Auto industry is booming in India like never before in the last few years. Not only the sales have increased, but also the features of the cars are becoming better and sophisticated. Besides a trendy outer design, a nice interior becomes important, the seat comfort and the features controlled from the dashboard have contributed a lot to the feel good factor of the new car owners. One useful element in these sectors is flexible shafts, small little elements to transmit rotary power from one end to another. One type of flexible shafts - the speedometer cables is already used extensively in all automobiles. They have also other applications where flexible shafts are used in seat adjustments or in very rigid head and ventilation adjustment, light adjustment, sun roofs or locking systems and wipers. Suhner India manufactures flexible shafts and assemblies for the last 5 years. These are manufactured through precision winding of evenly distributed wires and a special heat treatment and polishing process to give high flexibility, quite running and low vibrations. It caters to the speedometer cables requirements of major players like Ashok Leyland, Bajaj Auto, Tata Motors, Maruti, TVS, Hero Honda and other auto manufacturers through VDO Siemens, Suprajit Engineering, Kaltrol, Pricol and other speedometer manufacturers. These speedo cables are approved by Ford Motors.
