Patent ID: 7014254

Claim:
A fastening device for a component adapted to be installed in a depression in an automotive body part and inserted into the depression from outside via an inclined assembly position and shifted by a swiveling motion into an operating position within the depression, comprising: a mounting part, integrally molded on a first edge area of the component, which, in the operating position, is in an operative connection with a first side wall section of the depression, and an elastic catch part, provided on an opposite second edge area, cooperating with a second side wall section of the depression, wherein the depression includes third and fourth wall sections arranged with distance between them, wherein a device can be introduced between the depression and the component in an area of the third and fourth wall sections so as to ensure insertion of the component into the depression in a proper position and defined pivoting of the component about a pivot axis, which runs approximately at a right angle to the third and fourth wall sections, into the operating position, and wherein, when the component is pivoted, the mounting part engages behind a free edge area of the first side wall section and the elastic catch part cooperates engagingly with a free edge area of the second side wall section.