A31 Oem Wind Deflectors

[Lum]

Not happy today.

So my GF has borrowed my Cefiro because her S13 is in for repairs again. She drives a lot faster than I do and the front passenger side wind deflector decided it didn't want to be attached to the car any more, preferred the front grille of the car behind.

Any idea where I can get another one? These are the original purple tinted Nissan ones with the chrome strip on them.

Alternatively, how do I remove the little metal prongs that it attached to as these are quite sharp and will probably make it fail it's next MOT test.

Edited September 9, 2013 by Lum

[Nic_A31]

To remove the clips, wind the window down, pull out the innder door/window seal, then there's 3 screws along the chrome trim piece holding it onto the door, take the chrome trim off and the clips come out with it, then just reinsert the trim, then the seal, then you're done.

You can get a set of similar weather shields off eBay. but these are held on with adhesive tape only, no clips.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-DOOR-Visor-Rain-Guard-NISSAN-MAXIMA-CEFIRO-A31-SEDAN-/180763205681?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2a1653a031&vxp=mtr

I've got a set of these myself and they're pretty decent, the only thing I don't like is having to re-apply some fresh tape (maybe once every 6-12 months).

You'd probably have better luck sticking them on with Sikaflex (or whatever you call it over there).

As for OEM parts, I tried to get these from Nissan a few years ago and they couldn't even find the parts in Nissan FAST, when they did eventually find part numbers, they were long obsolete.

[Lum]

Well, I have my car back now so will take them off. Luckily it seems the car has a chrome strip under the wind deflectors so if I polish that up a bit it should look quite nice. Those ebay ones are missing the chrome strip so will look odd on my car.

I'll have at go at it, either tomorrow at the weekend, and see how I get on. Thanks for the reply.

[Nic_A31]

The eBay ones don't look too bad, they do insert over the chrome so there isn't much you can do about that but they're a nice fit and they have CEFIRO printed on them.

They're better and worse compared to OEM.

Better because they go all the way down the front door frame to the side mirror, the OEM shields stop short and water gets in down that area when it's raining - kind of defeats the point if you cant have the windows an inch open when its raining.

Worse than OEM because the front and rear shields don't sit flush, they each stop and mold around the edge of the door

Pics below.

Edited September 10, 2013 by Nic_A31

[Lum]

Ok, I've got the other 3 of mine off, and the chrome underneath looks mostly ok, just needs a bit of a clean up now.

Only problem is the bottom edge of the chrome strip had a rubber seal. Looks like it's only between the chrome and the door itself, not part of the window seal, but on both front doors this was ruined and not recoverable, so I ended up peeling it off.

Have I doomed my car to leaking for the rest of its life now?

[Nic_A31]

Pics?

[Lum]

Pics?

When it stops raining

So in a week or so.

[Lum]

Well I never did get around to posting pictures, but the windows don't seem to be leaking.

I wonder how much I can sell the remaining three wind deflectors for

[Jswljones]

Well what i did to match my missing one may sound weird and a round about way of doing it but it worked...

I ordered a whole door from an importer in Japan for about $30 and just had him ship me the missing window deflector off of it to match my missing one.
It worked!! and now I have a whole matching OEM set that even has the same discoloration.

In the end it costed me about $55 but I also ordered a bunch of stuff with it to bring the cost down and make it worth it for the imported to do me the favor.

Sometimes you have to think outside the box.

[jamind]

Hey Lum, How are you my car cous, It took me 2 years to get a good set of originals for mine, I will have a look tomorra , i may have a spare drivers door one but dont get ya hopes up till i actually mail you saying yes i have it, ok Lum yum, mail in 24 or so, Good night, Jamind

[Lum]

Hi,

Thanks for the offer, however it's actually the front passenger door one that fell off.

I'm not actually too fussed about it. The car looks decent enough without them, and forward visibility is improved slightly