Fender (front wing)
A fender, also called a front wing, is the body panel that wraps around each front wheel between the bumper and the front door.
What it means
Each car has two fenders, one on each side, bolted onto the body structure. Modern fenders are typically thin steel or aluminium pressed in a complex shape with sweep curves and a wheel-arch cutout. Fenders are one of the most commonly damaged panels because they sit at the corners of the car, exactly where parking knocks, kerb scrapes, and low-speed shunts land. Damage scope ranges from a small dent the size of a coin to a torn-and-creased panel after a more serious impact. Many fender repairs are panel-beating jobs (gradual reshaping with hammers and dollies, then filler and respray), but heavily damaged fenders are usually replaced wholesale because the labour to straighten them out exceeds the cost of a new OEM panel. After replacement, the new fender is mounted, gapped to the surrounding panels (door, bonnet, bumper) for even shutlines, and resprayed in a colour-matched mix that is blended into the adjacent panels.
Why it matters in Singapore
Singapore's HDB and multi-storey carparks make fender damage almost inevitable for any car driven daily. Most fender repairs are partial-panel work that can be done in two to four working days. Choosing a workshop that gaps and aligns the new or repaired fender properly is what avoids the slightly-misaligned look that screams 'this car has been hit'.
How Revol Carz handles this
Revol Carz repairs fenders as a panel-beating-plus-respray workflow or as an OEM replacement, gapped and aligned to the adjacent panels, sprayed in our Italian Saima dust-free booth with Spies Hecker paint.