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Automobile plays a vital role in the functioning of world by adding speed, comfort and convenience. However if not looked after properly one compromises on these benefits. Apart from fuel a vehicle need regular maintenance to serve efficiently. Failing to do so may result is performance loss, risk of breakdowns and accidents. A complete vehicle is an assembly of many sub assemblies like engines, brakes, and wheels etc. A spacecraft is an example of complex assembly comprising of many parts. For a single aircraft this number is in a few thousand. One can easily breakup a vehicle into its component pieces. This is an advantage as in case of failure you just have to replace the defective part.

Vehicle has covered every corner of this round earth. All cities have a good public transport system in place with rails, buses, aircrafts and ships. People also own cars and bikes. Many occupations need vehicles such as tractors for farming or trucks for transporters. The surveys reveal an average number of vehicles in a city are in few lac and new vehicles keep on adding each day. Auto manufacturing industries are already burdened with delivery of new vehicles and the pressure keeps on increasing. In such scenario they do not have any time to produce additional auto parts for replacements. They identify vendors who can manufacture parts for them without disturbing their production planning. They share the design and expertise and the only thing you require is a manufacturing setup which can deliver quality products in time. Being a recognized vendor will bring you good retail or wholesale business and you do not have to worry about finding a shopping market for your parts.

Retailing auto parts is a very productive business. Auto breakdown is a regular phenomenon and majority of them needs part replacement. Part replacements are not carried out only in the case of failure. Even in normal condition each part has its normal life for efficient performance. Overusing the part will result in loss in efficiency and increase fuel consumption. This is also important from the point of view of safety. Every vehicle has a service manual with information on replacement of parts. Considering both these cases there is a continuous retail shopping of auto parts and retailing them is a good option.

You can consider specialized retailing. For example if you are in an area where agriculture is a prime occupation retailing in tractor parts and other farming vehicles will be a viable option for you. You can also consider a farm equipment retail business that compliments well with auto parts shopping.

Other option in auto parts business is to become a supplier. There is huge gap between manufacturing and proper distribution. You can find a part in abundance at one store while there is a scarcity of same in another. By proper coordination and logistics planning you can help the retail and manufacturing business and benefit from both.

A good idea will be to have your own service centers along with auto parts business. The auto service centers have tie up with auto parts dealers on a commission basis. This makes the servicing cost for the retail customers high. If you have your own service center you can cut down all commissions and can provide servicing at much lower cost. This would prove out to be a profitable expansion and increase shopping of your parts.

Imagine scrapping the complete vehicle just because you cannot replace a wheel disc or a broken chain. Thank heaven for you will never see that day simply because man is very logical to even toy with such ideas. In fact he is finding new methods on how to make quick replacement of parts and make interchangeability of parts like a brake from one model can be fitted effectively on a different model. If successful this will revolutionize the auto parts and used auto parts retail shopping. One can mass produce general components and increase the sales. At present generalization is only limited to accessories like mirrors, wheel covers, seats etc but not in auto parts on which performance of the vehicle depends. But with auto engineering at its prime there are more surprises to come. The journey has just begun.

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