Which car parts UAE customers ask for: Easy Auto's 2026 request data

This page counts what UAE drivers and garages asked Easy Auto for when they needed a car part: 1,667 requests between 20 July and 2 November 2026. It breaks them down by car make, by emirate, by month, by hour of the day and by day of the week, by the system the part belongs to, by the condition and grade the customer would accept, and by the words customers used, with the parts mentioned most for each of the six makes customers ask about most. It is written for parts suppliers deciding what to stock and what to put on a stock list, and it says plainly where the data stops.

Every number on the page is a count, not a model, a forecast or a survey answer. Where a figure is a share, it is a share of the count named beside it, and every chart and table says which source it comes from and the dates it covers. Nothing here is weighted, adjusted or projected to the rest of the market.

There are two sources, counted separately and never added together twice. The first is 1,380 requests made through the website's request forms and the first WhatsApp bot, 20 July 2026 to 1 November 2026; these carry the make, the emirate and the customer's own description of the part, and the part number when one was given. The second is 287 requests on the shop's WhatsApp, 7 October 2026 to 2 November 2026, which split into 304 part lines, each with a system, a wanted condition and a wanted grade recorded.

The two sources never hold the same request. From 7 October WhatsApp requests went to the shop and are counted there instead. That is why make, emirate, month, hour and weekday come from the first source, while system, condition and grade come from the second. No chart on this page mixes the two.

Test numbers, staff conversations and internal test chats are excluded. The queries are read-only and return totals only: no name, phone number or message text leaves them. The main counts were taken on 3 November 2026; the breakdowns by month, hour, weekday and make were taken the following day with the same cut-off. Every figure from the shop's WhatsApp stops at the end of 2 November 2026, Dubai time, so live requests arriving later never make two pages disagree.

Three words are used precisely throughout. A request is one customer asking for something. A part line is one part inside a shop request, so a request for two different parts is two lines. A mention is one use of a word in a request's description, so a request that says "front bumper and front grille" mentions front twice. The table sets out these and the other terms.

Toyota leads with 188 requests and Nissan follows with 171; together they account for 359 of 1,380 requests, 26%. Hyundai, Ford, Honda and Mitsubishi come next, each with between 62 and 74, and the twelfth place, Suzuki, has 32.

The top twelve makes account for 883 requests. The other 497 named a make outside the twelve or gave none. Makes below the twelfth are not charted, because a ranking of small counts says more about chance than about demand.

For a supplier the first reading is simple: a list strong in Toyota and Nissan parts covers the makes asked about most. A narrower list still matters, because requests for the less common makes keep arriving, and a list that holds those parts can be matched without a message to anyone.

Grouped by where the make comes from, Japanese makes take six of the top twelve places and 572 requests, 65% of the requests the twelve account for. Korean makes follow with 118, American makes with 109 and German makes with 84.

Lexus is worth reading beside Toyota. It is Toyota's own premium make, and some Lexus models share parts with Toyota models, so a supplier strong in genuine Toyota parts may meet some Lexus requests too. Toyota and Lexus together come to 242 requests.

The smaller groups still matter to a supplier who specialises in them. 84 requests for two German makes over the same weeks is a steady flow that a specialist list can meet, and that a list built only around Japanese makes cannot.

For each of the six makes customers asked about most, the table lists the part words used most often in that make's requests, with the number of mentions. The make's own name and position words such as front and left are left out. The counts are mentions, not requests: a Toyota request that says "brake pads and brake discs" counts brake twice.

Toyota requests lean toward brakes, engines and the body: brake (15), engine (13), bumper (13), door (11), then radiator and mirror at 9 each. Nissan requests are led by engine (14), and seat (9) appears in no other top make's list. Gearbox (9) and transmission (8) together are mentioned 17 times in Nissan requests, which gives a supplier with Nissan drivetrain parts a reason to list them in full.

Hyundai's counts are small, from 74 requests: sensor (6), then brake and bumper at 5 each, then airbag, timing and radiator. Ford's are led by engine (9), with hose and radiator at 8 each, then sensor, intake and oxygen.

Honda's list reads like the front of a car: brake and bumper at 9 each, hood (8), then engine, radiator and headlight. Mitsubishi's is led by engine (10) and cover (8), then compressor, light, battery and suspension.

Two words run through almost every make. Radiator appears in five of the six lists and engine in five. Cooling and engine parts are worth carrying across makes, not only for the make a shop is known for.

