Fender Design Challenge
FR-Fender
- Fender is a one of automotive enclosure part, Its primary purpose is to prevent the sand, mud, rocks, liquids, and other road spray from being thrown into the air by the rotating tire.
- When vehicle is moving, tire pick up stones and others and hurl them in all directions. Fenders are basically present to
Prevent any injuries to pedestrians and contain the motion of these particles, The fender is located over the wheels of the vehicle
As such, there are four fenders on a typical vehicle: front right, front left, rear right and rear left.
Types of Fender
The type of fender is based upon the area covered.,
- Full fender type
- Half fender type
Full Fender type:
Full fender type is traditional type fender more material consumption is observed. This type is used in old
Design of automobile where it increases the overall weight and thus reduces performance. The maintenance also
Relatively more due to more surface.
Half Fender type:
Half type fender is modern design where less material consumption is observed, so productivity increased by reducing size
Of blank and thus providing more performance. The maintenance also relatively low compared to full bumper type.
Generally we have five mounting places to mount Fender with vehicle:
- Bumper mounting area
- Drip mounting area
- Sill mounting area
- A pillar mounting area
- Cowl or Baffle mounting area
