Ford Edge Sport Pad 7
Four long slots rather than studs — the pattern that gives the most rubber contact area per unit of tooling on the Edge pedal face.
Specification
| Part family | Overmoulded finisher plate |
|---|---|
| Construction | Metal face with moulded rubber inserts |
| Face detail | Stainless face with four elongated rubber slots. |
| Face finish options | Brushed aluminium, sand blasted stainless steel or polished stainless steel |
| Face marking | Laser etching available on steel components |
| Insert compounds | EPDM, SBR, TPE or TPE-SEBS, to drawing |
| Tooling | Designed and built in house |
| Prototype parts | 4 weeks from prototype tool |
| PPAP | Typically 8 weeks, to ISO/TS 16949 or VDA |
| Dimensions | Built to customer drawing or to a supplied sample |
| Moulded from | Beijing rubber plant (rubber) / Shanghai plant (plastics) |
The face on this part
Stainless face with four elongated rubber slots. It sits in the Ford Sport Pads group, and the photograph above is of the part itself rather than a rendering — what you see is the tread, the outline and the finish as they leave the tool.
What we need to quote it
A drawing in SolidWorks, Pro-E or UG — a STEP export is fine — or the physical sample, which we will measure and model for your approval. Annual volume and the required PPAP standard complete the picture.
Where it is made and tested
The stainless work and assembly run through our Shanghai and Beijing sites; the rubber insert is moulded in Beijing, where the test equipment sits next to the production line. Hardness, ozone, ageing and oil resistance are all checked there.
How a finisher plate is built
The plate is cut from sheet — laser cut if the material is thin, CNC machined if it is thicker — then finished and married to a moulded rubber insert. On an overmoulded part the plate goes into the rubber tool and the compound is moulded onto and through it, so the two leave as one piece. On a press fit part the insert is moulded separately and pressed home.
Other parts in Ford Sport Pads
Background reading
Sport Pad or Rubber Pad? The Difference That Decides Your Tooling Cost
A sport pad has a metal face; a rubber pad does not. That single difference drives tooling count, unit price and how the part is validated.
Overmoulding vs Press Fit: Two Ways to Get Rubber Onto a Finisher Plate
Both produce a metal-faced pedal pad. They differ in tooling, in retention and in how easily the part can be pulled apart.
Brushed, Sand Blasted or Polished: Picking a Pedal Face Finish
The three finishes buyers actually ask for, what each one hides, and why a finish change is not a tooling change.
Questions buyers ask
Can I have this face in aluminium instead of stainless?
Yes — brushed aluminium is one of the three finishes buyers most often ask for, alongside sand blasted and polished stainless. The blank changes; the rubber tool does not.
How long before I see a real Ford Edge Sport Pad 7 sample?
Four weeks from a prototype tool. The tool shop is in the same buildings as the moulding lines in Shanghai and Beijing, so prototype work does not queue behind a subcontractor.
What do you need from us to quote it?
A drawing or sample plus the annual volume. Say at that point whether PPAP is required and to which standard — ISO/TS 16949 or VDA — so it is planned in rather than added later.
How is the material verified?
In our Beijing facility, next to the production line: Shore A hardness, density, ozone, ageing, tensile strength, elongation to fracture, vulcanization and insulation resistivity, oil resistance and Mooney viscosity.
Quote the Ford Edge Sport Pad 7
Send the annual volume and, if you have one, the drawing. Prototype parts follow 4 weeks after a prototype tool.