Counts this small are a pointer, not a ranking. A difference of one or two mentions between two words means nothing. A word that is in the top six for one make and nowhere else, such as seat for Nissan or hood for Honda, is the useful signal: it is worth a look at your shelves for that make.

1,074 of the 1,380 requests named an emirate; 305 gave none and are left out of the chart rather than guessed. Dubai leads with 403, then Abu Dhabi with 281 and Sharjah with 213. Al Ain is shown as customers gave it, separately from the rest of Abu Dhabi; together they come to 312.

Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain together sent 146, 14% of the requests that named an emirate. The northern emirates send fewer requests, and much of the parts trade sits in the markets of Sharjah Industrial Area, Ras Al Khor and Mussafah.

A supplier in Sharjah may well be serving a customer in Abu Dhabi, which is why collection and delivery are agreed with each supplier before the first order rather than worked out sale by sale.

The first source grew month on month until WhatsApp moved. July counts only from the 20th, when these records begin, with 98 requests. August brought 420 and September 683, 63% more than August.

October fell to 177, and the fall comes from where requests were counted. From 7 October WhatsApp requests went to the shop and are counted there instead. The shop's WhatsApp counted 287 requests between 7 October and 2 November 2026, and they are not in this chart: adding them to October would mix two ways of counting.

Two cautions follow. The growth before October says that this one channel was growing, not that the UAE parts market was. And the October figure cannot be compared with September at all, because the WhatsApp part of the channel had moved.

July to October is also too short to show a season. This data cannot yet say whether summer heat, school holidays or the cooler months change what customers ask for. Each quarterly refresh adds months, and a seasonal pattern needs more than one year of data before it can be called one.

Most requests arrive in working hours: 950 of 1,380, 69%, between 08:00 and 18:00, Dubai time. But 305 (22%) came between 18:00 and midnight, and 125 (9.1%) between midnight and 08:00. Together that is 430 requests, 31%, sent outside a 08:00 to 18:00 working day.

For a supplier this is the argument for a list over a phone number. A request that arrives at nine in the evening for a part on your shelf reaches your stock only if someone at your shop is free to answer it, or if the stock is written down somewhere it can be found. A list does not depend on anyone being free.

The bands are wide on purpose. Narrower hourly bands from a few months of data would show peaks that may not repeat, and a supplier planning staff hours needs the broad shape, not the noise.

Saturday brought the most requests, 238, closely followed by Monday with 232. Friday was the quietest day with 140, 10% of the total. The other days sit between them.

Friday is quiet on the supplier side too. When Easy Auto's sourcing desk asked suppliers for parts between 7 October and 2 November 2026, 14 of 39 Friday messages were answered (36%), against 205 of 449 on the other days (46%).

The useful reading is the floor, not the peak. Requests arrive on every day of the week, Friday included, so stock that is only reachable when its owner is at the counter can miss some of them every week.

On the shop's WhatsApp each requested part is recorded as a line and given a system. Of 304 lines between 7 October and 2 November 2026, 227 were classified and 77 were not. Electrical parts lead, body panels come second, and engine parts, lighting and cooling follow. Electrical and lighting together come to 68 of the 227 classified lines, 30%.

Brakes and filters rank low here. Our reading is that customers who need pads or a filter mostly buy them at a workshop or a counter, so what comes to us on WhatsApp leans toward parts that are harder to find, which is where a supplier's list is most valuable.

The two sources do not quite agree on brakes, and that is worth saying. In the earlier descriptions, brake is the second most-mentioned part word, with 99 mentions; on the shop's WhatsApp, brakes are eighth by system with 11 lines. The sources cover different months and different ways of asking, and this data cannot tell which explains the gap. A supplier with brake parts should list them either way.

Most part lines asked for new parts. Of 304 WhatsApp part lines, 213 (70%) asked for new only, 76 (25%) would take new or used, and 15 (4.9%) asked for used only. That is close to three in ten lines open to a used part.

The condition was recorded on every one of the shop's lines, which is why this section uses only those and not the earlier forms.

Stock lists sent to Easy Auto are for new parts; lines that are not new are set aside, not loaded. The 76 lines that would take either condition are still open to a new part, so 289 of 304 lines, 95%, could be met from a list of new stock.

Most part lines did not insist on a grade. Of 304 shop lines, 212 (70%) would accept any grade, 37 (12%) asked for genuine only and 23 (7.6%) for aftermarket only. On 32 lines no preference was recorded.

Leaving the unrecorded lines out, 78% of the 272 lines with a recorded preference were open to any grade. That makes the brand column one of the most useful in a stock list: the customer who accepts any grade still wants to know which brand they are getting, and the customer who wants genuine needs the genuine flag on your line to be right.

