My 95 (To Steve B., yes, it's a 1.8L) came with one-piece visors about 4-5"
wide, as opposed to earlier models that had folding visors that folded in
half (stay with me, you'll see why this is important....)
To drop the top (and I do unless it's really raining) I would have to move
the big 1-piece visors down to unlatch the 2 latches at the windshield
header, unlatch, unzip the window, then put the top down and return the
visors to the original position. Owners of earlier models could skip the
visor-moving part, because the foldy ones don't get in the way of the
latches.
So I got some foldy visors from someone who had removed his and planned to
use them for convenience. Once they were installed, I found that they would
often move about and flop when subjected to hard cornering -- admittedly a
function of my lack of musclepower when installing them (you push them up
into a plastic trim piece with a hole for the visor, and I didn't push hard
enough). Anyway, one day they drooped and I got annoyed and yanked them
both out -- meaning to reinstall them better later, but I realized I never
use them anyway (there's very little time when they actually block the sun -
I think from 5:45-5:55 p.m. eastern time if you're headed westbound) so I
just left them out....
A lot of Miata owners pull them because they find them pretty useless and
they hinder fast top-drops...
I have pictures of my first spin at last week's autocross in Ft. Knox, KY at
http://www.geocities.com/clash_girl/autocross.html if you are interested.
You can click on a picture to make it bigger. I bet the visors would have
drooped on that spin... :)
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
>
> After spending time in my last three sports cars (Sonett, Midget, Europa),
> all of which came to me without working sun visors, I really must ask:
Why
> the hell would you remove perfectly-functional sun visors?
>
> Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
> 1970 Lotus Europa (no sun visors, another of the protest-bait features in
> ASP)
> 1992 Saturn SL2 (perfect sun visors and a sliding sun panel for the
> moonroof)
> 1986 Chev Suburban (clunky, droopy, but still-useable sun visors)
> LOON, MAC
> pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
> "If I can do it, it's not art" - Red Green
>
>
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