American Honda Comes Through
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I have posted here before about the problems I have had with my 06 Civic Coupe's sun visors.
Normally sun visors last the life of the car, but not mine.
I bought my 2006 Honda Civic in April of 2006.
In September of 2006, I had to replace the passenger side sun visor because the plastic came apart and it would not fold up to the roof position. In May of 2007 I had to replace both sun visors because they both came apart and would not fold up to the roof position. In July of 2007 the passenger sun visor failed and I had to have it replaced again. On October 12, 2007 I had to take the vehicle down again to have the drivers side sun visor replaced. That totals three times for the passenger side and two times for the drivers side.
What is happening is that the sun visor is mostly plastic. The spring inside that holds it in position is too strong and when the temp in the car reaches 120 degrees or higher and the plastic is warmed up, when you flip the sun visor, the spring has so much pressure that it forces the plastic apart and will not fold back up.
So since my warranty is going to run out I wrote Honda and told them what problems I was having with the sun visors and asked them to extend the warranty on the sun visors to 6 years, 100,000 miles and they called me and agreed.
They indicated that there was a problem with the sunvisors and that I may have received a new improved part on the drivers side this last visit, but said that they would cover them with my local dealer.
It is nice that they are trying to take care of their customers.
I don't know how many vehicles use the same part # for sunvisors as my 06 does.
Drive Safe
Ron
Normally sun visors last the life of the car, but not mine.
I bought my 2006 Honda Civic in April of 2006.
In September of 2006, I had to replace the passenger side sun visor because the plastic came apart and it would not fold up to the roof position. In May of 2007 I had to replace both sun visors because they both came apart and would not fold up to the roof position. In July of 2007 the passenger sun visor failed and I had to have it replaced again. On October 12, 2007 I had to take the vehicle down again to have the drivers side sun visor replaced. That totals three times for the passenger side and two times for the drivers side.
What is happening is that the sun visor is mostly plastic. The spring inside that holds it in position is too strong and when the temp in the car reaches 120 degrees or higher and the plastic is warmed up, when you flip the sun visor, the spring has so much pressure that it forces the plastic apart and will not fold back up.
So since my warranty is going to run out I wrote Honda and told them what problems I was having with the sun visors and asked them to extend the warranty on the sun visors to 6 years, 100,000 miles and they called me and agreed.
They indicated that there was a problem with the sunvisors and that I may have received a new improved part on the drivers side this last visit, but said that they would cover them with my local dealer.
It is nice that they are trying to take care of their customers.
I don't know how many vehicles use the same part # for sunvisors as my 06 does.
Drive Safe
Ron
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