Diesel & Auto Spares (India)

Our shop is on the third floor of Shanti House, right across from the Navrangpura Telephone Exchange. It’s a bit of a climb if the lift is acting up, which happens more often than we’d like. We keep a lot of inventory for Diesel & Auto Spares (India) packed into the metal shelves here. It can get a bit crowded with all the boxes of engine parts and heavy gears lying around, but we know exactly where everything is located. People come to us when they need something very specific for their diesel engines that they can’t find anywhere else in the city. Being near Sardar Patel Seva Samaj makes it easy for folks to find our entrance, even if the traffic in this part of Navrangpura is a complete nightmare during the peak evening hours. We’ve been sitting in this same office for years, watching the whole neighborhood change around us. It’s mostly just a few of us handling the telephone orders and making sure the local deliveries go out to the mechanics on time. We drink a lot of chai and talk about the old engine models versus the newer ones coming out. There’s no fancy showroom or glass display cases here. It’s just desks, thick catalogs, and a lot of grease-stained boxes. We try to keep things organized, but on busy Mondays, the paperwork tends to pile up on the counters. It’s a steady, honest life dealing with the nuts and bolts of engines.