I'm 6'3" and my hat gets into the airstream when the roof is off, causing the wind to violently shake my hat -- and my head. This issue was causing less-than-desirable drives with the roof off, so I resorted to finding a solution that wasn't "gangsta-leaning," or propping up the sun visor with my hand (while the sun visor could flip up higher than normal and act as a wind screen, it would promptly plop down due to the wind forces). I don't like the glass/polycarb rear screens, and I didn't wan't any super complicated contraption, so I went to work...

I first asked @Dennis Bernal to see if he's still interested in making a clip four years later, but he no longer has access to a 3D printer. However, this post by @TPAJETSKI piqued my curiosity about using the wonderful invention of velcro. I tried seeing if just some velcro would work, but it couldn't -- there's too much of a gap between the visor and car frame.

Instead, I got this with a black buckle, so everything would fade into the color of the sun visor. I also had some 3M "hook" Velcro readily available. And after some R&D, I got it to work! The visor stayed up for over 100 miles during my drive today. I played around with various heights and was able to adjust it into any position. All of this was $20 since I already had the "hook" Velcro, but you can toss in another $10-20 for that and have an easy-to-put-on, easy-to-remove wind screen solution for under $40 total.

Instructions / info in the captions below:


I measured the strap roughly to length (to the "longest" configuration, where the visor wouldn't be fully up, but would reside somewhere between fully-top and fully-stowed), and cut off the loop/excess. This is roughly how much got cut off. I didn't need the "hook" part due to the strip I applied to the windshield frame (see next pic). Since the strap is now entirely the "loop" material, it can be adjusted to whatever length works best for the visor.



I put the "hook" strip of Velcro up against the windshield frame closest to the windshield (pictured on the right side of the pic). Since it's black and not super-wide, you can't see this strip from either outside or while sitting in the car.



This is roughly how the strap should look like pre-assembled.



Unclip the visor on the right side and slide in the strap.



Ensure the buckle is on the top-side of the visor (when the visor is propped up into the sky) for maximum retention/hold. Loop the strap up and around the visor.



This is the strap looped around on the other side of the visor.



Adjust the visor to its desired location, ensure strap is tight, and wrap it around the frame and onto the Velcro.



This is what the visor looks like when strapped in and in the "max height" position.



You can also slightly lower the visor so it's not at "max height," and strap it into a lower height. This might be beneficial since the airstream *around you* gets messed up a bit by having the visor in its top-height position, causing more wind to reach your body. I still think either position is 1000% better than having the wind hammer my hat, and thereby my head.

 

Nice job and great pictures!

 

Neat idea!

 

Thanks! I hope it works out for some of the other taller folks on these forums. Definitely made my top-down cruising a lot nicer.

 

Looks like it would work very well. Way to think outside the box.