What is a good brand of double-backed tape to re-attach VentVisor shades for the side windows?

 

3M is good.

 

Try you local auto parts store (even Wal-Mart). 3M makes a trim tape which has a red color removable backing. This is the same type of tape used by the Vent Visor factory. Also, try contacting Vent Visor. They have a remounting kit available for the Vent Visors.

 

VentVisor uses 3M Acrylic Foam Tape, and that is your best replacement. Be sure to clean up the visor before applying the tape to it - if you get the VV kit, I would imagine that they'd have everything you'd need.

Also, wipe down the paint in the area where you're going to place the visors. Our adhesives are formulated specifically to adhere to automotive clearcoats, but they stick pretty good to dirt, as well. So, if you put the tape over a dirty area, the tape will stick to the dirt, but the dirt doesn't really stick all that well to the paint - so you'll have problems.

Let me know if you have any questions...

JScharton
Senior Application Engineer
3M Automotive

 

Got mine off ebay for $33.00 plus $5.00 shipping. For 4 pice.

 

I guess I'm confused.

Where is the proper location to attach these VentVisors?

When I took my truck in to get the door cracks repaired, the dealer installed a set of VentVisors (the reason escapes me, but I'm not complainng), but installed them on the rubber gasket material around the window and tucked the front under the mirror flange. They seem to fit perfectly there, although I can't see how attaching them with tape would hold for any length of time.

If you hold them up to the painted surface of the door, they don't look like they were designed to fit there.

 

Jag I was wondering the same thing myself. I have seen alot of f-150's with the vent visors on the rubber gasket. Anyone that has this like this can you tell me if it lasts long like this. I am gonna get a set next weekend.

 

I put them on the rubber gasket too. the directions said to put them on the painted surface just above the weatherstrip but I was afraid that the paint might become discolored in the event that I had to remove them some time in the future. Just clean the rubber well with alcahol or the prep wipe that comes with them. Anyway, it's been about 5 years and they are still holding on very well.

Good luck

 

I have them on the gasket as well. No problems at all. They fit perfectly.

 

Guys, before you 'uncover' the tape, hold it up the window and you will clearly see that it goes on the black trim. VentVisor makes the sheilds for most all popular vehicles and 'most' adhere to the paint. Fortunetely, for f150 owners this is not the case. It is a much cleaner look on the black trim. Mine have been on three years and are tight. I helped my brother install on his Silverado and didn't like it on the paint. Likewise, I bought a set for my wife's Windstar, they went on the painted surface, further, the front edge did not get 'tucked' inside the mirror frame as in my F150, rather the edge was 'raised' to lay over the mirror frame. I didn't care for that as it didn't look as 'clean'.

The visor on the black trim of an F-150 door looks 'factory'.(I guess becuase the trim is recessed) The visor on the paint looks 'slapped on'. I'm very happy with my VentVisor on my F-150, I wish I had gone with something else on my Windstar and recommended something else for my brother's truck.

Key to the VentVisor install is the alchol prep. Follow the instructions.

 

Don't worry about discoloring the paint! Won't happen. If you need to remove them, the tape residue can be removed with a 3M Stripe Removal Disk (hooks up to your standard Drill) without damaging the paint.

I don't know if you'd be able to do that to the Window Trim, though.

 

Does anyone has any problems with the 3M tape and using a car wash? I want to install a Ventvisor but I worry about the car wash and the visor falling off.

 

If a car wash could knock off a VentVisor, think about it's doing to your paint job.

There are some car washes I would not run my truck thru and it has nothing to do with 30 dollar plastic sunscreens.

As a matter of fact my truck has never been thru a car wash.

 

Thanks for all the replies. It gets very hot here in Texas and it softens the tape easier but I think I am getting them anyway.

 

Mine have stayed on for over two years in the boiling heat of Houston, they were stuck on the paint then. I recently got new doors, and they used some type of cheap double-sided tape to re-attach them.(not 3M??) On my first interstate trip two days later, they began to flap in the breeze. The dealer stuck them on the rubber this time, though. I think I'm going to buy a new set, and see how they hold up on the rubber. They are nearly impossible to do without once you have them,,,,98