Hi

Does anyone know if it is possible to tighten the sunvisor in a kj? The drivers one flops down slightly from the roof when you put it up, and i cant see any screws to tightern it.
Cheers
Rob

They are like that. Does yours swing back if you move it to the side. Mine did that from new and was replaced under warranty. It was better but if I corner hard it will still come back.

Mine does the same thing, it drives me crazy. What I do is pull it out from the slot (towards the mirror) and fold it up until it stays... but if you hit speed humps too hard it will fall back down. It's super annoying too because I almost never use the sun visor :(

Ditto,and if your tall it is just in front of your top of your head.

Ok. So the fix suggested by mitsubishi, which worked for me, is glueing the little round thing on the inside hook to the visor with high strength glue. So the two clip things next to the centre light I mean. They spin around and apparently it's best if they don't. My visor now stays up and won't shake or anything.

Goodluck. These are a $100 part from mitsu if you want to replace them

You need to take some closeups so we all can see then light, so to speak.

Ok,

So the thing I have glued is in the pic here.
It spins around on the visor and it apparently shouldn't I'm told. So, removing them from the car, I got some high grade glue, and glued it so the little plastic thing won't spin.

http://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp136/mcstannard_bucket/IMG_0163.jpg

Did you take it off or just squirt some superglue into the gaps either end?

I could not take it off. So I just put glue in the gaps.

That's true now that you mention it, that thing does spin on mine.

Before I go spraying glue everywhere (trust me, I'm hopeless) I might try some electrical tape around it so that the holder squeezes it.

I'll let you gents know how it goes. Thanks for the update on that mcs_xi. :)

That aint going to work as the metal rod will still spin freely inside the plastic collar.

Ok so I think I may have been mis-understood slightly. I have not glued the plastic thing to the actual holder screwed to the roof trim.

I have glued that plastic collar to the metal tube inside. The sole idea is to stop the plastic collar spinning around the metal tube. The picture I took is AFTER it has been glued. So it can still come out of the bracket mounted to the roof trim as per normal.

Mike.

Nah I got that 100% and the electrical tape worked but it relied on the fabric either side of the tube, so glueing is definitely the go.

Ok so I think I may have been mis-understood slightly. I have not glued the plastic thing to the actual holder screwed to the roof trim.

I have glued that plastic collar to the metal tube inside. The sole idea is to stop the plastic collar spinning around the metal tube. The picture I took is AFTER it has been glued. So it can still come out of the bracket mounted to the roof trim as per normal.

Mike.

Can you tell us exactly what brand/type of glue you used and how you get it between the plastic collar and the metal part. Thanks.

Its a Tarzan's Grip tiny superglue dipensor with a long thin nozzle on it. I just filled the void with this glue, let it set overnight and put the visor back into the car in the morning.

I think ALL these visors have a plastic collar that spins from new, its just apparently, the visor is too heavy for the mounting. So this is the best solution. A new visor would be fine for a while but in the end would sag just the same.

Mike

Glad I searched for this, I'd never have thought of the slipping collar as the cause...

It's not only annoying, but dangerous. Edge-on, these things are very solid, and I imagine that sudden contact with a cranium during a collision would result in severe injury.

The problem is the weight of the light/mirror assembly - without it, the visor stays up.

I jammed some bits of cable-tie tongue into the gap between the collar and rod - still turned.
Added some superglue - collar is now locked to the rod, but the visor still droops.
Found that the retaining clip that the collar slips into doesn't grip the collar at all. Remove it from the headlining, and it swings easily around the collar.
Tried swapping with the passenget side one, thinking it would be less worn and grip better - no good.
Roughed up the collar with sandpaper to grip better - no good.
"Reformed" the retainer with a heat gun to grip tighter - now grips collar quite well, but visor still droops!

So all I've achieved is that it's now harder to swing the visor in and out of the retaining clip, but the original problem remains.

Almost at my wits end here, any other Ideas?

Rob