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20 million+
Ordered part lines
17 million
Supplier quotes, last 12 months
6 million+
Repair jobs
Jul 2021–Sep 2026
The window so far
34.1% of parts ordered are bumpers•40% of repair jobs need exactly one part•84% → 78% top-ten makes’ share of the order book•7.9% of part lines now carry a Chinese badge•69% in-stock rate for a quoted bullbar•94.1% weighted availability across the catalogue•17M supplier quotes in the last twelve months•1 in 11 parts ordered now for a Chinese make•20M+ ordered part lines, five years• 34.1% of parts ordered are bumpers•40% of repair jobs need exactly one part•84% → 78% top-ten makes’ share of the order book•7.9% of part lines now carry a Chinese badge•69% in-stock rate for a quoted bullbar•94.1% weighted availability across the catalogue•17M supplier quotes in the last twelve months•1 in 11 parts ordered now for a Chinese make•20M+ ordered part lines, five years•

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PartsCheck Labs is the data and research arm of PartsCheck. It turns the quotes and orders that pass through the platform into national data on collision repair, and publishes it free.

01The annual report Edition 01 · August 2026

What Australia repairs

Twenty million part lines on what gets fixed, how it’s changing, and what’s rolling in next.

It asks three questions. What does the typical repair look like? How are the cars on the road changing underneath it? And what does the order book already know about what’s coming?

Published
August 2026
Covers
Jul 2021–Jun 2026
Inside
10 chapters, 17 charts
Built from
20 million+ part lines
LIVE DATASET JUL 2021–JUN 2026
PARTSCHECK LABS · EDITION 01May is busy. December is quiet.THE AVERAGE MONTHJFMA+10%MJJASON-28%DMay runs 10% above the average month, December 28% below. The same shape every year.Each calendar month's repair jobs against that year's average month. Four complete calendar years, 2022 to 2025.PartsCheck ordered part lines, Jul 2021 – Jun 2026.Aggregated and de-identified. labs.partscheck.com.auPARTSCHECK LABS
PARTSCHECK LABS · EDITION 01
May is busy. December is quiet.
THE AVERAGE
MONTH
+10%-28%
JFMAMJJASOND
May runs 10% above the average month, December 28% below. The same shape every year.
Each calendar month's repair jobs against that year's average month. Four complete calendar years, 2022 to 2025.
PartsCheck ordered part lines, Jul 2021 – Jun 2026.
Aggregated and de-identified. labs.partscheck.com.au
PARTSCHECK LABS
N = 20M+ LINES CH.03 · THE CLOCKWORK YEAR

Why it matters to you

If you fix cars

Plan for the work that’s coming in.

Edition 01 shows what the typical job really looks like, which parts are getting harder to find when quoted, and which new makes are on their way to your workshop.

If you stock or supply parts

See where demand is moving.

Edition 01 shows which makes and part types are growing, how fast the newer makes are arriving, and where availability has slipped across the catalogue.

The report closes with what each part of the industry should take from it, with the figure to point to. That part only lives in the report.

What it tells you

Six numbers from Edition 01

Every figure below is exact and traceable to a published table. The annual report has ten chapters of this.

34.1%
One in three parts ordered is a bumper
THE ANATOMY OF A CRASH
40%
Four repair jobs in ten need exactly one part
THE TWO-PART JOB
84% → 78%
Toyota, Mazda and friends’ grip on the order book is slipping
A NATION OF TOYOTAS, LOOSENING
7.9%
One part line in thirteen now carries a Chinese badge
THE NEWCOMERS
69%
A bullbar is only on the shelf seven times in ten when it’s quoted
THE HARDER-TO-FIND LIST
94.1%
The everyday repair is as easy to buy for as it ever was
THE HARDER-TO-FIND LIST
Availability is a supplier’s own assertion at quote time that the part was in stock. Not verified fulfilment, not delivery, not fill rate, and never a measure of any supplier’s performance.

Inside Edition 01

Ten chapters, one report

This is the full table of contents. The chapters themselves land in your inbox.

