Gm Takes Ac Delco Off The Market

[Mark T.]

Having retired from the auto part business , I still receive notices and publications. In the current AC DELCO news there is a letter from Kevin W Williams GM north america vice president.
GM was trying to sell off AC DELCO but did not receive a good enough offer. As a result they have taken AC DELCO off the market and will retain it as a global independant aftermarket part division.
If GM corporate survives we will still have oe style parts available for our CORVETTES

[Dick W.]

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If GM corporate survives we will still have oe style parts available for our CORVETTES

Made in Mexico, China, the Phillipines, Taiwan, etc

[Duke W.]

Re: Gm Takes Ac Delco Off The Market

GM has been shedding parts manufacturing plants for two decades, and virtually nothing that "AC Delco" sells is made by GM.

Delco is now nothing but a marketing organization that buys parts from outside suppliers and has them packaged in boxes that say AC Delco.

The same outside supplier manufactured parts are placed in other boxes with other brand names, but it's usually the same part manufactured in the same non-GM plant inside the box. The only difference is the packaging.

Duke

[Ken A.]

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GM has been shedding parts manufacturing plants for two decades, and virtually nothing that "AC Delco" sells is made by GM.

Delco is now nothing but a marketing organization that buys parts from outside suppliers and has them packaged in boxes that say AC Delco.

The same outside supplier manufactured parts are placed in other boxes with other brand names, but it's usually the same part manufactured in the same non-GM plant inside the box. The only difference is the packaging.

Duke

You are correct in that they are a "reboxer" of parts made by someone else. AC Delco now uses the lowest bidder program to source their parts and most of them are not OEM. Delphi is GM's only vendor selling OEM parts, although most of them are "reboxed", as well. Thus Delphi's slogen "Parts your car was born with"

[Dick W.]

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Delphi is for the most part a stand alone manufacturer/reboxer. GM sold them several years ago.

[Jeff G.]

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That's the business model of our all our major companies. Look at NIKE, they have never manufactured a single garment or shoe. Everything is designed then outsourced, sad...

[Chris F.]

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I bought two service replacement AC Delco front shock absorbers recently. One said Made in the Mexico, the other USA.

[Joe L.]

Re: Gm Takes Ac Delco Off The Market

You are correct in that they are a "reboxer" of parts made by someone else. AC Delco now uses the lowest bidder program to source their parts and most of them are not OEM. Delphi is GM's only vendor selling OEM parts, although most of them are "reboxed", as well. Thus Delphi's slogen "Parts your car was born with"

Ken, et al-----


Yes, most Delco parts system parts are aftermarket-type parts. However, some are OEM. So, how does one tell which are and which are not? Like this:

-----if the part has a GM "long number" on it and that part number is the same as cataloged by the GM parts system for the application, then in most cases the part will be OEM;

-----if the part has only a Delco part number (i.e. "short number") and no long number OR if it has a Delco Parts System only "long number" which is not cataloged in the GM Parts System, then the part WILL NOT BE OEM.

[Dick W.]

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Delphi announced this evening that it is possible that they will have to liquidate. The slowdown at GM and the temporary shutdown of all of Chrysler's plant has really hurt them. Delphi has been in bankruptcy since October 2005 and anticipates trouble finding financial backing to continue to operate

[Duke W.]

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It looks like the whole US auto industry is imploding. You can't be competitive in a world market when you have to pay exorbitant labor costs from a single monopoly provider. This is just one socio-economic problem that the US faces, but it is a harbinger of things to come.

This country is going to have to wake to current realities very soon or it's going to be a rapid downhill decline to a third rate power with an unstable economy and national defense.

Look at the UK in the seventies. Margaret Thatcher halted their decline, but I don't see any Margaret Thatcher in the US political landscape. All I see is Nancy Pelosi clones.

Duke

[Joe L.]

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Delphi announced this evening that it is possible that they will have to liquidate. The slowdown at GM and the temporary shutdown of all of Chrysler's plant has really hurt them. Delphi has been in bankruptcy since October 2005 and anticipates trouble finding financial backing to continue to operate

Dick-----


There's really not too much of DELPHI left now. Most of what existed at the time of the "spin-off" from GM has been closed or sold off already. A lot of what remains has been relocated to foreign countries, including Europe, Mexico and the Far East. So, I don't think a huge number of US manufacturing jobs will be lost at this point. Harrison Radiator, Packard Electric and Delco Electronics are about all that's left and, as I say, a lot of that has been moved "offshore".