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New Additions to MEYLE-ORIGINAL Cardan Shaft Repair Kits


New Additions to MEYLE-ORIGINAL Cardan Shaft Repair Kits

“Wulf Gaertner Autoparts AG” is the producer and supplier of high-quality automobile parts. In the auto parts market, this enterprise is represented by two brands: MEYLE and MEYLE-HD. MEYLE products include over 17,000 auto parts for various car systems, which is constantly updated to stay competitive on the market of repair equipment. Recently MEYLE cardan shaft repair solutions were supplemented with new additions.


When a vehicle is moving drive shafts usually get under high loads. To facilitate the repair process, and as a result, respond to customers' demands in the most efficient manner, now the company offers 15 fully-featured repair kits. These kits consist of equipment necessary for time- and cost-saving cardan shaft repair allowing specialists to replace a defective central bearing with no need for replacement of the whole cardan shaft. With its variety of repair kits, MEYLE finds an application in repair of more than ten million cars throughout Europe (including Audi, VW, Mercedes Benz).

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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.

Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.

Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.

Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.