Patent ID: 8777281

Claim:
An outside handle device for a vehicle door, comprising a base ( 13 ) mounted on a vehicle door ( 11 ), an operating handle ( 14 ) extending lengthwise in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle, and a support member ( 15 ) assembled to the base ( 13 ) while pivotably supporting a supported part ( 25 ) formed in one end part, in a longitudinal direction, of the operating handle ( 14 ), characterized in that the support member ( 15 ) pivotably supported on the base ( 13 ) so as to be pivotable between a pre-assembly holding position and an assembly completion position is formed so as to be held by the base ( 13 ) so that at the pre-assembly holding position the support member ( 15 ) can pivot toward the assembly completion position in response to a pressing force acting from the operating handle ( 14 ) accompanying an operation of assembling the operating handle ( 14 ), and so as to pivotably clasp the supported part ( 25 ) and be engaged with and fixed to the base ( 13 ) at the assembly completion position when pivoting accompanying a pressing force acting from the operating handle ( 14 ) from the pre-assembly holding position to the assembly completion position.