Focus on electric parts

22 April 2013  

This year, GKN expanded its range of driveline products with a number of replacement driveshafts, steering racks and electric steering columns. The supplier provides sideshafts plus joint and boot kits for all common brands and vehicle types with 3,200 spare parts and kits for at least 12,000 vehicle types. Replacement shafts can be found in the Spidan and Lobro ranges for the majority of common vehicles, including new variants of the BMW 6 and X3 series, Audi A3, VW Caddy, Passat and Eos. The Spidan steering range includes racks, power pumps and EPS parts and newcomers include parts for BMW, Fiat, Hyundai, Mercedes and many more. It is particularly focusing on electric steering columns and electric power pumps as the demand for these will increase over-proportionally in the future. A new product line was also introduced in January – the Spidan range of protection kits which protect shock absorbers and mountings.