Fitment trades · 6 entries
In these trades the buyer almost never knows your part number. They know the vehicle, the load, the bill, the machine they are servicing — and the right product is whatever fits that. The question is never “do you have X”; it is “what is the X for this”, and answering it means reading a specification out of something that is not a specification.
It narrows from what the buyer actually gives you — a model and year, a rating, a photo of the worn part — against your own fitment data, and asks for the one detail that settles it rather than picking. Where fitment cannot be established from what was sent, it hands over instead of shipping a part that nearly fits.
A part that nearly fits is a return plus a vehicle off the road.
Two cases where the model is the specification
— no part number anywhere, and the part is worn out of recognition
Swift Dzire 2016 ka ye part chahiye, photo bhej raha hoon
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What you'll observe
The model and year narrow it against your fitment data, and the photo narrows it further. Where two variants both fit, it asks which rather than sending the more common one.
— the same fitment question in three different vocabularies
What you'll observe
Size, rating and grade read against what the vehicle actually takes. A battery that fits the tray and not the load is a fitment failure that starts working and then stops.
Three cases where the answer is written down — on a bill, on a machine, in somebody's purchase standard
— brand, rating, quantity and gauge, in one line
Havells MCB 32A, 20 piece, aur wire 2.5 sq mm ka bundle
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What you'll observe
Every part of it read as the specification it is. A bundle is priced as your catalog sells bundles rather than converted to metres.
— the bill says the consumption; the system size follows from it
What you'll observe
The consumption is read off the bill and used to frame the conversation, then it goes to an engineer. Sizing that somebody will mount on a roof and live with for a decade is not concluded in a chat.
The reading is genuinely useful and the handover is still correct. Doing the arithmetic is not the same as owning the design.
— a technician standing at a customer's machine
What you'll observe
The right cartridge or membrane for that model, from your own compatibility list, answered fast enough to matter while the technician is still on site.
— a purchase officer buying to a written specification
What you'll observe
Matched against the standard the buyer names, from your catalog's own certification data. Where a product's certification is not recorded in your catalog it is not claimed — an unverified safety rating is worse than no rating, because it is relied on.
From your own fitment data — the same mapping your counter staff use. It does not infer fitment from a general knowledge of vehicles, because a part that fits in general and not in your catalog is a part you cannot supply.
It says what it can see and hands over with the image attached. In fitment trades a confident near-match is expensive twice: the return, and the vehicle or machine that stayed down while the wrong part travelled.
It can read the consumption off a bill and frame the requirement, then it hands to an engineer. Sizing an installation is a design decision with a ten-year consequence and it belongs to a person who will stand behind it.
Ask it: “Swift Dzire 2016 ka ye part chahiye”
You're talking to the product. Nothing you send is added to any business's catalog.