Monday, July 6, 2020

GM Canyon 2008 bad sun visors

The GMC Canyon 2008 has been a pain, in that there are many little things that are broke or worse just falling apart .  One of these things has been the "sun visors"  .  The construction of this things is plastic and the plastic is just cracking and falling apart right at where the visor swings .
Though most would say just replace it , but at over $100 for the replacement part for 1 , I refuse .  Both driver side and passenger side cracked in the same place after 2-3 years and then the drive side wouldn't stay up any more so I fixed the connector first by glue and then a total re-design .  Here is the connector :


As you can see the damage is to the connector that holds the visor , besides the crack there should be a tube to hold the pipe from the visor , that has fallen apart, IE broken into many small pieces.  Glue will not fix this because the parts are gone.  So I created a piece of metal to replace this with a tube inside for the visor to sit on and rotate.
It now holds the visor on the roof with no problems , the passenger side still needs fixing so here is the driver side fixed :
And the passenger side still broke and getting worse each day:
It seems the vibrations from the truck normal use cause this and the fact that the plastic design is just crap .   Seems to me this should be a recall but in the last 10 years very few things get recalled any more so I guess I will be creating yet another metal part to fix this .

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