Nissan Motor Company Limited

Kazutaka Hamada

Takashi Ishida

Disclosed herein is a plastic wheel cover for a road wheel. The wheel cover comprises a cover proper; a series of lugs integrally formed on an inboard face of the cover proper, each lug having a latching pawl which is to be latchingly engageable with an annular ridge formed on a wheel disc of a road wheel; a resilient wire ring held by the lugs and biasing the same radially outwardly; and a series of stoppers integrally formed on the inboard face of the cover proper, the stoppers being arranged to alternate with the lugs. Each of the stoppers comprises at least one radially extending wall which has an upper surface sloped. The height of the wall is gradually reduced as the distance from an inboard end of the wall increases.

Wheel cover

A MacPherson strut front suspension is provided with an upper spring seat assembly which retains the upper end of a front coil spring and is rotatable together with the coil spring and a strut outer tube relative to a vehicle body. The upper spring seat assembly comprises concentric inner and outer tubular members, a spring seat rubber interconnecting the inner and outer tubular members, and a shallow dish-shaped abutment member which is attached to the inner tubular member to be rotatable together therewith and abuttingly engageable to limit upward movement of the outer tubular member relative to the inner tubular member.

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Atsugi, Japan

Kazutaka Hamada