Car Starters

Starters

With leading expertise and strong O.E. presence, Valeo provides a wide range of premium performance and quality starters to the Aftermarket. Valeo latest generations of starters are developed with high-quality components improving lifetime, reliability, comfort and efficiency. More than 400 references are available, including the latest technologies fitted as O.E. on latest car models, such as Peugeot 208, Renault Clio IV and Volkswagen Golf VII.

Valeo drives innovation, with more than one century of experience in rotating machines, from conventional starters to latest generation compacts and reinforced starters. The Valeo new starters range provides high standards of performance and quality to ensure premium customer satisfaction. The reliability, the safety and the best quality of new products are driven by constant innovation and high quality testing criteria.

Thanks to its strong O.E. presence, Valeo is able to offer starters for the latest car applications in a short time to market, such as for Peugeot 208, Renault Clio IV and Volkswagen Golf VII. Speed, temperature and electrical measurement tests are run up to 40,000 cycles to ensure the performance and reliability of new Valeo starters. In addition, the machines are submitted to extreme conditions tests such as salt spray, thermal shocks and vibration until destruction to meets the highest car manufacturers' requirements.

Valeo answers all markets needs thanks to a large range of technological evolution: permanent magnets or wound field inductors, reduction gears, shock absorbers, pinion-out starters for diesel applications are some examples of technical features developed according to specific application requirements. The last generations of starters, such as the TS and the TSC, provide higher power and efficiency in a more compact design than previous solution starters. This allows an easier integration into the engine environment without reducing the performance. This technology applies for Ford, PSA, Volkswagen or Renault-Nissan.