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I bought the reproduction sunvisors that required the small tab on the pivot pin be ground down, something that I wasn't particularly pleased about doing. That being said, I reluctantly ground the tab off and fitted the sunvisors. Every time my wife turned her visor down, the visor loosened at the pivot pin and remained in the down position. The pivot pin had to be pushed back in, requiring the visor to be removed. Eventually, continuing to press the pin back in caused a split where the vinyl was heat formed. I was given a new visor on the house, but remained gun-shy about utilizing the visor in the "down" position. What you'll lose with these visors is the ability to customize the tension on the reproduction visors via the factory method of the tension screw on the original Porsche sunvisors because that screw does not exist on the reproductions.
After about a year of not using the visors, I took my original puffy Porsche visors and sent them off to Vinyl Specialties (if you do a search, I believe they're in upstate New York). For about $70 including shipping, they took my original visors and recovered them. Now I can use the visors and utilize the factory designed tension screw. The only downside, if you're into totally original, is that the visor ends have a subdued stitching rather than a heat seal and the mirrors are missing. I'm very happy with the results, as I suspect are others who have gone this route. That little tab that you have to ground off on the original visor pivot hardware actually serves as sort of a locking device for the original Porsche sunvisor, keeping the pin engaged in the visor until the entire visor is removed from the roof and pivoted into a position that it never would engage while attached to the car's roof, allowing the tab to slip into a small notch in the visor in order to be extracted. If you really want to become upset, look at the price of an individual original pivot pin!!!!!!!
The deteriorating foam in the visor is just a fact of life and age. However, in my opinion, the design of the original visor cannot be beat by the reproduction.
Steve
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'82 911 SC
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