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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 06:19 PM
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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..








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.





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










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..




The accessories will be easy to paint.




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

Final product..




Feel free to PM me if you have any questions..
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 06:24 PM
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They came out great! Thanks for the writeup.
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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Looks good..nice work
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 09:02 PM
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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?
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 06:30 AM
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Yes,you can paint the fabric.. That is what i did..
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 07:41 AM
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looks nice, got pics of the visor on the car, and possibly instructions on how to take out the visor?
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 07:43 AM
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Noinstalled pics yet, re-doing my headliner. The visor has a cap on it and there are two phillips head screws under it..
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 02:17 PM
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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
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 02:22 PM
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Looks good! Any installed pics???
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Old Jan 17, 2007 | 11:47 PM
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bump...im interested in this too...i have been wanting a full black interior with black headliner.
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Old Feb 6, 2007 | 03:38 PM
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might as well do your headliner!
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:38 AM
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Got any pic's of the final product installed?
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 11:59 AM
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Post #6
Originally Posted by noodleman
looks nice, got pics of the visor on the car, and possibly instructions on how to take out the visor?
Post #7
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No installed pics yet, re-doing my headliner. The visor has a cap on it and there are two phillips head screws under it..
Post #9
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Looks good! Any installed pics???
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Got any pic's of the final product installed?
I'm going to start a literacy rate of my350z poll here in a minute.
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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by kwiker
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I'm going to start a literacy rate of my350z poll here in a minute.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 11:40 PM
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Can you do the headliner the same way? I hate the way the gray on top looks.
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Old Feb 13, 2007 | 11:42 PM
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im sure you could with that fabric specific paint hes using...

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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 12:55 AM
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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.
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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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.
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:17 PM
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Come on pesci...get that headliner done and post up.
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:18 PM
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How many cans of fabric paint would be required to do the entire headliner plus the visors?
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