Patent ID: 7891927

Claim:
A fastening apparatus for fastening a component B to a component A with automatic compensation of tolerances in the separation distance between the component B and the component A, consisting of a receiving element, which is designed as a single piece and can be fixed on component A, an adjustment element, which is designed as a single piece and can be screwed to the receiving element via a first thread pairing of a first thread direction, and a fastening screw, which can be screwed into the receiving element via a second thread pairing of an opposite second thread direction and can be connected with the adjustment element via a detachable drag connection, in order to also turn the adjustment element when the fastening screw is turned and to thereby move for the purpose of tolerance compensation in abutment with component B, wherein when screwed to the receiving element, the adjustment element can be moved to an end position serving as transport and installation position, in which the receiving element and the adjustment element are held together in one of several pre-determined angle positions via a detachable latch connection, wherein the receiving element and the adjustment element have multi-edged circumferential contours, which align with each other in the predetermined angle positions, for attaching a joint spanner, and the number of edges of which corresponds with the number of predetermined angle positions.