Complete Rear Cross Member
SKU:
980138010
$60.00
- Type: A major structural assembly located at the rear of the vehicle, serving as a foundational component for mounting various drivetrain and suspension elements. This is commonly referred to as the rear subframe or rear axle carrier.
- Function: This complete rear cross member is central to the vehicle’s rear end dynamics and integrity. Its primary functions include:
- Suspension Mounting: Provides the main attachment points for the rear suspension components, such as control arms, shock absorbers, and anti-roll bars, ensuring correct suspension geometry and alignment.
- Differential Mounting: Serves as the secure mounting platform for the rear differential, precisely positioning it relative to the drive shafts and ensuring proper power transfer to the rear wheels.
- Structural Rigidity: Enhances the overall torsional rigidity and structural strength of the rear chassis, contributing significantly to the vehicle’s handling, stability, and NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) characteristics.
- Impact Protection: Can contribute to crash energy management in rear-end collisions by deforming in a controlled manner to absorb impact forces.
- Components: Typically a robust, multi-piece assembly fabricated from high-strength steel (often hydroformed or stamped and welded sections). It includes integral bushings, mounting points, and various attachment points for associated components. It is delivered as a bare structural unit, unpainted, and does not include the differential, suspension arms, or shock absorbers themselves.
- Location: Spans across the rear underside of the vehicle, beneath the trunk/boot floor, connecting to the main longitudinal chassis rails.
- Material: High-strength, corrosion-resistant steel, engineered to withstand significant dynamic loads, bending, and torsional forces.
- Design: Precisely engineered to specific dimensions and tolerances, crucial for maintaining correct suspension geometry, ensuring optimal handling, and supporting the high-performance rear drivetrain components.
LH Front Pillar Member Reinforcement
SKU:
673000412
$151.00
- Type: A high-strength, precision-formed steel or advanced alloy component designed to significantly strengthen the vehicle’s left-hand A-pillar (the pillar connecting the front roof rail to the front fender and firewall, adjacent to the windshield).
- Function: The primary and most critical functions of this reinforcement are directly related to vehicle safety and structural integrity:
- Occupant Protection in Collisions: Crucially reinforces the A-pillar to resist deformation during frontal impacts and, even more critically, in rollover accidents. It helps maintain the structural integrity of the passenger safety cell, preventing intrusion into the cabin.
- Roof Strength: Contributes significantly to the overall roof strength, minimizing crush in the event of a rollover.
- Structural Rigidity: Enhances the torsional rigidity and overall stiffness of the vehicle’s body-in-white, contributing to improved handling, reduced flex, and a quieter ride.
- Component Mounting: Provides robust internal mounting points for various components that pass through or attach to the A-pillar, such as wiring harnesses, safety systems (e.g., side curtain airbags), and interior trim.
- Components: Typically a single, complexly shaped panel or series of panels fabricated from high-strength, often hot-stamped, steel or specialized alloys. It features specific flanges, bends, and sometimes pre-drilled holes for spot welding, adhesive bonding, or other attachment methods to the outer and inner A-pillar panels.
- Location: Integrated internally within the left-hand A-pillar structure, sandwiched between the outer A-pillar skin and the inner A-pillar trim panels. It extends from the base of the windshield area up towards the roof rail.
- Material: Predominantly high-strength steel (HSS), Ultra-High Strength Steel (UHSS), or tailored blanks for optimal energy absorption and structural performance. These materials are chosen for their superior yield strength and ability to maintain shape under extreme forces.
- Design: Precisely engineered to fit the intricate internal contours of the A-pillar, ensuring maximum reinforcement, controlled deformation characteristics in a crash, and compatibility with the vehicle’s overall safety architecture.
RH Front Pillar Member Reinforcement
SKU:
673000406
$65.00
- Type: A high-strength, precision-formed steel or advanced alloy component designed to significantly strengthen the vehicle’s right-hand A-pillar (the pillar connecting the front roof rail to the front fender and firewall, adjacent to the windshield).
- Function: The primary and most critical functions of this reinforcement are directly related to vehicle safety and structural integrity:
- Occupant Protection in Collisions: Crucially reinforces the A-pillar to resist deformation during frontal impacts and, even more critically, in rollover accidents. It helps maintain the structural integrity of the passenger safety cell, preventing intrusion into the cabin.
- Roof Strength: Contributes significantly to the overall roof strength, minimizing crush in the event of a rollover.
- Structural Rigidity: Enhances the torsional rigidity and overall stiffness of the vehicle’s body-in-white, contributing to improved handling, reduced body flex, and a quieter ride.
- Component Mounting: Provides robust internal mounting points for various components that pass through or attach to the A-pillar, such as wiring harnesses, safety systems (e.g., side curtain airbags), and interior trim.
- Components: Typically a single, complexly shaped panel or series of panels fabricated from high-strength, often hot-stamped, steel or specialized alloys. It features specific flanges, bends, and sometimes pre-drilled holes for spot welding, adhesive bonding, or other attachment methods to the outer and inner A-pillar panels.
- Location: Integrated internally within the right-hand A-pillar structure, sandwiched between the outer A-pillar skin and the inner A-pillar trim panels. It extends from the base of the windshield area up towards the roof rail.
- Material: Predominantly high-strength steel (HSS), Ultra-High Strength Steel (UHSS), or tailored blanks for optimal energy absorption and structural performance. These materials are chosen for their superior yield strength and ability to maintain shape under extreme forces.
