Sun Visor for xB
05-06-2005, 08:25 PM
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Sun Visor for xB
Does anyone know where I can get a sun visor for the front windsheild for my xB? I saw one the other day that was a Custom Fit for it, but I don't remember where it was. Anyone else have one? Where did you get yours and what do you think of it?
05-06-2005, 09:28 PM
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Been looking for the same thing..... I saw one on a website from japan for 375 but I cannot find that site again.. 
The site also had the smoke cover that goes over the whole front of the car but only works with jdm headlights. I am still looking for the website..
The site also had the smoke cover that goes over the whole front of the car but only works with jdm headlights. I am still looking for the website..
05-06-2005, 09:54 PM
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Well, a possibility anyway...
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...ndshield+visor
Geez, I love that SEARCH function, it's so helpful...
Well, a possibility anyway...
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...ndshield+visor
Geez, I love that SEARCH function, it's so helpful...
Well, a possibility anyway...
05-07-2005, 12:47 AM
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unfortunately that's pretty slim promise at that one-horse thread (sigh)
Lookie: Back in the '20's cars had vertical windshields. Most of the few closed cars had an add-on visor or brow above the windshield. The variety of visors was astounding:
wire frame covered with leatherette
metal frame with green glass or blue glass or opal glass
visors that folded down, raised up.
visors with viewing ports to better allow sigthing of the traffic signals just then coming into fore
not only were windshield visors popular, but the young guys sheiked their cars with side door awnings! Yep! Of striped awning cloth, roll-up like window shades, on two hinged standards. Fringed dropped front edge. Styling!
What I'd love to see again are -interior, roll-down window shades. Ah, why not?
If you plan on a visor do check (I have not) to learn whether the visor will obsure nearly-overhead traffic-lights from your view. If that should be the case and you find the invisible problem annoying, why there's yet another accessory to make a fix of the blind area. It's called a prism. I have one on the Model T. It is glass and is glued to to the flat glass and makes a miniature fish-eye view of whatever is above, imaged on a round concave depressoin ground into a wedge of optical glass.
A smoked acylic visor for xBs would be -soo cool-- esp if if could be gotten in various transparent colors to match some of the paint colors. I'd want an amber one, myself. GREEN would look great, too. Smoke or Scion-windowtint color would be probably the best, overall for the largest segment of owers.
A mold needs to be made and a reliable attachment system that is -not a bloody pain in the wallet... or putting holes in the car if at all possible.
the air -scoop- effect of any visor means it must be made very tough (polycarbonate good!) but the -attachement- has got to be super strong.
Lookie: Back in the '20's cars had vertical windshields. Most of the few closed cars had an add-on visor or brow above the windshield. The variety of visors was astounding:
wire frame covered with leatherette
metal frame with green glass or blue glass or opal glass
visors that folded down, raised up.
visors with viewing ports to better allow sigthing of the traffic signals just then coming into fore
not only were windshield visors popular, but the young guys sheiked their cars with side door awnings! Yep! Of striped awning cloth, roll-up like window shades, on two hinged standards. Fringed dropped front edge. Styling!
What I'd love to see again are -interior, roll-down window shades. Ah, why not?
If you plan on a visor do check (I have not) to learn whether the visor will obsure nearly-overhead traffic-lights from your view. If that should be the case and you find the invisible problem annoying, why there's yet another accessory to make a fix of the blind area. It's called a prism. I have one on the Model T. It is glass and is glued to to the flat glass and makes a miniature fish-eye view of whatever is above, imaged on a round concave depressoin ground into a wedge of optical glass.
A smoked acylic visor for xBs would be -soo cool-- esp if if could be gotten in various transparent colors to match some of the paint colors. I'd want an amber one, myself. GREEN would look great, too. Smoke or Scion-windowtint color would be probably the best, overall for the largest segment of owers.
A mold needs to be made and a reliable attachment system that is -not a bloody pain in the wallet... or putting holes in the car if at all possible.
the air -scoop- effect of any visor means it must be made very tough (polycarbonate good!) but the -attachement- has got to be super strong.
