HISTORY

Fondy Auto Electric, Inc. started business in 1968 as a rebuilder of generators, starters, and alternators with two people operating in a 700 square foot building. The original intent of the business was to serve the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin community. Over the years, the business has grown from its humble beginnings to serve markets across the continental United States and select overseas markets.

FAE now has over 37,000 square feet of building space in three cities which houses complete remanufacturing facilities as well as inventory of completed goods to fit most any vehicle

PHILOSOPHY

Since the beginning in 1968, FAE has had a primary focus on producing high quality products. The secondary focus is to provide the highest level of service by knowledgeable personnel at a competitive price. Customers find that our prices are very competitive, but more importantly FAE products consistently exceed industry standards for quality.

With a market focus on selling into distribution that caters to professional installers, it has been felt that quality has to be the number one consideration. With professionals, warranties are an expensive obstacle to profits and customer satisfaction. Over the years FAE has succeeded in staying well ahead of the competition in providing quality products.

In the FAE factory, alternators, starters, and generators are completely disassembled. All "wear parts" such as brushes, bearings, bushings, seals, and gaskets are automatically discarded and replaced with new parts. Component parts are subjected to rigorous and sophisticated tests to ensure that all new and reconditioned parts will perform. Some parts such as housings are reclaimed after a thorough cleaning and inspection. The resulting new parts, reconditioned parts, and salvaged parts are reassembled using established procedures and specifications. After assembly all units are tested under load and in operating conditions similar to what will be found on the vehicle, to ensure that the final product will enjoy a long life after installation. Nothing is left to chance in the remanufacturing process.

Our goal is to remanufacture every unit to look and perform better than new. In fact we believe that our products have to perform better than new because they operate in conditions that are more adverse than a new part encounters. Our reman parts are made to be put on vehicles with batteries, cables, switches, engines, drive belts, flywheels, and connections that may have never been replaced and may be old and worn. We can't build our alternators, starters, and generators to operate efficiently and endure all of those problems, but we build them "tougher" than the original was when the vehicle was new.

One advantage that we have is millions of miles of field-testing. The original vehicle manufacturers do a good job of testing their products before putting them into production, but there will always be a weak link in the unit. We start seeing sales on these parts after the vehicles are out of warranty, so by that time there are millions of miles on them! When we first start seeing a new type of unit for remanufacture or repair we will analyze the cores to see what parts are failing. When the "weak link" is detected we work with our suppliers to build a new version of that part that will be more durable than the original. The result is a reman unit that is better than new.

The vast majority of remanufactured and some of the new rotating electrical that we sell is produced in our factory where we can control the quality. When we source a product from vendors those units are subjected to a stringent incoming QC inspection before we will put them on the shelf. We find a significant percentage of the units that are available in the market will not pass our incoming inspection. If you would buy that same product from a reseller, there is probably no inspection that would keep these substandard units from being sold to you.

INVENTORY

We have an extensive stock of units on hand and ready to ship. We stock alternators, starters, generators, batteries, and belts to fit automobiles, light trucks, agricultural and excavating equipment, lift trucks, heavy duty trucks, ATV's, boats, and more. Besides the wide array of different types of applications we remanufacture we cover most every brand that makes these different vehicles. Check out our online catalog to browse through the thousand of parts and pieces of equipment we work with.

REBUILD & RETURN

In the rare instance that we don't have the unit that you need in stock, or you want your old unit rebuilt we offer our "Rebuild & Return" service. Send your old starter, alternator, or generator to us we will rebuild it and send it back to you. This is especially popular with vehicle collectors that require matching numbers and people with hard to get parts.

VALUE

If you look hard enough you may be able to find the electrical part you need elsewhere at a better price, but you will not find a better value. You can be confident of high quality products from knowledgeable people at a competitive price when you buy from Fondy Auto Electric!