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 .
The always unclear look at Linux and Open source muddling with questionable answers found at the bottom of the technical interpretation of past words, and of course there are no correct answers only more questions to add to the list .
Monday, July 6, 2020
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