Patent ID: 8549953

Claim:
A steering column for a motor vehicle, comprising a bracket which carries a upper jacket unit and a lower jacket unit, wherein the jacket units surround a steering shaft rotatably mounted therein, and wherein the jacket units comprise an inner jacket tube with an outer surface and an outer jacket tube which surrounds the inner jacket tube at least in some sections, said jacket tubes being mounted such that they can be displaced one inside the other in their axial direction by means of a plastic sleeve made of thermoplastic which is located therebetween and which has an inner surface directed towards the inner jacket tube and an outer surface directed towards the outer jacket tube, wherein the plastic sleeve is inserted into the outer jacket tube with a press fit, and wherein the outer jacket tube has at least one opening, in the region of which the plastic sleeve has, on its inner surface, protrusions towards the inner jacket tube, at which the plastic sleeve is pressed against the outer surface of the inner jacket tube, wherein a spring element is provided which passes through at least one opening and is held under pretension against a surface area of the outer surface of the plastic tube in the direction of the inner jacket tube.