A system for a vehicle with a wheel housing includes a wheel well liner secured to the wheel housing and disposed in a wheel well defined by the wheel housing. The system further includes a heating element in contact with the wheel well liner and operable to heat the wheel well liner. A method of heating a wheel well liner includes determining whether an ambient temperature around the wheel well liner is less than a predetermined temperature, determining whether a weight of a load on the wheel well liner is greater than a predetermined weight, and activating a heating element in contact with the wheel well liner if the ambient temperature is less than the predetermined temperature and the weight on the wheel well liner is greater than the predetermined weight.

Reinforced textile wheel arch liners including a reinforced textile wheel arch liner comprised of a base layer and a reinforcing layer. The base layer and reinforcing layers are comprised at least partially of a thermoformable textile material and disposed upon and bonded to at least part of the base layer. In some examples, the base layer and reinforcing layer are formed separately. In some further examples, the reinforcing layer can be formed as part of the base layer in a single die that would otherwise be off-cut.

A plastic fender is provided for coping with thermal deformation. Additionally, an apparatus is provided which makes an effect of allowing the plastic fender to move to cope with thermal deformation, by integrally forming a bellows shape with a mounting portion of the plastic fender. The plastic fender includes a hood line portion, a bumper line portion, and a door line portion. Additionally, mounting portions are formed along an edge of each of the hood line portion, the bumper line portion, and the door line portion, respectively. The plastic fender includes a bellows-shaped portion that is formed on the mounting portions and is moveable to cope with the thermal deformation.

A fender integrated aerodynamic mud, rock and splash guard for a vehicle, comprising: a) a front surface, b) a back surface, c) a fender skirt portion, d) bumper grill radiator portion, e) behind grill portion, and f) bumper tab, wherein the guard is adapted to be an extension of an inner fender skirt, wherein the guard is adapted to be an extension of an inner fender skirt, wherein the guard is affixed along a fender skirt edge, wherein the guard is configured to extend from the fender skirt edge along a portion of a front portion of a wheel well to overlap with a back portion of a front bumper, and wherein the front surface faces away from a volume of a wheel well and the back surface faces the volume of the wheel well.

A motor vehicle includes at least one air-conducting structure. That at least one air conducting structure is arranged downstream of a vehicle wheel in the direction of travel, for conducting at least some of the air in a wake of the vehicle wheel to a dust collector. A control unit is provided for automatic adjustment, in a manner depending on the speed of travel of the vehicle and/or of the spacing between a lower edge of the air-conducting structure and a roadway surface being driven over by the vehicle.

A plastic fender is provided for coping with thermal deformation. Additionally, an apparatus is provided which makes an effect of allowing the plastic fender to move to cope with thermal deformation, by integrally forming a bellows shape with a mounting portion of the plastic fender. The plastic fender includes a hood line portion, a bumper line portion, and a door line portion. Additionally, mounting portions are formed along an edge of each of the hood line portion, the bumper line portion, and the door line portion, respectively. The plastic fender includes a bellows-shaped portion that is formed on the mounting portions and is moveable to cope with the thermal deformation.

An air guide for a vehicle having a pair of side members. The air guide includes a base member having a pair of opposing ends and a pair of attachment members configured to be coupled to the pair of side members. Each of the pair of attachment members are coupled to a respective opposing end of the base member for movement between a folded position, an unfolded position, and an attachment position between the folded position and the unfolded position.

The present invention provides a wheel house structure having: a wheel house front wall that structures a wall at a front side of a wheel house in which a front tire is disposed; and an air discharging portion that is structured to include one or more through-holes formed along a vehicle vertical direction at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of the wheel house front wall, the air discharging portion discharging air, that is further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction front side than the wheel house front wall, through the through-hole obliquely rearward toward a vehicle longitudinal direction rear side and a vehicle transverse direction outer side.

An air flow adjusting structure for a vehicle includes: a fender liner provided above a tire in a vehicle vertical direction, the fender liner including an arch such that an air flow passage is formed between the arch and the tire; and an adjusting rib projecting from the arch in a vehicle-downward direction, the adjusting rib being inclined relative to a vehicle-width direction, and extending in a direction that intersects with a vehicle-longitudinal direction.

An automotive trim part is provided made of a laminated structure generally consisting of a thermoplastic core layer extruded from at least one feedstock derived from recycled material. The feedstock may consist at least partially of vehicle trim part waste from another vehicle, or trim part waste associated with an automotive trim part the same or similar to the part being produced. The core layer is preferably covered by fibrous layers and may be configured for use at least as a portion of a vehicle's wheel well.