Patent ID: 9718508
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B60Q,B62D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method for producing and installing a front end of a motor vehicle including an arrangement including a structural front surface forming a structure supporting engine-cooling elements, to which structure a front protective molding of the vehicle and front headlights are fixed, the vehicle further including a hood hinged on hinge brackets secured to the structure of the vehicle, and side fenders connected to front pillar linings of the structure of the vehicle, the structural front surface being fixed in the lower portion thereof to the structure of the vehicle via lower brackets secured to the side frames of the vehicle, shaped to ensure an indexing in the longitudinal direction, the structural front surface including, in an upper portion, side arms, of which the opposite ends are fixed to the front pillar linings by fixing brackets shaped to ensure a direct indexing of at least one of the ends in the longitudinal and vertical directions with a degree of freedom in the transverse direction allowing an adjustment of said end to a transverse position determined relative to the hood, the method comprising: placing in position, assembling, and fixing structural parts of the vehicle, including front pillar linings, hood hinge brackets, fixing brackets, and lower brackets of the structural front surface; placing the hood position on the hinge brackets; placing the structural front surface in position by a direct indexing of at least one of ends of the arms in the longitudinal and vertical directions with a degree of freedom in the transverse direction allowing an adjustment of the end in the transverse direction; adjusting the end and the structural front surface in the transverse direction to a transverse position determined relative to the hood by placing a template between the hood and the end; fixing ends of the side arms on the fixing brackets in the determined transverse position by tightening an indexing and clamping screw cooperating with a tapped block, and also fixing the lower portion of the structural front surface on the lower brackets.