Automotive Remanufacturing - First scheme in Europe

When you buy remanufactured steering parts, rebuilt calipers, remanufactured electronics or remanufactured mechatronics, you benefit from more than seventy years of automotive remanufacturing experience. True genius stands the test of time and that is certainly true of our remanufacturing capability. Many of the principles first introduced in the 1930s still apply today.

• Strict core returns policy
• Remanufactured in line with strict OE guidelines
• Testing and warranty as new

TRW gained braking and electronic capabilities when it bought Lucas Varity in 1999. You benefit from that expertise and become part of that history every time you purchase a component from our automotive remanufacturing portfolio.

‘The test of an innovation is that it creates value’ – Peter Drucker

We have been adding value to our remanufacturing services since Lucas introduced the B90 scheme in the late 1930s as an innovative new concept to offer a fully guaranteed factory rebuilt replacement unit, at a cost comparable with a normal repair.

Workshop repair was quite common at this time, but this was the first automotive remanufacturing program in Europe, possibly even Worldwide.

B90 stands for the section of the ledgers and the page number in which the scheme was recorded.
 
There was a gap in production until the remanufacturing programme was released again in updated form as the ‘B.90 factory Exchange Service’ in 1949, with a greater number of parts and full product warranties.