Patent ID: 8764337

Claim:
A distance device for bridging a free space between a carrier part and a roof body for fastening a roof rack on a vehicle roof, the distance device comprising: a threaded screw; a support part and a counter support part, held together by a threaded connection, the support part and counter support part adjustable relative to one another to set a bridging length in that one of the support part and counter support part is carried along by a rotationally engaging connection with the threaded screw when screwed into the roof rack and the carrier part; a carrier sleeve having an internal channel for receiving the threaded screw, the carrier sleeve carried along with the threaded screw by friction, the carrier sleeve having an out-of-round external cross section cooperating with a shape-matched internal cross section of a cutout of one of the support part and counter support part for rotationally locking the carrier sleeve and the one of the support part and counter support part; and a holder fastenable to one of the support part and the counter support part in order to fix the one of the support part and the counter support part to one of the carrier part and the roof body; wherein the holder is fixed in one of the support part and the counter support part by a clip fastener, the holder has supporting and rear-engaging elements for fastening to one of the carrier part and the roof body, and the supporting and rear-engaging elements of the holder are adapted to fix to an edge region of a through-opening of the roof body; and wherein the support part and the counter support part both circumferentially surround the threaded screw and the holder circumferentially surrounds both the support part and the counter support part.