Gentlemen, on my car I had a terrible case of floppy sun visors. I tried a few different tricks to try to remedy the issue, but all to no avail. So I went to the place that always has the answers I need, the pick-a-part. I found a couple different styles that will all work in the Fiero and made a quick video on what to get, how to swap visors on brackets, and how to uninstall and install the visor itself in case someone doesn't know how to do that step. FYI, the issue with the visors isn't the visor itself or the tightening screw, it's the bracket. The rod the visor mounts on is what becomes loose. It's all described and shown in the video! I hope this helps someone fix theirs as well because floppy sun visors are very annoying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mykmy1K-Q9U
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NICE, you did find a solution. Looks like I was the first view on you tube, BTW you didn't even need to go to pick a part, we have F-bodys in the yard, (I know what I am pulling tomorrow )
Locktite Green will wick into parts then hold as Blue or maybe Red. Did you tried it?
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I tried the bushing idea as well but the problem is not usually the visor itself gripping the bar that it mounts on but rather the bar that it mounts on becoming loose from the mount itself. If the bar is still solid then you should be fine with some sort of bushing or just really cranking down the tightening screw. If the bar is loose then it doesn't matter how tight the sun visor grips it, it will still just flop around.
Ogre, I did try a couple different pastes and with mixed results. The locktite green actually worked pretty good, compared to others. The problem is the amount of use. If you never use your sun visors then most of the pastes will hold them in an upright position. If you use them a lot then you will slowly break down the paste till it is no longer effective and needs to be cleaned off and replaced. I did this a few times before just replacing the ones in my car as I did. If you want as close a replacement as possible I would use the F-body and just hit it with some flat black paint.
Now that I'm thinking about it, probably the easiest fix for this would be to just JB weld the bar solid to the base. If you do that keep in mind that area is exposed so make sure you do a clean job on it to keep it from looking ugly.
For my next iteration I plan on having the flat spot on mine so they pop back up as well as use a base with the longer rod so I can slide the visor over as well as flip it down. I found a few of those style in the s-10s. With the longer bar you would be able to rotate the visor over to the side window and then slide it back to the rear of the window instead of it only being able to cover the front half. I only saw that long bar style with the squared off base though, not the Fiero/F-body style.
I think he found the perfect solution, a bar that doesn't move in the mount. Loctite green is a cool product but not for this, you need the make it solid. JB weld won't last either and look bad, his solution is so simple that people on here probably won't accept it.
I drilled a small hole, tapped it, and put in a screw, as in this picture. (And yes, I have yellow visors on my yellow car.) The screw seems to have rusted over the years, but it still holds.
There is a time or situation where one way is preferred over the other. I agree most time it should be held horizontal. Taking pics of a person, tall building or anthing tall and narrow is best to me in vertical position. My sis takes all her photos even landscapes in vertical and I told her she should hold it horizontal. Her answer, that really confused me, was it was too hard to hold that way..... Maybe phones should come with a handle, lol.
I forget the style that Fiero has. I like set screws myself, but I seldom ever move a visor. I thought Fiero like some other cars had a pointed bar that fit into a stamped metal piece in the visor sort of like a hollow triangle shape and used friction to hold it. On that type, i just remove the visor, pull out that bar, put a block of wood on the visor and crush that metal tube slightly to make the grip firmer. Have to be careful not to mash it too far or you have a hard time getting the bar back into it.
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Maybe phones should come with a handle, lol.
