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?

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Ditto on that, I looked all over to cant find one. Let me know if ya find a place, thanks

If your talking about a precut tint strip looking the sponsored sales forum.

Been looking for the same thing..... I saw one on a website from japan for 375 but I cannot find that site again.. :tap: 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..

Are you wanting a Lexan tinted visor or a fibreglas visor? I'm sure before the summer is out there will be something available. I'm waiting for a CF visor myself.

Well, a possibility anyway...

http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=60723&highlight=windshield+visor

Geez, I love that SEARCH function, it's so helpful... :wink:

Well, a possibility anyway...

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! :rofl:

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.

I saw a JDM one selling for over $300 a while back

Google Image Search is pretty good about pulling up -whatever-

let's go look

Geez, I love that SEARCH function, it's so helpful...

Though the SEARCH function may be helpful, your comment wasn't. Many new people don't know how to use the Search and other times the Search isn't all that helpful. I do get a percentage of Searches that yield nothing only because I didn't use the right words.

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.

Bump. I want one

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?

I sent a T-top flying. I was moving used cars for a dealership. I think it was a trans am. Didn't check to see if they were locked down before I drove off. Scary!

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

Did it. Let's badger the hell out of em.

I sent them my message asking for green, smoke and amber visors. I also told them there would be many Scion owners who would be interested.

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.

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.

I bought one of the old traffic eyes (same as prism) on eBay a while back for my '56 Pontiac.

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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.

Most of the old car parts vendors (Langs Model T Parts is one) have a miserable-quality molded plastic prism on a suction cup. This will serve OK!

I was lucky to find a rare NOS ground glass glue-to-flat-glass prism on ebay some years ago.

I'll try and get a picture of it up here soon. It's really neat. I may try to mount it to the Scion windsheild-- but that's curved glass. Epoxy mounts the old hunk of glass very well and securely.

I sent them my message asking for green, smoke and amber visors. I also told them there would be many Scion owners who would be interested.


thanks for that. I just wrote them, too. I want mine in either green or blue. Amber, smoke, green should be the primary choices, agreed.

please drop lines to that company. Ask for xB visors to be made available

Please let's bug Lund for transparent visors! If Lund won't someone else -could-

I don't see any reason why a motivated guy could not make his own. It would require some know-how to vac bag heated plexiglas to hand-made mold. The attachment is the engineering challenge. How do they do it in Japan? We reallly need to see pics of a JDM windshield visor