• Question: how many mechanical parts do you need to make a car?😂

    Asked by Supreme👑_FIRE🔥 to Iulia, Katie, Ollie, Siobhan on 15 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Iulia Motoc

      Iulia Motoc answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      I haven’t worked with cars before, so I cannot answer your question. But I am sure Katie will be able to answer it. 🙂

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      Tens of thousands? I am pretty sure modern cars require so many parts, it would be close to impossible to put it all together manually!

    • Photo: Katie Pavey

      Katie Pavey answered on 15 Mar 2017:

      Wow what a question – that’s going to make me think a bit.

      I work on putting together the metal shell of a car with robots. That usually has about 1,000 different metal panels that are joined together using welds, glue or rivets. If a car is made of Aluminium it will have up to 5,000 rivets to join all the panels together.

      After this there are all the drivetrain parts (engine, gearbox etc. ) that are also made up of thousands of smaller parts.

      Then you have all the ‘trim’ – the bits that bolt onto the inside of the car like the seats, plastic panels, speakers, steering wheel, radio etc.

      I have to admit I had to have a little look on google to see what all of those parts add up to! The general thinking seems to be a car is made up of between 25,000 – 30,000 different parts. Even I wouldn’t have guessed it was that many!

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