Homelink Visor - Self Install Success
05-24-2014, 03:36 PM
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Homelink Visor - Self Install Success
Looking around on another Corvette Forum I saw a guy had purchased a homelink visor unit off of ebay and removed the unit itself then did a self install on his corvette with great pics and associated writeup.
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
05-24-2014, 03:44 PM
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Looking around on another Corvette Forum I saw a guy had purchased a homelink visor unit off of ebay and removed the unit itself then did a self install on his corvette with great pics and associated writeup.
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
05-24-2014, 08:25 PM
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Good job! Now let's see some pictures.
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Nicely done. Hope you took some pics of the process and can share them with us.
05-24-2014, 11:02 PM
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I didn't take any pictures, but am attaching the link to the process I followed from that other site. The guy did a great job with the pics and write up. The only difference for me was that my visor mirror was wired with 2 black wires while his was wired with Red and White wires. I had a 50-50 shot at wiring it wrong and I hit that 100%, but a second snip and changed the wires around and I was good to go.
Here is the link to the process I followed: http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...ad.php?t=40470
Here is the link to the process I followed: http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...ad.php?t=40470
05-24-2014, 11:18 PM
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Looking around on another Corvette Forum I saw a guy had purchased a homelink visor unit off of ebay and removed the unit itself then did a self install on his corvette with great pics and associated writeup.
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
05-25-2014, 12:01 AM
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Looking around on another Corvette Forum I saw a guy had purchased a homelink visor unit off of ebay and removed the unit itself then did a self install on his corvette with great pics and associated writeup.
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
I had recently purchased a pair of new visors from one of our forum vendors and thought, what the heck, I can do that - or if I fail I would buy another new visor and give it up.
So, for $20 I bought a homelink unit from a wrecked car and set about making my wife nervous while I used her seam ripper to open up my brand new drivers side visor. I tested the loose unit against a 12V battery as to make sure the unit was good. Once the visor was opened, like a clamshell, I outlined a nice location inside and used a carpet knife to remove some pressed board so the unit would sit less bulky in between the material. Cut the mirror wires and spliced the homelink in, tested it finding I had wired it backwards, fixed that bad wiring, hot glued the wires down and tested again. Success!
Had to take the visor to a shoe repair shop to get it sewn back together. $10 there and the visor looks like factory optioned. Little things make it better, $30 total and about an hour of work. R2
05-25-2014, 01:33 AM
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