Fender Design

Fender

Fender positioned right above the Wheel., The fender is designed such that it protects both the pedestrian and car cabin from mud, water rocks, and another road spray, Different countries have different wheel arch regulations in place, and the wheel arch design has to comply with them to be deemed usable in that country, For avoiding design alterations of the same vehicle to meet the different regulations in different countries, the maximum values of the concerned regulation parameters are taken into consideration for design purpose.

Two types of Fender available in car assembly

Two types of fend available in cars are front fender & rear fender

front fender is mounted above the front wheel and the rear fender is mounted above the wheel

Mountings:

1) Bumper

2) Drip

3) A-pillar

4) Sill

5) cowl

Tool Workability in car assembly

The tool has to come and go outside and do the operation and the tool has some limits for operation and it has to consider and design as per it

Wheel Arch

It is a curved part of the Fender positioned right above the Wheel, The Wheel Arch is designed such that it protects both the pedestrian and car cabin from mud, water rocks, and other road spray

Types of Fender

1) Full Bumper Type

2) Half Bumper Type

The reason for choosing the half bumper type over the full bumper is the full bumper consumes more are of sheet metals than the half bumper type, the more sheet metal we use more the cost, it is a consideration of cost-cutting.

The second reason for choosing a half-bumper is scrap management the half-bumper has less scrap area than the full bumper

nesting of half bumper nesting of full bumper

Images of fender