About Us
What a decade behind the parts counter adds up to.
The Shop In Numbers
Ten Years Of Getting It Right The First Time
JK Auto Tint began as a small shop in Taman Mount Austin doing window film and accessories, with motorcycles parked outside more often than cars. The riders who dropped in were rarely after anything exotic. They wanted a set of pads that would not fade in traffic, a chain that would survive the monsoon, a mirror that would still be pointing the right way after a week of potholes. When we could not supply it, they went home disappointed — and so did we.
So we started stocking, slowly and stubbornly. One product at a time, each one fitted to a bike in our own bay first. That habit turned into the rule the whole business now runs on: nothing gets listed until someone here has installed it, ridden on it, and been willing to leave it on their own machine. It is a slow way to build a catalogue, and it has cost us plenty of easy sales, but it is the reason returns here are rare.
The second thing we got serious about was fitment. Most bad experiences with online parts come down to a listing that promised a model it had never been tested against. We record the model years we have actually confirmed, we say plainly when we are unsure, and we would rather spend ten minutes on a message thread with your plate details than take an order we suspect is wrong. A refund does not give you back the Saturday you lost.
The third is packing, which nobody advertises and everybody notices. Sprockets and levers get padded separately, bodywork travels in double wall cartons, and orders heading to Sabah and Sarawak are wrapped for the longer, rougher route. We changed how we pack because of the few parcels that arrived damaged, not because of the many that did not.
Today the shelves cover everything from a 110cc kapchai to a weekend tourer, and the orders come from Perlis to Tawau. What has not changed is who we picture when we stock something new: a rider on the side of a road, hoping the part in the box is the right one. Our whole job is making sure it is.