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ZF Aftermarket Comes Up With an Original Idea for the Upcoming AAPEX Exhibition


ZF Aftermarket Comes Up With an Original Idea for the Upcoming AAPEX Exhibition

For more than two decades, ZF Aftermarket has been a regular participant of AAPEX exhibition in Las Vegas. Each year ZF representatives are excited to take part in this important event for the aftermarket industry. But this year ZF came up with some special idea: the German company plans to bring along a mosaic photo wall consisting of numerous pictures of auto aftermarket repair specialists playing their part in what makes up the ZF community.



Until November 2019, all companies and individuals are welcome to take part in this initiative. The main requirement is to present a picture of yourself together with ZF-branded products (including ZF, Lemforder, Sachs, and TRW). All application materials can be posted on social networks (Instagram, Facebook) with the hashtag #ItsAboutThePart or uploaded to www.itsaboutthepart.com. It is also necessary to tag your business facility and @ZFAftermarketUS.



Before the deadline, all participants with correctly posted pictures will take part in weekly and monthly raffles, where winners get pleasant presents and their pictures will appear on ZF Aftermarket social pages. The participants, whose pictures will be selected for the photo wall, are welcome to visit the AAPEX exhibition and receive a special present.


According to ZF marketing specialists, this photo mosaic will not only demonstrate how ZF products are used in their everyday automobile repair routine, but also will become a tribute to professionals who trust in ZF products. With the help of this initiative, the company wants to point out that ZF’s community is more than just brands. It is all about the people who buy ZF products for their businesses and help the company to improve its quality standards.


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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.