Covering The Ugly Airbag Warning Viser Placards???
 

I've been here long enough to feel familiar with threads I've seen and not seen, and I don't remember a single discussion about anyone figuring out a creative way to either remove or cover up those friggin' ugly and distracting air bag warning placards on the visors.

So did I miss it? Has it already been discussed? If so, please link the thread here.

If not, has anyone done this? Can they be removed? Or are there after market visors we can buy? Or cheapest & easiest, has anyone came up with a great "cover up" solution?

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks ---- Bonzo

http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...ker-visor.html


http://www.the370z.com/exterior-inte...r-removal.html

Yep, I missed those. Thanks frost.

Looks like a sticker, a cover or a new visor is the way to go.

If someone on the forum wants to step up and make a solid decal to cover over at a reasonable price, I'm sure they can sell a hundred easy.

Just look at Simota1's fuel gauge overlay....

Here's what I did to my '04 visor's.
I went to JoAnn Fabric & bought some black leather material to match my black visors.
Made & Cut out a cardboard template covering the warning section.
Bought waxed shoe laces for my border.
Ran an ad in the classifieds & would pay anyone who sent me their rear 350Z badge for $10 shipped.

Cut very thin stirps of double sided clear tape & taped on the back side of the Z logo & attached to the center of the leather section. (I did not want to use super glue) Cut off the ends of the shoe laces, & ran them under cold water, placed shoe lace around the edges of the cardboard template & left them set for a couple of days....once firm, glued the laces around the edges of the leather section.

Some guys made a thick stitched Z logo but I wanted a OEM Z style on mine.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...sorcovers1.jpg

Now THIS is what I'm talking about. :tup:

This is a cool idea. I'm planning to remove my rear 370Z badging, so I could in theory do what you did. Thanks!

Now anyone else got any other things they did? Honestly, I can't beleive there isn't a flood of people doing this. Not only are those things ugly, but they are distracting when you drive, like a reflective light up there. :shakes head:

Scroll down a little on this link... I am sure there is one out there that says VQ37 rather then what is on the link... Kinda funny though..

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Has anyone done a DIY for taking the visors off?
 

Has anyone done a DIY for taking the visors off?

I want to take them off so I can carry it in a fabric store. I'm also going to try scanning the fabric and printing a label. We have a high end large format printer here at work so it should look good.

I just need to know the easiest way to remove them from the car.

Thanks ---- Bonzo :tup:

Got The Visor Off.....
 

So since no one replied to my last question, I decided to tackle taking them off it myself. I used a plastic panel removing tool with a 90 degree bend to act as a lever. Then starting at the side towards the back of the car, started applying pressure. At first I was like, man, I'm gonna totally pop this thing. But then it did come loose a bit, so I kept prying. Then finally, POP, and off it came. The good news is I got it off and 2 of the 3 locking tabs were fine. Bad news the one locking tab in the corner broke a very small chunk off the cover. It's not really a big deal, because I don't think I'll ever even see it. I might try some glue before putting it back on, but I doubt that will hold.

And then the two screws that hold the visor bracket. Holy bejezuz Batman, are those Philips head screws on tight. Like they must have used loc-tite or something because it was all I had to get those 2 screws loose with out stripping the Philips head. But in the end I won. Then it was just a matter of dropping the visor and unclipping the mirror light wire.

So now I have 3 optional plans of attack on this:

Note: All options involve me making a perfect sized template in CAD software and cutting it via computer cutting machine. I have access to these things via work where I use this all the time.

A: Use black 3M di-noc carbon fiber vinyl to cover the sticker. Now that I have the visor off, and now that I have had my radio trim done with real matte carbon fiber by Tony, I think this is a good option. I have compared the 3M vinyl Carbon Fiber to the real thing, and they aren't too far off actually. And the 3M stuff doesn't blend too bad with the visor either. I think this is a good chance of winning the options race.

