Owners of samples of products from the Chinese auto industry may find it impossible to repair their vehicles, servicemen warn. And the problem here is not only that Chinese There were too many cars on the roads. The tough Chinese tradition of doing business in foreign markets is much more serious.
A member of the board of the Russian Union of Car Services warned of a potential shortage of spare parts in May Ilya Plisov. Representatives of shops and online services that sell parts agreed with him in many respects. According to them today arose a whole range of problems.
First of all, Chinese cars in Russia sharply became too much – if just a year ago they occupied 10% of the market, today it is already 36%. In fact, the entire domestic car market today has become Chinese. However, there was no adequate growth in sales of cars and import of spare parts. It is clear that most of the “Chinese” being sold, due to their new condition, are not yet required, nevertheless, you can’t get away from the current maintenance, and accidents do happen. And the vast majority of spare parts are delivered from China by rail, which is already overloaded, explains the head of the association of carriers “Mezhregionautotrans» Sergei Khrapachwhich makes bulk deliveries difficult.
But even if this could be done, two other, almost insurmountable, obstacles remain. “The same car models in the same trim levels from different batches may have different, non-interchangeable models of parts”– notes Ilya Plisov. Visitors of autoforums are in solidarity with him: “How can there be four types of oil filters on the same motor, three of them are outwardly the same and differ only in threads!”, “We ordered shock absorbers for Chery – they came in different heights. Although the numbers on the boxes are the same”, “The comrade complained that only the crosses on the Tiggo can be 7 (!) Sizes, and you won’t see it in the catalog. Therefore, you take off the old s / h, the barbell in the teeth – and go shopping.
The reason here is, experts explain, that the Chinese are not accustomed to bother too much: the necessary components have run out – we replace them with those that are suitable, do not stand idle on the conveyor. And the fact that the parts installed during assembly do not pass through any catalog is the problem of the buyer.
By the way, about directories. As Plisov notes, today independent service stations simply do not have specialized spare parts catalogs for new models of Chinese brands. Why? The Chinese just don’t give them. Let de car owners are repaired only at official dealers, where the cost of work is much higher than that of unofficial ones. Thus, having practically monopolized the Russian car market, the Chinese at the same time put their customers on service as well. Cheeky, isn’t it? Although the fact that the Chinese do business like no one else has been said more than once. Previously, some car dealerships had already experienced their business style: the Chinese forced them to invest millions in pavilion branding, threatening otherwise to stop supplying cars for sale, which, in the conditions of the departure of European brands, threatened auto retail with ruin. Now it’s time for the rest to get acquainted with the tenacious Chinese grip.
