A tolerance compensation system for setting a joint pattern between two outer trim elements to be mounted on respective door frames in the region of a vehicle pillar of a motor vehicle. The tolerance compensation system includes a set of tolerance compensation elements which are insertable into respective cutouts in the door frame and which each have a receiving region for receiving the outer trim elements. The set has at least two different variants of the tolerance compensation elements which differ in terms of the positioning of their respective receiving regions in order to set the joint pattern or the set has only one variant of the tolerance compensation elements in which the receiving region is arranged eccentrically and the tolerance compensation elements are insertable into the cutouts in the door frames in two positions rotated through 180° with respect to one another in order to set the joint pattern.