Sunvisor Mirror light upgrade

[dcains]

I recently scored a nice set of natur-colored leather visors for my '85, and after dyeing them black with the great SEM products, I wanted to upgrade the mirror light. The process literally took less time than it will for me to type this post. I had been thinking about it for a while, though, and I have a box of various LEDs left over from other projects, so there were many possible choices. In the end, I chose a flexible LED strip I had, with 36 LEDs, easily soldered to the terminals inside the visor's mirror compartment:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Vk8QPMK/0/8315f3e6/L/i-Vk8QPMK-L.jpg

I broke some little pieces if plastic when I pulled out the mirror, so I had to use tiny dabs of JB Weld on the tabs of the mirror:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-XqzGtQC/0/b82d0651/L/i-XqzGtQC-L.jpg

Here's the lighted mirror with the room lights on:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-wJZd34V/0/c6c4b9ae/L/i-wJZd34V-L.jpg

And, in the dark:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-36fcQfD/0/88dc805b/L/i-36fcQfD-L.jpg

Big improvement over the brown-tinted, dim lighting the mirror originally had.

[bigperm206]

I recently scored a nice set of natur-colored leather visors for my '85, and after dyeing them black with the great SEM products, I wanted to upgrade the mirror light. The process literally took less time than it will for me to type this post. I had been thinking about it for a while, though, and I have a box of various LEDs left over from other projects, so there were many possible choices. In the end, I chose a flexible LED strip I had, with 36 LEDs, easily soldered to the terminals inside the visor's mirror compartment:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Vk8QPMK/0/8315f3e6/L/i-Vk8QPMK-L.jpg

I broke some little pieces if plastic when I pulled out the mirror, so I had to use tiny dabs of JB Weld on the tabs of the mirror:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-XqzGtQC/0/b82d0651/L/i-XqzGtQC-L.jpg

Here's the lighted mirror with the room lights on:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-wJZd34V/0/c6c4b9ae/L/i-wJZd34V-L.jpg

And, in the dark:

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-36fcQfD/0/88dc805b/L/i-36fcQfD-L.jpg

Big improvement over the brown-tinted, dim lighting the mirror originally had.Looks good. Thanks for doing the write up.

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[SprCpe]

Nice,

I added LED lights in place of the standards but like your idea way better.. Where did you get the LED strips?

[dcains]

You can buy them on eBay - something like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2x-90CM-35-LED-Strip-Bar-Waterproof-Flexible-Car-Motor-Bike-Decor-Light-White/141842639419?

Buy longer than you need, and they can be cut in multiples of 3 LEDs.

[IB635]

Looks great, the lighting looks very nice. Very interesting on dying another color, my driver side is great, the passenger drops the mirror out when you flip the visor down. But every black visor I've seen on ebay looks like mine..

[dcains]

The tabs holding the mirror into the visor are very small and fragile. I used a few dabs of epoxy to hold the mirror in place on mine.