Hi,
Well, I've had my "new" Croma for just under a month and I've just order the first repair part. To be honest, the fault must have been there when I bought it. Minor issue but annoying. I went to move the sun visor to the side and it fell off. The shaft had failed some time ago. Anyway a quick ebay search found a new old stock orginal Fiat part for under £20 including postage .
More seriously while the Croma my have its weak point's it's really no worse than most cars. I'd paid nearly three times as much for the car it replaced. That turned out to have a transmisssion fault that showed up after 20 miles and would have cost £2000 to repair. I sued the dealer, and won. I've a budget for the Croma if it does need repair and it does 10MPG more .

Robert.

i just push my shaft back in and it stays there for months

Hi,
It stays in for forward vision, but you can't use it to block sun coming in the side window. I could have fixed it but for £20 it's not worth the time. If this is a known weakness, I'll glue a thin metal sleeve inside the new one to give it support.

Robert.

i don't know if its a weekness or just me an you who have it. mine is on the passenger side one.

To quote Del Boy "they all do that"

I'll have to see if I can come up with a renforcement or other fix for the new one then. I'll look at the failed one and try to see where the weakness is.

Robert.

Mine does it as well. I've been meaning to get some metal putty and mould something inside the top mount to hold it all together the first time I get some but there's always been other priorities and I haven't got round to it yet.