Patent ID: 7144059

Claim:
Separable connection between two adjoining skin components of a motor vehicle body, which are fitted to one another along a joint and, in a common connection area, are provided with bent-away, locally adjoining flanges, wherein the separable connection is formed by a clamping connection bracing the two flanges with respect to one another, which clamping connection comprises at least one plate-shaped fastening element with a slide-type elastic clamp, a head section of the plate-shaped fastening element being supported on one of the two components, and the fastening element having at least one holding section which is guided through openings of the two flanges, which fastening element projects over the two flanges, and is provided with detent grooves aligned approximately parallel to the longitudinal course of the flanges into which detent grooves the elastic clamp is inserted from the side in a slide-in direction.