DIY: Custom Black Sun Visors
 

I was bored tonight so I decided to paint my visors black, since Nissan does not offer them.. It is relatively easy to do..

First you will need some Dupli-Color Fabric & Vinyl paint.. Auto Zone $5 and some Paint Prep cleaner.. $5.. This is used to take all Oil and stuff off the area to be painted..


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You can either mask off the labels on the visors or just paint over them. The long sun blocker piece will pull out of the visor with little effort.


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The Mirrors are held into place by two small pressure clips that can be pushed up by a small flat head screw driver..

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After everything is disassembled, Clean it with the cleaner, (except for material) (Plastic only) and apply one or two light coats of paint.. Apply several coats till you are happy with the color and then paint all the plastic accessories..

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The accessories will be easy to paint.

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Once everything is painted and dried, Reassemble and install back into the car..

Final product..

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Feel free to PM me if you have any questions..

They came out great! Thanks for the writeup.

Looks good..nice work

looks good, what are your visors made of vinal or fabric? I have a G35 and it has a fuzzy fabric on the visors, can that be painted too?

Yes,you can paint the fabric.. That is what i did..

looks nice, got pics of the visor on the car, and possibly instructions on how to take out the visor?

Noinstalled pics yet, re-doing my headliner. The visor has a cap on it and there are two phillips head screws under it..

those look nice man, you doin the headliner the same way? i've always thought that it doesn't match... i'd like it to be darker

Looks good! Any installed pics???

bump...im interested in this too...i have been wanting a full black interior with black headliner.

might as well do your headliner! :)

Got any pic's of the final product installed?

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Can you do the headliner the same way? I hate the way the gray on top looks.

im sure you could with that fabric specific paint hes using...

-j

you'll be surprised when you get the headliner out how thin it is, you can almost see right through it. it would also be a good time to put some dynomat on the roof also.

man my DIY went wrong when advanced auto parts labeled flat black with gloss black...
my first can was gloss, 2nd can flat, 3rd can flat... results = hideous... but im too lazy to fix it up.

btw if you do this becareful when popping out the mirrors.

Come on pesci...get that headliner done and post up.

How many cans of fabric paint would be required to do the entire headliner plus the visors?