For the last nine months my company Matrix Garage has been working to acquire the bearings needed to rebuild SC12 and SC14 superchargers. These superchargers are found on a few cars from the 80s to the 90s. Some of these cars like the AW11 Toyota MR2 still have a big fan base. A number of these people are passionate about keeping their cars true to their original design and keeping them as stock as possible or retaining stock parts such as the OEM supercharger.
These superchargers are becoming more and more rare as time goes on. It is getting very hard to find one in good condition and they are quickly getting more expensive.
There will soon come a time where keeping these cars in their original form will become impossible or at least impractical.

So here's the big problem. These superchargers were made by Ogura Clutch for Toyota. Ogura doesn't spec their superchargers as rebuildable and neither does Toyota. Ogura expects you to just buy a new supercharger. This is possible because they still make their superchargers. The toyota housings are different however and have not been manufactured for many years. They are not available any more. When they were they cost more than the value of many of the cars they would be going in.
I have disassembled the Toyota supercharger and found that it is rebuildable assuming you have the proper tools and knowledge to do so. The problem is the bearings are a very unique size and are not available anywhere in the aftermarket. Ogura has access to the bearings but cannot sell them to me without the permission of Toyota due to contractual agreements. I have talked to various people within the Toyota organization for the last eight months and every time get stuck in a corporate quagmire. They always tell me they cannot allow this because it is not their policy to allow it. They have given me no other good reason and seem uninterested in even considering this or at least discussing the reasons why it's not possible.
This would in no way hurt Toyota or loose them any profit. In fact if they had originally approved my request it would have saved Toyota a lot of money from the time I have taken from so many people in the employ of TMC.
I am hoping that public awareness and action will show TMC that people do not appreciate it when corporate rules screw over their customers especially when there is no benefit to the company.
Whether or not you have one of these rare old superchargers or perhaps another old car that is getting harder to find parts for or if you just find this an idiotic injustice please sign this petition.
My whole life I have been a die hard Toyota fan but now in recent dealings I learn more and more that they are just another giant corporation who has grown too big and too corporate to care about their customers on an individual basis or give these old cars the respect that they deserve.
I am not asking for parts from Toyota. I am not asking for them to make new superchargers or fix the old ones. I am just asking for them to give permission to someone to allow me to buy the bearings so I can do the rest. Apparently that is too much for them.