The Sun is in My Eyes!
Woman in the Middle | June 24, 2014Several weeks ago I left my home to visit Youngest Daughter at her school for lunch (because I am such a good and supportive mom) and when I tried to flip the sun visor up and out-of-the-way it flopped back down. Hum…it had been getting looser, but that isn’t surprising given the work out I give it every day…but this was almost total failure. Sigh.
Over the last few weeks almost total failure progressed to total failure and I began to get really good at driving in a hunched over position in order to see out from under the dangling sun visor. Hubby went on-line and found out that Toyota was replacing the sunvisors on Camrys like mine because of the visors breaking.
I know I should have gotten this fixed sooner, but I equate going to get something repaired at a car dealership with going to the dentist. Actually I would prefer going to the dentist. At least they have a nice selection of magazines.
I finally put my big girl panties on and went to get the deed done. I couldn’t stand the idea of spending another weekend with Hubby trying to drive my car while holding up the dangling sun visor with his head. Since he is about 4 inches taller than me the hunched over and looking under method didn’t really work for him. It tended to make him cranky. We can always drive his car but it is nice to have choices on the weekend. Usually it is based on whose car actually has gas, but choices are still nice.
The funny thing is the dealership asked if I had ever been there before. Uh, not that I know of, since otherwise the Camry has been a tried and true car with no problems, well except at the very beginning when I had to get the gas pedal fixed, You remember the infamous Toyota gas pedal problem? Yeah, that came up about two days after I bought the car.
Anyway, I survived the hour and a half I had to wait at the dealership. They even washed the car. But I still don’t want to go back any time soon.
My Venza (Toyota) which I traded in 3 months ago had a visor problem from the start. The driver one was somewhat floppy. It would stay up but there weren’t any in between places it would stay. I never did have it looked at before I traded it in. Must be a Toyota issue. Other than that, my cars have been near perfect.
Well, I am hoping the new visors I got are a better design. I am just enjoying not having to slump over to drive!
A friend of mine has the same trouble with her visor in her Nissan car. I have a similar Nissan to hers, so I hope my visor doesn’t break. I’m glad you got yours fixed! Must be pretty irritating trying to hold it up with your head.
I am one of those people who has it up and down a number of times during a trip so if it was broken it would really annoy me
It was annoying all right!
I love it that you equate going to the Dealership for repairs with going to the Dentist! Ditto.