Hinge for motor vehicles

In a hinge for a door or hatch of a motor vehicle, said hinge comprising two hinge halves (1, 2), one (1) of which is provided with a pivot pin (6) and the other (2) of which is provided with a bearing portion (9) pivotally mounted on the pivot pin (6), said pivot pin (6) having a spherical end portion (11), onto which the bearing portion (9) fits with a complementary shaped cavity, and a narrower neck portion (12), a lock means (18) being arranged to cooperate with the neck portion (12) of the pivot pin (6) and the bearing portion (9) to lock said hinge halves (1, 2) against relative movement in the axial direction of the pivot pin (6);

• the improvement wherein the bearing portion (9) comprises a bearing sleeve (13) journalled on the pivot pin (6) and including said complementary shaped cavity therein, a bearing housing (15), an inside surface of which fits over an outside surface of the bearing sleeve (13), and a fastener means (16) detachably fastening the bearing sleeve (13) to the bearing housing (15), the inside surface of the bearing housing (15) and the outside surface of the bearing sleeve (13) being formed as complementary truncated conical surfaces, there being a bearing shell (14) between the pivot pin (6) and the bearing sleeve (13), an inside surface of the bearing shell (14) being spherical and having a portion extending past a portion of the bearing pin (6) of greatest diameter, an outside surface of the bearing shell (14) being spherical down to a portion of the pivot pin (6) of greatest diameter and from there is cylindrical in the direction towards the neck portion (12) of the pivot pin (6), and the inside surface of the bearing sleeve (13) being made to correspond to the outside surface of the bearing shell (14).