Acquisitions and Divestitures	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Acquisitions and Divestitures [Abstract]
Acquisitions and Divestitures	Acquisitions and Divestitures Fallbrook — On September 10, 2012, we entered into a strategic alliance with Fallbrook Technologies Inc. (Fallbrook). Among the agreements executed was an exclusive license agreement allowing Dana to engineer, produce and sell transmission components and other advanced powertrain solutions with Fallbrook’s continuously variable planetary (CVP) technology for passenger and certain off-highway vehicles in the end markets Dana serves. The exclusive license agreement, along with an engineering services agreement and key engineers hired from Fallbrook, provide Dana with intellectual property, processes, techniques, technical data, training, designs and drawings related to the development, application, use, manufacture and production of the CVP technology. The transaction with Fallbrook has been accounted for as a business combination. Dana paid Fallbrook $20 under the exclusive license agreement for the markets licensed to Dana; $7 was paid at closing, $5 was paid during the fourth quarter of 2012 and $8 was paid during the first half of 2013. The aggregate fair value of the assets acquired of $20 has been allocated to intangible assets used in research and development activities which are initially classified as indefinite-lived with $12 and $8 assigned to our Off-Highway and Light Vehicle Driveline (LVD) operating segments, respectively. We used the multi-period excess earnings method, an income approach, to value the intangible assets used in research and development activities. Divestiture of Structural Products business — In March 2010, we sold substantially all of the assets of our Structural Products business to Metalsa S.A. de C.V. (Metalsa). Approximately $12 of the proceeds was paid into escrow. The agreement provided for those funds to be released to Dana by June 2012; however, the buyer has presented claims to the escrow agent seeking indemnification from Dana. The escrow agent is precluded from releasing the funds held in escrow until Dana and the buyer resolve the issues underlying the claims. The parties are pursuing an arbitration process to resolve the issues with arbitration currently expected to take place during the fourth quarter. Dana does not presently believe that any obligation to indemnify the buyer will be material. Other — We completed the divestiture of our axle, differential and brake systems business serving the leisure, all-terrain and utility vehicle markets in August 2012. Proceeds of $7 and $1 received in the third and fourth quarters of 2012 approximated the net assets of the business following an asset impairment charge of $2 recorded in the first quarter of 2012. Sales of the divested business approximated $32 in 2012 through the date of the disposition.

Acquisitions and Divestitures

Fallbrook — On September 10, 2012, we entered into a strategic alliance with Fallbrook Technologies Inc. (Fallbrook). Among the agreements executed was an exclusive license agreement allowing Dana to engineer, produce and sell transmission components and other advanced powertrain solutions with Fallbrook’s continuously variable planetary (CVP) technology for passenger and certain off-highway vehicles in the end markets Dana serves. The exclusive license agreement, along with an engineering services agreement and key engineers hired from Fallbrook, provide Dana with intellectual property, processes, techniques, technical data, training, designs and drawings related to the development, application, use, manufacture and production of the CVP technology. The transaction with Fallbrook has been accounted for as a business combination.

Dana paid Fallbrook $20 under the exclusive license agreement for the markets licensed to Dana; $7 was paid at closing, $5 was paid during the fourth quarter of 2012 and $8 was paid during the first half of 2013. The aggregate fair value of the assets acquired of $20 has been allocated to intangible assets used in research and development activities which are initially classified as indefinite-lived with $12 and $8 assigned to our Off-Highway and Light Vehicle Driveline (LVD) operating segments, respectively. We used the multi-period excess earnings method, an income approach, to value the intangible assets used in research and development activities.

Divestiture of Structural Products business — In March 2010, we sold substantially all of the assets of our Structural Products business to Metalsa S.A. de C.V. (Metalsa). Approximately $12 of the proceeds was paid into escrow. The agreement provided for those funds to be released to Dana by June 2012; however, the buyer has presented claims to the escrow agent seeking indemnification from Dana. The escrow agent is precluded from releasing the funds held in escrow until Dana and the buyer resolve the issues underlying the claims. The parties are pursuing an arbitration process to resolve the issues with arbitration currently expected to take place during the fourth quarter. Dana does not presently believe that any obligation to indemnify the buyer will be material.

Other — We completed the divestiture of our axle, differential and brake systems business serving the leisure, all-terrain and utility vehicle markets in August 2012. Proceeds of $7 and $1 received in the third and fourth quarters of 2012 approximated the net assets of the business following an asset impairment charge of $2 recorded in the first quarter of 2012. Sales of the divested business approximated $32 in 2012 through the date of the disposition.