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Old Apr 29, 2017 | 12:52 AM
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93 Dakota LE 5.2l Does anyone know a source for replacement sun visors? Mine are in really bad shape and I haven't been able to find replacements. I don't have access to a heavy duty sewing machine or I would stitch them up myself and the local upholstery shop wanted a fortune to recover them.
 
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Old Apr 29, 2017 | 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by co.45
93 Dakota LE 5.2l Does anyone know a source for replacement sun visors? Mine are in really bad shape and I haven't been able to find replacements. I don't have access to a heavy duty sewing machine or I would stitch them up myself and the local upholstery shop wanted a fortune to recover them.
Any place that has new ones would want "a fortune".

You can always cut new cardboards to match, and hand-stitch them. It's a pain, but beats spending lots of money.

If the cardboard is in good enough shape, you can even cover the current ones.

This does not cover OUR sun visors, but here's where one guy did a sun visor himself, no heavy duty sewing machine.

http://forums.tccoa.com/16-interior/...sunvisors.html

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Old Apr 29, 2017 | 02:43 PM
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Thanks for the reply. I have material left over from replacing the headliner so I will probably recover them myself. Had not thought about hand stitching them though. Many years ago I did some leather crafting so may still have awls and needles somewhere.
 
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