Housing for use in a vehicle to accommodate a printed circuit board containing electronic components

A housing for use in a vehicle to accommodate a printed circuit board (20, 22) carrying electronic components is provided. The housing has a generally parallelepipedal hood (10) made of plastics and having a plug collar (14) on one of its narrow side walls (12). A base plate closes off the hood (10). The printed circuit board (20) is mechanically and electrically conductively connected on three of the four corners of the hood (10) to a metallic mounting bushing (26). At each of these corners, the hood (10) has a mounting flange (16) and the mounting bushings (26) are anchored in the mounting flanges (16) of the hood (10).