Chandru Auto Stores

If you walk down General Patters Road, you’ll find us at No. 104. This part of Mount Road is always packed with people looking for car parts, and Chandru Auto Stores has been right in the middle of it for quite some time. The shop is narrow and the shelves go all the way up to the ceiling. We have boxes stacked everywhere, and honestly, sometimes it takes a minute to find exactly what someone is looking for. It’s dusty work, handling all those metal parts and rubber gaskets, so our hands are rarely clean by the end of the day. There is no air conditioning here, just a couple of wall fans that push the warm air around, but you get used to it after a while. We know the other shop owners on the street, and we often swap stories while we’re waiting for customers. It’s a noisy environment with the constant sound of bikes and cars zooming past outside. We don’t have a website or anything like that; we just open the shutters in the morning and start selling to whoever walks in. People come here because they know we’ve been here forever and we usually have what they need sitting on a shelf somewhere in the back. It’s a simple way of doing things, and it hasn't changed much in all the years we've been operating out of this small storefront.