LONG wait for a PT part?

Hi-- my '03 is at the dealership for a warantee replacement of a leaky steering
rack. As of tomorrow, I will have been waiting for TWO WEEKS for the part to
come in! They say that there is a "nationwide backorder" of this part. Anyone
heard of anything like this? Seems hard to believe that is would be this hard
to get a fairly common part.
In their defense, the dealer has given me a free rental car as a loaner, so I'm
not hugely inconvenienced, but I miss my Cruiser.

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You are lucky, I waited 8 weeks for the dealer to get an interlock cable for
my Cruiser!

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Gee, I would've taken the opportunity to *disable* the silly interlock and
kept happily driving!

DS

 

Ok so I am guessing that when my 04 pt does finally break down I am gonna
have to wait for parts.

 

No, not really. It just depends on what parts you're waiting on. I suspect
the supply will catch up with the demand at some point.