Eli5 How come auto repair garages don’t keep spare car parts on site and have to order them?

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I’d understand them not keeping spares of larger parts at the garages due to space issues, but I’m confused they wouldn’t have something like spare O-rings around (one is stopping my car from getting fixed/tested and the garage told me there’s been a shipping delay).

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There are lots of different types of cars from lots of different manufacturers, and each one uses different parts. Most garages probably have dozens of different o rings in stock, but that only does so much good when you come across a car that needs some weird size of o ring, made out of some sort of oddball material. It’s just not feasible to keep spares of every single car part ever used stock.

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