Yeah he said they were obsolete, once the uk ones are gone they couldnt get anymore. The parts guys are normally fairly good here as they managed to soucre me a lower rear cornor that was meant to be obsolete. It came from somewhere in uk that had it on the shelf, it was one of four left but had been written off the stock as slow moving parts.
Spark plugs are the same, they had 16 of them left in the UK, but once gone that was it as obsolete in germany too.