Im in the same boat. Ive never had this issue, and I cant figure out what exactly everyone is doing to break these lol. 66k on mine.
It's not necessarily the pulling of the sun visor down to the downward position that causes the damage....
Wow! Ok, now that makes sense. I knew they could be detached, but I rarely disconnect my visor at all. I think I have maybe only done it once or twice.
Some of us do know how a visor functions and use that feature all the time with 0 failures in 90k miles, I still think people are pulling down as they swing the visor out or something? Maybe they use those visor mounting accessories and have extra weight on their visors? Just seems weird that some think it's a design flaw and a rocking time bomb and yet countless others have years of trouble free operation, something doesn't add up.
Reality is some people are more deliberate/careful when they do things..
I considered them to be cheap insurance and they only take a few minutes to install. Apparently they are far cheaper than when I bought them.
You've been quite lucky, I would say. I am not hard on visors, and only sometimes have a passenger in the front. Why the passenger's visor would fail the same as the driver's can only be due to bad design, imo. Better to be safe than sorry, because both times I had them fix it under warranty it took a long time for the replacement parts to arrive. Then, time in the shop for the repairs.
I think I paid $19 for the pair at the time.
Material has not changed.
