Patent ID: 8707808

Claim:
A motor vehicle, comprising: a heat exchanger; a sensor device for detecting a heat exchanger related physical variable, the sensor device having a first pair of holding fingers and a first pin; a sensor attachment device for attaching a sensor device such that removal of the first sensor device without damage is precluded or for attaching a second sensor device having a second pair of holding fingers and a second pin after removal of the damaged first sensor device, the sensor attachment device comprising: a first and a second pin recess operatively configured in the sensor attachment device to correspond with the respective first and second pins of the first and second sensor devices; and a first and a second pair of holding finger recesses operatively configured in the sensor attachment device to correspond to the respective first and second pairs of holding fingers of the first and second sensor devices; wherein the second pin recess is offset by an offset distance with respect to the first pin recess, and the second pair of holding finger recesses are offset by the same offset distance with respect to the first pair of holding finger recesses and has one of the holding fingers between the first and second pin recess for accommodating a replacement sensor device in lieu of the first sensor device whose pin remains at least partially in the first pin recess upon removal of the first sensor device.