US Patent 9062696 Method of assembling a component and fastening clip

In a method of assembling a component by means of a fastening clip (100), the fastening clip (100) comprising a latching portion (106) and a head element (104), the head element (104) is transferred from a preliminary mounting position to a final mounting position for assembling the component. An enabling element (112) is provided which is transferred from a first position in which a machine-readable code (114) applied on the fastening clip (100) can not be read, to a second position in which the code (114) can be read, when the head element (104) is transferred to the final mounting position.