Fenders are an interesting issue. Painted parts are the most difficult parts for us to obtain on a regular basis. Royal Enfield is running at full capacity. They have waiting lists for some models in India. One of the bottlenecks in production is the painted parts. They are faced with the conundrum that all manufacturers face, so we stop production because we are out of fenders, or do we service that guy 10,000 miles away who can only yell in the phone or over e-mail. To exacerbate the problem we are very picky about what we will accept, much more so than people in the Indian market. It is getting better but if it was easy everyone would be doing it. If you are the one waiting for a painted part you can bet your wait will be the longest. We try to keep quite a bit of stuff in stock but we do run out as you have experienced.
On another note, India is a wonderful place that is absolutely booming, but not without growing pains. Because it is a strong democracy (unlike Communist Red China) things don't get done as easily as in China. If the Chinese want to put in a road, they just throw the peasants out with no argument. In India people have rights and at some level the Government cares about them. To be sure, like all places, they probably care about those with money a bit more. If dock workers or truck drivers (who are generally unionized - yes the RE is Union Made) strike it is legal, In China you just disappear. I have no beef with China, but they have been able to modernize by government decree. India has had to do it in a democratic way with a lot of talk, soul searching and arguing. India is throwing tons of money at the problem and I am starting to see the differences however. China has no pollution laws and India's are rather strict and getting much much stricter. Again a long way to go, but they are making solid progress and are committed to the process - more than we are in the US. You also have to remember that parts are still often times made in small workshops by small business people which means that there are errors, disruptions etc. Parts are still delivered by hand drawn carts, Bullock carts and bicycles in many cases. Not modern, but do you put all of these hard working people out of business? Fenders and tanks are still basically handmade and not just stamped out by the thousands. run your hand carefully over the sides of a tank sometime and you can feel what I mean. It is quaint and cool, but creates manufacturing problems.
For better or worse this is changing, but it is what it is at present.
At any rate this is just my pro-India rant. In general Indians are among some of the smartest, most well educated, honest and hard working people I have ever met.