Auto Component Manufacturers
Lack of awareness among car owners and by specific efforts of the OEMs have led to the belief that OEM parts are the only available option and every thing else is spurious. Discoverability of the right spares for repair of vehicles is very complex.
Fundamentally, vehicle owners and repairers need to be more aware that the spare parts produced by reputed aftermarket auto component manufacturers offer OEM equivalent quality, higher availability, and precise fitment at the right cost.
Challenges Today
Why it matters to you?
Life After Fair Repair
Challenges Today
- You are forced to sign restrictive agreements with automobile manufacturers thus restricting your ability to sell spare parts in the open market.
- You are not allowed to match your part number with an OEM part number, making it hard for the end user to choose your product over the OEMs.
- Patent and trademark regulations imposed by the automobile manufacturer makes it challenging for you to alter the design of the components, even if it leads to creation of higher quality systems.
- Automotive manufacturers embed software that increasingly prevent an electronic control module or computer from being repaired, reused, or remanufactured by the component manufacturers. As a result, only OEM replacement components are available for many new generation vehicles.
Why it matters to you?
- Auto component manufacturers must fight back against the unfair treatment they receive from the manufacturers.
- OEMs are trying to control and dominate the automotive aftermarket completely with the use of telematics and advanced technologies. When you design the components and spares for the automobile manufacturer, why cannot you have the right to service and repair them?
- Discoverability of your spare parts will be easier for the customer, thus improving your sale.
- Although you can design reparable products, the patents and copyright restrictions imposed won’t allow you to tinker and innovate without the manufacturer’s approval.
Life After Fair Repair
- Auto component manufacturers will expand their presence and establish a solid affiliated repair network nationwide.
- With restrictive agreements being waived off, component manufacturers can directly sell the spares in the open market.
- Your service networks, dealers, and independent repair networks will all compete on a level playing field, helping you reach out and serve the customers directly.
- More key players will emerge in the automotive aftermarket, and your spares will be sold at a competitive price.
- Patents and copyrights won’t stop you from designing a repairable product which lasts longer.
- You will have the right to design and sell special tools, diagnostic equipment, and electronics to independent garages and customers.
