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Toll Free Hotline: 0800 41 2106 (Office Hours)
www.schaeffler-aftermarket.co.za
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two new appointments at Schaeffler group
Malcolm Stansell-Laird joins the
Schaeffler SA Aftermarket team
as an Area Manager. With 19
years experience in the South
African Automotive component
aftermarket, Malcolm assumes
responsibility for the Northern Gauteng region,
Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Swaziland.
Willem Doman also joins the
Schaeffler Aftermarket team as an
Area Manager. Willem has 17 years
experience within the Audi Dealer
network, with seven years as a
Workshop Manager. The greater
Gauteng area and part of the North West
Province will be his responsibility.
Vivo Energy, Bosch sign pan-African partnership agreement
Vivo Energy and Bosch have announced
a pan-African agreement to expand both
companies’ footprint in providing services
to their growing customer base. Through
this partnership, Vivo Energy and Bosch
will bring together their respective expertise
in the areas of automotive spare parts
and services, and retail distribution of oil
products.
The Automotive Aftermarket division of
Bosch Middle East and Africa will distribute
commodities such as batteries, filters, wiper
blades and spark plugs, and quick service
test equipment including air conditioning
and battery tester/chargers to selected Shell
service stations operated by Vivo Energy.
In addition, Bosch will market the Bosch
Car Service (BCS) or Express Car Service
(ECS) concepts at selected Shell service
stations. The initiative will be progressively
rolled out, starting towards the end of
2014, on selected sites where there
is sufficient market demand in all the
countries where Vivo Energy operates a
retail network.
valvoline, a division of Ashland, develops gear test rig
Ashland’s differential gear test rig currently
utilises a Ford 8.8” differential to simulate
the specific sliding and rolling gear tooth
friction conditions found in a hypoid gear
differential, as seen on most rear-wheel
drive vehicles and in the front differential
of four-wheel drive vehicles.
The test rig uses a fully integrated
computerised data acquisition and test
control system to record various torques,
By completing multiple runs, properties
of different lubricants can be
compared.
The test setup consists of a variable
speed and torque electric drive motor that
drives the differential’s input pinion gear
and an additional electric motor acting as
a dynamometer on the output side of the
differential, used to load the gear set.
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speeds and temperatures, which allows
determinations of a lubricant’s effect
on efficiency, heat generation, and
mechanical wear to be made.
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