The questions buyers ask first.
Direct answers to what wholesale buyers most often want to know before writing — including several questions this website answers with a plain no.
Twelve questions, answered at the length the answer actually needs rather than in a single line.
Where an answer is “no” — certifications, prices, stock, delivery times — it says no, and explains why nothing is published rather than implying something is.
Every answer that has a fuller treatment elsewhere links to it.
Answered properly, rather than briefly
A one-line answer to a real question is usually a way of avoiding it. These are written at the length that actually settles the point.
Four of the twelve are answers this site gives in the negative: no certifications are claimed, no prices are published, no stock positions are stated, and no delivery commitments are made. Those absences are deliberate and are explained rather than glossed over, because a buyer who assumes something is available and finds later that it was never claimed has been misled just as effectively as one who was told something untrue.
Frequently asked questions
A wholesaler in this trade sits between the buyer and the supply of the product, and the substantial part of the work is not moving goods — it is establishing precisely what is required and then sourcing against that requirement in commercial quantities.
In practice that means three things. First, identification: turning a description like “a seatbelt for a van” into something specific enough to source, usually with photographs and a series of questions. Second, sourcing: finding the item against that identified requirement. Third, coordination: quantity, packing, destination, documentation and timing.
Wholesale differs from retail in more than volume. A retail transaction is largely a selection from what is displayed; a wholesale one is a conversation that arrives at a specification, and that conversation is where most of the value and most of the risk sits.
Seven things, in roughly this order of importance: the vehicle or application, the product requirement, photographs, the quantity, the destination, anything you already know about the existing part, and any additional constraints.
You do not need all seven for an enquiry to be worth sending. But an enquiry that covers most of them can usually be answered in a single reply, whereas one that covers none will need several rounds of questions before it reaches the same point.
The buyer guide sets out each of the seven in detail, with a short list of what to gather for each, and the enquiry form arranges the same fields in the same order.
Yes — larger and repeat quantities are the normal subject of a wholesale enquiry, and quantity is one of the first things worth stating.
Where a requirement spans more than one part, give a breakdown rather than a single total. A total conceals the fact that it covers several different items, and that is generally discovered later at some expense. If the figure is uncertain, an honest range with a note that it is a range is more useful than a precise number that turns out to be wrong.
Please note that no stock position, lead time or delivery commitment is published on this website. Availability for any particular requirement is established in the course of a specific conversation, not in advance of one.
Yes, and for most requirements photographs are the single most useful thing you can send. Where a part is accessible, an image will routinely settle an identification that a written description leaves open.
The enquiry form on this site does not upload files, so photographs should be attached to an email or sent by whichever channel suits you. The direct email address is published on the contact page and in the footer of every page.
Photograph the part in place before it is removed if you possibly can. The routing of the webbing and the position of the anchor points are frequently what identifies a part, and both disappear the moment it comes out of the vehicle.
Yes, and doing so is strongly preferable to describing the product in isolation. A seatbelt requirement without a vehicle is a requirement without a subject, because the same product description covers items that differ substantially between vehicles and between positions within the same vehicle.
Give the make and model, the model year or generation if you know it, and then the seating position: front or rear, which side, and whether it is an outer or a centre seat. If the vehicle has been configured for a particular purpose, or the seating layout is not the standard one, say so.
The applications page covers how requirements differ across passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, fleets, workshops, automotive businesses and replacement situations.
In descending order of usefulness: photographs of the part in place, the vehicle and seating position, photographs of the part removed, any markings on the webbing or hardware, and rough physical dimensions where they can be measured safely.
Markings are worth particular attention. They are often small, worn or partly hidden, and are routinely missed on a first look — but a partial marking frequently narrows a search that a full written description would not. Photograph them even if they look illegible; they often read better on a screen than in a vehicle footwell.
It is also worth noting what has already been tried and did not work. That is valuable information and is almost never volunteered.
Yes. Workshops and service points are among the most common sources of wholesale enquiries, and they have a natural advantage that is frequently unused: the part is physically present and can be examined, measured and photographed.
A workshop enquiry with clear photographs and two lines of text — what the vehicle is and what is needed — is more useful than a long written description without images, and it takes less time to produce.
Quantity is not a barrier. A requirement for one or two units is an entirely normal wholesale enquiry, and it is worth stating the number plainly, because a supplier handles a two-unit requirement differently from a two-hundred-unit one.
Yes, and it is worth flagging explicitly that a requirement repeats. A one-off requirement and a recurring one are handled differently from the first message onward, and stating which you have costs a single sentence.
For repeat requirements the most valuable thing you can do is write the description once, properly, and re-use it. A requirement documented position by position with photographs becomes a document that serves every subsequent order; one re-described from memory each time has to be re-established each time.
If you keep an internal reference for the requirement, include it. It allows the same enquiry to be quoted again later without rebuilding it.
Suitability for the vehicle and the intended use, and that selection and fitment are handled by people competent to do so. This is not a formality — for occupant restraint equipment the buyer is the party who knows the vehicle, the use and the person who will fit it, and is therefore the only party positioned to confirm that an item is appropriate.
On receipt, check what arrived against what was described, item by item, and check across the consignment rather than only the first unit opened. Raise any discrepancy immediately rather than working around it.
Where documentation exists for a specific item, ask what it covers and what it does not. A general claim on a website that documentation exists is not the same as documentation for the item you are buying, and should not be treated as such.
No. No certification, approval, standard, homologation, test result, award or accreditation is claimed anywhere on this website, because none has been supplied for publication here.
That absence is deliberate. Publishing a claim of that kind without an item and a document behind it would be worse than saying nothing, and it would undermine the parts of the site that are accurate.
If certification or documentation matters to your requirement — and for many wholesale buyers it will — raise it directly. It is a reasonable question about a specific item and it will be answered on the basis of what is actually known about that item.
No. No price, stock position, lead time or delivery commitment appears anywhere on this website.
These are established for a specific requirement in the course of a specific conversation. A figure published in advance of that would be a guess presented as a fact, and would be wrong often enough to be actively misleading.
Send the requirement — vehicle or application, product, quantity, destination — and those questions can be addressed against something concrete.
By phone on +91 99206 38354, or by email at info@autogleam.in. Both are published in the footer of every page on this site.
The contact page also carries an enquiry form that arranges the useful fields in a sensible order. The form has no message-sending backend attached to it, so it assembles your details into a structured enquiry and hands them to your own email application rather than claiming to have sent anything.
For anything involving photographs, email is the more practical route, since the form cannot carry attachments.
If your question is not here, ask it directly
This page covers what comes up most often, not everything. Anything specific to your requirement — a particular vehicle, a particular quantity, a documentation question, a destination requirement — is better raised directly than inferred from a general page.
Call +91 99206 38354 or write to info@autogleam.in.
Still the fastest answer: describe the requirement.
Most questions about availability, suitability and documentation can only be answered against a specific item. Send the vehicle, the product, the quantity and the destination.
