Can someone explain the IG body construction technology?

[MileHigh]

So the IG is a body on frame construction. But what I’m starting to see is that a lot of the body panels are welded to other parts? It almost seems like it’s a unibody on top of a chassis? For lack of a better explanation. For example, the rear quarter panel is welded to the roof? So if you ding a rear quarter panel, it’s not just taking off the panel and replacing a panel? Anybody have video of how they put together an Ineos‘s body? I was kind of surprised that the rear quarter panel doesn’t end at the belt line, it goes all the way from the bottom facia all the way to the roof.

 

[TheDocAUS]

There is video somewhere showing the car going through the assembly line that may help you. I will look for it.

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View: https://youtu.be/fEK0X1BjT3E

 

[landmannnn]

So the IG is a body on frame construction. But what I’m starting to see is that a lot of the body panels are welded to other parts? It almost seems like it’s a unibody on top of a chassis? For lack of a better explanation. For example, the rear quarter panel is welded to the roof? So if you ding a rear quarter panel, it’s not just taking off the panel and replacing a panel? Anybody have video of how they put together an Ineos‘s body? I was kind of surprised that the rear quarter panel doesn’t end at the belt line, it goes all the way from the bottom facia all the way to the roof.

It's generally how cars are made nowadays.

Go back to say the 50s most cars were made of individual panels which were bolted or spot welded together.

The downside of this process was that it was very labour intensive on the production line. Not just the fixings, getting panel gaps right and it being a 2 man job for each panel too. Land Rovers being a classic example.Also that method created rattles, squeaks and promoted corrosion.

It's far more robust to use a robot plant to weld together then dip and paint the body in one go.
Rivian are is a classic case here where even a minor dent can often mean a huge amount of work to replace large sections of the vehicle.

 

[MileHigh]

It's generally how cars are made nowadays.

Go back to say the 50s most cars were made of individual panels which were bolted or spot welded together.

The downside of this process was that it was very labour intensive on the production line. Not just the fixings, getting panel gaps right and it being a 2 man job for each panel too. Land Rovers being a classic example.Also that method created rattles, squeaks and promoted corrosion.

It's far more robust to use a robot plant to weld together then dip and paint the body in one go.
Rivian are is a classic case here where even a minor dent can often mean a huge amount of work to replace large sections of the vehicle.

My daughter’s JLU got hit pretty hard and its back quarter panel in a parking lot. When we had it at the body shop there is also Rivian there with the same kind of impact and damage. I think ours ended up being like a bit over two grand, but the Rivian was supposedly 25 grand.

 

[Zimm]

unibody means structural, and the body is not. all you're looking at is a modern coach building method less reliant on human error and seam sealer. I've never owned a passenger vehicle like a car or suv, with unboltable rear panels like the front fenders. Do you have an example?

 

[Zimm]

My daughter’s JLU got hit pretty hard and its back quarter panel in a parking lot. When we had it at the body shop there is also Rivian there with the same kind of impact and damage. I think ours ended up being like a bit over two grand, but the Rivian was supposedly 25 grand.

They advertise the rivian as "hybrid", but the battery platform cant hold a structure on it own, without the structure being a bridge, and its built like unibody. So it's just a unibody, sitting on a battery platform. I'd say its more like having sub-frames joined by the battery box and not the unibody. Structural elements of the car were likely folded, and needed a lot more skilled work than observable and could happen with a body on frame. I would ditch that rivian as soon as it rolled out of the shop.

 

[NQ94]

Ineos body build is no different to every other body on frame 4x4 wagon built in the last 40 years.