Victoria in the Safety Check

To quickly and easily verify the authenticity of products, Dana has produced two ‘How-to-use’ videos from the ‘Victoria’s Practical Tips’ series. Victoria, the globally well-known and popular automotive technician, explains the authenticity verification process step by step. In video (1), she verifies the authenticity of REINZOSIL-t, and in video (2), as an example for all other sealing products.

‘How-to-use’ video (1) Verification of the Dana Secure Sticker for sealant compounds and sealant removers

‘How-to-use’ video (2) Verification of the Dana Secure Labels for sealing products

VictorReinz.com/DanaSecure

 

All Information in One App

In the videos, Victoria not only presents the benefits of ‘100% protection with a scan’ but also the practical additional features of the Dana Secure app. For example, the app provides direct access to product and technical service information, safety data sheets, and installation instructions for the respective product. Additional links lead to the Victor Reinz TecDoc digital product catalog. In the app, users can also subscribe to the Victor Reinz newsletter, visit the Victor Reinz website, access social media channels, and much more.

 

Victoria’s Practical Tips – A Real Success Series

The video tutorials, featuring Victoria as the main presenter, have been viewed more than one million times worldwide. The two seasons of the car and truck editions now consist of 16 episodes. All accessible free of charge at www.victorreinz.com/victoria or on the Victor Reinz YouTube channel.

 

Download the Dana Secure app
https://app.authenticvision.com/app/dana/

Further information
www.VictorReinz.com/DanaSecure

 

Scanning the QR code with a smartphone with the Dana Secure App immediately makes it clear whether the product is genuine Dana or a dangerous counterfeit. This authentication delivers certain results: the QR code and fingerprint cannot be copied. The label is on the product packaging, but sometimes it's directly on the product too.

The Dana Secure label offers additional benefits to the customer beyond authenticity verification. Customers receive direct access to detailed product and technical service information as well as installation instructions for their replacement part. Further links lead to the Victor Reinz digital product catalog and TecDoc.

Users can also subscribe to the Victor Reinz newsletter in the app and visit the Victor Reinz website, access safety datasheets, follow social media channels, and more.

Furthermore, Dana Neu-Ulm refrains from printing product information on paper wherever possible, since the Dana Secure app provides all relevant information up-to-date and online.

 

Authenticity 100% Guaranteed

The Holographic Fingerprint™ label is a technology from Salzburg-based Authentic Vision, one of the leading providers of secure product digitization. The label boasts a security level of 100%.

 

The Holographic Fingerprint™ label is another product security investment by Dana Neu-Ulm and a decisive action against the global rise in counterfeiting. The initial step will be followed by the implementation of Secure Labels for other brands including Spicer® and Glaser® which are scheduled for release in 2024.

 

Download Dana Secure App
https://app.authenticvision.com/app/dana/

 

Further Information
VictorReinz.com/DanaSecure

1 Million Victoria Fans

Victoria’s tutorials have racked up nearly 1 million views to date. The new episode is Dana’s answer to many users who wanted to see an installation video specifically on replacing the integrated oil seal.

The video is 4:46 minutes long. Since it’s exclusively made up of video sequences, detail shots and icons, it can be used internationally, overcomes all language barriers and is easy for any trainee or home mechanic to understand. Anyone watching Victoria work will understand the most important installation steps and know which ones have to be followed to successfully change an integrated rotary shaft seal in the housing.

 

How to form a perfect seal

The key installation steps are checking the crankshaft flange for scoring and cracks and performing a clean and greaseless installation of the integrated oil seal using the mounting sleeve. Aside from the replacement of the integrated oil seal itself, Victoria shows how important it is to completely remove the oil pan. Oftentimes, the oil pan is only loosened partially, causing leaks between the housing of the oil seal and oil pan due to sealing beads being applied incorrectly. Once removed, the sealing surface is quick and easy to clean, and then can be perfectly sealed with REINZOSIL, as the video shows.

 

As a rule: Even the best integrated Victor Reinz oil seal from cannot yield its full sealing performance unless it is installed professionally with all checks and cleaning steps. The new video from the Victoria’s Practical Tips series guarantees to make the installation and removal of the integrated rotary shaft seal a complete success.

 

Victor Reinz Media Center

The current episode “Integrated oil seal” brings the number of practical tips by and with Victor Reinz mechatronics technician Victoria up to 14 – seven in the passenger vehicle and seven in the truck edition.

The professional tutorials for passenger vehicles address the installation and removal of:

• Cylinder-head gaskets
• Exhaust manifold gaskets
• Intake manifold gaskets
• Cylinder-head cover gaskets
• PTFE radial oil seals
• Oil pans
• Integrated radial oil seals

and for trucks, the installation and removal of:

• Cylinder-head gaskets
• Exhaust manifold gaskets
• Intake manifold gaskets
• Cylinder head cover gaskets
• Radial oil seals
• Oil pan gaskets
• Valve stem seals

 

VICTORIA’S PRACTICAL TIPS

Accessible free of charge at  www.victorreinz.com/victoria or on the Victor Reinz YouTube channel.

