Re: [alfa] re: droopy sun visors on a Spider

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Here's what I did that worked for a while.  Then I bought new ones when I found they were available.

The trick:
-  Use a medium size zip-tie at the edge of the visor, in the povot location.  Tighted is as tight as you can.  That provides a squeeze in the pivot area which helps.  May require a new zip-tie each year...

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Jason Hagen
Chicago, IL
'73 Spider
'95 164Q


> I have to stick my 2 cents in here. Being a Scot, I'm not about spending a 
> lot of money on fixes. On the contrary! (How do you know you're flying 
> over Scotland?) But here is one situation where I really disagree 
> with making repairs as a way of saving time and money.
> 
> The problem with tightening droopy sun visors is that the repair is always 
> temporary -- if you use your visors. Some of you argue you don't use 
> them, but the geography here around Seattle is such that major highways go 
> over bridges directly into rising and setting sun at morning and evening, 
> and it is _very_ helpful to have functioning visors. Once it gets loose, 
> the visor can really ruin your morning commute if you're trying to 
> concentrate on driving while flipping the visor repeatedly, trying 
> to hold it to the side with a wedge, or trying to get it to the side with 
> a rubber band or something of that nature.
> 
> I've had my Spider since '95. I've tried the coke can aluminum shim 
> method, the tightening-the-screw method, the loctite inside the pivot 
> point method, and finally, the wooden wedge inside the canopy clip and 
> rubber band method. I finally decided that the cost of new visors was far 
> less than the cost of my time messing with these fool things, and I bought 
> new visors from the local Alfa dealer.
> 
> Two screws pulled the old ones off and two screws put the new ones on. 
> They are nice and tight, and beautiful. 
> 
> Whereas shims, rubber bands, wedges, loctite all reduced the beauty and 
> originality of my car, these new visors do just the opposite. 
> 
> This is one situation where there really is a law of diminishing returns 
> on the repair side....
> 
> Tess
> el cheapo
> in Bellevue, WA USA
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