A subassembly for a vehicle front end includes a grille, a housing supporting at least one light, and a lens attached to said housing. The lens has at least one attribute for engaging said grille. The grille may include at least one extension and the at least one attribute has a shape corresponding with the extension. The at least one attribute may further restrict movement of said lens relative said grille in a Y-axis direction. This ensures consistent margins or gap widths therebetween. The at least one attribute may include an aperture, or a cavity formed in said lens for receiving the extension. The at least one extension may include an overlapping portion of said grille, and the at least one extension may be a loop overlapping at least a portion of said lens.

The invention relates to an alignment element (10), with which an attachment part (50) can be positioned on a structure part (42) of a motor vehicle. The alignment element (10) is also suitable for retaining the attachment part (50) at a defined distance to the structure part (42) under non-destructive force transmission, and for compensating an occurring angular adjustment (W). The invention also relates to an illumination assembly (28) for a vehicle having the alignment element (10) and a corresponding method for mounting an illumination device (34) on the vehicle. Finally, a vehicle (32) comprising the illumination assembly (28) is also an object of the invention.

An apparatus, according to one example includes, among other things, a first panel with a first alignment feature, a first lamp installed on the first panel, a second panel adjacent the first panel and including a second alignment feature, and a second lamp installed on the second panel. A lift system moves the first and second lamps to respectively engage the first and second alignment features and align the first and second lamps. A method according to one example includes, among other things, a step of aligning the first and second lamps with each other by independently moving the first and second lamps to respectively engage the first and second alignment features.

A rear structure of a vehicle includes a flip-up back door for opening and closing an opening formed in the rear part of the vehicle. The back door has lamp fitting recesses, into which rear lamps are fitted, extending inwardly from the ends of the back door in the vehicle width direction which are recessed in a vehicle inner side. The lamp fitting recesses are provided, on its bottom walls, with flow restraint recesses extending in upward and downward directions in the lamp fitting recesses which are recessed in the vehicle inner side. The lamp fitting recesses are provided with, on portions or the lower walls thereof that are located more outwardly in the vehicle width direction than the flow restraint recesses, inclined parts in which lower walls of the lamp fitting recesses are inclined downward toward the rear of the vehicle or the outside in the vehicle width direction.

An apparatus for releasably attaching a tail light to a vehicle body of a motor vehicle. The tail light is or becomes connected to the vehicle body in an interlocking manner on at least two interlocking connection points. In order to simplify the releasable attachment of the tail light, the tail light is connected to the vehicle body by way of at least one latching connection in addition to the interlocking connection points in order to establish the tail light in an assembled position in all spatial directions.

A motor vehicle has a body, wherein the body has body openings, in which auxiliary devices such as lamps, turn indicators, or the like are arranged. A body wall surrounds the body opening and has a body flange formed at the particular body opening, to which body wall a cup-shaped insert is fastened, wherein the particular auxiliary device is fastened to the cup-shaped insert. The cup-shaped insert has a peripheral or partially peripheral, bent flange segment having a fastening segment, which extends parallel to an inner surface of the body wall surrounding the body opening. A glue or an adhesive layer is applied between the outer surface of the fastening segment of the flange segment of the cup-shaped insert and the inner surface of the body wall. A seal is arranged in an intermediate space between a flange segment of the cup-shaped insert and the body wall.

A rear structure of a vehicle includes a flip-up back door for opening and closing an opening formed in the rear part of the vehicle. The back door has lamp fitting recesses, into which rear lamps are fitted, extending inwardly from the ends of the back door in the vehicle width direction which are recessed in a vehicle inner side. The lamp fitting recesses are provided, on its bottom walls, with flow restraint recesses extending in upward and downward directions in the lamp fitting recesses which are recessed in the vehicle inner side. The lamp fitting recesses are provided with, on portions or the lower walls thereof that are located more outwardly in the vehicle width direction than the flow restraint recesses, inclined parts in which lower walls of the lamp fitting recesses are inclined downward toward the rear of the vehicle or the outside in the vehicle width direction.

An apparatus, according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first panel with a first alignment feature, a first lamp installed on the first panel, a second panel adjacent the first panel and including a second alignment feature, and a second lamp installed on the second panel. A lift system moves the first and second lamps to respectively engage the first and second alignment features and align the first and second lamps. A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a step of aligning the first and second lamps with each other by independently moving the first and second lamps to respectively engage the first and second alignment features.

The invention relates to an alignment element (10), with which an attachment part (50) can be positioned on a structure part (42) of a motor vehicle. The alignment element (10) is also suitable for retaining the attachment part (50) at a defined distance to the structure part (42) under non-destructive force transmission, and for compensating an occurring angular adjustment (W). The invention also relates to an illumination assembly (28) for a vehicle having the alignment element (10) and a corresponding method for mounting an illumination device (34) on the vehicle. Finally, a vehicle (32) comprising the illumination assembly (28) is also an object of the invention.

A tailgate for a vehicle including an inner panel and an outer panel. The outer panel includes an appearance wall and an edge wall adjacent to the appearance wall and taking part in delimiting a housing for receiving an optical unit. The outer panel further includes a bridge wall, located on the inside face of the outer panel, forming a bridge between the edge wall and the appearance wall and serving as a part of a bonding interface between the outer panel and the inner panel. A process for molding the outer panel for the tailgate for a vehicle, wherein a movable slider is built and used in a mold to create a naturally non-demoldable hollow cavity delimited by the appearance wall, the edge wall and the bridge wall.