New Cylinder-head Gaskets

The world’s top 20 largest automotive manufacturers in 2022 included eleven corporations from Asia with sales totaling 38.5 million vehicles. Toyota sold 10.48 million vehicles last year by itself and came in 1st. Victor Reinz produces cylinder-head gaskets and gasket sets for Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai Motor Group, Mitsubishi, Honda, Mazda, Subaru and more.

Plans to expand its aftermarket range to meet customer demand by adding further cylinder-head gaskets for Asian models are in full swing.

 

The Asian Range in Figures

Victor Reinz’ aftermarket range of cylinder-head gaskets for Asia

• Toyota (227 cylinder-head gaskets)
• Nissan (176 cylinder-head gaskets)
• Hyundai Motor Group (123 cylinder-head gaskets)
• Mitsubishi (81 cylinder-head gaskets)
• Honda (73 cylinder-head gaskets)
• Mazda (65 cylinder-head gaskets)
• Subaru (51 cylinder-head gaskets)

 

Victor Reinz also has the necessary gasket sets and cylinder-head bolts for nearly all cylinder-head gaskets – in original quality, of course.

 

With its Asian aftermarket range, Victor Reinz not only serves the European but also the global market for models from Asian automotive manufacturers. The proportion of models from Japan and South Korea is especially high on the roads of the USA and Africa. In greatest demand are cylinder-head gaskets for engines of the Toyota Auris and Corolla (models from 2006 to 2018), the Nissan Frontier and Navara (2000 to 2010), and the Kia Ceed, Proceed and Soul (2005 to 2015).

 

www.victorreinz.com

No matter what the engine might be, workshops and private mechanics the world over will find the right replacement cylinder-head gasket at www.victorreinz.com. Under “Service & Downloads”, just select the menu item “Online Catalog” or “PDF Catalog” and start the search by manufacturer, model or engine number. You’ll get the result in no time.

Download the PDF catalog and you’ll also be able to search for Victor Reinz spare parts offline. The catalog covers 42 catalogs of passenger vehicle brands. If you’re just looking for spare parts of a specific manufacturer, you can find the right brand catalog on PDF here. The interactive PDF catalogs are based on TecDoc; a color product image is also available for almost every single part. This helps the customer identify the part at a glance. In case of spare part sets, the customer directly knows which parts are included in the respective set.

As an international supplier, Dana Neu-Ulm serves an enormous growth market with its aftermarket range for models from Asia. The goal is to further expand and continuously update the already comprehensive range of service parts for the Asian spare parts market.

Victor Reinz Online Catalog: www.victorreinz.com/online-catalog

Victor Reinz PDF Catalog: www.victorreinz.com/online-catalog/PDF

Designed to resemble a motorsports pit lane, Dana’s 240 square-meter conference booth at Stand G91 in Hall 3.0, will feature abroad range of aftermarket solutions and highlight Dana’s passion for the aftermarket business and its successful transformation toward clean-energy technologies.

Dana TM4^® electric and hybrid drive systems are already setting standards in mobile electrification today. While Dana’s development and production of metallic bipolar plates have been a big step forward in the efficiency of fuel-cell electric drives.

Therefore, Dana’s focus on sustainability will be prominently featured in the stand.

NEW: Reinzosil^® in the Cartridge

Victor Reinz^® will be presenting its universal sealing compound, Reinzosil^®, in cartridge form for the first time at Automechanika. The 310-milliliter cartridge eliminates hazardous materials and does not require special labeling. In this new form of packaging, Reinzosil has been approved for worldwide shipping without any restrictions — by regular mail, ocean, and air freight.

Reinzosil is perfect for large-scale applications and meets the requirements of customers from truck workshops. The sealing compound can withstand temperatures of up to +320 °C for short periods of time and has been tested as “sensor safe”. Thanks to the plastic cartridge, the minimum shelf life is twelve months.

Dana’s pit lane at Automechanika will be easy to spot as it will feature a large Reinzosil cartridge to show visitors the way.

NEW: Interactive PDF Catalogs with Product Images in Color

With its interactive PDF catalogs, Dana has created a new way to clearly identify the right spare Victor Reinz product from a selection of more than 17,000 service parts. There are 58 interactive PDFs.

NEW: Complete Cummins Line from three to 16 Liters

Dana’s goal is to offer the Victor Reinz product range worldwide. The most recent addition to its global customer reach in this area has been to include spare parts offering for engines from U.S. manufacturer Cummins. The Victor Reinz brand now covers the complete engine series from engine displacements of three to 16 liters.

