Body details: 1 – luggage compartment door left; 2 – luggage compartment door right; 3 - rear bumper; 4 - right side glass of the rear compartment; 5 – back door right; 6 - front door right; 7 - hood; 8 – an external rear-view mirror; 9 - right front fender; 10 - front bumper
The body of Lada Largus is a one-piece welded structure. It is welded on a robotic line. All body parts that are prone to corrosion are galvanized. The main method of connecting body parts to each other is resistance welding, and electric welding is used in hard-to-reach places. All welds and joints of parts are smeared with mastic. In the manufacture of the body, after connecting its main parts, it is immersed in a special bath with an anti-corrosion compound. Then the primer and paintwork is applied. Hidden cavities are treated with a wax auto-preservative, and the bottom is covered with anti-corrosion mastic.
The volume of anti-corrosion mastic applied to the bottom compared to Renault Logan is increased by one and a half times.
The body is designed taking into account the most advanced requirements for the passive safety of the car. One of the most important elements of passive safety is the front subframe, which has the property of redistributing impact energy. Car bumpers are made of impact-resistant material that absorbs impact energy. The doors of the car have stamped metal amplifiers in case of a side impact.
Due to the fact that the body has a very rigid structure, and the plastic parts of the interior have a gap between themselves and are fastened with special fasteners, there are practically no vibration noises in the cabin (so-called "crickets").
The windshield of LADA Largus is three-layer, it is glued into the body frame and is a part of its load-bearing structure. All other car windows are tempered. The side door windows are lowerable and, depending on the configuration, have either a manual or electric drive.
The side windows of the rear compartment can be slightly opened (7 seater version).
The luggage compartment doors can be opened completely, or up to two fixed positions provided for this, which is very convenient if the car is in a cramped loading / unloading space.
The modification of the car called LADA Largus Cross has unpainted black front and rear bumpers, as well as protective pads on the wheel arches and sills made of black plastic.
About the selection of paint in body color
Theoretically, the paint can be selected by the code that is indicated on the nameplate on the car or breaks through VIN code. However, very often the resulting color differs significantly from the body color. This is due to two factors: production features and an abundance of systems (programs) color matching.
The problem is that there is no single production of paint of certain shades. At automobile factories, the desired tone is obtained according to a certain recipe: a package of pigments is added to the barrel with the main color. A new batch is made for each batch of machines. And just as the details may differ from each other by the amount of tolerance, so the paints vary slightly in hue.
At the car factory, you can’t find two barrels with a 100% color match - a difference in tone is found even in cars from neighboring lots. The paint prepared at the factory is not supplied to the secondary market, and during body repairs in any service, you have to select the tone. For this, there are color matching systems.