We only sell the part
that actually matters.
Engine Junction imports engines and gearboxes into Zambia, and now sells into South Africa from the same supply chain. Registered with PACRA as Auto Engine Junction, and trading from premises in Kabulonga and Roodepoort.
Buying an engine here was a gamble, so we stopped gambling
Anyone who has replaced an engine in Lusaka knows how it usually goes. A photograph on WhatsApp, a number, and a unit that turns up looking nothing like the picture — wrong mileage, wrong code, sometimes a different engine altogether. The money is gone before anyone has turned a spanner.
We started importing because we were tired of that, first for ourselves and then for people who asked where we had got ours. The buying is done in South Africa, where the yards are deep and the paperwork is real, and the units come north.
So every engine that reaches the site has been tested by us, photographed by us, and listed with what we actually found rather than what the seller claimed. If a unit does not pass, it never appears — which is why the catalogue is smaller than it could be.
Buying in South Africa for long enough eventually made it obvious that we should be selling there too. The Roodepoort premises came out of that, and both sides now run off the same stock and the same standard.
Sourcing
We buy from established yards and importers in South Africa, with units also coming through Dubai and Thailand. Low mileage first: most of what we list has run under 30,000 km.
Inspection
Every unit is compression and leak-down tested when it lands, turned over by hand and checked for play. Anything that does not pass goes back rather than onto the site.
Two countries, two yards
Head office and the main holding yard are in Kabulonga, Lusaka. The South African side runs out of Roodepoort, which is also where most stock is bought.
What a listing has to prove before it goes live
Tested, then described
Compression and leak-down figures are taken on arrival, by us, on that unit. If we cannot measure something we do not claim it — there are no brochure figures passed off as test results.
Photographed as it stands
The photographs on a listing are of the engine you will receive, taken in our yard, including the marks and the casting numbers. No stock images of a similar unit.
Thirty days, in writing
Every engine carries a 30-day warranty from delivery. It is short because it is real: it covers the unit doing what we said it would, and we honour it without an argument.
Fitment for the vehicles here
The fitment notes cover the Hiace, Hilux, Canter and the rest of what actually runs on these roads, because that is what we are asked for and what we have fitted.
Not sure what fits? Describe the car.
Send us the vehicle, the year and the gearbox. We will come back with the two or three engines that actually make sense for it — and the ones that do not, before you spend anything.