Edelmann Elite® · Rack & Pinion Assemblies
We Own
Our Tooling.
Reman reuses the parts that already failed. Other new racks copy the OE design, flaws and all. Because we own our tooling, we built ours past the OE’s weak points: internal venting, a larger O.D. shaft, hex inner tie rods and a stronger geartrain. 100% new. Tested piece by piece.
Hydraulic Improvement 01 · Internal Venting
Protecting
The Rack
From Itself.
By routing the vent tubes inside the rack body, our assemblies eliminate the most common preventable warranty failure on the original design. External tubes get caught, kinked, and crushed in service. Ours can’t. Every other new rack on the shelf still copies the OE layout, exposed tubing and all, and ships the same failure mode back into the bay. We took the problem apart and engineered it out.
Enhanced Performance
Vent path protected by the rack body itself, with no tubes to compromise the pressure system.
Durability
Built to survive curb impacts, road debris, and the underbody conditions that destroy OE racks.
Lower Warranty Returns
Removing the most-failed component is the single largest improvement we can offer the installer.
Cleaner Install
No external tubing to snag on subframes or heat shields during installation.
Hydraulic Improvement 02 · Engineered Upgrades
Better Than
The Part It
Replaces.
Every Edelmann Elite® rack starts as 100% new construction. Never a reman core. Engineered with upgrades the OE never offered, inside and out.
Larger O.D. Rack Shaft
Thicker shaft resists bending and pitting under heavy steering loads, a documented OE failure point.
Pre-Installed Bushings
Mounting bushings ship installed. Drop in the unit without sourcing extra parts at the bay.
Metal Dust Caps
Steel replaces rubber. Keeps contamination out for the life of the rack.
Strengthened Internal Geartrain
Engineered to eliminate the cracking failures common to OE racks under sustained load.
Hydraulic Improvement 03 · Hex Inner Tie Rods
Alignment
Without The
Special Tool.
Our hex inner tie rod ends eliminate the proprietary alignment tool every other rack on the shelf requires. The shop already has the wrench in the box. Alignments get faster, cheaper, and finish on the first attempt.
Hydraulic Improvement 04 · Packaging
Protected
From Our Dock
To Your Bay.
Every Edelmann Elite® rack ships in packaging designed around it, with fitted foam that holds the rack in place and guards against shipping damage. It reaches the bay in the same condition it passed inspection.
EPS Plews & Edelmann EPS Solutions
The Non-Programmable Rack
Inside an Electric System.
Roughly half the vehicles on the road today use electric power steering. Inside that half, the single largest architecture relies on a part most people don’t expect: a rack and pinion. Those are the racks we build, and that’s the story behind our Non-Programmable line.
EPS breakdown
The Column-Assist Slice
~58 Million Vehicles.
All Non-Programmable Racks.
Column-Assist EPS puts the assist motor and torque sensor behind the steering wheel, on the column itself. Everything downstream of that motor, including the rack and pinion, is mechanical. No electronics. No firmware. No torque sensor in the rack body.
It’s the largest single EPS architecture across compact and import nameplates, including Hyundai/Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Fiat, Toyota, Volvo, because it’s the most cost-effective way to deliver EPS to a passenger car.
P&E’s Non-Programmable line covers 38 million of those vehicles with just 50 SKUs. That’s more than half of the column-assist parc, served from a tightly-engineered catalog.
Anatomy of a Column-Assist System
The motor, torque sensor, position sensor, and column coupler can almost always be serviced individually. P&E supports that repair-first approach across the EPS line. When the rack itself is the failure (curb impact, internal wear, leaking boot, bent shaft), that’s when our Non-Programmable rack goes in the box.
Most EPS Work
is Surgical.
- SERVICEABLESteering-wheel
position sensor - SERVICEABLEColumn-assist
electric motor - SERVICEABLEMotor coupler /
connection bushing - SERVICEABLESteering shaft
& U-joint - P&E NPR LINENon-programmable rack
& pinion
Inside the Total Solution®
The Rack Isn’t
Always The Problem.
But When It Is,
We Built It New.
The competitive aftermarket answer for a failed column-assist rack is a reman core: cleaned, shot-peened, and shipped back out. Same wear surfaces. Same rack shaft. Same internal geartrain that already failed once.
Our answer is different: a brand-new non-programmable rack built to the same Edelmann Elite® standards as the rest of the program. Larger O.D. rack shaft. Pre-installed bushings. Metal dust caps. Strengthened internal geartrain. No core charge. No programming. No comeback.
It’s how Plews & Edelmann completes the EPS repair picture: surgical service when the electronics fail, and a NEW rack when the unrepairable parts do.
The Hidden Difference
Variable Steering Assist:
Identical Outside.
Different Inside.
Variable Steering Assist changes the steering effort with vehicle speed: lighter in the parking lot, firmer on the highway. The technology shows up across manual, hydraulic, and EPS Non-Programmable rack applications.
From the outside, every rack on the shelf looks the same. OE and reman match the original internal design. Every other aftermarket new offering does not.
The result for the installer: understeer at low speeds, sluggish response in parking lots, and noticeable resistance on U-turns. The car drives wrong, and the rack gets the comeback.
On every Edelmann Elite® rack with Variable Steering Assist, we match the OE’s internal design, so the rack drives the way the vehicle was engineered to.
- × Re-engineered internals
- × Understeer at low speed
- × Sluggish in parking lots
- × Resistance on U-turns
- ✓ Matches OE internal design
- ✓ OE-equivalent steering feel
- ✓ Confident parking-lot response
- ✓ No comeback from the bay
The Total Solution® in Power Steering