This lovely door handle broke. Toyota took almost two months to ship us a replacement. I thought that length of time was amazing.
Sometimes the “western world” has disadvantages compared with the “developing world”. If I had a broken door handle with this same car in Kenya, I could have gotten a replacement the same day. (Our Corolla is perhaps the most common vehicle on their crowded roads.)
Having said that, if we had an obscure vehicle in Kenya, we could have waited a year for the replacement. One of the aspects of my job when we were there last was to advise people about which car to buy. I always said go for the most common model… parts are easier to get.
The problem with having lived in a different country is that you can never experience the best of each place at once. I guess that is why there’s heaven to look forward to.
Our 4.5 years in the US often had us saying that the US was becoming more like Kenya every day!