NEW: Ready for 24-hour ReadyShaft^™ Service

The ReadyShaft™ service delivers spare parts from the entire Spicer on-highway driveshaft portfolio to any location in Europe within 24 hours.

It doesn’t matter where the part is needed — be it in the shop or on-site where the truck broke down. The entire ordering and tracking process takes place online.

The Spicer sales team will be at Automechanika to answer any questions about the launch of the Spicer ReadyShaft program and the entire Dana team is looking forward to finally welcoming visitors and customers again for a personal exchange at Automechanika in Frankfurt.

 

Dana at Automechanika 2022

From September 13 to 17, 2022 in Frankfurt am Main

Hall 3.0 Stand G91

The 58 interactive PDF catalogs comprise one comprehensive catalog each for the passenger car and truck segment as well as 42 passenger car and 12 truck brand catalogs. The catalogs list a total of around 17,000 parts from the Victor Reinz brand.

The numerous links to more detailed information in the Victor Reinz online catalog as well as in pop-up information constitute an additional interactive benefit of the PDF catalogs. Almost every spare part is shown in color.

Starting March 1, 2022, all updates to the Victor Reinz PDF catalogs will be available for download free of charge from the website www.victorreinz.com/online-catalog/PDF.

The new interactive Victor Reinz PDF catalogs

• Quick overview of the entire product portfolio
• 58 individual passenger car and truck catalogs broken down by brand
• Color product images for almost all spare parts and sets
• Contents of spare part sets are clearly identifiable
• Quarterly updates
• Free downloads

The link https://web.tecalliance.net/reinz/zh/reports takes users right to the search mask for new items. Just enter the parameters needed and set the timeframe from one to twelve months, and TecDoc will display all of the new items. The report function is available in 36 languages – from "A as in “Arabic” to V as in “Vietnamese.”

TecAlliance, the makers of TecDoc, have recently distinguished Dana the title of Premier Data Supplier. TecAlliance only awards this new status to data suppliers whose data fulfils additional requirements of particular importance at the point of service. Victor Reinz is currently listed with roughly 17,000 spare parts in the world’s leading automotive aftermarket catalog.

The link to the report function in TecDoc with all of the updates on new items at Victor Reinz can also be found on the Dana website at www.victorreinz.com/news.

Links to Victor Reinz updates in TecDoc

https://web.tecalliance.net/reinz/zh/reports

www.victorreinz.com/news

Victor Reinz has been a Certified Data Supplier (CDS) for over ten years. The company also holds the newly introduced status of Premier Data Supplier (PDS) and thus meets TecDoc’s highest quality standards.

A new approach to spareparts searches
So far, Dana presented the aftermarket product range of Victor Reinz in the various digital spare parts catalogs as well as the Victor Reinz online catalog. The new PDF catalogs offer many interactive links and in-depth information across all brands and engines. This means for the customer more individual approaches to the matching spare part. When the interactive PDF catalogs were developed, the creators always aimed at the optimal presentation of the results.

Free of charge for everyone
The new PDF catalog offering is divided into a comprehensive passenger car and a truck catalog. For example, customers who only require the spare parts offeringof a particular passenger car or truck brand will have additional access tospecial PDF brand catalogs. All PDFs are freely available for download forimporters, wholesalers, retailers and private assemblers at the www.victorreinz.com website.

Product images in colortogether with information in twelve languages
The interactive PDFs with over 16,500 spare parts are based on TecDoc. The search can be run via the brand, the engine and, of course, the original spare part number. At the launch of the new catalog, almost each individual Victor Reinz spare part is also available as color product image. This helps the customer identify the part at a glance. In case of spare part sets, the customer directly knows which parts are included in the respective set.
The numerous links to more detailed information in the Victor Reinz online catalog as well as in pop-up information represent an additional interactive benefit. The user simply uses the mouse over on footnotes and pictograms to obtain detailed information in twelve languages if desired.
The customer only needs to enter the engine code in the brand catalog and is able to locate all spare parts offered immediately – including product images, original spare part numbers and important information in the particular national language.
A "How to Use" video under www.victorreinz.com/catalog-how-to-use explains all functions of the interactive PDF catalogs.

The new interactive Victor Reinz PDF catalogs

• Quick overview of the entire product portfolio
• 58 individual passenger car and truck catalogs broken down by brand
• Color product images for almost all spare parts and sets
• Contents of spare part sets are clearly identifiable
• Quarterly updates
• Free downloads

650,000 views

Altogether, the Victor Reinz YouTube channel meanwhile features twelve video tutorials under the title "Victoria's Practical Tips" – six each in the passenger car and six in the truck edition. Up to this day, the practical tips with chief character Victoria have been viewed already over 650,000 times.

The final season of the truck edition provides a step-by-step guide to the disassembly and assembly of a cylinder-head gasket of a six-cylinder truck engine with individual cylinder-heads. The cylinder-head gasket belongs to the most important spare parts on the truck aftermarket.