B: Scan the visor fabric in and use photoshop and/or illustrator to tweak the color, then print it on our high end pressure sensitive paper stock. This paper handles moisture well, and should hold up goo I think. A stronger option would be to have my nephew print it on auto wrapping material, but I don't really want to bother him with this trivial thing. After cutting, I will just use a dark gray marker to carefully color the very edge of the paper.

C: Same as option B, except just get a good matching solid color gray instead of scanning the fabric.

So that's where I'm at right now with this. Too busy to really get to it right now. Just thought pop in here at lunch to make the update.

Cheers ---- Bonzo

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Clips pic
 

Here are 2 pics of the back of the main mounting plate. I don't have the clip on cover (that broke a bit) with me here. But, in these pictures you can visually see the 3 areas the clips go into. They are on the left, right, and bottom of these 2 pics.

3M Di-Noc Carbon Fiber
 

I have to say for ease of accompishing and overall look, I think this may the way to go for sure.

Here are some pics with a hand cut piece of scrap material. Keep in mind it's almost impossible to take pictures of this material and have it come out looking like real life. So I took a bunch of pics with and without flash from various light angles. I think it looks good in real life.

These are taken without flash on.

And some with the flash on....

does the passenger side one have that ABS sticker? (i dont remember since ive not seen my car for like a month).

if not, get a JDM passenger visor and install on your driver side. duh. :icon17:

Nope, pics you see here are of the passenger side visor. The heat stamped sticker is on both. Damned lawyers!!! :rolleyes: :mad: :icon23:

And if you look at mine, look how friggin' crooked it is too. Damned Nissan quality. ;) I should have never bought this POS!!! :icon17:

oh ok. :icon17: yah, i think your DiNoc approach is best in this case. :tup:

Some good ideas here, I am wondering if it is illegal to cover this up. Surely not.

I was wondering this too. I bet there is some sort of secret alarm that sounds when you tear these off and the visor police come and get you, kinda like the mattress police.

Better yet.. Obama himself will come down from his perch and spank you Osama sytle....:rolleyes:

I support this thread. Why not cover the whole (or one side) visor?

Not a fan of the fake CF but i am perhaps in the minority. I do think if an inexpensive fix were made people would buy it..

I don't even have sun visors. How bout that?

I'd say it's like those tags on mattresses and the sticker tags on electric cords; it' might be illegal for your Nissan or your dealer to remove or cover them up, but once you, the consumer buy the car from them, it's yours to do anything you want to. It's not illegal to cover them up, well at least not here in Ohio. I can't speak for other countries or states.

Heck, I'm not even sure car makers are by law made to put these warning stickers on the visors. It could just be a "cover their arse" sort of thing for law suits. Like the "caution hot" thing on coffee etc. Have you read your 370Z manual? I don't think there is a single page in that thing that does't have a big CAUTION note on it. Quite ridiculous really.

Either way I'm certainly not going to be worrying about it. First of all, who in the world would ever say anything about something so trivial, and secondly, who cares? What are they gonna do, arrest you? ;)

I've thought about just going to my local decal shop and having some printed. Maybe just black with the 'Z' on it in silver (they'll print anything - they don't care about copyrights). Just don't want it to look hokey. I know a lot of high production cars you can order sticker covers on e-bay for and I've also seen some leather slip covers.

Visor stickers in my last 3 cars: 2002 Mercedes: sticker,peeled right off. 2006 Ridgeline: heat transfer, peeled off but left a shadow. 2012 370Z: Heat transfer, ain't comin' off. I think the next step is a molded in placard.

Maybe everyone involved in an accident can sue the car companies claiming that the visor sticker distracted them & we'll get rid of the damn things!

LOL - here in Oklahoma you can get arrested for the darnest things. I'm guessing that covering the ugly visor warning signs is not one of them.

Well, that's a great idea, but I think it's harder in real practice than in theory for us people who don't want to tear it all apart or get into all kinds of sewing etc. I'm not willing to give up the visor extender or the mirror either, so that makes it even harder. This sticker bugs me enough to want to change it, but not enough to spend days or weeks of my life worrying about either. I think just a good looking label cover/sticker will do the trick for me. Perfect; no. 95% better than the warning sticker; yes.

