Reborn in 1982: I Became the Richest Man by Repairing Cars

Chapter 143 With his net worth multiplied, the Wudaoying Parts Factory sets a new goal.

"Your car repair skills are undoubtedly the best I've ever seen."

"But most domestically produced cars can actually be repaired without such high-level skills."

"Therefore, the area where your repair shop can best leverage its strengths is repairing imported cars."

Upon hearing Liu Yongzhe's words, Jiang Hui nodded.

This advantage of mine is definitely worth making good use of.

"So I first communicated with the logistics managers of several foreign-related units to see if they were interested in directly designating your factory as a designated maintenance point."

"Besides that, you should have had dealings with places like the Jianguo Hotel and the Great Wall Hotel before."

"Their cars are all imported. I think you can take advantage of the fact that Haidian Town has designated your factory as a repair shop to win over these units."

After Liu Yongzhe finished speaking, he took a sip of tea and continued, "People might not have dared to do this before, but now that Haidian Town has taken the lead, they naturally feel no pressure."

Often, no one wants to be the first to stick their neck out.

Once someone does something, others immediately follow suit.

Liu Yongzhe's statement is clearly quite reasonable.

"Thank you very much, Director Liu. Your suggestion is excellent."

Jiang Hui quickly realized the benefits involved and naturally accepted the favor.

Later, Liu Yongzhe didn't try to fool Jiang Hui; he genuinely helped communicate with several organizations.

They said they would arrange for someone to go to Xiaojiang's repair shop for further investigation.

Although the matter wasn't finalized on the spot, it was at least starting to take shape.

As for the Great Wall Hotel and the Jianguo Hotel, it was even simpler.

I asked Zheng Haidong to help me make the connection, and the matter was settled quickly.

This is definitely great news for Xiao Jiang's repair shop.

"Jiang Hui, BAIC officially stopped production of the old BJ212 this week, and the supply of the new generation BJ212 has begun to increase."

"The BAIC repair shops have also started modifying older BJ212 models, and the number of customers coming to our shop has dropped significantly."

Although good things kept happening, Jiang Hui also had his share of bad things.

Lin Yuanwu finally couldn't hold back any longer and came over to report to Jiang Hui on the situation regarding the modified car.

"This is inevitable; we can't always have the exclusive business."

"We're getting about one or two cars coming in for modifications every day on average, which is already good enough."

Jiang Hui, on the other hand, took it all in stride.

Xiao Jiang's car modification business was booming, and he earned nearly 100,000 yuan in the last month.

At this rate, this factory should be able to earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month without any problem.

In addition, the refurbished gearbox business at the Wudaoying parts factory also brings in tens of thousands of yuan each month.

It's fair to say that Jiang Hui's net worth has multiplied.

If this gets out, it will probably make a lot of people extremely envious.

He is already planning to buy the gear production line from North Gear next year, so he won't have to pay the lease fee anymore.

"That's true, but it still feels a bit of a pity."

"In the past, the yard was full of BJ212s waiting in line for modification, but now there is basically no need to wait."

17

It is said that it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

That's probably Lin Yuanwu's current state.

Having gotten used to the business being packed, it feels a little strange to be back to normal now.

Fortunately, Jiang Hui remained calm.

"Business at the modification shop is gradually returning to stability, and I'm planning to find ways to expand my business at the parts factory."

"Those gear production lines, if they are only used to refurbish scrapped gearboxes, will not be able to fully utilize their capacity."

"Although refurbishing gearboxes can be quite profitable, this business is not sustainable in the long run."

In the coming years, the production capacity of various auto parts in China will continue to increase.

Various types of private enterprises will continue to emerge.

If Wudaoying Parts Factory wants to grow and expand, it must have its own unique strengths.

If we can't absorb the production capacity internally, we have to find a way from the outside.

Just like a country's economy, if there aren't enough domestic orders, they'll look for solutions in foreign trade.

The principle is similar.

In many cases, the profits from foreign trade are quite promising.

"Northern Gear Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has its own gear production line. It must be very difficult for us to get orders, right?"

When Jiang Hui mentioned expanding business in the parts manufacturing sector, Lin Yuanwu immediately thought of Beijing Gearbox.

After all, this production line was discarded from another company.

"We definitely won't get the 4MT and 3MT orders from North Gearbox."

"However, I spoke with their Chief Engineer Ji on the phone yesterday, and he gave me a new idea."

"I'm going to give it a try."

Upon hearing Jiang Hui's words, Lin Yuanwu immediately became interested. "What's the idea?"

"Brother Yuanwu, you should also know that Beichi doesn't just supply car transmissions to BAIC and Beijing Second Automobile Works."

"The gearboxes and related gears for the Capital Hand Tractor Factory, Capital Tractor Factory, Capital Construction Machinery Factory, and Capital Heavy Truck Factory are almost all supplied by their factory."

"Their name is Capital Gear Factory; they're essentially the gear supplier for all the machinery and equipment in the capital region."

