Originally Posted by
WD40
ALL of the Crossfire interior trim pieces are listed as discontinued by Chrysler/MOPAR. There are still some parts available new from Chrysler
dealerships but the price of those doubled or tripled at the instant they were discontinued at the corporate level. Mercedes-Benz has handled the availability of interior trim pieces less harshly in that they still list R170 NOS (new old stock) trim pieces which are gathering dust on the shelf... so availability is hit & miss. Still, it's more honest than EVERYTHING suddenly disappearing at the "stroke of midnight" like some kind of magic pumpkin!
By far the best source for discontinued NOS Crossfire parts is Quirk Chrysler in Braintree, Mass.:
https://www.ebay.com/str/quirkparts Quirk Parts EBAY store
Once or twice per year they'll have a parts sale where they knock 30 or 40% off list, but there's no way to get Quirk to send out a sale notice. What you can do though, is
use the EBAY feature "NOTIFY ME if/when seller lowers price of item".
I agree with everything you said. It was like overnight all the parts are discontinued/NLA. Even the most random part is not available, like did they make only 10 of them? If any of the 193 parts are available by some miracle they are beyond overpriced. I wonder if they just threw away most of the 193 parts. The shared Mercedes parts I think they sold back to Mercedes or someone else. Like I have said before I am starting to see a lot of the Mercedes parts being discontinued also, when before 90% of the parts were still available.
I've seen Quirk parts increase prices the past year or 2 and I keep a close eye on them.