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Automotive car body trim
FASTENING AND ASSEMBLY SOLUTIONS FOR

Automotive car body trim

Innovations in car body trim fastening are crucial to responding to the technological revolution sweeping the automotive market. From Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and electric vehicles to driverless cars, technology is driving demand for new assembly processes. Comfort and safety are more critical than ever, and demand for custom and highly-specialized vehicles is increasing “late customization” on the production line. The connected devices and embedded electronics associated with these trends will also need to be easy to service and upgrade. ARaymond understands these challenges.

Interior trim

ARaymond provides a broad range of interior trim assembly solutions to enhance passenger comfort and safety while making the assembly process as efficient as possible. Our solutions include panel locking fasteners, metal and plastic snap clips, metal snap-on and push-in nuts, pillar trim clips and security retainers, and inside door trim panel clips and retainers.

Headliner

Headliner

ARaymond® panel locking fasteners are suitable for sun visor, upper console, grab handle, roof handle, and sunglass pocket, and airbag trim assembly. These screwless solutions, compatible with a wide range of panel thicknesses, ensure easy assembly and serviceability while providing high mechanical performance.

Headliner
Headliner trim interior

Grab handle modular solutions

ARaymond offers a streamlined product range suitable for a wide variety of grab handle designs: with aesthetic head, different colors, retractable or stationary.

Grab handle modular solutions

PRODUCT FOCUS

When fastening solutions bring more safety

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and, soon, driverless cars, are putting safety at the forefront of the automotive industry in totally new ways. ARaymond has been contributing to automotive safety for years through state-of-the-art fastening solutions and by constantly innovating to respond to increasingly demanding applications.

The airbag clip was created to enhance passenger safety. The clip requires very little force to install, and it must work quickly and support significant stress in the event of an impact.
An advanced manufacturing process was developed to ensure optimal safety and traceability for this product.

Instrument panel and central console

Instrument panel and central console

ARaymond offers a wide range of screw-in and screwless metal and plastic fastening solutions that cover all IPCC-mounted accessories. These versatile, multi-use standard parts meet standard packaging and design criteria.

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Metal and plastic snap clips

Offering the optimal balance between push-in accuracy and pull-out force, these easy-to-service fasteners can be assembled and disassembled several times.

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Metal and plastic snap clips
Metal and plastic snap clips family

PRODUCT FOCUS

Flexibility by design

Due to packaging constraints, fastening interfaces cannot always be integrated into trim panels. Snap-in panel locking fasteners are a smart value-added alternative to integrated flanges for glove and armrest boxes and a number of other standard uses.

The fasteners can be premounted on the IPCC panels and are compatible with several flange clips with a broad range of specifications (pull-out force, open-close, etc.) for flexibility by design!

The fasteners create real opportunities to improve part number management.

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Metal snap on nuts and push-in nuts

These self-retaining and anti-creep parts adapt to several panel thicknesses while reducing overall packaging dimensions.

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Metal snap on nuts and push-in nuts
Metal snap on nuts & push-in nuts

Pillar trim panels

Pillar trim panels

Pillar trim clips

Pillar snap clips fasten A, B, and C pillar trim to the car body. They can be disassembled several times for serviceability. They are designed to prevent vibration over the car’s lifetime, enhancing consumers’ perception of overall vehicle quality.
2-stage airbag trim retainers increase passenger safety in the event of an impact. They allow the airbag to deploy but keep the trim panel from being ejected.
Customized pillar fasteners, pre-mounted on car body ready to receive trim and manage wires.

Pillar trim panels
Pillar trim clips

PRODUCT FOCUS

Tool-free disassembly for easy trim serviceability

This innovative two-stage airbag trim retainer fits any A, B, or C pillar. A tool-free blind disassembly process facilitates trim replacement after a crash, without dismounting hole.

The retainer is a two-component assembly produced on a fully-automated assembly line with camera quality inspection.

2 Stage Airbag Trim Retainer - Booklet 

2 Stage Airbag Trim Retainer - Video

Inside door systems

Inside door systems

Door panel clips

These easy-to -install and serviceable snap-on panel fasteners confirm that assembly has been completed correctly with an audible click. High quality sealing ensures water-tightness.

Door panel retainer

This panel retainer prevents door trim from being ejected in the event of a side impact and can be disassembled for servicing. Offers easy quarter-turn installation and tolerance management. High quality sealing ensures water-tightness.

Inside door panel clips and retainers

PRODUCT FOCUS

Safe and discreet

This innovative two-component screwless panel retainer is compatible with manual assembly processes.

The pin, pre-mounted to the door trim panel, is manually clipped into the fastener base, easily mounted onto the car body by quarter-turn.

The specially-designed head allows vertical and lateral gap compensation. Simply push to disassemble. Once in place the fastener is invisible, delivering added value in terms of design and aesthetics.

Seats

Seats

A full range of fastening solutions for structural attachment, foam and fabric, wire harness management, mechanical & electrical adjustment.

Fastening solutions for seats

Product focus

High-quality assembly for reduced vehicle noise

A car is subjected to substantial mechanical stress throughout its lifetime. Vibration can compromise structural integrity, ultimately affecting vehicle safety and reliability. And the resulting noise has an enormous impact on consumers’ perceptions of comfort, quality, and performance.

The automotive industry is constantly on the lookout to eliminate NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) and BSR (buzz, squeak, and rattle). Traditionally, testing to identify and eliminate the sources of NVH and BSR issues is done late in the design process.

At ARaymond, we know that fastening quality is a major factor in consumers’ overall perception of vehicle quality. That’s why we focus on NVH and BSR in the early stages of the design process. Our in-house testing lab and expert engineers can assess acoustics, the effects of vibration and temperature on aging, and other key issues, and find the best solution for decoupling vibration, minimizing noise and insulating against airborn noise.