Upon hearing Jiang Hui's words, Lin Yuanwu immediately guessed what was going on. "Could it be that we can supply tractor factories?"

In recent years, agricultural development has entered a completely new stage.

The demand for hand tractors has increased significantly across the country.

Every factory is trying to find ways to increase production capacity.

However, you can't just increase these capacities at will; it involves the entire supply chain.

"That's right, Chief Engineer Ji suggested that we supply gearbox parts to the Capital Tractor Factory."

"North Gear is now treating the capacity expansion of 4MT as its core business, which is also the business with relatively high profits."

"The gear production line at the tractor factory has no plans to expand production."

"After all, North Gear has more than 20,000 employees, and they don't want to do too many businesses that don't make money."

Although we are now in the era of a planned economy, large factories have gradually gained more autonomy to a certain extent.

Just like the BJ212 produced by BAIC, 100% of them used to be centrally allocated.

However, the policy has recently started to loosen a bit, allowing BAIC to arrange sales for 10% of its production.

The profit contributed by BAIC from this 10% production volume is probably not much different from the combined profit of the other 90%.

Because they can resell these cars on the market at a higher price.

The profit from one car can be several times that of a car that is centrally allocated.

While North Gear's flexibility isn't quite that high, it still has some say in adjusting its own production capacity.

"This is a good thing, as tractors and other agricultural machinery are used in very harsh environments."

"I think the repair parts market is also quite promising."

"We've never done this before. If we can get in touch with the Capital Tractor Factory, I think we can give it a try."

Compared to the precision required for car gearboxes, the gearbox gears on tractors are obviously much less difficult to manufacture.

Even the gearbox assembly was assembled by the Capital Tractor Factory itself, which purchased the parts.

Although Lin Yuanwu had not specifically studied it, he understood the basics of the technical difficulty involved.

"Well, we should be able to produce those gears that aren't too difficult to manufacture."

"However, North Gear is not very willing to expand production of this part of the gears, obviously because the price was not very high before."

"We think it won't be that easy to make big money in this business."

Jiang Hui was well prepared for this.

At the Wudaoying parts factory, the main task in the early stages was not to make a lot of money, but to expand customers and accumulate technology.

In the future, we will continue to enrich our product line to prepare for our next strategic move.

The tractor factory's orders are primarily to ensure the equipment can operate continuously and to help spread various costs.

At the same time, it also trains a group of its own technicians and operators.

Otherwise, if you don't produce anything, even if you have the equipment, the workers' skill level won't be up to par.

"If we really get the order, Shi Gui and I will keep an eye on those production lines together, and we'll make sure we don't hold them back."

For Lin Yuanwu, getting the gear production line up and running was absolutely a very important thing.

Otherwise, having so much equipment sitting there most of the time is quite anxiety-inducing.

Without hesitation, Jiang Hui quickly went to Beichi and found Ji Hua and Liu Wenfei, the head of their sales department.

"Xiao Jiang, these are the gears we are currently using in the gearboxes of the medium-sized wheeled tractors that we are producing for the Capital Tractor Factory (BeiTu).

"Beituo completed its capacity expansion this year, but our gear supply is not keeping up."

"If the gears you produce meet the requirements, they should be very willing to use them."

Jiang Hui played a significant role in enabling his company's 4MT to resolve various issues so quickly and smoothly enter mass production.

Others may not understand the value of intellectual property rights, but Ji Hua, the chief engineer, certainly does.

However, there is still a lack of standards for measuring the price of technology here.

Many people still cannot accept the idea of ​​exchanging technology for money.

So even though Jiang Hui had helped solve a lot of problems before, Beichi only dared to rent out its obsolete gear production lines to him at a low price.

Instead of directly using equipment to replace technology.

Now that we can make amends a bit, Ji Hua is still happy to help.

Of course, another consideration was that Ji Hua was also worried that some problems might arise when the 4MT was mass-produced, and he might not be able to handle them.

We'll have to ask Jiang Hui for help then.

If you don't maintain good relationships normally, you only think of others when something happens.

That definitely won't work.

"The precision requirements for these gears are one level lower than those for automotive transmissions, so our factory can definitely produce them."

Jianghu quickly glanced at the gears and related technical documents on the table.

"Yes, I don't think it's a big problem either, after all, your production line was originally leased from us."

"If you explain the situation clearly, the North Tractor Company shouldn't give you any special trouble."

As soon as Ji Hua said this, Liu Wenfei immediately chimed in, "Don't even mention the delays, their purchasing manager might even be begging you to work overtime and produce more gears."

"Right now, their tractors are in high demand, but the supply of spare parts can't keep up."

Liu Wenfei was clearly quite familiar with the situation in Beituo.

Although Beijing Tractor is considered an OEM, Beijing Gearbox is a parts supplier.

However, Beiqi is a super-large enterprise with more than 20,000 employees, and it is at the bureau level.

Therefore, the traditional relationship between Party A and Party B is clearly not applicable at this time.

Just like CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited) in later years, they produce batteries and are considered suppliers to various car companies.

But they don't seem like a typical service provider at all.