Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Intier Automotive Inc

Stanley J Wenzlick

A retention clip for securing a trim piece to a vehicle. The retention clip includes a trim piece affixing portion, a first leg member, and second leg member that extends from a head portion. The trim piece affixing portion is defined by at least one pair of grips that includes a plurality of retention barbs. Each first and second leg member is defined by a first leg portion, an intermediate knee portion, and a second leg portion. Each second leg portion is defined by a first and second length and a first and second deployment angle, respectively. The retention clip has a resilient retention feature that allows the retention clip to deform inwardly to during installation, then outwardly when affixing a trim piece to a vehicle in order to provide a perpendicular biasing force and a later, outboard biasing force.

Retention clip

A plastic strap to which an underhood electrical cable for an underhood lamp is taped has one end connected to the hood adjacent its rear end and its other end connected to vehicle body structure adjacent a seal at the rear end of an engine compartment. The strap is at all times self-biased toward a circular loop position away from the seal so that the electrical cable cannot fold back on itself and be pinched between the hood and the seal when the hood is in its closed position.

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Chesaning, MI, United States of America

Stanley J Wenzlick