Over 1 million extra vehicles covered by SMPE parts

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12 Mar 2019

Category: Articles, Press Releases

Reverse light switch range significantly boosts its application coverage.

SMPE (Standard Motor Products Europe) has announced yet another increase in applications under its leading vehicle management portfolio, this time from its reverse light switch range, which now covers an additional 470 vehicle models for a huge 1,003,012 more vehicles on UK roads.

As part of its ongoing catalogue development, this is the latest increase across a series of SMPE ranges involving a total of 3,552 parts, resulting in additional coverage for 14,516,066 million cars on the UK’s roads. This substantially boosts SMPE’s aftermarket portfolio to provide a competitive offering for garages and factors in terms of choice and availability. 

SMPE’s reverse light switch range alone includes 143 part numbers covering 30,619,883 UK vehicles.

Fitted directly into the gearbox, a reverse light switch is a simple mechanical switch primarily used to turn on the reverse lights. The reverse lights are either controlled by either a switching replay, or, on later vehicles, the ECU control. Failure symptoms include no reverse lights. As with other sensors, it is important that technicians do not assume that the sensor is always at fault, it is check live feed and output signal. As a part that suffers from wear, on older vehicles the operating cam within the gearbox should also be checked for wear.

SMPE offers a range of vehicle management components which are factory tested and come with a 2-year warranty. The company has created one of the strongest European aftermarket programmes available, via a range of trusted brands which are firmly established throughout all tiers of distribution.