S K Auto Electrical Works

If you've got a car with a dead battery or a headlight that won't turn on, you’ve probably walked past us on Susheela Road. We are at number 9 in Dodda Mavalli. The shop is small and full of wires, bulbs, and old batteries stacked up in the corner. It smells like ozone and lead most of the time. Working on car electrics is tricky because you have to find that one wire that’s shorting out, and it’s usually buried deep under the dashboard. My hands are always stained with something that doesn’t wash off easily. We’ve been at this spot for quite some time now. Susheela Road gets really crowded in the evenings, so it’s hard for customers to pull their cars right up to the front. We often end up working on the side of the road with the traffic zooming by. It’s not the most comfortable way to work, but we get it done. My assistant is a young lad who’s still learning which fuse goes where. We have an old radio that plays local songs while we work. It’s a simple life. We don’t have a computer or anything like that; we just write things down in a ledger and focus on the wires. People come to us when the fancy showrooms tell them it’ll cost too much. We just fix what’s broken and move on to the next car.