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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213109
With applied ingenuity you can adapt sun visors from a number of cars. At one time a BMW two seater was favourite, I bought a pair before the craze & got a couple for less than £30. People lost interest when they topped £75. An adapter plate was needed but these were the days before 3D printing, hacksaw, file & a little sweat; a half hour job.
A chap advertised 3D jobbied for these on eBay, that took the ingenuity out of the equation.
You have to watch what your doing with the latches though.
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213113
There was another dodge that involve Alfa Spider sun visors  but they're probably hard to find now than ours!

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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213117
I'm going to try, might go down the bmw replacement route though
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213118
Many thanks for the welcome and the information, i have had a couple of mgf before but this one is definitely by far the best one
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213119
many thanks for the welcome and i've been looking at the z3 visors, can get them for around £25 and i have found a .stl file to print the adaptors to make them a straight fit, i know originality is key but sometimes you have to make changes for comfort lol
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213120
To some originality is all important, as for me I say bollocks. My car lives in the old cart shed, I wouldn’t return to horse & cart for originality, I like a button to press to proceed a journey, I don’t know whether you’ve tacked up a horse to pull a cart but I’ll be on my way back before you get the animal in the shafts.
No I’ll massage my car to make it as easy as I can in use.
If it were a Frazer Nash then that argument doesn’t hold water but a car with Z3 sun visors isn’t going to depreciate values by a mats appendage.
Anyway you get on with it, if you’ve sorted out the Z3 visors & the printed adapter you’ve the right outlook & you get my vote.
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213122
i agree a car has to work around you not you it, i think i will be going the z3 way
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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213151
Welcome. I read your last post first just then and thought eek, this new bloke is going off to buy a Z3 now, what on earth have we said to him, STOP.

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Posted 1 year 3 months ago #213154
Definitely staying a world of info on here and getting different ideas from different people is great
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