Wait times for new cars

It's a combination of many factors.

most car salespeople are blaming it on brexit as well as covid
we were spun a line that brexit would mean manufacturing in this country though- creating jobs, not waiting for China to get their arses in gear?

So nobody blaming the slave masters in
Congo who regularly whip, mistreat and generally abuse children as young as 5-6 yrs old who dig/mine for the minerals needed for the components in chips/electric vehicles then?

No didn’t think so …

DD2 got her new Automatic Mini Clubman last Friday - 11 months after it was ordered.

Hithere - I think you’ve ‘run your car into the ground’ which is a local expression that the cost of any repairs outweighs its benefit. It’s bite the bullet and scrap it or trade it in, if it will limp into a garage with a bit of MOT left to run.

We are enjoying the Juke. It's much easier on my back and hammy leg as it's automatic and as I said economical. A very smooth ride.

Grannygravy. No, it has nothing to do with the disgraceful maltreatment of children in the mining industry in Congo. If there is a shortage of minerals, it would be the same if they had a workforce, all over 21 working in safe conditions and well paid.

The appalling conditions in these areas is a human rights issues and should be highlighted and pursued, but it doesn't affect the availability of the rare earths.

It certainly isn’t Brexit here!

M0nica

*Grannygravy*. No, it has nothing to do with the disgraceful maltreatment of children in the mining industry in Congo. If there is a shortage of minerals, it would be the same if they had a workforce, all over 21 working in safe conditions and well paid.

The appalling conditions in these areas is a human rights issues and should be highlighted and pursued, but it doesn't affect the availability of the rare earths.

I just wanted to highlight the conditions that children live/work in for the rest of the world to have computers, cars, electric cars etc.

Rare Earth minerals are being used more and more, maybe it’s time that scientists started to look into synthetic alternatives, if they are not already.

GrannyGravy13 I am very sure scientists are looking for alternatives, but it doesn't mean that they can just turn over a leaf and find them. It could take decades of research to find synthetic alternatives, but synthetics contain real materials, also with earth bound origins, so it might be a question of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

nanna8

It certainly isn’t Brexit here!

Many factors, but all linked.