Cheap Sunvisor Fix

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Old August 8th, 2010 | 02:49 PM
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Cheap Sunvisor Fix

I was having trouble with my sun visors staying up, both have mirrors so they are heavy & the rubber tips were dry rotted. I know they do make the new rubber tips but I thought there might be another method. I was in the hardware store & saw a package of assorted rubber tips for the spring type home door-stops for $1.00. I took out the 2 smallest ones, they were a bit big in diameter, inside & outside. Well, I had a piece of small tubing that is used for intravenous injections. This small tubing fit on the visor end perfect & inside the door-stop tip perfectly. Now I had to make the tip fit into the bracket, so I trimmed it smaller on the outside with a utility knife, then sanded it with 100 grit wrapped on a paint stick to get rid of the knife marks, make it round and just rough enough for friction to hold the viors in place. I now have sunvisors that stay put going over bumps. My visors & headliner are white & so are the door stop rubbers, a magic marker could be used to change the color if needed.
I like to pass along fixes that I come up with and hope someone else can benifit.
Old August 9th, 2010 | 06:35 AM
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Neat idea!
In this hobby, we often have to resort to creative engineering...
Old August 9th, 2010 | 07:33 AM
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You could of just duct taped the visors to the headliner.
My grandpa would have used chewing gum and bailing wire.
Old August 9th, 2010 | 07:42 AM
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I have actually used gum to hold a bolt to an aluminum strip so I could get it into a hole deep in the quarter window reg, through the door pillar vent...
Old August 9th, 2010 | 12:11 PM
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Duct tape & WD-40, the only tools you ever need. If it moves and it's not suppose to, use duct tape. If it i suppose to move and it doesn't, use wd-40.
Old August 9th, 2010 | 12:21 PM
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Good fix.
Old August 9th, 2010 | 12:36 PM
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Good fix!
Old August 9th, 2010 | 04:44 PM
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Higgins you forgot the Ballpeen hammer
Old August 9th, 2010 | 06:18 PM
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Duct tape fixes everything. Even a Honda!!!



Originally Posted by Higgins
Duct tape & WD-40, the only tools you ever need. If it moves and it's not suppose to, use duct tape. If it i suppose to move and it doesn't, use wd-40.
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