Well, oops!
Less than 2 months into ownership, I broke my Bravo! I don't now if this is a weak point on the Bravo, or if I am just ham-fisted, but I thought I'd share the experience with you all, if it happens to you perhaps you can follow my example to sort it out.
So, picture the scene. Driving around the Edinburgh City Bypass in some surprising January sun, and when it does disappear again you go to close the sunvisor... only for it to come clean off in your hand.
What had happened was that the plastic hinge towards the outside of the car had snapped. It is a little plastic tube, with a metal tube insert within it. This is clipped into the bracket mounted to the roof, and that allows the sunvisor to be twisted so it's either down on the windscreen, or you can turn it to block out the sun through the drivers side window.
Fortunately for me, it snapped off with the metal tube still firmly attatched to the remaining part on the sunvisor, so I was able to conduct a repair. Just a single Torx T30 bolt holds the sunvisor to the roof.
First step was to get hold of an M5 tap, and I tapped a thread inside the metal tube. Then it was just a case of popping the bracket back on and fitting the bolt (or in my case, as I didn't have a short enough bolt to hand, I cut one down and screwed it into the metal tube as a stud, then screwed a nut down onto it).
If I'd thought sooner, I would've taken some in-progress photos so you could see the process, but sadly I didn't think of it sooner. Sorry!
Anyway, hope this helps someone! Cheaper than buying a new sunvisor I am sure!
Less than 2 months into ownership, I broke my Bravo! I don't now if this is a weak point on the Bravo, or if I am just ham-fisted, but I thought I'd share the experience with you all, if it happens to you perhaps you can follow my example to sort it out.
So, picture the scene. Driving around the Edinburgh City Bypass in some surprising January sun, and when it does disappear again you go to close the sunvisor... only for it to come clean off in your hand.
What had happened was that the plastic hinge towards the outside of the car had snapped. It is a little plastic tube, with a metal tube insert within it. This is clipped into the bracket mounted to the roof, and that allows the sunvisor to be twisted so it's either down on the windscreen, or you can turn it to block out the sun through the drivers side window.
Fortunately for me, it snapped off with the metal tube still firmly attatched to the remaining part on the sunvisor, so I was able to conduct a repair. Just a single Torx T30 bolt holds the sunvisor to the roof.
First step was to get hold of an M5 tap, and I tapped a thread inside the metal tube. Then it was just a case of popping the bracket back on and fitting the bolt (or in my case, as I didn't have a short enough bolt to hand, I cut one down and screwed it into the metal tube as a stud, then screwed a nut down onto it).
If I'd thought sooner, I would've taken some in-progress photos so you could see the process, but sadly I didn't think of it sooner. Sorry!
Anyway, hope this helps someone! Cheaper than buying a new sunvisor I am sure!
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