did you call direct to japan? thats redicilious, you can get a whole nav system for close to that. i mean it would make sense if you had solid gold visors, but short of that, there is something wrong with that.

i mean my ride is a 98' but in comparison, you can buy a whole 92 tercel for that price, lol.

check around dealers and junk yards. even think about superglue? just throwing it out there.

and lastly, is it bugging you that much that you cant leave it as is? i mean if hell is freezing over and that price is accurate, i'd say just forget about it, and put a cd visor or something over it.

:hammer:

 

Yea sell your Avalon for something more simplistic like an old third hand Civic....

#1 nice claim to the most expensive sun visor, try owning some German cars and come back with the same response.

#2 fix it yourself for cheaper

#3 don't have it fixed and just deal with it

 

Maybe you can pick up one from a salvage yard.

 

WOW that is a crazy price!! we're talking Toyota HERE NOT BMW!

 

WOW that is a crazy price!! we're talking Toyota HERE NOT BMW!

The homelink system was first integrated into the Germans. Do I even need to give you the Mercedes was the first car manufacterer to create the crumple zone, the airbags, stability controls etc etc so cars like Toyota and Honda can benefit from them? You got the pay to play, no its not a BMW nor a Mercedes but it is Toyota's flagship loadaed with electronics. No thats not crazy price, he got a quote from the dealership. If I need to continue explaining I'm just wasting my time.

 

The homelink system was first integrated into the Germans. Do I even need to give you the Mercedes was the first car manufacterer to create the crumple zone, the airbags, stability controls etc etc so cars like Toyota and Honda can benefit from them? You got the pay to play, no its not a BMW nor a Mercedes but it is Toyota's flagship loadaed with electronics. No thats not crazy price, he got a quote from the dealership. If I need to continue explaining I'm just wasting my time.

The dealership is the only place to buy a new one, as far as I can tell. I haven't (yet) tried a salvage yard.

All I wanted to do is buy a replacement piece of plastic, which shouldn't have failed in the first place.

Because of the design and the manufacturers choice of what they sell, I need to buy the entire Visor instead of replacing what it actually broken. ( And that plastic piece looks like a very inexpensive part...).

From my perspective, the $645 dollar visor is a piece of cardboard, plastic, and fabric with a glorified garage door opener and mirror stuck on it. Not worth the price of a refrigerator, camcorder, or auto GPS.

 

Yea sell your Avalon for something more simplistic like an old third hand Civic....

I never said I would sell it, just that it wasn't making me eager to buy another when my next vehicle purchase choice comes along. Especially considering the other things that aren't holding up as well as expected.

#2 fix it yourself for cheaper

I've already fortified it with a nylon wire tie, but this (temp. fix) probably won't hold up to repeated use since it appears they have an internal detent that stresses the remaining plastic on each use (probably why it failed in the first place).

If I don't use it, it'll probably hold together.

Without a replacement part, it's not obvious how to repair this in a way that leaves it fully operational and aesthetically pleasing.

#3 don't have it fixed and just deal with it

I'll probably have to. But that isn't making me happy that something that should be trivial to replace is effectively unfixable without sizeable cost or effort...

 

1st= stop turning your system on soooo loud that it shakes the windshield.
2nd= use super glue or something similar like bondo.
3rd= use black tape to cover the ugliness away.

or just leave it alone.

 

1st= stop turning your system on soooo loud that it shakes the windshield.
2nd= use super glue or something similar like bondo.
3rd= use black tape to cover the ugliness away.

or just leave it alone.

Sigh.

1) No, I don't play the radio loud enough to shake the Windshield...

2/3) A good epoxy glue might hold it together, but would prevent the
bar from rotating with the visor-ette, rendering it unmovable. (For one thing,
the bar has a flat spot for the detent, so even if the glue didn't bond directly
to it, it would prevent it from turning if it 'filled-in' the flat spot with glue).

I don't know if you're serious about the Bondo/tape thing. I doubt bondo would be structurally strong enough in the first place...

I only have 29,000 miles on this, and it's otherwise in decent shape so I wasn't looking forward to 'hacking it up' just yet. (When I bought this new, my goal was to have it for 10-15 years, so I try to keep it in good shape).

My annoyance is the high price of repair for what seems like a trivial thing (even if I had to pay $50.00 for a $1.00 piece of plastic I'd be much happier).

I bought the thing in the first place for what Toyota was billing as its 'legendary quality', and 'cost savings in the long term'/value. This doesn't seem to show either.