Fender

With the term Fender become those Body parts of Vehicles - usually with Passenger car - designates, over that Wheels are attached.

The fender serves today for it, to take off the wheels of a vehicle in sufficient form, around no other road users, to endanger in particular pedestrians by the rotating motion of a free standing Rades. Loud StVO may not wheels for this reason from the body or have in special cases at least a necessary cover to exhibit.

Likewise fenders prevent today an unnecessarily large whirling up of Water of the roadway surface, the following road users in the view to obstruct would know. This would occur with free standing wheels in extreme form.

The term fender developed in a time, in still Kutschen the streetscape controlled. At that time usually the open and of Horses pulled Car with covers over the wheels were equipped, from its swung form removes to those Wing of Birds reminded.

The sense of these covers consisted of it, that the wheels of the kutschen those Horse apples, thus that Excrement, in large quantities up Roads and Because of to find was, could not directly into the interior of the kutsche centrifuges. Thus by these "wings" one prevented, that the road excrement the passengers soiled.