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Gilbert Wandera, Manager
ORDER PARTS ONLINE
“We also use parts.cat.com often, mostly for
oils and greases. It’s quick. We can order and
pay for parts from anywhere. We can check Ayoti Contractors, Kenya
part availability. And, everything is delivered
right to your doorstep. It saves a lot of time
and hassle because it’s easy to log in, get
the right part number and see everything you
need. If I have any questions, I can call our Ayoti Contractors is a construction The non-Cat parts wear too fast.
sales rep for clarification.” – Gilbert Wandera company that is growing, and we In the long-term, it’s more cost
have ambitions of being the best in effective to get the Cat GETs.
western Uganda. We run a D320
excavator, 140K motor graders We do have our own workshop and
and a 426F2 backhoe. Mostly, we service team that we use mostly
use our machines for roadworks, just to save time and money. Even
trenching and moving material. though we are a do-it-ourselves kind
of operation, we do have a Customer
We chose Caterpillar over other Value Agreement (CVA), that includes
suppliers mostly because of the inspections so we can make sure
aftermarket support. That’s probably the machines are running like
the most important thing to us. If there they should be. In turn, that helps
is a breakdown, we know there are machine uptime and reliability, which
many repair options in the market. But is important to us because we work
after using those cheaper parts, we on a lot of government contracts and
found that we initially spent less they come with specific timeframes
money, but over time, it costs more. for completion. And I feel like we have
the right balance between that and the
For example, we were using non-Cat fuel aftermarket services from Mantrac.
filters. Yes, they were less expensive, but
don’t last the expected 250 hours and I would say we have a partnership
could cause fuel problems if not changed with Mantrac. That is very important
out soon enough. I found we had to to keeping a company like ours
change those filters twice, compared to operating in the time frame we are
the normal interval for the Cat filters. It’s given by our own customers.
the same for non-Cat ground engaging
tools (GETs) we purchased.

But after using those cheaper parts,
‘‘we found that we initially spent
’’
less money, but over time, it costs more.