Teach you how to hunt for a good motorcycle fairing supplier in China

1. Brand Manufacturers.
2. Distributors.
3. Importers who specialize in importing motorcycle parts or certain part such as aftermarket motorcycle fairing, Harley parts.
4. The retailer sells at online shopping platform, like eBay, Shopify, Wish and Amazon, and those selling directly at personal websites.
5.  Racing Club, Repair shop, and individual consumers.

1. Manufacturer.
2. Trade companies.
3. Wholesalers.
4. E-commerce platform retailers.

Manufacturer are the source of products for all the different types of suppliers. As for you, the manufacturer is the supplier who will offer you products at the lowest price.

At present, there are three kinds of manufacturers in China:

1） Factories own injection molds to produce unpainted and painted abs fairing kit.

At present, there are only two such factories in China. One is in Zhejiang Province and another one is in Guangdong Province. They focus on producing unpainted motorcycle fairing, followed by spray painting process. Because own the mold, their unpainted fairing inventory is abundant. If you are a large brand manufacturer want to buy unpainted fairing to make paint job in your own workshop. This kind of factory will be your best choice. Their price of the unpainted fairing is the best. If you have enough economic strength to make your own mold, such factory can also help you very well. But remember to sign exclusive mold use agreement. Otherwise you will lose a lot if the factory to sell your exclusive product to other customers.

However, due to the huge investment in the molds, their price of the painte is on the high side. Besides, their painted scheme is single. Normally just with pure color or simple decal.

2) Factories own compression molds that only produce hand-made unpainted fairing kit.

This kind of factory is a typical small handicraft workshop.

• The administrators of the factory are usually composed of family members.
• The management is chaotic. All data including product models and price list have no formal records and can only quote oral.
• Working hours are unstable. They have long vacations for some major Chinese festivals and can never tell you when they will go back to work.
• There is no professional sales team and painted workshop. They only supply unpainted fairing to domestic spray paint factories. Not to domestic wholesalers or foreign customers.

Quality of the fairing kit made by compression mold is bad, more than 60% of them have the fitment issue. In addition, the compression mold fairing’s rough surface cause the paint issue, the workers must spend at least 2-3 days extra to smooth the surface. Therefore, we don’t advice customer order such fairing kit.

3) Factories without mold but own painting workshop (their unpainted fairing is from the above two factories)

They are especially good at spray painting process, and various color and decal are available. Usually, the complex scheme that the first factory can’t do is done by this kind of factory. Their price of the product is lower because there is no huge mold cost pressure. They focuses on product technology and service, so has great advantages in quality and production time. I divide this fairing suppliers into two categories :

A. There is a professional sales team selling products directly abroad.

If you are a brand manufacturer who need to expand the product line. Or you are a distributors, large wholesalers and even retail giants, such fairing kit factory must be your best choice. From product quality, to price, delivery time, payment term and service, such a factory can meet you the most and is of great help to promote your business. They have the following advantages:

• High Quality.

The key to determining the quality of fairing is painting quality. If the painting quality is good, over 90% of the fairing kit is of good quality. So, if you have high requirements for product quality, a factory that have their own painting workshop is the best choice for you. So that every process is under your control. And product problems can be found out on time and avoid recurrence. For how to control quality in the production, please read the “quality control” page at our website

• Colors and decals choice variety.

Whether the fairing kit is beautiful depends on the color and decals. The slight deviation of color has a great influence on the appearance of the motorcycle. Take blue color for example. Blue includes light blue, conventional blue, SUZUKI original blue, dark blue, purple-blue and pearl blue. Not every factory can completely according to your requirements to make the painting. And according to the color you require to design the most matching decals for you. In addition, this kind of factory’s type of decals is also the most complete. Jieshi Town has the most perfect motorcycle fairing supply chain. Take our factory as an example, if the decals we can’t find, I can guarantee that you can’t find them all over China.

• Good Price.

Because the large sale volume and no intermediate links, the price of such factories has obvious advantages. If the factories in Jieshi town, the advantages will be more obvious. Because the local workers’ salary and rent of workshop is low. Besides, because the town’s supply chain is complete, transportation cost of every material is much lower too.

• Delivery time guaranteed.

Because every process complete in the factory, the production can complete within the planned time. Unless the force majeure factors (earthquake, flood, typhoon and other natural factors). Normally the factory will take orders according to the actual production capacity. If not, the delivery time will be longer than the regular order, but the customer must be informed before placing orders.

• Professional sales team and the best after-sales service.

The sales team of such factory has professional industry and products train. Besides, because frequent visits abroad, they have a thorough understanding of customers’ demand. And can better cater to market preferences from product design to service. Customers can achieve real one-stop worry-free purchasing.

Topfairingkit.com is the most representative paint factory in China. It has strong production capacity and professional sales team. At present, more than 40% of the painted motorcycle fairing sold come from our factory. Our product quality has verify by the market and a large number of consumers. Besides, we are good at private customization products. 94% of customers who have worked with us at least once have maintained long-term cooperation.

