Patent ID: 7387396

Claim:
An outside mirror apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a mirror housing that includes a first fixing member and a second fixing member; and an attachment that includes a third fixing member engaged with the first fixing member to temporarily fix the attachment to the mirror housing; and a fourth fixing member engaged with the second fixing member to firmly fix the attachment to the mirror housing, wherein when the attachment is temporarily fixed to the mirror housing, the first and third fixing members position and guide the attachment in a setting direction in which the attachment is set on the mirror housing and in first and second directions substantially perpendicular to the setting direction and substantially perpendicular to each other, wherein one of the first and third fixing members includes a plate substantially parallel to the setting direction with a groove that tapers in the setting direction, and the other one of the first and third fixing members includes an insertion portion that engages with the groove and, positions and guides the attachment in the setting direction and the first direction; and a contacting portion that contacts the plate, and positions and guides the attachment in the second direction, and wherein the mirror housing includes a garnish having an opening, a part of the attachment is exposed from the opening, and the other one of the first and third fixing member further includes a sealing-contacting portion integral with the insertion portion that indirectly contacts an edge of the opening via a sealing member.