Patent ID: 7140070

Claim:
A fastener for fastening a floor carpet and a wire harness to a rocker panel and for supporting a rocker molding independently of the rocker panel, comprising: a base attachable to the rocker panel; a protrusion on the base for insertion in a hole in an end of a floor carpet; and a wire harness holder on the base, wherein the fastener has a pair of rocker molding, engagement means, having inlets facing away from the base, and being spaced from one another for receiving and retaining respective support legs of a rocker molding, wherein one of the rocker molding engagement means is a part of the base and the other rocker molding engagement means is a part of the wire harness holder, wherein the wire harness holder includes a pair of arcuate arms each having one end pivotally mounted on the base, the arms having respective free ends constructed for connection to one another to form a cylindrical structure surrounding a wire harness, and wherein the free end of one of the arcuate arms and the base have cooperable latch parts for connecting the free end of said one arcuate arm to the base, with a portion of said one arm spaced from the base when the free ends of the arcuate arms are connected.