05-07-2005, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TheScionicMan
Geez, I love that SEARCH function, it's so helpful...
As faras BibJim's is concerned they had nothing I would want to put on my xB. I'll waiting until someone produces a smoke or amber-tint Lexan sunvisor.
05-07-2005, 11:29 PM
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Yes, me too. I want a lightweight, no-bolt tuck-in form fitting amber or green or smoked visor lexan visor!
if this can be engineered simply enough to go on and stay on with, say -gluing- its perimeter and -sides- flush to the WS, they'd sell like gangbusters
Mold-making--- lexan heat forms? (dunno)
Otherwise I suppoese that a motivated individual could one-off an WS visor from plexiglass, heat-formed and hand-sanded to fit the contours and -glued on very secure-
the wind will want to split off the visor... I can imagine the force of a hundred mile per wind! Ergo, the visor, if minimal as I envision it, would need be not so deep, and have flanged feet/or edge along the two sides. It must really be -on there- or it would rip off in the wind and create huge liability issues.
I once lofted an aluminum hood from a 190SL. A visor is something of the same risk if not bolted on. I just am leery at this time of bolting onto my new car much of anything.
more thoughts? Images of JDM visors?
if this can be engineered simply enough to go on and stay on with, say -gluing- its perimeter and -sides- flush to the WS, they'd sell like gangbusters
Mold-making--- lexan heat forms? (dunno)
Otherwise I suppoese that a motivated individual could one-off an WS visor from plexiglass, heat-formed and hand-sanded to fit the contours and -glued on very secure-
the wind will want to split off the visor... I can imagine the force of a hundred mile per wind! Ergo, the visor, if minimal as I envision it, would need be not so deep, and have flanged feet/or edge along the two sides. It must really be -on there- or it would rip off in the wind and create huge liability issues.
I once lofted an aluminum hood from a 190SL. A visor is something of the same risk if not bolted on. I just am leery at this time of bolting onto my new car much of anything.
more thoughts? Images of JDM visors?
05-08-2005, 12:59 AM
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Guys;
Write to Lund Corp and request that they make a fiberglass or plastic visor for the xB, I'm sure if the get a million or so requests they might just make one. They have a ____ty web site also. (Stupid design and hard to get around),
http://www.lundlook.com
Write to Lund Corp and request that they make a fiberglass or plastic visor for the xB, I'm sure if the get a million or so requests they might just make one. They have a ____ty web site also. (Stupid design and hard to get around),
http://www.lundlook.com
05-11-2005, 01:25 AM
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Hers's the reply I got:
I'll keep forwarding the emails to our product manager. At the moment
Mark is correct, we do not have any plans to produce a visor for this
app. You guys will have to drive this one so keep emailing.
Scott Allrich
Customer Support Tech
Lund International
T 1-763-576-4220
F 1-800-782-5448
sallrich@lundinter.com
www.lundinternational.com
You heard what the man said!!!!!! Do it.
I'll keep forwarding the emails to our product manager. At the moment
Mark is correct, we do not have any plans to produce a visor for this
app. You guys will have to drive this one so keep emailing.
Scott Allrich
Customer Support Tech
Lund International
T 1-763-576-4220
F 1-800-782-5448
sallrich@lundinter.com
www.lundinternational.com
You heard what the man said!!!!!! Do it.
05-11-2005, 04:28 PM
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This and a Fab style spoiler I was just thinking about.. someone needs to photchop this so we know if it'll look cool. Most I see on trucks have vents on the mounting edge to minimize drag. This would help keep the thing from flying away, but would also reduce mounting area.
SciFly... where do I get one of those prisms? I'm so tall and sit upright in my seat so I always have to duck to see the light change when I'm the first or second car waiting.
SciFly... where do I get one of those prisms? I'm so tall and sit upright in my seat so I always have to duck to see the light change when I'm the first or second car waiting.
