1st June 2006 - Technician, Counterman Win Trips to Las Vegas in Spicer® Showdown Promotion

Ten additional trips, hundreds of prizes still available to be won

Technician Mike Miller won a VIP trip for two to Las Vegas to become the first of 12 first-place winners in Affinia Under Vehicle Group’s Spicer® Showdown promotion. Counterman Roscoe Sanborn, who presented Miller with his winning game card, also won a trip to Las Vegas.

Miller, who works for Electric City Brake and Alignment in Great Falls, Mont., purchases Spicer® chassis parts from Sanborn at Great Falls-based Professional Automotive Warehouse, Inc. During their trip to Las Vegas, Miller and Sanborn will both take part in the Spicer® Showdown Poker Tournament.

“The Spicer® Showdown has been one of our most compelling sales promotions, and we’re very pleased with the feedback we’ve received from technicians and counterpeople,” said Ken Myers, marketing manager for Affinia Under Vehicle Group. “We congratulate Mike and Roscoe on their win and look forward to awarding the remaining 10 VIP trips – and numerous additional prizes – to more of our lucky Spicer® customers and partners.”

The Spicer® Showdown promotion offers technicians and counterpeople the chance to win hundreds of prizes, including a seat at the 2007 World Series of Poker valued at $10,000. From April 15 to August 15, 2006, for every purchase of an open stock premium quality Spicer® professional grade chassis part, technicians will receive a Spicer® Showdown instant-win game card. In addition to Miller and Sanborn, four lucky winners and the counterpeople who presented them with their game cards will receive a trip for two to Las Vegas to take part in the Spicer® Showdown Poker Tournament.

Complementing the instant-win portion of the promotion is a sweepstakes, which allows technicians to submit non-winning game cards for a chance to win a trip to the Spicer® Showdown Poker Tournament. One winner will be randomly selected and, like the counterpeople who present the instant winners with their game cards, the counterperson who provides the sweepstakes winner with his or her winning entry also will win a trip to Las Vegas for the tournament.

The winner from among the 12 participants in the Spicer® Showdown Poker Tournament will be awarded the grand prize, a seat at the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Additional instant-win prizes include professional poker tables, Texas Hold ‘Em table tops, Texas Hold ‘Em poker kits, poker chip sets, and Spicer® Chassis sunglasses.

Spicer® professional grade chassis parts are manufactured by Affinia Under Vehicle Group of McHenry, Ill., a global supplier of top quality automotive components for under vehicle applications. The Spicer® Chassis product line is the most extensive on the market and includes tie rod ends, ball joints, idler arms and alignment products for both domestic and foreign vehicles. Affinia Under Vehicle Group is part of Affinia Group Inc., a global supplier of top quality automotive components for under hood and under vehicle applications. For more information about Spicer® professional grade chassis parts, visit www.spicerchassis.com

Source: Affinia Group Press Release