowing up and being fixed quietly without the owner knowing how big the problem really was, parts supply could be a big issue. Only last week the turbo blew on my brother in laws new Corolla with only 6k kms bought new in February, turns out there were five more ahead of him with similar problems all 2011 regs!!! So much for Toyota being the best built car in the world and all that sh!te!!

peasant

Toyota won't be the only ones, other car makers will also be affected at some point. Opel already had some lost production days on the Corsa. Others will follow.

All it takes to stop a line is one missing component and due to the nature of the car industry these componenents can't just be sourced elsewhere at the drop of a hat.

JoeA3

Is the situation in Japan likely to affect non-Japanese manufacturers to any great degree I wonder? E.g. Do VW/Audi depend on Japanese-sourced parts?

-Corkie-

johnos1984 wrote: »

To be announced later on tonight:

Toyota Europe is having to shut down and scale back its European manufacturing for the foreseeable future due to a shortage of key components which cannot be manufactured on site in Europe.

This could be a problem which is going to spread and is directly related to supply chain issues in Japan arising from the earthquake there a few weeks back. Suppliers and manufacturers have quiet literally disappeared.

Official announcement is to follow later on tonight/early tomorrow

I know a factory beside me that makes car parts is in trouble because they cannot get supplies to make there product from Japan..

peasant

JoeA3 wrote: »

Is the situation in Japan likely to affect non-Japanese manufacturers to any great degree I wonder? E.g. Do VW/Audi depend on Japanese-sourced parts?

Sometimes they don't even know that they do ...think of all the outsourced sub-assemblies that someone else makes with outsourced sub-components.

johnos1984

-Corkie- wrote: »

I know a factory beside me that makes car parts is in trouble because they cannot get supplies to make there product from Japan..

Thats pretty much the same as whats going on.

The guy that told me is a QA Manager on the Auris HSD line and said they had an assembly this evening where they were informed they would be taking an extended Easter break

-Corkie-

johnos1984 wrote: »

Thats pretty much the same as whats going on.

The guy that told me is a QA Manager on the Auris HSD line and said they had an assembly this evening where they were informed they would be taking an extended Easter break

Thats serious Im sure VAG will be affected in some way. They are bound to source some parts from Japan.

johnos1984

-Corkie- wrote: »

Thats serious Im sure VAG will be affected in some way. They are bound to source some parts from Japan.

It all depends on who and where they parts are being supplied from

andyseadog

i don't give a toss, i'm still a toyota fan

i'd say this is the first of a good deal of 'shockwaves' we will feel from japan consumer products wise.

DanWall

I do not understand this, the earthquake etc was only in one small area of Japan, are we saying this is where all of the cars and components are manufactured?

johnos1984

DanWall wrote: »

I do not understand this, the earthquake etc was only in one small area of Japan, are we saying this is where all of the cars and components are manufactured?

With Toyotas JIT manufacturing system one item being delayed can delay the whole process

peasant

DanWall wrote: »

I do not understand this, the earthquake etc was only in one small area of Japan, are we saying this is where all of the cars and components are manufactured?

All it takes is one manufacturer of one widely used component to be affected and pretty much everything grinds to a halt.

I work in the automotive industry. We supply one little assembly that ends up on about 30-40 % of all cars.
We source a tiny electric motor from a Japanese company. They are our only supplier. Luckily (so far, fingers crossed) they haven't been affected by the quake and its aftermath.

But if they were, our production would stop and so would production lines in car manufactureres all over the world.

That's how small the massive automotive industry really is.

questioner

peasant wrote: »

All it takes is one manufacturer of one widely used component to be affected and pretty much everything grinds to a halt.

I work in the automotive industry. We supply one little assembly that ends up on about 30-40 % of all cars.
We source a tiny electric motor from a Japanese company. They are our only supplier. Luckily (so far, fingers crossed) they haven't been affected by the quake and its aftermath.

But if they were, our production would stop and so would production lines in car manufactureres all over the world.

That's how small the massive automotive industry really is.

Clue please

mickob16

Feck i hope the RS4 badges that go on TDI A4'S arent made in Japan:D