B.  No sales team, products supplied to domestic wholesalers

They usually cooperate with domestic trading companies and sourcing agents. The prices of such factories are good. But as a foreign purchaser, it is more difficult to cooperate with such factories. First, it is difficult to communicate because they don’t have their own English salesman. Second, such factories have no export licensing right and incomplete customs declaration documents. In case of your fairing kit need to ship by sea, the customer declaration cost will be very high or even can’t be on board.

1) Sourcing agent or sourcing company

• Don’t have their own products, not familiar with the production process. They are more focused on sourcing services. You can enjoy complete import services that include finding suppliers, production follow-up, quality inspection, and shipping arrangement. So many Amazon sellers prefer the services of a sourcing agent.
• Charge service fee only, but some of them secretly earn the price difference. A regular sourcing agent will complete the inspection, customs declaration, transportation and other cumbersome works for you, and only collect service fees. But some irregular companies will raise their quotations to make the difference.
• Compared to trading companies, sourcing agents are more flexible. They can help you find any product you want in China. You just need to tell them what you want, and they will buy the product for you. Such companies are more suitable for retailers who directly sell to consumers. And they are suitable the companies that deal with a wide range of products.

2) The trading company that deals in a variety of automobile and motorcycle accessories, they have the following characteristics:

• Good communication. Some of them declare themselves to be factory. There are also some suppliers that will tell you directly that they are trading companies that can help you find a good factory. It’s true, trading companies work with many factories, and finding a good factory is not difficult for them. Trading companies commit to trading service and have their own sales team, so be able to communicate with customers very well.
• Small MOQ. Because of the long-term cooperation between trading companies and factories, you can get a small MOQ. But this is not an advantage for fairing business. Because the product characteristic, most manufacturers can accept one set or even one part as minimum order quantity.
• High price. Trade company as a middleman who wants to earn the price difference, their price is surely higher than factories. But their payment term is diversified, many of them accept L/C D/P and other payment terms that support customer’s business very well.
• Not professional in the production process, and can not guarantee delivered time. Trade company are generally concentrated in economically developed cities. But most of the fairing factories are far away from cities because of pollution issue. So trade company generally do not know much about the production process and can’t control the quality in every process. Factories usually give priority to foreign orders, followed by domestic trade companies. So trade companies are poor in controlling the production time. Many customers complained to me: ”we meet the quality problem, but why even the supplier doesn’t know why it happened”. Now you should know the reason. The supplier you are working with is just a trade company. They are really don’t know much about the production process, surely can’t solve the problem for you.

3) Trade Companies Registered by motorcycle fairing factory

There are two functions:

• Dealing with various customers.
  Normally they deal with foreign brand Manufacturers and wholesalers in the name of the factory. And deal with foreign retailers in the name of the trading company.

•  Help foreign exchange settlement and avoid high government taxes.
  This kind of factory can control the quality and delivery time very well. But because it deals with all kinds of customers at the same time, it causes market chaos. Their quotations are never based on the customer’s type. They don’t care whether they break the balance of the supply chain. The price is only related to the quantity of the order. Foreign brand manufacturers will often see their dealers sell at a price lower than their recommended market price. Wholesalers will see the same product sold at eBay with the price is even lower than their cost.

If you are a retailer, you may consider cooperating with wholesalers in China. The advantages are as follows:

• Wholesalers have a wide variety of products, some stores operate hundreds of accessories to meet the needs of different customers.
• Prices are generally lower, but wholesalers’ price is unstable because it’s enslaved by factory’s price verification system.
• Short delivery time. Wholesalers usually have stocks of products displayed in the store, but the quantity is not large. After paying, you can inspect the goods in person and take them away. After paying local freight they can even send the product to your local warehouses.

However, if your customers have high-quality requirements for products, I don’t recommend you to find small wholesalers. Because you can’t guarantee the consistency of the product quality. These small wholesalers often purchase from different factories. So it is difficult to guarantee that the quality of the goods will be the same every time. You can test the market this way when your business starts. But it’s definitely not a long-term solution. Also, they have almost no after-sales service. Once meet problem almost nobody will deal with it, the risk can only be borne by the buyer.

Normally the Chinese wholesaler don’t accept US dollars cash or wire transfer. They only take RMB, and they only accept transfer by domestic banks. Besides, all of them even don’t have company websites or online sell platform. If you need to buy something from them you can only use the phone (Chinese language only) or go directly to the store.

Yes, as an e-commerce platforms retailer, the competition is from the online retailers at the same platforms who is from China.

There are two kinds of Chinese online retailers at the shopping platforms (like eBay, Shopify, wish, Amazon etc).

2) The retailer that no overseas warehouse

Their products come from the Chinese wholesalers, usually without stock. Receive orders on the platform and then buy in the wholesale market in Luochongwei. They often supply of goods unstably because was limited by the wholesaler’s inventory. And because wholesalers ‘products come from different factories, the quality is also unstable. Their profit model is to fight the price war at ultra-low prices. And with almost no after-sales service.

Customers often complain to me: “Why price of retailers on eBay is even cheaper than yours? Are you a real factory? How can this happen? Where is my living space?” I can tell you that as a wholesaler or even a company upstream in the industrial chain. It will be a nightmare if you cooperate with this type of seller. Not only you will not make any profits, but also will lose a lot of money and your reputation which build by many years.