- Design: Precisely engineered to fit the intricate internal contours of the A-pillar, ensuring maximum reinforcement, controlled deformation characteristics in a crash, and compatibility with the vehicle’s overall safety architecture.
Roof External Trim
SKU:
382500465
$1,861.00
- Type: An exterior trim piece designed to be installed along the edge of the vehicle’s roof, typically where the roof panel meets the side body (A-pillar to C-pillar) or around the top edge of the windshield/rear window. It’s often referred to as a roof molding or drip rail trim.
- Function: The primary functions of this roof external trim include:
- Aesthetics: Provides a clean, finished appearance to the transition between the roof panel and the rest of the bodywork, enhancing the vehicle’s design lines.
- Weather Sealing/Water Management: While not the primary seal for the windows, it often helps to channel water away from the side windows and door openings, contributing to the overall weather sealing of the cabin.
- Concealment: Covers seams, welds, or mounting hardware where the roof panel is attached to the body structure.
- Components: Typically a single, pre-formed piece of trim for a specific side or section of the roof. It is usually made from a flexible, yet durable, material designed to conform to the roof’s contours. It comes as a bare trim piece, ready for installation.
- Location: Runs along the outer edge of the roof, often from the base of the A-pillar to the C-pillar/rear window on coupes, or along the top edge of the windscreen for convertibles.
- Material: Commonly made from rubber, flexible plastic (PVC), or a combination of materials with a metal core for rigidity, often with an external finish (e.g., matte black, gloss black, chrome-effect, or body-color matched) designed to resist UV degradation and environmental exposure.
- Design: Precisely contoured to follow the specific lines of the Maserati 3200 GT and 4200 GT roofs, ensuring a snug fit and seamless integration with the vehicle’s exterior.
Roof External Trim
SKU:
673001693
$824.00
- Type: A decorative and functional trim piece installed along the outer edges of the roofline, typically running from the front A-pillar to the rear C-pillar, often encompassing or defining the rain gutter channel.
- Function: The primary functions of this roof external trim include:
- Aesthetics: Provides a clean, finished appearance to the transition between the roof panel and the side body panels, enhancing the vehicle’s exterior styling and concealing welding seams or panel joints.
- Water Management: Often forms part of the roof’s rain gutter system, directing rainwater off the roof and down the pillars, preventing it from streaming down the side windows or directly onto the doors.
- Sealing: Can contribute to the sealing system, helping to prevent water or wind intrusion into the cabin or roof structure.
- Aerodynamics (Minor): Can have a minor role in smoothing airflow over the roof edges.
- Components: Typically a single, long, pre-formed strip or molded piece. It is designed with specific clips, channels, or adhesive points for secure attachment to the roof structure. Depending on the design, it might be a multi-piece set for left and right sides, or one continuous piece. The part number suggests a specific side or a particular design variant.
- Location: Runs along the outer edge of the roof, above the side windows, on either the left or right side, or both, depending on the specific design for the Ghibli.
- Material: Commonly made from durable automotive plastics (e.g., ABS, PVC) with a painted finish (e.g., gloss black, body color) or from polished/anodized aluminum or chrome-plated metal for a premium appearance. Chosen for weather resistance, UV stability, and durability.
- Design: Precisely contoured to follow the elegant lines of the Maserati Ghibli’s roof, ensuring a flush fit, secure attachment, and seamless integration with the vehicle’s overall exterior design.
Windscreen Upper Cross Member Assembly
SKU:
673002865
$84.00
- Type: A major structural component of the vehicle’s unibody, specifically forming the top boundary of the windshield opening and connecting the left and right A-pillars at the roofline. As an “assembly,” it includes the primary structural beam and potentially pre-welded brackets or reinforcement plates.
- Function: The primary and critical functions of this assembly are fundamental to vehicle safety and structural integrity:
- Roof Strength & Rollover Protection: Crucially reinforces the front section of the roof, playing a vital role in protecting occupants during a rollover event by helping to maintain the integrity of the passenger safety cell.
- Windshield Support & Retention: Provides a robust and precisely shaped mounting surface for the top edge of the windshield glass, contributing to its secure fitment and preventing dislodgement in a crash.
- Torsional Rigidity: Enhances the overall torsional stiffness of the body-in-white by connecting the A-pillars, which improves handling, reduces body flex, and contributes to the vehicle’s refined feel.
- Energy Absorption: Designed as part of the vehicle’s crash structure to absorb and distribute impact energy, particularly in certain types of frontal or offset collisions.
- Components: Typically a welded steel or advanced alloy structure, often a hydroformed or precisely stamped profile. The “assembly” implies it may come with integrated internal baffles, attachment points for the headliner, or drainage provisions. It does not include the windshield glass itself, the headliner, or the A-pillars, but rather connects them.
- Location: Integrated into the upper front section of the vehicle’s roof structure, directly above the windshield opening, spanning horizontally across the vehicle’s width.
- Material: High-strength steel (HSS) or Ultra-High Strength Steel (UHSS) are commonly used for such critical structural components, chosen for their superior strength-to-weight ratio and ability to resist deformation under extreme forces.
- Design: Precisely engineered with specific contours, mounting points, and structural properties to fit the Maserati Ghibli’s unibody design, ensuring optimal safety performance, precise windshield fitment, and overall vehicle rigidity.