chennai the chennai floods have not only hobbled the detroit of the south with most companies in the oragadamirrugattukottaimaraimalainagar belt shutting down for most of last week but it is now beginning to hit automobile companies across india being an important auto hub chennai is home to a large number of auto parts vendors already toyota kirloskar motor tkm has announced a oneday shutdown on sunday due to parts shortage from its chennai vendors the company will take a call on whether to extend the shutdown or not on monday depending upon the situation in chennai others like mahindra mahindra are already suffering production cuts due to irregular parts supply from chennai vendors said n raja svp and director marketing tkm we have around 50 tier i and many tier ii suppliers in chennai who are impacted by the floods there besides our dealerships are also impacted because of the incessant rains in chennai our teams continue to monitor and support our suppliers and dealer partners to restore their normal operations however considering the severe situation we were constrained to stop production at our plant for one day sunday we would try to recover this loss soon so that our customers are not inconvenienced he added chennais parts hub supplies to a number of auto companies both in and outside tamil nadu many of them are already facing a production snag due to parts shortage said pawan goenka mm group president auto farm sector we are not effecting a shutdown but have been losing production for the last 23 days and will continue to lose for another couple of days however we think the loss will be made up and there will be no impact on sales the good news though is that a number of chennaibased automotive factories opened on sunday after twofour days of closure renaultnissans oragadam plant for instance opened on sunday december 6 and its chennaibased it server down for most of last week is also up and running hyundai too ran all shifts at its irrugattukottai plant on saturday and sunday december 5 6 it is reviewing the situation on a daily basis daimler india commercial vehicles which also has its factory in oragadam has been shut from the second half of tuesday december 1 until sunday and plans to resume work from monday december 7 related article tata motors jamshedpur plant hit by chennai rains by nandini sengupta tnn published on dec 7 2015 at 0126 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto