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Patrick,
I started this thread on sun visors a while back. LS 400 seemed like a good call. Fast forward a couple years and our daughter's in town with her 97 (bought from us). I decide to surprise her by swapping out her sagging visors while she's on a quick trip out of town. Snag a pair of tan LS400 visors. Recolor them grey with SEM. Painstakingly pick the pin connectors out, swap connectors and go out to swap them in on a freezing, rainy evening. I've got about 3 hours into it by this point with the drive to the You Pull.
Mount the drivers side aaaaaaannnnddd. Nothing - vanity light won't come on. No power? Yes, power at the connector - both sides. Check the bulb - good. Remove the visor, open up the connector, remove the pin connectors thinking they got opened up, pinch them tighter, reassemble. Nothing. Remove the driver's side again, bring inside and remove the light assembly. Direct power to the bulb contacts, and the bulb lights. Power to the pin connectors on the visor pigtail and no 12 at the bulb contacts. What the heck? I'm now into it 4 hours. I'm starting to think I've grabbed the only nonworking LS400 sunvisor in the free world as obviously there is an internal failure. I nearly cut them open with a knife just to see what broke but get randomly sidetracked with a phone call. Non mounted passenger side works fine. Into the trash go both freshly painted visors.
In an effort to get this project done before she comes back, I dive back into MUD, looking for other visors I can snag (RX300?). Planning to do the whole thing over again - 90 minute drive round trip, recolor them grey, get them mounted. Quite randomly, I read your comment above that the LS400 visors ONLY WORK WHEN FULLY RETRACTED. Run out to the garage and pull the visors out of the trash can. Sure enough the driver's was 1/8 inch from retracted and it works fine. Passengers was fully retracted, which is why its vanity lit up fine. So I owe you big. These will be installed this evening with about 20 minutes more work. Thanks!!
I started this thread on sun visors a while back. LS 400 seemed like a good call. Fast forward a couple years and our daughter's in town with her 97 (bought from us). I decide to surprise her by swapping out her sagging visors while she's on a quick trip out of town. Snag a pair of tan LS400 visors. Recolor them grey with SEM. Painstakingly pick the pin connectors out, swap connectors and go out to swap them in on a freezing, rainy evening. I've got about 3 hours into it by this point with the drive to the You Pull.
Mount the drivers side aaaaaaannnnddd. Nothing - vanity light won't come on. No power? Yes, power at the connector - both sides. Check the bulb - good. Remove the visor, open up the connector, remove the pin connectors thinking they got opened up, pinch them tighter, reassemble. Nothing. Remove the driver's side again, bring inside and remove the light assembly. Direct power to the bulb contacts, and the bulb lights. Power to the pin connectors on the visor pigtail and no 12 at the bulb contacts. What the heck? I'm now into it 4 hours. I'm starting to think I've grabbed the only nonworking LS400 sunvisor in the free world as obviously there is an internal failure. I nearly cut them open with a knife just to see what broke but get randomly sidetracked with a phone call. Non mounted passenger side works fine. Into the trash go both freshly painted visors.
In an effort to get this project done before she comes back, I dive back into MUD, looking for other visors I can snag (RX300?). Planning to do the whole thing over again - 90 minute drive round trip, recolor them grey, get them mounted. Quite randomly, I read your comment above that the LS400 visors ONLY WORK WHEN FULLY RETRACTED. Run out to the garage and pull the visors out of the trash can. Sure enough the driver's was 1/8 inch from retracted and it works fine. Passengers was fully retracted, which is why its vanity lit up fine. So I owe you big. These will be installed this evening with about 20 minutes more work. Thanks!!