Let us recommend a solution from our catalog or work with you to innovate a new solution to meet your needs.

  • Mathieu Cochard
  • Advanced Engineering Group Leader, ARaymond - Clipping Systems, France

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We actually listen to our parts, because we know that our fastening solutions can really make the difference in terms of the perceived overall quality of a car.

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Reducing BSR (buzz, squeak, and rattle) and thus improving passenger comfort is one of today’s major concerns in the automotive industry. At ARaymond, we know that fastening quality can contribute a lot if we focus on BSR in the early stages of the design process. Acoustics assessments help us develop fastening solutions that can reduce the impact of vibration and noise.

Exterior trim

ARaymond offers a wide selection of metal snap-on nuts, spring steel panel edge clips, panel push rivets, and push-in pins. Let ARaymond recommend the best fastening solution to respond to your exterior trim assembly challenges, from passive safety and serviceability to flexibility on the assembly line.

Rear closure systems

Rear closure systems

Push rivets

Aesthetics solutions to fasten finishers and accessories thanks to its finishing possibilities, painted or not, and allows surface treatments. It offers not only simplicity of assembly just by clipping but also eases maintenance.

Metal snap on nuts

Self-retaining and anti-creeping, overall shape is optimized to achieve low push-on forces in line with ergonomic requirements while supporting high tensile loads.

Push rivets and Metal snap on nuts

PRODUCT FOCUS

Robust and flexible solution

The sliding snap-on nut is the perfect solution for large parts like tailgate spoilers subject to dilation due to temperature.

It combines robust screw-in assembly with the flexibility of an embedded anti-creeping ring for tolerance management.

Foam guarantees a watertight seal. The nut can be adjusted by sliding before tightening for a perfect position.

Improved aesthetics, lower noise, faster assembly

ARaymond offers a comprehensive range of automotive closure systems for tailgates, hoods, and fuel traps.
Our catalogue includes self-adjustable, manual, fixed, and water-tight solutions.
All of our closure bumpers are compatible with a range of panel thicknesses for greater flexibility on the assembly line.
Whatever solution you choose, you can count on reduced noise and a perfect fit and finish.

Closure bumper - booklet

Self adjustable bumper - Video

Self adjustable Bumper

PRODUCT FOCUS

Self Adjustable Bumper

The height of our self-adjustable closure bumper automatically adapts to the vehicle’s geometry,allowing for variable distances between the vehicle body and tailgate. Calibration is fast, easy, and accurate—preventing the gaps that can cause vibration and noise. Plus, the screwless locking system requires a simple quarter turn for a secure mount.

Bumpers

Metal snap on nut

Metal snap on nuts

These self-retaining and anti-creep fasteners are designed for low push-on force for easy assembly and offer high tensile strength.

Spring steel panel edge clips

These compact standard shaft clips compensate for the gap between two perpendicular panels.

Metal snap on nuts and Spring steel panel edge clips

Fenders, wheel arch liners, rocker panels and mudguards

Fenders, wheel arch liners, rocker panels and mudguards

Push rivets

These push rivets can be painted and are compatible with surface treatments, offering an aesthetic fastening solutions for finishers and accessories. Simply clips in and out for easy assembly and serviceability.

Panel push pins

Simple clip-mount for trim panels. Watertight seal.

Push rivets and panel push-in pins

PRODUCT FOCUS

Easier serviceability

The sliding panel nut is the ideal solution for parts like fenders subjected to temperature-related expansion. The easy-to-fasten screw clip simply pushes in. 

This bi-injected, serviceable part can be mounted and dismounted several times thanks to an embedded nut for easy unscrewing.

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Brackets

Fastened to the BIW, bumper-to-fender plastic brackets enhance structural strength and align the two parts to reduce the gap between them.

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Plastic bracket

PRODUCT FOCUS

Assembly quality and stability improve comfort

This bi-injected rocker panel bracket fastens the sill protector to the lower body shell.

It ensures a watertight seal and reduces noise transfer to the passenger compartment. It is also flexible to allow for lower-body-shell expansion.

Appliqué, decorative molding and roof systems

Appliqué, decorative molding and roof systems

Micro waterproof push pins

Compact push pins with simple mounting by clipping and waterproof sealing, good solutions for tight packaging environment.

Micro flange clips

Their optimized size allows them to fit in small holes, perfect compact answer to these applications while ensuring a strong fastening.

 Micro waterproof push-in pins and micro flange clips

PRODUCT FOCUS

Compact solutions

Compact quarter-turn snap-on clips are an ideal trim fastening solution for situations with packaging constraints and for trim like sliding rail finishers where regular fir-tree mounting is not possible.

The clips can be easily removed from the body but stay fastened to the finisher for easy serviceability. An oblong hole allows the finisher to be adjusted for optimal tolerance management.

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Roof molding flaps

Delivered as a mounted part combining the two plastic parts our roof molding flaps are easy to mount and are delivered in trays to allow a fully automatic assembly. The flaps open either by swinging or sliding on a defined position and defined opening and closing forces.

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Roof molding flaps

PRODUCT FOCUS

Bonded solutions for greater design flexibility

Combining strength and aesthetics, our bonded solutions deliver a clean surface finish and compact assembly. The bonded clip is pre-mounted on the trim and then the trim is mounted on the car body.

Product focus

Fasteners increase passive safety

Fasteners like push rivets serve as “mechanical fuses,” improving impact absorption. When they break under the force of an impact, the rivets prevent the shock wave from spreading and protect the parts fastened from deformation.

They also simplify maintenance and lower costs by allowing the equipment to be easily disassembled without being damaged.

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