Vehicle component (100) for a vehicle, with: a component body (101) which is formed from a core material (103), wherein the component body (101) has a locally limited deformation zone (105) which is arranged planarly in the core material (103), wherein the deformation zone (105) has a locally variable tensile strength according to a predetermined tensile strength profile in order to influence a deformation process of the component body (101) when a force is applied to the component body (101), wherein the component body (101) has a
body surface, wherein a
metallic coating is applied to the
body surface, which is designed to prevent
corrosion after manufacture and scaling during a hot forming process for the manufacture of the component body (101), wherein the
coating comprises an aluminum-
silicon alloy which, during the hot forming process, forms a stable
alloy layer
system with the core material to provide
corrosion and scaling protection for the component body, wherein the vehicle component (100) is a hot-formed vehicle component, wherein the vehicle component (100) is a vehicle column, wherein the component body (101) has a
body surface (401) and a sheet thickness (403) which describes the material thickness of the component body (101) in the direction of a surface normal (405) of the body surface (401), and wherein the deformation zone (105) completely penetrates the component body (101) with respect to the sheet thickness (403) and has an
edge region which follows a perimeter of the deformation zone (105) on the body surface (401), and wherein the tensile strength in the
edge region approaches the tensile strength of the material of the component body (101) surrounding the deformation zone (105) in order to form a homogeneous tensile strength transition, wherein the component body (101) is made of steel core material (103) with a tensile strength R M,K is manufactured in a range of 1200 MPa to 2200 MPa, wherein the deformation zone (105) has a tensile strength R M,D exhibits a range of 450 MPa to 1100 MPa, wherein the component body (101) has a body surface (401) and the area of the deformation zone (105) on the body surface (401) corresponds to at least 0.05 to 0.4 times the area of the body surface (401), wherein the tensile strength of the deformation zone (105) decreases continuously towards a center point of the deformation zone (105), wherein at least two tensile strength plateaus (107-1, 107-2) are formed in the deformation zone (105), which have different tensile strengths relative to each other and to the core material (103).