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Old 08-15-2007, 05:30 PM
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How do you tighten the driver side sun visor that keeps falling down? driving me crazy.......HELp
Old 08-15-2007, 05:34 PM
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mine does it also im just to lazy to go to honda and get it fixed
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that happened to me too, on both my visors...they melted so they're kinda separated. They wont go up all the way, so i have to keep them down all the time till the ones honda ordered for me come in. I took it in and it was covered by warranty, so everything is free.
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Two dealerships here are hoping Honda does a recall. The service tech told me they all keep tools in their desks because so many have been coming in for the same issue. Mine was replaced under warantee. It was totally separated.
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mine are completely separated as well. i was told the same thing about having a lot of cars coming in with the same issue.
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yeah, i have had both my sun visors melt at the joint within a month. Just say you want your sun visors replaced under warranty. It's free
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Luckily mine haven't melted yet, glad to learn the info though
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HUH, MINE ARE TIGHT I HAVENT HAD ANYPROBLEMS YET, IM GLAD I GOT SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO BREAKING THO, WARRANT WARRANTY WARRANTY
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Any one have any pictures of the melted visor joints?
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Tadehi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Any one have any pictures of the melted visor joints?</TD></TR></TABLE>

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Another thing to note, from everything I have heard, this usually only happens to people in warm climates. (I'm in LV, so it happened a couple weeks after I owned the car).
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I'm going through my second summer with this car in Texas HEAT (~106 outside recently) and I park in the wide open sun. No problems yet.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MikeDawg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Another thing to note, from everything I have heard, this usually only happens to people in warm climates. (I'm in LV, so it happened a couple weeks after I owned the car).</TD></TR></TABLE>


Yeah i have people on the daily comin in and asking for new ones, but they are on national backorder right now. I replaced my driver 1 twice already and the pass once. for a shitty design
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I was just going to post on this, gland I'm not the only one... I went to AZ for the weekend and came back with retarted sun visors...eerrgghh...off to the dealer...
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yeah I word at a dealer and in all the new civic those visors come apart at the joint. just come in and they'll swap them out in 10 min.
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pics are up...sorry they're not too great
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got my visors repaired today, free of charge.
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just take ur cars in to honda. it should all be taken care of thru warranty.
i replace at least 3 to 5 of these a day.
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nice to know some of the problem i will get before i get my si
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Default Re: sun visor repair (whatnever)

same damn thing happened to me. the visor came apart. i took it back to honda and they replaced the driver side one and i made them replace the passanger side one too. if you looked at the passenger side one, it was starting to come apart.

took 30 mins at honda. all fixed
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FYI: There was a class action lawsuit against Honda for this issue:

http://www.bigclassaction.com/settle...***-action.php
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I've had to replace 2 driver side visors so far and have had to pay for both of them (2006 Civic). How can they be replaced for free at this late date? (Though, they should be since Honda screwed up so badly on the design - I nearly wrecked the first time the damned thing fell down in my face!).
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I fixed a friend's loose visor by wrapping a short piece of coat hanger around the shaft, between the spring and the metal washer the spring pivots against. All that did was compress the spring a bit, which creates more friction. It worked like a charm. I recall finding this trick either on this forum, or some other one.

The coat hanger piece needs to be cut to the right length to encircle the shaft and bent and then forced into place with needle nose pliers.

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Sorry, my previous comment describes fixing the visor swinging sideways, not dropping down. Brian
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