Sentences with phrase «than spot welding»

Some bonding rather than spot welding means the body - in - white is 16 kg lighter and 38 % stiffer than the previous Civic's, but the most significant mechanical change is that there's no longer a torsion beam rear axle.

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It's traditional technology in an age of carbonfibre and spot - welded steel, but TVR's argument is that its backbone set - up has all the required torsional stiffness and is far lighter than slicing off the top of a steel monocoque and then having to reinforce the resulting structure.

Advanced high strength steels in areas such as the rear floor, are joined using more than 2,600 self - piercing rivets, 238.8 - ft (72.8 m) of structural adhesive and more than 560 spot - welds.

[130] The new generation featured adhesively bonded construction as opposed to spot welding in key areas, with Volvo claiming the new body to be 70 per cent more rigid than its predecessor.

Its bodyshell is now made from a variety of high - and ultra-high-strength steels, and the roof is laser - welded rather than spot - welded.

Using aluminum suspension elements and aluminum body panels, held together with a spot welding process and adhesive joining process developed specifically for this vehicle, the end result was a car that was 400 pounds lighter than a SHO Taurus.

A few spot welds need to be drilled out and a few holes drilled, but other than that this kit is a complete bolt - on that transforms the little Mustang into a real corner - carver.

The new SUV's body weighs 1045 lbs (110 more than a Panamera) and requires 6000 spot welds, 5200 of which are done at Leipzig.

The improvement is achieved with more than 5,400 welds in the body alone, marking a 53 - percent increase in spot welds, a 42 - percent increase in arc welds and a 38 - percent increase in structural adhesive.

To avoid melting through the thin rocker panel sheet metal, we created a series of overlapping spot welds rather than laying one continuous bead.