Patent ID: 8312951

Claim:
An arrangement for mounting a heat exchanger on a vertical structural element forming a motor vehicle front end panel, the heat exchanger comprising means for hooking thereof onto the structural element, which includes at least one first pair of fingers and a second pair of fingers, and the structural element comprising at least first housings and second housings respectively configured to cooperate with the first and second pairs of fingers, wherein the first housings of the structural element each comprise, vertically at a top, an opening for permitting vertical introduction into each first housing of a corresponding hooking finger of the first pair, during a first mounting of the heat exchanger, the fingers of the first pair of the exchanger cooperating with the first housings of the structural element to form an articulation by which the heat exchanger is capable of pivoting about a transverse pivot axis in order, during a second mounting, to be moved into a final vertical position in which each of the fingers of the second pair is introduced longitudinally from front to back into an associated second housing of the structural element provided to this end with a front longitudinal opening, and wherein, during a third mounting, the heat exchanger is immobilized, at least longitudinally, relative to the structural element by a locking means capable of blocking at least one of the fingers of the second pair in the associated housing, so as to lock the heat exchanger in a final vertical position corresponding to its position of use.