Wings On Cars

[Khandro]

An English-speaking, German friend says - having looked in dictionaries - that the part of a car body which houses the wheel both front and rear are called wings.

I say nobody calls them wings any more, but I may be wrong. What do you call, particularly the rear part of the car body, in which the wheel sits, if anything ?

I say we have wing mirrors, but that is because they used to be fixed at one time to the car's mudguards and anyway now they are usually fixed to the doors.

  

[ToraToraTora]

They are still called wings in UK. The US calls them "fenders"

[naomi24]

We call them wings.

 

Fenders are bumpers aren't they?

 

 

[THECORBYLOON]

What do you call them?

[davebro3]

wheel arches?  mirrors are door mirrors now.

[ToraToraTora]

13:53 Fender is a general term for a protecting barrier of some kind in English. Eg fire place fender so yes in that sense a bumper is a fender. It's also what the US call a wing on a car.

[ToraToraTora]

13:58 was to naomi.

[naomi24]

US - A wing, also known as an automotive airfoil.

 

Who knew?  I've never heard of that.

[Khandro]

I think dave's 'wheel arches' sound right. I can see you could call the front 'wings' for historic reasons, but I can't see calling the rear that. Hmm !

[Khandro]

I think the automotive airfoil is a spoiler, isn't it?

[ToraToraTora]

14:17 trust me they are called wings by everyone. Wheel arches are part of the wing.

[DDIL]

I call them wings

Airfoils are rear spoilers in my book

[naomi24]

I've never heard of it.  I hooked that from the internet.

[ToraToraTora]

14:33 you've never heard of the term "wing" for a car, seriously?

[Old_Geezer]

Those in the trade probably call the panels, wing panels. I doubt too many of the public refer to wings any more.

[youngmafbog]

Been a wing for as long as I remember.

Welded a few in my time 

[naomi24]

Pay attention, TTT. See 13.53.

[ToraToraTora]

right so it's "fenders" you have never heard of?

[youngmafbog]

Just looked them up, Charlie Trent (now a posh scrappy) who I have bought many from still refer to them as wings.

 

https://www.trents.co.uk/car-parts/parts/body-and-exhaust/wings

[naomi24]

Again see 13.53, TTT.  You're really not paying attention.

[Khandro]

Looks  like youngmafbog is right, they are still called wings, even at the back.  So I stand corrected, and by a German too !