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Product Warranties | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Commitments and Contingencies [Abstract] |
Product Warranty Disclosure [Text Block] |
8. | PRODUCT WARRANTIES
We record a liability for estimated warranty obligations at the dates our products are sold. These estimates are established using sales volumes and internal and external warranty data where there is no payment history and historical information about the average cost of warranty claims for customers with prior c laims. We estimate our costs based on our contractual arrangements with our customers, existing customers warranty terms and internal and external warranty data, which includes a determination of our responsibility for potential warranty issues or claims and estimates of repair costs. We actively study trends of our warranty claims and take actions to improve product quality and minimize warranty claims. We continue to re-evaluate these estimates, our customer's administration of their warranty programs and monitor actual warranty claim data as our programs become more mature. On a quarterly basis, we adjust the liability as necessary. The following table provides a reconciliation of changes in the product warranty liability:
|  | Three Months Ended |  | Nine Months Ended
|  | September 30, |  | September 30,
|  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012
|  | (in millions)
Beginning balance |  | $ | 23.2 |  |  | $ | 24.5 |  |  | $ | 29.1 |  |  | $ | 13.4 |
Accruals |  | 3.2 |  |  | 2.8 |  |  | 8.9 |  |  | 17.2 |
Settlements |  | (0.1 | ) |  | (0.3 | ) |  | (10.6 | ) |  | (0.7 | )
Adjustment to prior period accruals, net |  | (6.9 | ) |  | (0.7 | ) |  | (7.8 | ) |  | (3.5 | )
Foreign currency translation and other |  | — |  |  | 0.1 |  |  | (0.2 | ) |  | — |
Ending balance |  | $ | 19.4 |  |  | $ | 26.4 |  |  | $ | 19.4 |  |  | $ | 26.4 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for standard and extended product warranties and other product guarantee contracts, including a tabular reconciliation of the changes in the guarantor's aggregate product warranty liability for the reporting period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 460 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 8 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6398077&loc=d3e12565-110249 + Details
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