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by dsfyu404ed 2448 days ago
Just because the brand lives on doesn't mean the old tooling that makes the replacement parts didn't get sold to someone who will turn it into ball bearings during the liquidation and reorganization.

That said, considering how good Tesla isn't at supplying parts to their own shops (let alone the aftermarket) having Dorman (or whoever, but this would be a very Dorman thing to do) acquire all the body dies at some post-bankruptcy liquidation sale and start cranking them out from a factory in China could very well wind up being better for parts availability than the current situation.