01
The anatomy of a crash
One ordered part in three is a bumper.
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02
The two-part job
The typical crash is smaller than everyone thinks.
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03
The clockwork year
The collision year runs like clockwork. 2026 broke the pattern.
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04
A nation of Toyotas, loosening
One line in four is a Toyota, but the grip is slipping.
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05
The newcomers
Fourteen makes arrived from nowhere.
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06
The electronics creep
What a bumper hides now.
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07
The SUV signature
The SUV era, written in wheel-arch flares.
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08
The disappearing parts
Three part types are dropping off the parts list.
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09
The harder-to-find list
The catalogue got harder to buy from. The everyday repair did not.
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10
What’s coming
What the parts list already knows about the next five years.
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02The quarterly snapshots Snapshot 01 · October 2026 Latest

Who is waiting for parts

Between annual editions, Labs publishes a quarterly snapshot, each one taking a deeper dive into a topical area.

Over the last quarter, our team visited well over a hundred customers on site, across six states. Many of them raised the same thing, getting parts. So Snapshot 01 asks one question. Where is the wait coming from?

Published
October 2026
Covers
Jul 2021–Sep 2026
Inside
4 chapters, 10 charts
Last 12 months
17 million+ quotes
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Already subscribed? Snapshot 01 is in your inbox.

Latest · Snapshot 01 OCT 2026

Repairers say 2026 is one of the hardest years they can remember for getting parts. Our data agrees. It also shows where the wait is coming from.

One make explains the whole rise.

Parts with a wait of more than 3 days
17%
APR 2024SEP 2026
17 million
Supplier quotes in the last twelve months
1 in 6
Parts with a wait of more than three days, Sep 2026
1 in 11
Parts ordered for a Chinese make, Sep 2026
FIG. 01 · UP EVERY MONTH SINCE FEBRUARY QUARTERLY

Inside Snapshot 01

01The wait keeps growingOne part in six now comes with a wait
02Where the rise came fromOne make explains the whole rise
03One part in elevenThat’s how many parts ordered are now for Chinese makes
04Twice as likely to waitParts for Chinese makes wait most often, but less than they did

Snapshot 01 closes with one takeaway each for repairers, suppliers, assessors and car brands. That part only lives in the report.

A wait is a supplier’s own statement at quote time that a part will take more than three days or isn’t available. It isn’t a record of what was delivered or how quickly, and never a measure of any individual supplier.

How this is built

Aggregated. De-identified. Nothing traced back.

PartsCheck Labs publishes aggregated, de-identified findings from the PartsCheck platform. These are the rules every report is built on, and each report sets out its full method at the back.

Scope
Edition 01 covers parts ordered through PartsCheck by participating Australian repairers and suppliers between July 2021 and June 2026. Snapshot 01 covers parts quoted and ordered between July 2021 and September 2026. Both are aggregated to national totals and de-identified throughout.
Identification
No repairer, supplier or insurer is identified anywhere in Labs, and nothing in it can be traced back to one. Vehicle makes are named because they are a public fact about the fleet.
Pricing
There is no pricing of any kind in Labs. No list prices, no paid prices, no discounts, no win rates, no individual quotes or purchase orders, and no comparison between one business and another.
Volume floors
A growth or availability figure for a part type or make is published only where enough activity sits behind it. In Edition 01 that means at least 5,000 ordered lines, or 5,000 quote requests for availability, in both comparison windows. In Snapshot 01 it means at least 1,000 quotes or parts ordered in every period compared. That is because a small category can double on a hundred parts nationally, and because a thin category is where a single business could start to show through. Small categories are left out rather than shown.
Coverage
Labs only sees parts quoted or ordered through PartsCheck, and a repair job appears only if at least one part was ordered for it. Labour-only repairs aren’t counted, so this isn’t every repair in Australia. Tesla is not included, because PartsCheck has no visibility of the parts quoted on that brand.
Your data
Your quotes, your orders, your volumes and your prices never leave the platform. Everything PartsCheck shares is aggregated, and none of it can be traced back to a repairer or supplier, in line with our platform terms.

Availability figures, where they appear, are a supplier’s own statement at quote time that a part was in stock. They are not a record of whether the part arrived or how long it took, and never a measure of any individual supplier. Data is taken as entered and not independently verified. Labs is published for general information and is not advice. See Using this report, and the platform terms at partscheck.com.au/global/terms.php.

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Aggregate only. No repairer or supplier is identified anywhere in this series.