Parts becoming hard to find?

[06 H3]

Are parts becoming hard to find on the H3? It’s been 8 years now since they made them...I was always curious how that would work out. I know balljoints, tie rods, wearables will always be available it seems like but how about electrical stuff, ifs diffs, etc?

 

[speedy]

Shhhh I'm not done hording yet:giggle:

 

[georgiadawg]

Are parts becoming hard to find on the H3? It’s been 8 years now since they made them...I was always curious how that would work out. I know balljoints, tie rods, wearables will always be available it seems like but how about electrical stuff, ifs diffs, etc?

http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=10034

I have always been informed of 10 years, but it doesn’t mean that the parts are sold at the normal price. I would think that for certain replacement parts, these would cost much more since they are no longer reproduced. Unless one either goes to a junk-yard or a reproduce second hand replacement that might not have the quality of the original manufacture.
Just thought I would throw my
$.02 worth in.

 

[JPaul]

It's the bits that are unique to the H3 that are or will become harder to find as aftermaket manufacturers drop support for them, aside from wear items. $260 or so for a pair of A-pillar exterior trim pieces is a great example. Those things aren't very big or complicated, and they always end up warping and causing noise, yet it's rather challenging to find them for a decent price. Don't forget that less than 160,000 H3/H3T's were ever made and sold in the US, with a third of them being the 2007 model year (2006 production): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummer_H3#Yearly_U.S._sales

There were more sold outside of the US, but I doubt it was anything close to the US sales.

It'd be interesting to find out how many of those are even still on the road 8 years later.

 

[Acer4LO]

I would say that finding color matching parts for trucks that are not colored black, white, or boulder grey metallic will be hard to find. Even though things like the doors, hoods, fender flares don't really need to be replaced often because of wear, there is always a possibility that can get into some type of accident where you need to replace these things. Good luck finding a fender flare for your 2007 Sunburst Orange Metallic H3X, or 2010 Canyon Metallic H3, or Ultra Silver Metallic for the championship edition. Yes I am aware that this type of stuff can be painted, but at an additional cost. Also if the accident is bad enough you may have to get a new paint job which looks good, but then you start to worry about trail rash.

 

[rascole]

Well I guess it's time to break out the sawzall and turn it into a trail rig and buy a new ZR2 daily driver.

 

[3Hummers]

I have a warehouse full of H1 parts.

 

[Traxx]

I have a storage shed chuck full of parts. I suppose in a pinch I could just trade someone some roof marker lights for a hood or axle or something. Only thing I am really waiting on is a wrecked T rear clip to become available at some point within a reasonable driving distance. Or I might just cash it all out and go buy a Jeep Rubi pickup when they release it. Diesel, Open top, no doors, a bed and insane aftermarket support...

 

[mdocod]

Keep in mind, that most cars are only produced in a particular form for a few years. Body styles, features, driveline options, safety updates, etc, all change every few years on most models, so almost ANY car that is approaching ~10-15 years old, even if the same "model" is still being made, likely hasn't had something exactly like it produced in at least 6+ years.

I was still able to find parts for my 94 rodeo easily enough. The tough to find stuff would be tough to find for any car that old... I was running into issues like weather seals that can't really be "salvaged" and nobody provides anymore.

I believe that as the H3 transitions from the hands of its "first generation owners" to the hands of "enthusiasts" (in some cases, no change of ownership will occur for this transition), we'll see continued support for these vehicles in the aftermarket/parts/etc.

I'm not too concerned.

 

[06 H3]

All good comments.

I was just wondering as I had a conversation with someone regarding this recently. They were asking and while I haven’t had issues finding stuff everything from the framerail down is non factory stuff at this point.

I haven’t had a need for too many body parts yet but was wondering what you guys have found. I too was hoarding lots of stuff! Lol

 

[alrock]

I've actually had better luck now than while H3s were still being produced. There's better aftermarket support now (Dorman) than there was in 2009. For example, the only power steering pump I could find several years ago was one that TheBroken pulled off a GM non-VIN test vehicle. Now I can get a useless POS PS pump from O'Reilly that lasts up to 10 days before breaking.

 

[JPaul]

... Now I can get a useless POS PS pump from O'Reilly that lasts up to 10 days before breaking.

Isn't progress great?

 

[Can007]

Lol...

 

[rascole]

Sometimes it's the things you don't think about that will cost you. For example I have a 2000 ZR2 Blazer with a bad fuel gauge in the instrument cluster. They don't make new ones and only the motors can be replaced, if the circuit board is bad then the whole cluster is junk.

 

[Traxx]

Parts really aren't that big of a deal. Ebay has tons of them and plenty of links to salvage yards if the part isn't listed. You might get a little runaround if your just looking for a small part like a vent or something but I usually just bundle that stuff in with a larger buy so I'm not wasting their time over 5.00. There were alot of H3's made, parts are relatively plentiful and cheap other than T specific stuff. Try looking at H2 parts sometimes, door panels regularly hitting 500. I wanted to see about retrofitting an H2 shift lever but a clean lever is 200+ for a used one, kind of ridiculous.

 

[jakesz28]

A few years ago when GM liquidated their parts I was able to buy several rack and pinions, rear head rest DVD players. Now it's just the normal wear and tear parts available.