What genuine, OEM-brand and aftermarket mean, and how they differ, is explained in our guide to genuine, OEM and aftermarket parts in the UAE. This page only counts which one customers asked for.

Customers describe parts in their own words, and the words they use most say a lot about what they need. Position words such as front, rear, left and right are left out of the table, which counts the part words themselves; a list that records the side of a part still saves a round of questions.

The list mixes systems. Engine and transmission words sit beside body words such as bumper, door and mirror, and beside radiator and compressor. Battery and filter, routine parts, still rank in the top six, which suggests customers ask online for routine parts as well as the hard-to-find ones.

A word in a description is not always the part the customer needs. A customer who writes engine may want a whole engine, an engine mount or an engine sensor. That is why every description is turned into an exact part number, from the car, its VIN where we have it, a photo or catalogue data, before any stock list is searched.

Only 67 of 1,380 requests (4.9%) arrived with a part number. Customers send a description, a photo of the broken part or its label, or just the car. Before a request can meet a stock list, someone has to turn it into a number, and that is work Easy Auto does on every request.

For a supplier this has one practical consequence: the genuine numbers in your list matter as much as your own. A customer's request is turned into an exact part number first, often the carmaker's genuine number, and a list that cross-references genuine numbers can be matched to it.

The few numbers customers do give are not always the number on a supplier's box. A customer may copy an aftermarket number off the old part, or a genuine number that the carmaker has since replaced. A list that carries the genuine number next to its own, and the newer number where the supplier knows it, meets more of them.

The table turns the make figures into a checklist. It does not say what will sell; it says where the requests in this data were, so a supplier can hold them up against the shelves and see what is missing from the list.

Two rules apply to every make. Put the genuine number beside your own wherever you know it, because a request becomes a genuine number before it meets a list. And record the side and position of body and lighting parts in the description, because customers ask by side.

Today few requests meet a list at all. Of the 304 shop lines, 10 were found in a stock list Easy Auto holds and 294 had to be sourced by asking suppliers one part at a time. Every make in the table is a place where a list could have answered first.

By system, the shop's lines point the same way. The table gives each of the nine largest systems its count and its share of the classified lines, with what a list should carry so that a request for that system finds the line.

17 more lines fell into four small systems, hardware, drivetrain, sensors and filters, and 77 were not classified. They are left out of the table rather than spread across it.

None of this asks a supplier to buy stock to match the data. It asks that the stock already on the shelves is on the list, under the numbers and words customers use to ask for it.

Several of the part words customers use most name part types that need a conformity certificate in the UAE. The UAE Scheme for Automotive Spare Parts, Cabinet Resolution No. 12 of 2018, has applied since 1 May 2018, and requires a supplier to obtain a conformity certificate before offering any part type in its schedule. The schedule includes braking systems and brake pads, engine radiators, rear-view mirrors, lead-acid starter batteries, oil filters and air filters, and door locks and hinges: part types behind several words in the word table above, among them brake, radiator, mirror, battery and filter.

Under the scheme, a supplier includes an importer, an agent, a storage company and a main or sub-distributor, and offering a part covers storing, marketing and promoting it as well as selling it. For genuine parts, the manufacturer's test report and declaration of conformity serve as the evidence. The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology now issues the certificates through its ECAS service.

This report counts what customers ask for and says nothing about which parts on the market hold a certificate. This section is a summary of the law for orientation, not legal advice; the scheme can be checked in Cabinet Resolution No. 12 of 2018 on the UAE Legislation Portal and with the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology.

It is one seller's requests, not the market. Easy Auto is one place UAE customers ask for parts. Parts bought at counters, through workshops and from other sellers are not here, and nothing on this page should be read as a share of UAE demand.

It counts asking, not buying. A request shows what a customer wanted. It does not show whether they bought it, from whom, or at what price, and supplier price lists are never published, here or anywhere else.

It leans toward customers who ask online. People who prefer to drive to a souq, or who have a regular counter, are under-counted, and so, probably, are the routine parts they buy there. The periods are short, and the two sources record different things over different weeks.

We plan to re-count it every quarter. Each refresh re-runs the same read-only counts on both sources, moves the date at the top of the page, and adds the new months to the month chart. Figures are never edited by hand between refreshes, and because every supplier page reads its numbers from one place, a number that changes here changes on every page that quotes it.

If you supply parts and want your stock in front of these requests, the pages on how selling your stock works and on the stock list format explain what to send and what happens to it once it arrives.