I am looking for someone that repairs the sun visors on a 96. The floppy ends are separated from the main part and is in need of repair.

Thanks

 

I just dealt with this problem. I ended up buying a pair off "willcox Corvette" on E-bay. They sell new ones for $120 a pair W/lights or $80/pair no lights. I got the ones with lights. They are exact replicas of the GM units.

I don't know of anyone who repairs them but you might swing by a local upholstery shop if you want to get yours repaired. I'm sure any upholstery shop could handle the job.

 

Maybe this will solve your problems. I (and some friends) have followed these instructions and in every case the results were a perfect repair http://mysite.verizon.net/brianjbalogh/sunvisorfix.pdf
Takes less than an hour and using some stuff I found around the house gathering dust and saved us big $$$ Bill

 

If you have a driver side with no mirror you can use something like thin coat hanger wire. I used 4 pieces of welding rod (#12?), about 7 in. long, sharpened one end and no more floppy corner.

 

Another trick I heard of on another post was to use one of the slats from an old blind and slide it into your visor, then work it back so it holds the flap in place.

 

My $.02.
Do not buy the Wilcox visors with mirrors. I bought a pair a few months ago. They are porrly made. The mirrors are not flush with the visor. One of the rubber mirror mounting tabs was broken. I had to use the rubber mount from my old mirror to fix it. They rattled very badly until I applied drops of silicone caulk/glue to the light covers, etc.
If I had to do it again, I would get the visors without mirrors. Less crap to rattle and break. Do you really need visors mirrors anyway?

 

Thick plastic tie wrap works too.

 

That's pretty slick. I was going to undo the stitching, etc....

 

Thanks everyone, but the slide in fix is not what I'm looking for. I also tried a couple of upholstry shops with no luck. They were afraid of breaking the mirror and wanted toooooo much $ for fix with no garauntee of fix.

A few years ago, there was a thread on someone that fixed them for about $85 a pair. There were numerous posts of how great a job that this person did. Am hoping that sombody might remember or know about this.

I am looking for a quality finish on repair and not makeshift.

Thanks, Roger

BTW, just returned back from the Lone Star CC Classic in Ft. Worth. It was a great weekend with hot laps at the Texas Motor Speedway. Great going LSCC

 

I picked up this contact here on the forum.
I haven’t tried them yet, too much honey do, but plan on later this summer.
If you go with them pleas give us some fee back

Toombs Upholstery
820 South Main
Dyersburg, TN. 38024
731-285-0685

Good luck
Mike

 

Your original question was directed at floppy ends on your visors so you got replies dealing with that.
You probably should have said the fabric on the visors you have is no good and you want them recovered for $85 and inquire if anyone know who would do this.

 

I tried this and got the following response.

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The requested URL /brianjbalogh/sunvisorfix.pdf was not found on this server.

 

Couldn't be because this thread is more than 5 years old...

 

This is how I fixed my visors.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

 

Try this website http://www.autosunvisors.com/restoration.htm

 

I wonder if he ever got his visors fixed

 

Still flopping in the breeze.

 

I got fed up with mine and cut the floppy ends off and trimmed and glued the fabric back to make it look fine but shorter. They work fine, just leave a little gap where the sun can shine through, but it doesn't seem to really make a difference.

 

C4 floppy end visor repair

I lost all my info on that repair years ago but have helped repair floppy ends for many
It’s easy and takes only a few minutes to do using a flat head screwdriver and a piece of flexible plastic

Gently pry out the mirror starting with the end closest to center of car
The mirror has a couple pop in plastic posts that slide into the cardboard backing in the sun visor

Once you have the center most part of the mirror free you should be able to slide a piece of thin plastic between the back of the mirror and the cardboard backing

A thin plastic ruler works fine or a slat from an old vinyl blind or any piece of thin flexible plastic about 10-11 inches long, 1 inch wide will do
I usually round the corners of the end that slides into the floppy part of the sun visor

After you have slid the plastic fully to end where floppy part is, pop the mirror back in place with one hand putting pressure on cloth side where mirror and other by putting pressure on mirror until mirror pops back into the retaining holes in the cardboard

You are finished

 

My wife made naugehyde "envelopes" for mine; she used velcro to close the end(s) of the envelope. She cut out for the mirrors and tucked the naugehyde in under. Looks better that the original and easy to clean AND I did not have to disassembe the visors

Having been into sewing since she was about 10 years of age she is good! The envelopes are tight....only difference is there is no top stitching.

Kistler