Configuration for fastening and/or processing of two vehicle parts
View Patent ↗A configuration is provided for the handling and/or processing of a vehicle cowling part together with an add-on part. The parts are coordinated with each other prior to the handling and/or processing and temporarily fixed at a distance from each other by a fastening device and then can be handled and/or processed together, and after the handling and/or processing they are fixed onto each other in the final position. For quick and easy temporary fixation and final fixation, in which no additional securing aids are required, it is proposed that the fastening device is configured as a snap connection with a temporary fixation and a final fixation and makes a single piece with the vehicle cowling part and/or the add-on part.
1. A configuration for handling a vehicle cowling part together with an add-on part, the configuration comprising:
a fastening device defining a temporary fixation position and a final fixed position and being integrated into the add-on part thus forming a single piece with the add-on part, the parts being temporarily fixed at a distance from each other at the temporary fixation position by said fastening device engaging the vehicle cowling part and then can be handled together, and after the handling the parts are fixed onto each other in the final fixed position by said fastening device further engaging the vehicle cowling part.
2. The configuration according to claim 1 , wherein:
the vehicle cowling part has openings formed therein;
said fastening device can snap into the openings formed in the vehicle cowling part; and
said fastening device further having a first detent step for snapping into said temporary fixation position and a second detent step for snapping into said final fixed position.
3. The configuration according to claim 2 , wherein said fastening device has ribs disposed in a region of said first detent step, with which said fastening device can slide, so that a shoving into the openings on the vehicle cowling part is facilitated and said ribs serve for a fixation in the temporary fixation position.
4. The configuration according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle cowling part and the add-on part may be painted while held in the temporary fixation position.
5. The configuration according to claim 2 , wherein the vehicle cowling part is a bumper having the openings formed therein.
6. The configuration according to claim 5 , wherein the add-on part is an aerodynamical structural part.
7. The configuration according to claim 6 , wherein said fastening device includes matching ribs disposed at said openings of the vehicle cowling part, said matching ribs only reach under the add-on part and fix the add-on part in the final fixed position.
8. The configuration according to claim 1 , wherein said final fixed position is reached in several stages.