How do I pull out a broken sunvisor bracket stuck in the headliner?
The mounting tab or pin of a broken sunvisor stays trapped inside the headliner slot when the housing shears off. You can remove it by inserting needle-nose pliers into the bracket openings to pull it out, or by using a small pick or tiny screwdriver from behind to push out the center holding pin while pulling the tab.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Attempting to hot-glue the sunvisor back onto the headliner
- 2Using needle-nose pliers to extract the remaining metal clip
- 3pushing the pin from the back with a pick or tiny screwdriver while pulling the tab
- 4taking out the mirror to check for a screw
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm doing my best to do a DIY replacement (including scraping off the hot glue), but I can't seem to figure out how to remove the last remaining metal bracket thingy shown above.”source ↗
“Needle nose pliers. It happened to me too.”source ↗
“Hi, where exactly do I put them into. Inside the bracket I see two opening "slits", would I put the ends of the plier in there and try to push out and remove the metal bracket?”source ↗
“The mirror housing of my Honda Accord 8 broke off and this mounting tab stayed behind. I want to mount a new one but I cannot seem to pull it out.”source ↗
“i was in a similar situation with my accord, the pin in the middle is what holds it. try to push the pin from the back with something small like a pick or a tiny screwdriver, while pulling the tab at same time.”source ↗
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