Sunvisor Help

[Markbhai]

My 1967 230 SL is a UK right hand drive and has an issue with the drivers side sun visor.  It appears to be weak internally around the area where the chrome hinge is connected.  This results in it not staying in position.

Does anyone know of a fix or a restorer in the UK?

M.

[KevinC]

I had the same issue when I bought my car as I believe many here have had. I ordered replacements from SLS in Germany and am pleased with the finished product...

www.sls-hh.de

There are several vendors listed in the Commercial section of this site also. Then you have  http://www.autosunvisors.com/replacement.htm 

LOTS of discussion in the past if you enter "sun visor" in the search tool.

Good Luck!

[relbhcb]

My visors keep rotating down (roof up or roof down) & it drives me mad. I've tried to increase the friction on the inner hinge points by adding some rough tape, but this hasn't worked. Nor did buying replacement inner hinge point blocks.

The visors are not original (they match the colour of the interior) so I would be happy in principle to replace them. If I bought some reproduction cream ones from SLS would this solve my problem? I can't actually see how you tighten them up?

TIA

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Mine was loose and kept moving down as I drove, fix was easy just a tightening of the screw.

[relbhcb]

My (non original, red) visors do not have a screw to tighten - hence my question. Perhaps I need to get some new (cream) ones ...

[Paul & Dolly]

The screw is not visable, being under the material, I had to unstitch the seam a bit, to find it, and even
then it could not be tightened enough - I then adopted a less subtle approach, and crushed the tube a bit in the vice - Result - both visors now behave..

You do this at your own risk though !

Keep sunny

Paul

[relbhcb]

The stitching looked too well hidden, so I made a very small (and effectively "self sealing") "X" cut in the vinyl with a scalpel over the screw location and tightened it up. Fingers crossed that this will work. Far cheaper than buying new visors too 

[garymand]

Is the screw on the bottom or top side of the visor?  And, Stitches? just to clarify, I thought they were all vinyl,  Are some leather?
Cudos on the X cut.  Mine are original 1967 and at 70MPH tend to drop 20-30 mm, wouild like to tighten the screw just a bit.

[relbhcb]

When the visor is in the "up" position the screw is not visible from the seat position. (So I suppose you would call that the top side?). My visors are red (match the seats), therefore are not original and so it is difficult for me to comment about the stitching. All that I can say is that had I tried to cut any of the stitches repairing it afterwards would not have looked good.

My "X" cuts are about 7-8mm long, and are over where I could feel the screw is. Because I used a scalpel the cut is very fine, and when I took the screwdriver out the edges almost self sealed. I will take & post a photo tomorrow.

[relbhcb]

As promised. Not great, but fine for my needs until I save up enough to get some cream sun visors that have the "proper" adjuster screw arrangement.

[Khurram Darugar]

Julian,
I would not try and seal up the x cuts.  The screw is meant to be visible so it can be tightened periodically.  You may want to just scalpel around the screw and leave it exposed, but only the top side of course.  The bottom side remains hidden.
Kay

[relbhcb]

Kay,

Agreed - I will not seal the holes up with a glue or anything, as I am sure that I will need to retighten the screws again at some point. What I meant was that with such fine cuts the gaps "sort of self seal", ie are difficult to see when the vinyl falls back in to place.

I probably could improve things by bring the screw head outside of the vinyl, but that would be outside of my skill set 

[pj]

Hidden adjustment screws are not original?