The tutorial is 5:00 minutes long, language-neutral and can be used internationally. Important details are additionally highlighted with icons.  

Victoria facilitates apprentices

Meanwhile, our assembly videos are geared to the worldwide apprentice audience in automotive workshops. Anyone who has watched Victoria during work definitely knows about the subject matter and the key issues.

Replacing a truck cylinder-head gasket in the storyboard

In the video, mechatronic Victoria presents the complete exchange of a cylinder-head gasket on a six-cylinder truck engine. Included are the hole pattern comparison, measurement of the bushing protrusion, the flatness of the component and the bolt tightening guideline. Each individual step can be seen in detail.

The best Victor Reinz gasket is not useful without sound subject knowledge. Errors during assembly can potentially foil the entire repair. The forgotten rag in the combustion chamber is a classic example.

Media center "Victoria's Practical Tips"

All video tutorials of the truck and passenger car edition of "Victoria's Practical Tips" can be accessed free of charge via the Victor Reinz website under www.victorreinz.com/victoria and the YouTube channel from Victor Reinz.

"Victoria's Practical Tips" – Truck-Edition

• Valve stem seals
• Exhaust manifold gasket
• Intake manifold gasket
• Cylinder-head cover gasket
• Rotary shaft seal
• Oil pan gasket

 
"Victoria's Practical Tips" – Passenger Car Edition

• Cylinder-head gasket
• Exhaust manifold gasket
• Intake manifold gasket
• Cylinder-head cover gasket
• PTFE radial oil seal
• Oil pan

Then as now
Since 1947, the company’s headquarters has been located in Neu-Ulm, Germany and has developed steadily. With more than 1,300 employees, REINZ-Dichtungs-GmbH is a subsidiary of Dana Incorporated – a global company with 36,000 employees on six contents. It is now one of the largest and best-known employers in the region. The brand name Victor Reinz^® stands for innovative gasket technologies with the highest quality standards, then and now.

Innovations for the future
Almost all well-known brands and models of car manufacturers worldwide are equipped with professional Victor Reinz sealing solutions for the engine and exhaust system.

Since the beginning of the development of metallic bipolar plates in 2001, the company has been an innovative pioneer in the field of fuel cell technology and won the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Award in the category "Best Success Story" with its product development in 2019. It was also recognized as a 2020 finalist for the prestigious Automotive News PACE Awards.

The wide range of innovative Victor Reinz^® sealing products is not only favored by the European automotive industry, but also lead the market in many industrial product areas.

"We connect the proud tradition of our now 100-year-old success story to the people and their experiences that have left their mark on the company over this long period. This is what we are building on with our innovative and future-compliant products, together for and with our customers”, declares the Dana Neu-Ulm Managing Director Frank Bader, who has formed the management duo together with Olivier Lassurguère, since 2019.

"Dana Incorporated has the aim of being one of the world's leading automotive suppliers for another 100 years", states Olivier Lassurguère. "Our vision is to collaborate with the automobile manufacturers to shape the engine of the future."

The new truck training videos explain step by step how to professionally remove the defective part and install the original Victor Reinz replacement part. Three practical tips for commercial vehicle experts from and with Victoria are currently online: how to replace a valve cover gasket, an oil pan gasket and an intake manifold gasket. The fourth episode, on how to install an exhaust manifold gasket, has just made its debut.

All “Victoria’s Practical Tips” videos – for cars and trucks alike – can be accessed free of charge on the Victor Reinz website at www.victorreinz.com/victoria.

It looks like these installation instruction videos from Dana have struck the right chord with the customers – and thus with the target group. This can be seen in the high access rates on the Victor Reinz website and YouTube views numbering in the high five figures. The big advantage lies in being able to see exactly how the professional replacement is carried out professionally in practice.


Installation of a truck exhaust manifold gasket in storyboard

In the video, mechatronics technician Victoria demonstrates the removal of the old exhaust manifold gasket, including all preparations – from tipping the driver’s cab to disassembling the exhaust manifold. The middle part focuses on cleaning and inspecting all sealing surfaces on the engine and exhaust manifold. The important comparison between the old gasket and the new one is also shown. Finally, the new Victor Reinz exhaust manifold gasket is installed and the exhaust manifold is mounted.

The entire tutorial is 3:26 minutes long and can be used internationally, since it works without a speaker. Important installation steps are additionally marked with icons in addition to the picture.


Victoria’s Practical Tips: an overview

Truck Edition

- Valve cover gasket
- Oil pan gasket
-  Intake manifold gasket
-  Exhaust manifold gasket (available immediately)

Car Edition

- Cylinder-head gasket
- Exhaust manifold gasket
- Intake manifold gasket
- Valve cover gasket
- PTFE oil seals
- Oil pan