Sun visor question

[Dionk]

Greetings all

i thought I had the solution to my need for sun visors. Several months ago I bought a set of new visors from a seller on eBay. They look great BUT they are not the right sizE for my 68 1600-2.
 

Digging through my old parts cash, I was able to find what seems to be 1 of the old damaged visors.  
 

You can see from the pictures that the “snap in” point is not the same.
 

I’ve read a few old posts on the FAQ but wanted to ask if anyone knows of a new source for this variation of visor?  

 

Thanks!! 
 

pS I’ll be selling my “new” Visors shortly Message me if you need a set. 

Edited October 7, 2020 by Dionk

[02Les]

No clue if they are available anywhere, but here are the part nos for visors for the 1600-2

Left - 51 16 7 466 076

Right - 51 16 7 466 077

[Mike Self]

If the foam is still reasonably good in your old visor(s), folks have had good results from cleaning the white side with Comet cleanser and a fingernail brush.  Comet has a small amount of bleach and between that and the abrasive, cleans both sunvisors and headliners and helps whiten them again...

 

mike

[Dionk]

31 minutes ago, Mike Self said:

Comet cleanser

Thanks mike - mine are in very bad shape (cuts/cracks) I may need to buy some decent used ones if I can’t find an new alternative. 

[esty]

those may be e21 visors...they are longer i have them in my 02

 

['76mintgrün'02]

42 minutes ago, esty said:

e21 visors

 

I also have e21 visors installed, (along with a wider mirror).  They are a different shape (and texture), with cutouts to clear the mirror.

 

 

 

 

Here are the stock visors (later style), for comparison.

 

 

Tom

[Booger32]

Pm’d You on the new visors.

 

Thanks, Steve

 

 

 

[Dionk]

So here is a picture or my 2002, e21 and 68 1600 visors. Stacked. You can see how the dirty 68 one has a different attachment point.
 

I’m thinking my best option may be to creat a base so that the New reproduction 2002 visors have a place to snap in. Problem is I already put the darn screws through my new headliner at the 1600-2 position. Sigh. 

Edited October 9, 2020 by Dionk

[2002iii]

If it was my car I would take the old 1600 ones to an upholsterer and see if they can get similar materials to recover it or maybe carefully cut the the e21 ones apart and slide material over the 1600 ones and sew or glue them on. There was a post about restoring 2002 sunvisors a while ago where they did some foam injection and resealing of the visors.