What's up with C4 Sun Visors?
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What's up with C4 Sun Visors?
The edge of my Sun Visors flop down on the outer edges on both sides.Why does this happen?
Sorry,but it's a Pain in the butt. Now I have to buy new / used ones?
Sorry,but it's a Pain in the butt. Now I have to buy new / used ones?
#3
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It's not just C4's. A lot of cars do it. They score the cardboard liner from the factory so it will bend and fit tight against the roof. Eventually it tears along the score, and the end flops loose. If it isn't to bad, you can fix them with a dip stick! Cut the dipstick so it fits inside the visor (about 1"-2" shorter than the visor. Now take a razer blade and cut one of the threads on the outside of the visor (inside the seam) so as to just let the metal piece slide between the two pieces of cardboard inside of the sun visor (it's actually a piece of cardboard that was folded over to give it a double thickness for strength and then scored on one end. Push the metal piece untill it just clears the threads on the side. this should lock it in so it doesn't slide back, and it should slide around the mirror on the top or bottom. If need be put one metal peice on to and on on the bottom.
Last edited by zr1fred; 09-19-2010 at 02:04 PM.
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Easy fix
Take a tupperware lid, cut a strip from it about 1 and 1/2 inches wide and 11 and 1/4 inches long. Carefully slide the cut lid behind the visor vanity mirror working it into the floppy ear end of the visor. Mine have held for four or five years. I tried cut pieces of mini blind - the vinyl is too flexible and the metal ones bend too easily. Some people use paint stir sticks, rulers, etc. The tupperwear is flexible, but will not break. I rounded the ends off so it wouldn't tear the visor material.
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I took my sun visors off entirely - they were getting so ratty looking from all the wind beating them up. I don't miss them a bit and it looks much cleaner without them with the top off. A ball cap works better, anyway, when the sun's low.
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Buy new ones from ebay, ones without he folding edge.
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