Visors falling down

[Everglades W68]

I'm driving along the other day when the sunvisor suddenly just falls down into my lap (leaving three greases stains on my clothes, of course). The tubular support had sheared off inside the mounting bracket.

The same thing happened a few years ago on the passenger side.

Has this happened to anyone else? I presume it is just the not-so-great quality of the visor assembly that causes it to eventually fail.

BTW, the GMPP extended warranty covered it, of ocurse.

The guy at the service department: "That will cost you $74 plus labor. It is not covered you know - it is a trim piece."

Me: "Ummm... How about if you call GM to check - I've got a hunch a sunvisor is considered safety equipment."

He calls GM and is astonished to learn it is a warranted repair.

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Those guys at the service drive are so dumb. It alwasy amazes me that they are doing the intake on car repair and yet have so litle common sense knowledge about cars.

[RicE-ter]

yah i encountered one myself me and my bro drive to the hyundai dealership cuz his car was recalled i forget why. and they had to ask how to start the car because his has a "starguard" or one of those electronic keys b4 u can turn it on

[Camarorulz]

Good thing you had the dumbass check.

[shenanigans]

it happened to my friend on his 99 SS so I guess you are ot the only one...

[Digikiller]

This happened to me no more then 10 days ago lol. Was at bank, went to pull out and visor nailed me in the head. what had happened was the top of the rivot broke off and the whole thing came apart. -- What I did to fix it was to thread the inside of the small black piece with some tools from dad's shop, then used a big washer and bolt to hold it all back together. Cost me about .25cents to fix cause my dad had the tools.


P.S. If you want I can pull it apart tomorrow and send ya some pics.

[Everglades W68]

Originally posted by Digikiller:
This happened to me no more then 10 days ago lol. Was at bank, went to pull out and visor nailed me in the head. what had happened was the top of the rivot broke off and the whole thing came apart. -- What I did to fix it was to thread the inside of the small black piece with some tools from dad's shop, then used a big washer and bolt to hold it all back together. Cost me about .25cents to fix cause my dad had the tools.


P.S. If you want I can pull it apart tomorrow and send ya some pics.

Thanks for the info. Yes, what you described is exactly what happened on both visors.

I have a free new visor thanks to GMPP. However, I expect the visors will break sometime after the GMPP warranty runs out, so your info is very helpful.

[Everglades W68]

Originally posted by Digikiller:

P.S. If you want I can pull it apart tomorrow and send ya some pics.

I'd appreciate it if you'd send pics when you get a chance. I don't need the info right now. However, as you probably can tell, I plan to hold onto the car for a while and fully expect I'll need this info somewhere down the line.

Email address is in my profile.

[BLLDOGG]

mine did that. when i got the car, the passanger side was off, then when the driver side visor fell in my lap one day, i just fixed them both. better than new.

i did the same thing with the bolt and washer but i think there was a spring too.

[dmw319]

i just took mine off completely and mounted my tweeters in that spot ;)

[Digikiller]

You've got mail. If anyone else would like the pics send me an email omegaseed0@yahoo.com