This phenomenon is an indication of how Pakistani businesses treat their customers and potential customers. The condescending attitude towards walk-in customer/small customer/B2C customer is what is causing them wallet-aches now.

These spare parts manufacturers only pandered to the large car-assembling units to the point of getting blackmailed and even low-paid or unpaid by them (there was an article about that recently too). However they do not worry to perform market research, consumer trends and demands otherwise they would have tried to make parts for Mira, Every, Hijet and umpteen other orphaned JDMs for which the only source is kaabli (=scrapyard) parts.

The need for bumpers, engine foundations, washers, suspension bushes, door handles, door locks, grilles for A/c vents (mostly the rubber and plastic parts which is the majority of what gets manufactured in Pakistan) will never cease. In fact, if new cars aren’t leaving the factory then the “national fleet age” will be higher and more parts will be needed to keep the existing fleet on the road. Similarly, traffic accidents will keep happening and doors, fenders, quarter panels, bonnets and trunk lid and even the roof piece will never go out of fashion (these are steel parts and mostly produced within Pakistan).

The market is open for them but they only want volume contracts. The small buyer is beneath them somehow – and this is exactly the condescending attitude towards the hand that feeds them which is one of the social problems in Pakistan and a sign of “reverse moral progress” of our society.