It's an aesthetic thing which we all know is personal taste. I doubt either of us are in the minority or the majority.

I actually hadn't even considered it until yesterday when I placed the 3M CF on the visor in good strong light here at work. I thought it would stick out like a sore thumb but I was certainly wrong. Last week I got my radio trim covered in real matte CF (by Tony at CarbonFiberElement), and when I placed the 3M stuff next to it, there was a difference, but I was surprised by how little a difference there was. So I'm thinking the 3M CF might even compliment my radio trim. We'll see.

I agree, although this thread hasn't exactly rocked the house either, which may mean we're both wrong. :confused:

:rofl2:

I am certainly not one of those for advocating frivolous law suits (in fact I'm totally against them), but your post is very funny.

They are definitely distracting.

Cheater!!!! :icon17:

I think I would just sew up an alcantara cover for it. That would probably look the best, especially if you matched the alcantara seat inserts, door cards, and the knee pads (if you've got a roadster).

Very nice!

I just saw the Dinoc pics, btw. Looks like that's a nice solution. :tup:

My nephew who wraps cars has a 12 x 48 piece sitting in his shop for me. I'm going to try and swing by to get it this weekend. Then next week hopefully I'll be able to CAD cut some, test fit, and see how they look. I'll be sure to post pics.

I see a business venture here...

Well, I should definitely have material left over, but I'm not looking at trying to make money here. Perhaps I could CAD cut some for people who are interested on a first ask basis, until I run out of material that is. Say $5 for S&H. But we'll see. I have to get mine done first and see how it looks. :cool:

For others I think they could just buy some small pcs of 3M CF Di-noc off the internet (I quickly found 12 x 12 for like $10 and 12 x 24 for like $17 on Amazon), use some paper test cuts to come up with the exact size they want, lay that size out on the back of the CF with a ruler, then cut it using sharp scissors or even a razor blade with a straight edge. It won't need to be "perfect perfect" and still look good. At least it will look 95% better than the sticker there now. :tup:

I'm thinking that, since our warning sticker is heat pressed, and has an "indent" lip, that going about 3/16" to 1/4" larger all around (3/8" to 1/2" total size) with the CF will have the best long term results. This way the adhesive on the CF has room to grab the fabric material itself. Once it's on I doubt anyone will notice it's larger than before. The warning sticker is currently about 3-5/8" x 5", so a CF label of around 4" x 5-3/8" or 4-1/8" x 5-1/2" would probably be best. We'll see.

Pixeldecals can make stickers to cover these hideous things.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...g?t=1331900633
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...g?t=1331901363

so last weekend during my drive i looked at this thing you guys are talking about on the visors and it didnt really bother me... :ugh:

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:icon17: Just messin' with yea.

Well, as just like everything else it seems, people have different reactions to things. In my Murano that has a light tan interior, it's never bothered me. In the black / dark gray interior Z, it feels like a light is on up there shining on me.

I finally got my CF Vinyl on them the other day and it looks so much better. Night and day better. Before, every time I got in the car I noticed it. For the last 3 days I've had to think to look at it to see how the CF looks, because it blends in so much better. A month from now if I never even notice it, then I'll know it's right. Is it the 100% perfect fix? No. But for how easy it was it sure makes a big difference. Even my wife commented on how much cleaner and nicer it looks.

I'll take some pics when I get a second.

I just went to an interior shop yesterday and looked into having the visors re-wrapped. I'm trying to decide on doing them in the black alcantera or in the headliner material. What do you all think??

Where is a good place to buy the 3m Di Noc?? I'm only looking for about 2 feet or so.

Would the .25mm thickness be good or what, i don't really know.

I just put some CF on mine today and now it looks much better. They weren't really a distraction until you started this thread, and then I couldn't stand them. :rofl2:
Thanks Bonzo!

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