Vehicle wheel with wheel cover and retaining clip

A spring clip for fastening to a wheel a wheel cover which includes a recess for receiving the spring clip and wherein the recess is defined in the wheel cover by a pair of oppositely disposed spaced wall portions having a particular spacing, the spring clip including

• a radiused portion and a pair of resilient leg portions having a greater spacing than the particular spacing and extending from opposite ends of the radiused portion for positioning within the recess against the wall portions, each of the resilient leg portions in the pair extending in a particular direction,
• a flanged portion extending from a particular one of the leg portions at a position near the end of the particular one of the leg portions opposite the radiused portion and extending initially in a direction transverse to the particular direction and then in a direction substantially parallel to the particular direction and terminating at a position defining a continuation of the particular direction, and
• an extension extending from the portion of the flanged portion substantially parallel to the particular one of the leg portions and in a direction transverse to the particular leg portion to a position outside of the recess when the spring clip is positioned within the recess, the extension being disposed to engage the wheel for fastening the wheel cover to the wheel.

In combination for engagement with a wheel,

• a spring clip having a pair of resilient leg portions normally spaced from each other by a particular distance and having a radiused section joining the pair of resilient leg portions and having a flanged portion on a particular one of the leg portions near the end of the particular leg portion opposite the radiused section, the flanged portion being constructed to engage the wheel, and
• a wheel cover having a recess defined by a first wall and a pair of walls extending from the first wall and spaced from each other by a distance less than the normal spacing between the leg portions, each of the walls defining an interruption, the leg portions being disposed in the recess against the walls with the radiused section disposed against the first wall, the flanged portion on the particular one of the leg portions being disposed in the interruption defined by one of the walls and being disposed against such interruption and extending beyond such wall to engage the wheel,
• the end of the other one of the leg portions being disposed relative to the wheel cover to be constrained by the interruption defined by the other wall and extending in a direction avoiding any gouging of the wheel cover.