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Product Warranty and Related Liabilities (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
Product Warranties Disclosures [Abstract] |
Schedule of policy, product warranty, recall campaigns and courtesy transportation |
| Three Months Ended
| March 31, 2017 |  | March 31, 2016
Warranty balance at beginning of period | $ | 9,701 |  |  | $ | 9,279 |
Warranties issued and assumed in period – recall campaigns | 184 |  |  | 154 |
Warranties issued and assumed in period – product warranty | 613 |  |  | 549 |
Payments | (897 | ) |  | (911 | )
Adjustments to pre-existing warranties | 36 |  |  | 83 |
Effect of foreign currency and other | 43 |  |  | 79 |
Warranty balance at end of period | $ | 9,680 |  |  | $ | 9,233 |

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